Product Description

The MOTORAZR2 V9m brings the revolutionary RAZR form to a new level of sophistication and function. Packed with powerhouse features, this unbelievably strong stainless steel structure feeds the appetite for music, browsing, email and video. With an impossibly sleek profile that’s slimmer than the original RAZR, MOTORAZR2 makes faster connections and features bigger, more brilliant screens. You get all the style plus all the power with the new MOTORAZR2.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30730 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Black
• Brand: Motorola
• Model: V9m
• Released on: 2007-09-04

Features

• Newest version of iconic clamshell phone with stainless steel frame and large 2-inch, glass-housed 65K color display
• Fast EV-DO data network provides access to Sprint Music Store, Sprint TV, streaming radio, and PCS Picture Mail services
• 2.2-inch internal LCD; 1.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom; handsfree speakerphone
• Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and music headphones; USB 2.0; MicroSD expansion
• Includes: Li-Ion Battery, Mini USB AC Charger and 256MB MicroSD Card with Adapter

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Phone...poor battery life
Ok, this phone is definitely better all around than my MMA900 as far as call quality, speakerphone quality, picture quality, music quality, video quality, coolness, and thickness level (I have some pretty tight jeans unfortunately...I need to go shopping).

Now to the cons. When texting, I always wanted those emoticons where you can text those smiley faces to other people...either I can't figure out how to do it or the phone won't let me.

The second quirk is the placement of the speaker for use of the speakerphone. It is located UNDER the phone so if you are holding it in your hand, you have to hold it just right to get optimum quality from the speaker. And good luck setting the phone on your bed and listening to a person on the other end or to music, the quality of the noise goes from fantastic to bad when you don't put it on a hard surface (you need room for airflow to the speakers for them to operate correctly).

Third, I am kind of a camera freak so the lack of a camera flash annoyed the heck out of me. I figured that if I need to take a night shot of something, I can just turn on a flashlight or something like that.

Another thing is the vibration mode...YOU CAN'T FEEL IT!!! In order to notice it you almost have to let it sit on a plastic schoolchair!!!

Now when I call people the conversation usually lasts for a fairly long time (over a half hour and I have 3-5 of these kinds of conversations per day). Through the actual hand set, if I am in a quiet environment, I can get about 7 calls through with the lowest volume setting. For some reason, when I call a landline the call volume is lower than if I am calling a cell line. I can only get in about 5-6 calls on medium volume (setting 3-5) which is the setting I use when driving in the car. I usually don't go much higher on call volume than that but when the speakerphone function is used and you are driving in the car, I hold it in my hand or put the phone in the cupholder so I can concentrate more on the road...and believe me, I use speakerphone A LOT!!!
When I use speakerphone I have to have it on volume levels between 5 and 7. And unfortunately, that cuts my talk time down to about 1 1/2 to 2 hrs (BUMMER). I am waiting for them to come out with an extended battery but that probably won't happen at least for the next few months. I haven't done a test on music battery life yet, however.

Now for the included accessories. There is really only one that stands out and that is the 256MB Micro SD card that is included...NO USB CONNECTION...so if you don't have a memory card reader in your computer, you are SOL right now. Now there are 2 things about this memory function:
1. If you don't have a memory card reader, you can buy a micro USB (at lest I think it's micro) to USB hookup (not mini!!!) from your local tech store if you don't already have one.
2. The phone also has 65 MB of internal memory and what is nice is that you can choose where you can save a picture file you make (between internal memory or external micro SD card)

There aren't any clips or holsters that come with the phone which is also a bummer. The reason is because this phone is like the 5th gen. iPod...FINGERPRINT MAGNET (I wish I could underline this because it really is a bad fingerprint magnet). The problem is really only on the front of the phone where the touch screen is and you can buy a 8 pack of screen protectors (4 for the external screen and 4 for the internal screen) for about 5-6 bucks on eBay and they already have leather and plastic cases out there for these phones on eBay for between 6 and 20 bucks.

