Motorola V600 Phone (T-Mobile)
Motorola V600 - not bad, but not perfect, either
I've had this phone for over a year. I purchased it off of Ebay and initially I was satisfied with it. For the most part, it does what it's supposed to do. However, before you consider buying it, you might want to know a few things.<br /><br />Pros:<br /><br />*Sleek design.<br /><br />*Loud ringtones and you can customize your own tones with the built-in MotoMixer.<br /><br />*Good vibrate function.<br /><br />*Camera takes pretty good pics - has a zoom lens (I think this is the one of the best features of this model) and you can easily send pics to your PC by email. This I really liked.<br /><br />*Speakerphone. For me this really comes in handy.<br /><br />*Good sized viewing screen. Definite plus.<br /><br />*Bluetooth included.<br /><br />*Battery life decent. I've gone a couple of days without recharging.<br /><br />Now the cons:<br /><br />*Dropped and intercepted calls. Either I lose the call altogether, or some unknown person breaks into my conversation, thinking that they are still talking to the same person they were conversating with before they got entangled up in your line - and the only way to get rid of them is hanging up. This could be a T-Mobile satellite problem more than anything, though - I've had several different phones while on T-Mobile and the same thing happened.<br /><br />*Headpiece volume not loud enough. I can't count how many times I've had to say \\"Huh?\\" to the caller on the other end, no matter how loud I turned the volume up.<br /><br />*Screen has the tendency to freeze up from time to time. Remove the battery for a few seconds, pop it back in and you're back in business, but who wants to make a practice of that?<br /><br />*Changes the type of alert you desire on its own (Several times it switched to silent by itself and I didn't know I had a phone call). ANNOYING!<br /><br />*Treats each phone number for a single person as a separate entry. This is a pain when you are trying to locate a number but have to scroll through three or four entries for the same person in order to find the number you want.<br /><br />*If you get a call and view who it's coming from but DON'T feel like calling them back right away, this phone will continue to call you (your OWN number will show up in the display) until you return the phone call to the person who called you. VERY ANNOYING!!<br /><br />*Has a video function where you can supposedly view and download videos, but the only thing you can access is an ad for the V600. When you go to the T-Zones site to see videos, all it says is \\"Coming Soon\\". How soon?? I've had my phone for over a year and there has been no videos yet, just the same tired V600 commercial.<br /><br />*Attaching an ear piece on this phone is taking a risk. You have the ability to close the phone while you are talking, but if the plug comes out (and it does very easily), bye-bye phone call. It's happened to me more times than I can count. Needless to say I don't use the earpiece anymore. I thought of getting the Bluetooth wireless earpiece, but since I'm considering taking this phone off my hands and upgrading to another model, I think I'll hold off on that for a while.<br /><br />Overal rating: 3.5. Like I said, Motorola's V600's not bad, but not perfect either. So just keep that in mind if you decide to purchase it.g from but DON'T feel like calling them back right away, this phone will continue to call you (your OWN number will show up in the display) until you return the phone call to the person who called you. VERY ANNOYING!!    *Has a video function where you can supposedly view and download videos, but the only thing you can access is an ad for the V600. When you go to the T-Zones site to see videos, all it says is \\"Coming Soon\\". How soon?? I've had my phone for over a year and there has been no videos yet, just the same tired V600 commercial.    *Attaching an ear piece on this phone is taking a risk. You have the ability to close the phone while you are talking, but if the plug comes out (and it does very easily), bye-bye phone call. It's happened to me more times than I can count. Needless to say I don't use the earpiece anymore. I thought of getting the Bluetooth wireless earpiece, but since I'm considering taking this phone off my hands and upgrading to another model, I think I'll hold off on that for a while.    Overal rating: 3.5. Like I said, Motorola's V600's not bad, but not perfect either. So just keep that in mind if you decide to purchase it.