Motorola Timeport P7389
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Motorola Timeport P7389
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The Motorola Timeport P7389 Is A Great Phone Beacu
The Motorola Timeport P7389 is a GREAT phone beacuse it works all around the world and it is very small. It is easy to use once you know how to get navigate the menus.
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I Bought Motorola Timeport P7389 This As A Cheap (
I bought Motorola Timeport P7389 this as a cheap (second hand) mobile phone to use in the US and it did this fine, at the new price this would would have been nippy but at £10 it was sound.
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Does Not Shows The Name Of The Sms Sender When You
Does not shows the name of the SMS sender when you received a text message but only a number. You have to memorize the number of the sender first and check your phone book enable to recognize who sends you the message. It's only a good thing if you do not have so many contacts on your phone book then it's easy to determine who the sender is. Cannot save the number from received SMS and calls. It's better to have a pen and a paper with you all the time.
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The Voicenotes On The Motorola Timeport P7389 Mobi
The voicenotes on the Motorola Timeport P7389 mobile phone are cool, the design is the best and i can list many others. Can someone tell me how i can del the VoiceNotes from a Motorola V50? Please mail at [email protected]
A voicenotes feature is 'cool', as you put it, but the voicenotes feature on this phone is not cool. The problem that I have with it is that the phone doesn't tell you when you've got some voicenotes recorded.
This makes the feature next to worthless for me. What do I use voicenotes for? For recording short memos to myself whilst doing something that prevents me using my PDA, e.g. driving the car.
There is no visual indication that any voicenotes have been recorded, so by the time I've got to the end of the journey, I've forgotten that I recorded a voicenote, and the memo doesn't get actioned.
Invariably, several weeks later when I am tonking about with the phone in a moment of boredom, I discover that I've got a 2 week old voicenote.
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Oh Boy. Where Do We Start With The Motorola Timepo
Oh boy. Where do we start with the Motorola Timeport P7389?
The user interface is severely pants. My biggest gripes are:
* Having to navigate lots of menus to access obvious things like: Switching between vibrate+ring and Missed & recent calls.
* No distinction on LCD icons of 'vibrate+ring' as opposed to just 'ring'.
* Battery meter is almost useless. You only get a couple of minutes of call time once the meter has got to the bottom segment. My old Philips Savvy used to go for ages on what was displayed as an empty battery.
* No visual indication when there are stored voice notes.
* Can't erase individual voice notes.
* Can't store numbers from incoming calls, SMS's.
* No SIM management menus, like copying from SIM to phone memory, etc.
* Key lock doesn't lock the power button, nor disable the LEDs.
* Security lock feature obscures the clock.
* Voice recognition is erratic. Sometimes works a treat, sometimes refuses to work at all.
* The compose ringtone feature is the most deplorable pile of old pants that I have ever seen. It plays back the tune that you just spent an hour composing in an ugly, slow, staccato fashion. You can't do anything about this. Also, this feature is not described in the user manual.
* Just generally horribly clunky to use. I have a Nokia 2110 'brick' from the early 90's, and the UI on that knocks the socks off this thing.
The microphone broke on this thing (which is why someone gave it to me in the first place.) The mic is held in by a tiny silicon rubber cup, with conducting rubber strips in the bottom, much like what's used to stick LCDs to PCBs in many consumer products. This just doesn't cut the mustard on something that's going to be knocked about. I Repaired it first by simply taking it apart and putting it back together. It broke again. Fixed it for good with a sewing needle, some fine enamelled copper wire and a soldering iron.
There's no chassis in this thing. Just two plastic case halves and a skinny, multi-layer PCB.
The transparent plastic cover on the display bulges out of the case, which makes it prone to getting scratched. It's made of soft plastic which doesn't help.
The belt clip is ridiculous.
There are too many buttons. Why couldn't they assign multiple uses to the same buttons?
A battery charge doesn't last long. Only 3 or 4 days with the battery saving feature switched on (which isn't the default!), and with no call usage.
The phone's one saving grace for me is the fact that someone gave it to me for a plate of chips. Good deal for a tri-band phone. I would never have bought this thing at full price. My value rating is based on actually buying the thing new.
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Referring To The Motorola P7389, I Agree With The
Referring to the Motorola P7389, I agree with the previous reviews - except I wish to point out that the voice recognition system is dreadful; eg it cannot distinguish between "play voicenotes" & " add to sim", "credit" "home" & "garage".
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This Text Refers To The Motorola Timeport P7389. A
This text refers to the Motorola Timeport P7389. Apparently there is a whole bunch of mobile phones named "Timeport".
The best way to describe Motorola cell phones is "user hostile". I have been using all sorts of cell phones,
starting from Motorola "Alpha", "Flipper", "Elite" then I got to the Timeport. Well - they improve... Slowly.
When the Nokia 2120 had three lines of LCD text and a battery that snaps to place and remains there - Motorola still had a single LED line of text and a battery that would shut the phone down if you placed it in the back pocket of your pants.
I have been using other phones since then, Nokia 6150, Ericsson T28, got spoiled by intuitive menu systems, small size, downloadable ringtones and logos.
When Motorola came up with the Timeport I though this looks like a neat phone and thought that in year 2000 they must have improved the menu system and user interface to modern standards.
Since that was the only Tri-Band phone at that time (still is in that part of the world) - I got one just to find out that the "Battery meter" is still in the most logical place one should expect to find it: "Call related features".
The only logical statement about this phone is: The Timeport is Motorola's cell-phone engineers' way to tell their higher management "We do not want to make and sell mobile phones"!
Technology wise - this is a nice handset. From a user interface point of view - It's hard to make anything worse.
One thing for sure - the moment Nokia or Ericsson ship a Tri-Band phone will be the last day I use the Timeport.
Yes, a downloadable ringtone/logo is make or break for a mobile phone these days. Pretty sad, that.
I agree that the menu system is confusing. But I won't be making any ill-willed, sweeping generalisations about Motorola's engineers, unlike the author of this review.
Generally a pretty accurate review. Also one even worse feature when you use the phone abroad at airports (as one does with a triband!!!) - You get many lost calls where the phone rings, people at the other end can hear you but you can't hear them. Of course when you are 'roaming' you are also paying for the priviledge of not being able to take the call. A nightmare of a phone. I will be back to Nokia as soon as my contract is up - even if they don't have a tri-band.
This review is a prity good account of all the things that the timeport can be!. Take the advice, if your looking for a fone, don't but the timeport. If you bought it, then read this, take it back, or throw it away!
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The Phone Sucks. I Can't Believe I Got Sucked By M
The Phone Sucks. I can't believe I got sucked by Motorola's Name. Switching to Nokia 8890 . . . .
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One Of The Most Unfriendly Phones In The Market. N
One of the most unfriendly phones in the market. No quick access to names and other commonly used functions and no directory management. Motorola should hang their heads in shame. A very bad product that should never have been released. If you have one, ask for your money back.
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The Timeport Has Better Reception Than Most Nokia
The Timeport has better reception than most Nokia & Ericsson phones. The battery is good for 3 hours of talking non-stop & it doesn't take long to charge up the battery.
If the Timeport had a more rugged antenna or if they could come up with one that doesn't require an external antenna, that would make the Timeport the perfect cell phone.
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