And just a friendly warning to current sprint users that want to switch to this phone and start a new contract from their already existing one, (as in you haven't finished your 2 year plan but want to start a new one with the same number and unless you have some sort of loyalty discount that starts at 1 year or some other discount) it ain't gonna happen if you wan't to only pay the already high price of $250. You will have to pay the full $400 for the phone and at that point, you might as well just add a line on to your plan and get the phone for the $250. What I hear is that if you want to start a family plan, the 2nd line is free but all lines after that (3,4,and 5) cost $10 a month. It might pay for itself at that point.

And here is a question that I wouldn't mind being answered. On my old MM-A900, the call quality of both the handset and speakerphone were awesome for the first month and a half I had it, but after that it all went downhill. I didn't know if this was a problem that only happened with the MM-A900 or if it happens with all thin phones (like this one). If this is the case for all thin phones, then I am going to return this and put my old phone back on service because this phone cost me 400 bones and I want to see every single one be worth it.

Well sorry for the long review (if you have made it this far) and even though there are a lot of cons that I would like to have reworked and fixed, the current pros kind of even out if not outweigh the cons by a little bit, that's why I gave it a 4 star.

Thanks for your patience and I hope this helped!!!

Excellent Buy, Improvements Over the Original RAZR, Read On
FIRST LOOK AND FEEL:
1. The RAZR2 is a big, luxurious slab of metal and glass that feels and drives like a luxury SUV but still thinner than the original RAZR.
2. The phone has the biggest, most beautiful external screen you've ever seen on a flip phone. The resolution is terrific.
3. They took care of getting rid of the bulk chin in the original RAZR. The RAZR 2 does not have the heavy chin and has a smooth and straight finish with is much more elegant. The unit looks a lot more streamlined in terms of mechanical design.
4. New Haptics technology. Read more in the next section.
5. Browsing is much faster and browser looks great.
6. It uses the new micro USB port which technically is same as the mini USB port but is slimmer than that.
7. Viewing TV on external display is cool. Music player can be launched right on external display. No need to open the flip.
8. Excellent sound qulaity. Great speaker for Voice, Music, TV.

NEW ADDITIONS/IMPROVEMENTS:
1. External display incorporates a virtual reality technology called haptics, which will enable the user's fingertips to receive vibration feedback when touching the phone's on-screen buttons. This is a great feature.
2. Applications like camera, Sprint TV, Music player can be run directly on the external display without having to open up the phone, directly on the flip. This prevents users holding their wrists at an uncomfortable angle in order to view the screen.
3. Browsing internet is a breeze on this handset. The new Teleca browser includes all the bells and whistles needed for a mobile phone browser.
This combined with Sprint's EVDO (Enhanced data rate) gives the user very nice browsing experience.
4. Excellent camera resolution (2 mega pixel) and it takes full advantage of the external display.
5. The external keys also use the same haptic technology. You can feel a little vibration feedback when pressing any of the external keys.
6. Although I am not sure of any technology specific improvements for the call quality but I see that it improved a lot. May be the speaker is different.

POINTS TO NOTE:
1. Only limited set of applications can be run from the external screen.
2. The RAZR 2 has a new micro USB port. This might require micro USB adapters.
3. Little more heavier than RAZR.
4. I am using a Sprint RAZR2, so some features might not apply to other carriers.

razor 2
I love the look at feel of this phone...but the on-going glitches are frustrating to say the least. And this is with every razor 2, not just my phone.

1. Half of the texts i get, are shown that they are from random numbers, even though this number is saved in my contacts with a name! So if i dont automatically recognize the number, i have to look it up in the contacts just to see who it is.

2. Literally half of all texts i send will say SENT, but they will remain in my outbox until i re-send them.

3. The screen freezes about once every other day.

4. People say this about every phone, but REALLY, the battery life is amazingly horrible. 90% of the time this phone is on its charger.

5. I really wish I would have listened to all these poor reviews before I bought this phone.