Continuing the Motorola V3x
July 25th 2006 07:50
Good afternoon all 
Hope everyone’s day’s been well! Personally I’ve just been stuffing my face with junk food so I can’t complain!
As promised, continuing on my last entry about the Motorola V3x, today I’ll be talking about the pros of choosing the V3x as a phone for you. Although I may not cover all the features, like I have said before if you have any questions I’ll try and help you as best as I can if you email me at mobiletales &064 gmail &046 com
Starting with the advantages of the V3x over other phones on the market we will look at the camera again, design, email and modification. Then in the next entry on disadvantages, we will look at the battery life, iTAP and some small idiosyncrasies of the phone that could have been better.
Even though this phone is about seven months old here in Australia I still believe it can take awesome shots with its 2 megapixel camera. What differentiates it from the older model phones is its dedicated macro/landscape switch. Although macro-mode is increasingly becoming a standard with the newer mobile phones, it still isn’t as widely available as it should be. In the range of phones at our retailer we probably only have about 1 in every 5 phones displaying this feature.
Now, some of you are probably thinking that macro photography is a bit of a niche market. But I have to tell you honestly, it is a very handy feature to have no matter what you’re into. Being a University student by day, I try to keep my costs down to a minimum (all the stories of the poor uni student that I was told when I was younger are all true!), in particular I hate having to photocopy ONE paragraph out of a whole page when I’m looking through reading material in the library and not to mention then having to photocopy ONE the paragraph with all the publishing details on the inside cover. That in itself is 22 cents already, then considering you need more than one book for your essay it all stacks up, not to mention the greenhouse gases that tree you just killed could have saved. These days, I just take out my phone and slip it into macro and snap the bits I need, nothing else.
On a personal level I love the design. A lot of people complain that the V3x is too big compared with the original V3 Razr series. In a way they are right, it is about one and half times the size of the original V3 Razr. But, relative to other phones the V3 was an exception to the rule. Before the V3s there were not as many compacted phones like it.
The V3x sacrifices the original concept of thin compact design for a great deal more power and functionality. Complaints of the original V3 were that it was slow and had very little memory to offer. Both of these have been addressed in the V3x featuring a fast response interface and 64mb of internal memory with the option of expanding it with transflash or micro SD cards. It still however retains the sleek Razr design, albeit a little thicker than fans of the V3 would have liked.
Keypad and screen is large, yet stylishly done which will keep both the older and younger users happy. I’ve had a lot of older customers come in taking the phone solely on the fact that many of the phones today they cannot use because of the tiny keys and impossible to read text when messaging or calling.
My final point here on the design of the Motorola V3x is that it is quite a solid build. The flip is firm and when closed sits flush. I would describe it as feeling solid, in my experience some phones you handle but pray that you do not break from holding it. That being said, I would not recommend slamming the flip closed when you finish a call as our work phone has become a little faulty from being slammed too hard, too many times. The way I close my V3x is by placing my thumb on the keypad and flipping the screen closed with my index finger onto my thumb before closing it completely.
The email advantage is a short one, its fast. Since I have started working here I have been constantly amazed at what phones do these days. Previously, I had a Nokia that pretty much only called and texted. Now that I have found the convenience of receiving emails on my phone I probably will never be able to go back without it. The advantage of the V3x, over some other phones that we stock, is that connecting, synchronising and receiving takes ten seconds or less, unless you have attachments of course. That being said, the only attachment types able to be viewed are picture and video, of certain sizes. But if you needed much more than that, I would say you’re running a business and require a very different type of phone.
The final advantage I would like to mention is a very niche market advantage. Phone modification has been a culture long in the phone scene, I remember years ago my friend modifying his Siemens SL45i mono-colour phone to watch short incriminating video clips to say the least. Today Motorola is one of the most accessible phone companies for modders to do so.
Don’t get me wrong, modding your phone WILL void your warranty and I do not encourage those who wish to keep their’s intact to do so. But for some people, the ability to mod surpasses the need for warranty. Phone modding allows for customising the phone’s software to your precise requirements. For example, one might like to edit one of the external buttons to be a cancel call button, as by default there is no way to officially reject calls from a ringing phone save making it silent and letting it ring out.
Modification allows you to look in the coding of the software to replace anything that you wish, given the right amount of knowledge. Modding also can bypass some of the carrier’s preconfigured software. An example of this would be a carrier disabling Java program/game installation. By modding the phone one theoretically could enable it.
