Motorola RAZR2 V9m
My full review of the pathetic RAZR 2
First before I write this review, this is MY review; so I don't want to hear the genetic replies like "Oh, you are using the phone incorrectly", "I never had those problems", and "Maybe your phone is just defective." Trust me, my take on the Sprint Motorola RAZR 2 V9m is coming from years using every type of phone, from every major carrier.
Pros:
1. Large inside and outer screen.
2. Sprint TV/Radio application works well.
Cons:
1. Does not support any of Motorola Bluetooth headset and headphones that I own. Even my new Moto stereo headphones that came out before the RAZR 2 even came out, don't even work.
2. Daily White-Screen freeze errors.
3. Text input in third-party app's in annoying. the "1" key cycles though characters that you will never use just to get to a period aor @ sign. the "0" key is used to cycle though the rest and again goes though characters that you will rarely use just to get one you will use a lot.
4. The touch-screen is way too sensitive. If you don't have a key-lock set, you will find that the TV app will load in your pocket and turn to a channel. Or it will just load the app and waste the already pathetic battery life. Even if the key-lock is on, the vibrate feature will go off so many times that when you goto use the phone, you will end up having 1 bar, maybe 2.
5. Horrible battery life. Unlike the A900, Katana, and pretty much all other slim-phones, the RAZR 2 gets really hot when using it. Heat means wasted energy, thus making the battery life the worst I have ever seen. If you are using bluetooth, and/or the TV app, or in an area with a weak signal, battery life can be as low as 40 minutes.
6. The UI is SLOW! I mean as slow as slow can get. This comes to it's full power of annoyance when you end up loading an application that you didn't mean to, and closing it down takes 5 to 10 seconds to close down. This will happen a lot, because the buttons are so close together, that you will end up loading the music or TV app without even trying. Scrolling through you content is horrible. Images take what seems like months to switch to the next.
7. No real media player. You can not fast forward or rewind video clips. So those days of watching movies and shows on your phone are over. Unless you want to sit and watch it from the beginning.
8. You can not hear the volume when setting the level for the ringer, alarm, ect. This most basic of features shows how low Moto has come when making phones.
9. The lower set of speaks has a groove where overtime it will cut into your fingers when holding the phone to watch TV.
10. The inner display has the typical data and time features, but with the RAZR 2 you can not get rid of the date. So if you have a cool screen saver, you will see "00/00/000 Day" on the screen. So if you have a cool pic of a Cele you are into, their face will be blocked.
11. The web browser is HTML, but it renders the site into pages. So a normal sized site will be cut into many pages. Some sites are cut into 10+ pages. Unlike Opera mini which can render the entire page in one window. You will be scrolling page to page just to see the content you like.
12. Since the browser is HTML, WAP sites can't be loaded very well if at all. So if you want to download a Java app through a WAP site, you might not be able to at all.
13. Third party apps can easily cause the phone to lock-up. Basic app's that load on even the most simple phone will cause the phone to lock in a white screen and you will have to pull the battery to get out.
14. Alarm doesn't always go off. This has happen to me a lot.
15. When you use the speaker-phone or use the speakers with Telenav, the sound quality is horrible. On the other end my friends make me repeat what I am saying. The speaker-phone has been known in the past to be one of the best features found in Moto phones; this is not the case with the V9m.
16. Buttons on the side are tiny. With a plastic snap-on case they are very difficult to press.
There isn't much good to say about this piece of ****. I know it took a lot of dumb engineers from some place where the labor is cheap to make a phone this bad. They had to wake up every morning thinking of every possible way to make something this bad. It takes hard work to make a phone that is 1,000,000,000 times worse then the worse phone I have ever used the VGA1000, but Moto did it. I think it is time for Motorola to make TV's again. Because as far as phones go, I don't think they could make a worse phone then this. Well, most likely they could. Man, how bad will that phone be?
I waited years for a media Moto phone through Sprint and I am disappointed beyond words.
So in closing, the V9m is like Windows Vista; full of bugs, overly priced, lackluster features, and will be used as an example of how an over-hype product can kill brand loyalty. -47 Trillion out of 10.
RIP Moto V9m, you will never be missed.
Pros:
1. Large inside and outer screen.
2. Sprint TV/Radio application works well.
Cons:
1. Does not support any of Motorola Bluetooth headset and headphones that I own. Even my new Moto stereo headphones that came out before the RAZR 2 even came out, don't even work.
2. Daily White-Screen freeze errors.
3. Text input in third-party app's in annoying. the "1" key cycles though characters that you will never use just to get to a period aor @ sign. the "0" key is used to cycle though the rest and again goes though characters that you will rarely use just to get one you will use a lot.
4. The touch-screen is way too sensitive. If you don't have a key-lock set, you will find that the TV app will load in your pocket and turn to a channel. Or it will just load the app and waste the already pathetic battery life. Even if the key-lock is on, the vibrate feature will go off so many times that when you goto use the phone, you will end up having 1 bar, maybe 2.
5. Horrible battery life. Unlike the A900, Katana, and pretty much all other slim-phones, the RAZR 2 gets really hot when using it. Heat means wasted energy, thus making the battery life the worst I have ever seen. If you are using bluetooth, and/or the TV app, or in an area with a weak signal, battery life can be as low as 40 minutes.
