Motorola V3i

Nice looking phone but you have to be very careful of the top door as it can break off very easy if dropped. Leather case is very hard to get on and covers camera eye.

When talking the command button is in the way when you hold the phone. I have pressed it a number of times as I am talking. All it does is beep so no real worry. If you wish to add a SD card I would check with Micro Center first the price is rather high at dealer.I would really consider getting insurance for your phone $100 to replace it with insurance over $300.00 with out.

Good stuff out weights the the small bad stuff.

Changed from a Nokia N91 because it was a big handset. The Nokia menu, phonebook, diary & organizer are all so much better than the Motorola offering.

If you want a sexy sleak phone and only want to make calls, well this is fine, but if you want more, such as functions to organise your life, or a good camera, or a video camera that records more than 55 seconds, don't get this. It looks fantastic, but its really a very average phone.

I have owned this phone for a few weeks, and it has worked very well for me. I liked it because it was thin, very easy to use and it looked pretty nice. Still, the menu was slow some of the time, and it took some seconds after I pushed a button for it to do what I asked. I was impressed by the power of the signal, however the battery didn't last for a long time. After some basic things I did daily (talking, a few photos, online browsing) I had to recharge the phone 24 hours later. The camera takes very nice pictures, and there is enough space to store them, with the ability to expand the memory (there is a slot for memory cards).

Overall, the Motorola V3i is a nice mobile phone. It is worth the money, and it's mostly recommended for women due to its design.

I've owned the Motorola V3i for about ten months now, and it's been a good phone to me. At first I was initially disappointed with it due to local problems with the mast in my area, I could not receive a signal, and thus was unable to make or receive calls for about a fortnight, frustrating to say the least, but not the phone's fault.

However, after contacting my service provider several times to inform them of my difficulties, they sent an engineer out to me and the problem area of reception was identified and corrected.

The V3i was supposed to come with i-tunes, at the time of me taking out a contract, but this only applied to phones being supplied to certain geographical areas and not Britain. However I think the latest V3i's now come with the above on board?

Everywhere you go, nearly every phone you now see is a V3 or i's, so this is obviously a good sign.

Functionally I cannot fault the V3i and it gives a good account of itself. "It's a phone at the end of the day".

Mobile phones are obsolete so fast these days that it's hard to keep up, but hey, when one comes off the market, that makes my cuppa on a morning, then I'll snap one up.

Poons

The Motorola V3i is funky, looks nice and I love the flip action in a mobile phone, however the bluetooth is painfully slow to transfer files and the camera is like a basic £10 VGA digital camera, not worth having.

A great phone when I first had it and I still like it, but the spread of the V3 means that now everyone has one.

I got this Motorola V3i phone as a free upgrade and I am so glad I did not pay for it. Previously, I have always used Nokia and though they are not perfect, I wish I had taken a Nokia rather than this thing.

Now, I should make it clear that I am not a user of the web over the phone, taking pictures with my phone (I have a camera for that) or video calling. I am looking for a phone which handles calls well, texts easily, has a good address book, and won't die on me if I haven't been able to charge it that day. On those counts this phone is a failure.

I have never had such poor reception with a phone. My home seems to have quadrupled the number of black-spots where I get no reception compared to my previous phones. What is even more annoying is when it is showing decent reception, yet the phone doesn't ring but I get a text to say I missed a call.

The predictive texting software takes a little getting used to but works well. However, I get about 10 times more "failed to send" errors with this phone than I have had before. Also, it doesn't seem possible to set a global policy of requesting a "text delivered" message - it has to be done on an individual basis, which is annoying.

The address book is nice, save that it keeps freezing. The biggest culprits for causing this, appear to be using the proprietary software for linking with your PC, or adding a contact from a received text or received call. Once it freezes, things like the voice-dialling will not work unless and until you have discovered and deleted the offending entry in the contacts.

As for battery life - well that is a joke. It is simply impossible to get away without having to charge the phone every day. If you use it a lot during the day, then it won't last the day. A couple of hours of calls in a day and the darn thing is running out of charge. Oh, and I was scrupulous in making sure I fully charged the battery before first use, then ran it down a few times to give it a full re-charge to try to get every cell of the battery activated.

For me, the only reason I have not switched back to my old Nokia 6230, is the voice-dialing using my bluetooth headset. This is so much better than the limited facility on my Nokia where you had to assign a voice-dial to an entry in your contacts, and were limited with the number of voice-dials you could assign. On the Motorola, you simply speak the name of your contact, it searches for the contact and, if the contact has more than 1 number, asks you which you want to dial. Now, the software is not perfect, but it works well enough and keeps me using what is otherwise a very poor phone.

There must be much better products than this out there.

I have had the Motorola V3i for several weeks now. I was always previously a Nokia owner and was very worried to change, as Nokia as everyone knows is the most user friendly make ever, but I took the risk and I am so very glad I did. I am addicted to this phone, I can't put it down. It is very simple to use, when purchased hardly had to look in manual, is so self explanatory. The camera on it is good enough for a camera phone. It's not fantastic but if you want good pics, buy a digital camera and not a phone. The games are wicked but does use the battery, which is expected. Would definitely recommend to anyone.

The Motorola V3i has a really good colour and a nice big screen but quite small so you can barely feel it in your pocket. Its games run very slow as well as the Internet, however, I think it is a great phone and I would definitely recommend it.

Well, this Motorola V3i phone is very light, stylish and very usable but I don't like the keypad. I love the flatness but the shininess is a bit 'woah' for me! If it had the keypad from the V3X then it would be perfect!

I highly recommend this phone. I had the original RAZR V3 and changed it for this one... the best decision I have made! Never switching to another type of cel phone, RAZR for life!