Motorola modification in general has become so big that they have a full blown community of modders, take www.motomodders.net as an example. Again I do not encourage modification but it is something to take into account for when choosing a handset.
So now you’ve had a taste of some of the advantages of the V3x, stay on the line for our next instalment of the disadvantages!
- Ben
Hope everyone’s day’s been well! Personally I’ve just been stuffing my face with junk food so I can’t complain!
As promised, continuing on my last entry about the Motorola V3x, today I’ll be talking about the pros of choosing the V3x as a phone for you. Although I may not cover all the features, like I have said before if you have any questions I’ll try and help you as best as I can if you email me at mobiletales &064 gmail &046 com
Nice big screen
Even though this phone is about seven months old here in Australia I still believe it can take awesome shots with its 2 megapixel camera. What differentiates it from the older model phones is its dedicated macro/landscape switch. Although macro-mode is increasingly becoming a standard with the newer mobile phones, it still isn’t as widely available as it should be. In the range of phones at our retailer we probably only have about 1 in every 5 phones displaying this feature.
Now, some of you are probably thinking that macro photography is a bit of a niche market. But I have to tell you honestly, it is a very handy feature to have no matter what you’re into. Being a University student by day, I try to keep my costs down to a minimum (all the stories of the poor uni student that I was told when I was younger are all true!), in particular I hate having to photocopy ONE paragraph out of a whole page when I’m looking through reading material in the library and not to mention then having to photocopy ONE the paragraph with all the publishing details on the inside cover. That in itself is 22 cents already, then considering you need more than one book for your essay it all stacks up, not to mention the greenhouse gases that tree you just killed could have saved. These days, I just take out my phone and slip it into macro and snap the bits I need, nothing else.
On a personal level I love the design. A lot of people complain that the V3x is too big compared with the original V3 Razr series. In a way they are right, it is about one and half times the size of the original V3 Razr. But, relative to other phones the V3 was an exception to the rule. Before the V3s there were not as many compacted phones like it.
The V3x sacrifices the original concept of thin compact design for a great deal more power and functionality. Complaints of the original V3 were that it was slow and had very little memory to offer. Both of these have been addressed in the V3x featuring a fast response interface and 64mb of internal memory with the option of expanding it with transflash or micro SD cards. It still however retains the sleek Razr design, albeit a little thicker than fans of the V3 would have liked.
Nice big keypad
My final point here on the design of the Motorola V3x is that it is quite a solid build. The flip is firm and when closed sits flush. I would describe it as feeling solid, in my experience some phones you handle but pray that you do not break from holding it. That being said, I would not recommend slamming the flip closed when you finish a call as our work phone has become a little faulty from being slammed too hard, too many times. The way I close my V3x is by placing my thumb on the keypad and flipping the screen closed with my index finger onto my thumb before closing it completely.
The email advantage is a short one, its fast. Since I have started working here I have been constantly amazed at what phones do these days. Previously, I had a Nokia that pretty much only called and texted. Now that I have found the convenience of receiving emails on my phone I probably will never be able to go back without it. The advantage of the V3x, over some other phones that we stock, is that connecting, synchronising and receiving takes ten seconds or less, unless you have attachments of course. That being said, the only attachment types able to be viewed are picture and video, of certain sizes. But if you needed much more than that, I would say you’re running a business and require a very different type of phone.
The final advantage I would like to mention is a very niche market advantage. Phone modification has been a culture long in the phone scene, I remember years ago my friend modifying his Siemens SL45i mono-colour phone to watch short incriminating video clips to say the least. Today Motorola is one of the most accessible phone companies for modders to do so.
Don’t get me wrong, modding your phone WILL void your warranty and I do not encourage those who wish to keep their’s intact to do so. But for some people, the ability to mod surpasses the need for warranty. Phone modding allows for customising the phone’s software to your precise requirements. For example, one might like to edit one of the external buttons to be a cancel call button, as by default there is no way to officially reject calls from a ringing phone save making it silent and letting it ring out.
Modification allows you to look in the coding of the software to replace anything that you wish, given the right amount of knowledge. Modding also can bypass some of the carrier’s preconfigured software. An example of this would be a carrier disabling Java program/game installation. By modding the phone one theoretically could enable it.
Motorola modification in general has become so big that they have a full blown community of modders, take www.motomodders.net as an example. Again I do not encourage modification but it is something to take into account for when choosing a handset.
So now you’ve had a taste of some of the advantages of the V3x, stay on the line for our next instalment of the disadvantages!
- Ben
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