6. The UI is SLOW! I mean as slow as slow can get. This comes to it's full power of annoyance when you end up loading an application that you didn't mean to, and closing it down takes 5 to 10 seconds to close down. This will happen a lot, because the buttons are so close together, that you will end up loading the music or TV app without even trying. Scrolling through you content is horrible. Images take what seems like months to switch to the next.
7. No real media player. You can not fast forward or rewind video clips. So those days of watching movies and shows on your phone are over. Unless you want to sit and watch it from the beginning.
8. You can not hear the volume when setting the level for the ringer, alarm, ect. This most basic of features shows how low Moto has come when making phones.
9. The lower set of speaks has a groove where overtime it will cut into your fingers when holding the phone to watch TV.
10. The inner display has the typical data and time features, but with the RAZR 2 you can not get rid of the date. So if you have a cool screen saver, you will see "00/00/000 Day" on the screen. So if you have a cool pic of a Cele you are into, their face will be blocked.
11. The web browser is HTML, but it renders the site into pages. So a normal sized site will be cut into many pages. Some sites are cut into 10+ pages. Unlike Opera mini which can render the entire page in one window. You will be scrolling page to page just to see the content you like.
12. Since the browser is HTML, WAP sites can't be loaded very well if at all. So if you want to download a Java app through a WAP site, you might not be able to at all.
13. Third party apps can easily cause the phone to lock-up. Basic app's that load on even the most simple phone will cause the phone to lock in a white screen and you will have to pull the battery to get out.
14. Alarm doesn't always go off. This has happen to me a lot.
15. When you use the speaker-phone or use the speakers with Telenav, the sound quality is horrible. On the other end my friends make me repeat what I am saying. The speaker-phone has been known in the past to be one of the best features found in Moto phones; this is not the case with the V9m.
16. Buttons on the side are tiny. With a plastic snap-on case they are very difficult to press.
There isn't much good to say about this piece of ****. I know it took a lot of dumb engineers from some place where the labor is cheap to make a phone this bad. They had to wake up every morning thinking of every possible way to make something this bad. It takes hard work to make a phone that is 1,000,000,000 times worse then the worse phone I have ever used the VGA1000, but Moto did it. I think it is time for Motorola to make TV's again. Because as far as phones go, I don't think they could make a worse phone then this. Well, most likely they could. Man, how bad will that phone be?
I waited years for a media Moto phone through Sprint and I am disappointed beyond words.
So in closing, the V9m is like Windows Vista; full of bugs, overly priced, lackluster features, and will be used as an example of how an over-hype product can kill brand loyalty. -47 Trillion out of 10.
RIP Moto V9m, you will never be missed.
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I guess. It works just as well as a Sanyo or Samsung. There really isn't anything different that would justify the loss of every useful media feature. H@LL, the phone doesn't even have a headphones port.
This phone cost as much as a PDA. You are better off getting a PDA or Sanyo. I wouldn't recommend this piece of junk to anyone.
This phone cost as much as a PDA. You are better off getting a PDA or Sanyo. I wouldn't recommend this piece of junk to anyone.
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Bro is someone paying you some big bucks to bash on this phone or what? Sounds like you have a tiny bit of buyers remorse to me.
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When I see reviews like this, it makes me question if the person actually owns the phone, or if they went through forum after forum looking for more common complaints in order to write a review with the sole purpose of lowering a phone's rating.
There's no such thing as the "perfect phone" because it's impossible to design a phone for the individual consumer. I went into a Sprint store, even though I have Verizon, just to see the RAZR2. Not only was the RAZR2 in that blue-gray color the best looking phone I've ever seen, the UI was the best looking UI I've ever seen. It looked nothing short of fantastic. I had no complaints with the UI's speed. It took a little while to load the music and TV application, but that's it. Scrolling thr...
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There's no such thing as the "perfect phone" because it's impossible to design a phone for the individual consumer. I went into a Sprint store, even though I have Verizon, just to see the RAZR2. Not only was the RAZR2 in that blue-gray color the best looking phone I've ever seen, the UI was the best looking UI I've ever seen. It looked nothing short of fantastic. I had no complaints with the UI's speed. It took a little while to load the music and TV application, but that's it. Scrolling thr...
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Are you crazy?! How would I be able to write this huge list of problems if I didn't own the phone. Every single time I write a review, useless morons come up with stupid reasons to bash them.
Trust into what you want, if you waste money after reading my HONEST review, then you are stupid. I own the phone, it is sitting next to my computer right now.
I know a billion times more about cell phones them 90% of the people in here. I have been using Sprint's service for 3 years. I have also used T-Mobile, Cingular, Verizon, Primeco, Jump Mobile, Amp'd Mobile, on and on. So lay off the stupid comments. The RAZR 2 is trash. My review is not bias and any fool can see that.
Trust into what you want, if you waste money after reading my HONEST review, then you are stupid. I own the phone, it is sitting next to my computer right now.
