Motorola V600 Phone (T-Mobile)
Mediocre phone, good service
This phone has a nice quality feel and comes with some great professional sounding ringtones so I don't feel like a monkey grinder when my phone rings. The phone has decent voice recognition. The battery life is so-so, giving me about 2 days for average use. It gave me 140 minutes talk time using the speaker yesterday. The speaker feature is indispensible, especially for sitting on hold. I also like bluetooth headset support. Finally, the menus are fairly intuitive and there are some cool customization features. My wife wishes she had the V600 menus on her Sony Ericson T610. <br /> <br />With the good out of the way, let me now say I too wish I had her T610 with the V600 menus. My problems with the V600: <br /> <br />1) QOS is terrible. TMobile sent me a replacement. I was pleasantly surprised by their support, but the new phone is no better. My calls cut in and out and are otherwise difficult to understand while my wife's calls are crystal clear (We share a plan). <br />2) Bluetooth is non-standard and limited. The phone does not use the BT phonebook standard. I am able to send one number at a time to the phone from my PocketPC, but not a whole phonebook. I can download files from it, but cannot send files up. As a result, I cannot put a nice picture of my wife or dog as wallpaper or in the phonebook unless I took it with the phone. I tried other BT things as well that did not work. It's so bad that I wonder if TMobile had it crippled to increase use of their connectivity services. Oh, and it drops BT connections to my PktPC, computers, and wife's phone. I wish the phone had infrared to fall back on. <br />3) The camera takes mediocre images at best. I understand the v500 series is much better. Plus, I have to decide what to do (store, send, both,...) with every image before I can shoot another. <br />4) The phonebook is terrible. An entry can have only one number. So, if you have 3 numbers for mom & dad, they take 3 entries. Combine that with lack of search and only 1st letter navigation and you feel like you have been kicked back to the 20th century. I dread looking up my 'M' friends -- press M then scroll 10-20 entries.  <br />5) Another 20th century hassle -- voicemail could be much better. It does not identify the mail when it arrives or delete the new mail indicator after I have listened. Instead, I go into the Messages menu to see I have 3 from \\"Voice Mail\\". After I have listened, I have to manually delete them from the Messages menu. Ughh! <br />6) I too have had display problems. This is unimpressive but minor since rebooting the phone is no big deal and no data is lost. <br />7) Finally, a minor design gripe: They really need to get on the integrated antenna bandwagon. The Sony and Nokia models without antennas sticking out are so much more comfortable in my pocket. <br /> <br />All in all, as cool as that new Razor phone seems, I am scared away from Motorola for awhile. I almost prefer my year 2000 LG model. It is not really worth it, but at least I got paid to take this phone (Amazon rebates). TMobile, please, give us some good phones for a change. <br /> <br />Best wishes in your phone search.