Posted by SEnokia
Do Motorola phones just plain suck?
A1000 - woooo.. promising from the specs on the web but wait!
1. handwriting recognition is super inaccurate
2. interface is confusing
3. picsel viewer only...no editor for documents
4. crippled browser--meaning 3 ( the server) only allows websites where they earn something
5. downloaded files go missing--so they have to repeat the process costing people money
6. cam sucks
MPX220 - Wow! cool! camera is great! ooops sudden malfunction!
1. My friend's cam suddenly can't take a picture of anything but dark if not pitch black images. --- Note: this phone brags of a flash yet it produces a dark and noisy pic.
Are Motorola phones worth buying? which ones?
Posted by OluYom
My experience with most moto phones is summed up in the title of this thread: Great on paper; sucks in real life. The only moto I ever used & will confidently recommend is the Accompli 008. But I gather that the RAZR V3 is another winner. Yet to get myself one: been too let down by moto to even look their way in recent times.
Posted by ThreeX
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I´d say the V3 for sure.. know people with V500/25 that are very happy too. E398 seems to be generally doing what it´s supposed to as well.
Posted by vineet_d
Yeah and we dont have too many reviews or comparisons to actually judge those phones.
Posted by OluYom
@vineet: True in a general sense. But of the 22 phones I have used in the last 3 years, 4 of them have been motos. I also deal with phone users daily. Most people I know have a long list of serious & valid complaints about the performance of moto phones in general. As a matter of fact, most wont touch a moto with a long pole. Feature-packed, yes; but wanting in performance. Not all; just too many models.
Posted by martin.l
Well I know four people with motorola's and all seem pretty happy with them, not used them much myself but don't find much fault when playing with theres.
As for the camera, with the exception of the S700 I find they out perform any of the
phones I've had in most conditions. Sounds like your mates MPx is faulty??
As far as my experience with phones been using Mobiles now for about ten years and started back when it was analogue not digital and my first phones phonebook consisted of storing a number under the numbers 1-9. Them was the days when I could actually remember a phone number in my head
Posted by parsnip
My motorola c350 is rubbish
Posted by OluYom
The C33x & C350 series are particularly bad. A friend came around today with her weeks-new A835. The camera was no longer capturing. It couldnt send or receive any files via both Infrared & bluetooth (tested it against my p800), something other phones do without a hitch. Again, no doubt that moto has some great phones whose performance match the hype, but they seem more like chance occurences.
Posted by Debu
I too am most dissapointed with moto, I had the a768, i'm very dissapointed, cause shifting from my p800 to a768, the camera sucked, TFT 65k screen, 320x240, so cool! But, hey! its not transreflective!!!
cant see a damn thing in the sunlight.
No (Absolutely none) Applications available for the a768. No Memory Expansion.
The negative points far outweigh the posithives of this phone, had to shift over to imate.
Posted by shlomo
You are absolutely right. Motorola as well as Se and other brands that i dont want to mention dont even come close to the quality of a nokia phone. I use the nokia 6230 and just love it. I tried them all and there is nothing oven close to a nokia. Be happy buy a nokia.
Posted by OluYom
@shlomo: Hmn...
Posted by vineet_d
@shlomo:
To be very true I like nokia phones but as a matter of fact all nokia phones lacks in quality and presentation, i mean if u look at a nokia and a
SE wins everytime, believe me I was about to buy a 6230/6600 but then i saw k700 and thank god i choose k700. I dont need a smartphone..atleast not now..and in future if i want i will get a p910 instead. I have seen people here comparing the k700/s700 with 7610/6600/6630 or whatever...and they justify their points in a very wrong way...how can one compare a symbian phone with a non OS phone? try to compare a phone which is in the same category and none of the nokia phones come close to k700/s700 in its category. Also Nokia have no answer to p910 yet and by the time 6670 hits market will comeup with a new version or probably will launch a more advanced version of p910. sounds like i am very anti-nokia 
but i am not.
Posted by leo_asb
my MOTOROLA E398 does well what it is meant to do.
great sound and features! the only 'bad point' is when typing messages. it is very slow.
Posted by Burgaz
Well my first moto ain't too bad. It's a V3... and i'm quite enjoying it!
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Posted by neonismo
Its disappointing that Moto messed up the RAZR. Beautifully designed, but hopeless interface and memory size. I think that sums up Moto - the phones would be great, but they just miss the mark.
Posted by ThreeX
@neonismo
Again very subjective opinion, hopeless? For you maybe, not for me!
And while i can agree with you on principal with the memory size, there was only one time i exceeded 4Mb on my K700, and that was when a guy at work sent me a cheesy low quality mp4 movie.. in other words _I_ don´t need a lot of memory..
Posted by OluYom
Good to receive some positive feedback from moto users with some of the new releases. The Accompli 008 was so good, then d next generation of moto just generally disappointed me. BTW, when will moto deal with that lag when inputting text? WHEN?
Posted by ThreeX
I don´t thing the V3 has any more lag than SE?
I admit to being a slow typist, but to me the only difference between Moto and SE is that the dictionary seems to be better on SE while on the other hand Moto is the better learner, suggesting complete mail adresses for instance
PS: Without Itap/T9 Both SE and Moto are clearly faster than me
Posted by OluYom
@ThreeX. Valid point there, but d lag in moto is more noticeable than on SEs. Maybe the interface also contributes to that perception, & maybe not. I am a fast typer, so it gets to me. Using a p800 at d moment means I am shielded from d typical E lag. Input via keyboard or jot here is much better. I'll stop there, as it looks like I am veering off topic a mite. ;)