Motorola A630 Phone (T-Mobile)
Excellent Phone but some annoying features
Since first time i saw this phone on-line I was craving for it. Finally I got it and I am using it for last one month.  <br />This is my first Motorola phone and I do agree with people that UI is hard to master. After a month I am comfortable now. <br />I have owned Sony Ericsson and Nokia phones before and they have excellent UI no need to read user manuals.  <br />So What do I like and I don't? <br />Likes: <br />1. QWERTY Keyboard - Excellent. I felt early that no extra keys for numbers may be issue but not a big deal. <br />2. Excellent size  - I thought it is very small for my hand but after using it for month my hands are used to it. <br />3. Speaker phone - Excellent speaker phone and even better than my Nokia 6800 (another QWERTY) CNET review says that <br />   speaker phone does not shut off when flip is closed but mine does get off. I like the feature that you can use <br />   speaker phone even when flip closed and also the mute function. <br />4. Camera takes much better pictures than my SE T610 earlier. But I don't care much anyway. Only thing is you need  <br />   to hold camera vertical to take pictures correctly else they appear 90 degree left side tilted. <br />5. Excellent Bluetooth capabilities. I do not use bluetooth headset as headsets are annoying and nerdy solution. But I  <br />   use it to sync up my outlook calender/contacts and also transfer photographs and ring tones. With Mobile PhoneTools <br />   Software from Motorola. <br />6. Email and web capabilities are great but I do not use much of them as I do spend almost 10 hrs a day on my laptop. <br />7. Tri-Band phone so I can use anywhere in world. <br /> <br /> <br />Dislikes: (This list is bigger though) <br />1. Most important is it do not have auto key lock. this size of phone I am not carrying in my hand all time will prefer  <br />   to keep in pocket. Since I may forget to manual lock it accidental dialing in pocket is possible. If they can implement <br />   screen saver why theycan't implement auto key lock. It's same software anyway. <br />2. Annoying Phone book: All developers in Motorola should use SE phones to understand what is phone book is. I am not able  <br />   to sort out numbers from SIM and Phone so I see same number at least 4 times. These developers must be fired right <br />   away. Don't understand what are they thinking. Only was I was able to straighten them using the PC software which is <br />   ridiculous as I have 186 contact in my address book. There is no \\"Delete all\\" for contact so that I can delete all <br />   contacts from my SIM. I had to use Nokia phone to do it. <br />3. Motorola PC software is not free. Motorola have stupid managers. Why on earth I should spend $40 dollars for PC software <br />   when I am buying $300 phone.  <br />4. The flip is LOOSE. After a week the flip starts making noises while opening and closing. Although it works fine but <br />   it gives the indication that Motorola did not do any testing of this phone and used cheapo Chinese materials to build. <br />   My Nokia 6800 flip and my old Ericsson T28 flip was million times better. <br />5. Motorola Chargers are flimsy as they are very cheap design. I though SE charges are cheap but my Ericsson T28 charger  <br />   is still working great even after 4 years of rugged use. A630 charger is poor and when you move phone (even little)  <br />   while charging it stops charging. Motorola needs to talk to customers what they really want. Also charging time is more <br />   than 3 hrs and nothing close to 2 hrs mentioned in specs. Liars. <br />6. Games are not so good wish they had simple Tetris or Nibbles. But loading Java games is nice option. <br />7. Only one After Market case from Krussel which is 25 dollars. <br />8. There is no simultaneous ringing and vibrate options. If you change the ring style from loud to soft ring tone  <br />   also changes. Vibrate and ring option vibrates phone twice and then only ring tone plays which might be unnoticed while <br />   at noisy place and if phone is not in hand. <br />9. No IR port. I wish it had IR port along with Bluetooth which helps to connect with laptops who do not have BT adapters. <br />