I know a billion times more about cell phones them 90% of the people in here. I have been using Sprint's service for 3 years. I have also used T-Mobile, Cingular, Verizon, Primeco, Jump Mobile, Amp'd Mobile, on and on. So lay off the stupid comments. The RAZR 2 is trash. My review is not bias and any fool can see that.
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How right you were to point out the slow UI. Last moderately quick UI I had on a Verizon phone was the Moto E815 (now that was a decent Moto phone). V9m is well deserving of your poignant, erudite review.
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"Trust me, my take on the Sprint Motorola RAZR 2 V9m is coming from years using every type of phone, from every major carrier."
Why? Is that because you are never satisfied with any phone?
My touch screen never gets activated on accident. You would have to press a button on the side and then hold the button on the touch screen...it hasn't happen once in over a month. My batterry lasts 2-3 days. My UI has never locked up. And how the heck would you want the websites to load? Full pages? That doesn't even make sense.
Are you sure this isn't ID ten T error?
Why? Is that because you are never satisfied with any phone?
My touch screen never gets activated on accident. You would have to press a button on the side and then hold the button on the touch screen...it hasn't happen once in over a month. My batterry lasts 2-3 days. My UI has never locked up. And how the heck would you want the websites to load? Full pages? That doesn't even make sense.
Are you sure this isn't ID ten T error?
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See, this is the problem. ((((MY)))) phone is a piece of crap. ((((I)))) think the RAZR 2 is junk. This is ((((MY)))) review of the problems I am going through. It doesn't matter if you like the phone or not ((((I)))) hate my phone and think it is poorly designed.
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That's what you get when you buy new phone model on eBay...either stolen or damaged goods. You are entited to your opinion, just as much as I am entitled to say it is wrong.
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I purchased it from a retailer. I could not case less what you think. I have used 30 to 40 phones since I started using wireless lack in 1999. So if you are that stupid, that you can not see the problems with the phone, then what do I care? It is. You have most likely used 3 phones in your life, but will lie and claim 50 just to one up me.
So listen up, because I am not going to say this again. "THIS REVIEW IS MY REVIEW, BASED ON THE PROBLEMS I HAVE GONE THROUGH. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A LOYALIST, OR JUST IGNORANT OF PHONES, DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ME."
But let me ask you this? Doesn't the fact that a $400 that doesn't come with a headphone jack bother you? What about Bluetooth limits? Limited processing power? Limited media functions?...
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So listen up, because I am not going to say this again. "THIS REVIEW IS MY REVIEW, BASED ON THE PROBLEMS I HAVE GONE THROUGH. JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A LOYALIST, OR JUST IGNORANT OF PHONES, DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ME."
But let me ask you this? Doesn't the fact that a $400 that doesn't come with a headphone jack bother you? What about Bluetooth limits? Limited processing power? Limited media functions?...
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Someone reaelly ought to let your mommy know you are on the computer the2ndfl
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hmm...how come on Nov 1 you replied to another thread stating you purchased from eBay?
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/p_forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/p_forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
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AHAHAHAHA!!!! Owned by your own idiocy. The 2nd fall (the2ndfl)? Did the first fall not hurt enough? Btw, I created my name for idiot trolls like you who know nothing about cell phones but pretend to. Also, if you've had 30-40 phones since 1999... do you play soccer with them or do mom and dad just not mind buying you things?
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I just purchased the RAZR 2 as a upgrade and I have 30 days to try it out. So far I have not had any issues with it. The OS is fast on mine. Had no Bluetooth issues yet (works great with my Garmin). Battery life is what I expected for a RAZR. I can hear the sound when changing the volume level. Have not tried everything but so far no problems.
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The verizon version is pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿 The other networks might be better?!?!? 😁
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fonecrzy said:
The verizon version is pathetic!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿 The other networks might be better?!?!? 😁
I flashed my VZW V9M with the US Cellular firmware and the phone is 100% better in functionality. It still works great on the VZW network.
I now have a Motorola UI with themes, more snappy operation, and lots of setup options VZW took away. 10 out of 10 for me now!
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Here is my review of your review. If you dont like it I dont care I will write what I want I have worked for both sprint and verizon in the past and have used tons of phones.my words in ""s
First before I write this review, this is MY review; so I don't want to hear the genetic replies like "Oh, you are using the phone incorrectly", "I never had those problems", and "Maybe your phone is just defective." Trust me, my take on the Sprint Motorola RAZR 2 V9m is coming from years using every type of phone, from every major carrier.
Pros:
1. Large inside and outer screen.
2. Sprint TV/Radio application works well.
Cons:
1. Does not support any of Motorola Bluetooth headset and headphones that I own. Even my new Moto stereo headphones...
(continues)
First before I write this review, this is MY review; so I don't want to hear the genetic replies like "Oh, you are using the phone incorrectly", "I never had those problems", and "Maybe your phone is just defective." Trust me, my take on the Sprint Motorola RAZR 2 V9m is coming from years using every type of phone, from every major carrier.
Pros:
1. Large inside and outer screen.
2. Sprint TV/Radio application works well.
Cons:
1. Does not support any of Motorola Bluetooth headset and headphones that I own. Even my new Moto stereo headphones...
(continues)
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