The Motorola Q9h

The editor of the cell review site has declared the phone as very good, marking it a 7.3 on 10. This phone is not the trendy slim one. It is a big phone and the body is quite hard and is also a bit weighty. The keypad buttons of the phone is quite big and it is hence easy for the users to type fast. There is not much gap between the buttons but as they are bigger in size people with large fingers won’t have any problem. The USB port of the phone is located on its left side.

The phone is equipped with a 2 mega-pixel camera with 8x zooming capacity. It can also record videos. There are different shooting modes available for still pictures and a flash is also to be found. The picture quality is not as good as expected, the colours were a bit grayish but the video was of good quality. The brightness of the still pictures can also be adjusted. The other features of the phone are, it has a speakerphone, speed dialing, three-way calling, world roaming, conference calling and the most important, and it has facilities of both text and multimedia messages. The phone book is limited to the memory of the phone but the SIM card can hold up to another 250 numbers. A single entry allows storing multiple phone numbers, email, web, home and company addresses. There are a total 39 ring tones which are polyphonic in nature. Pictures can be assigned against each name for caller ID purpose. The wireless option of the phone is pretty good. An inbuilt radio is to be found in the phone. It also supports music files and various channels.

The phone has a good call quality and the multimedia performance is satisfactory. It features HSDPA support and the keypad is spacious.

The battery life is not strong and sometimes it becomes quite slow. Not equipped with scroll wheel.

The Motorola W385 (Verizon wireless)

The Motorola W385 is quite a dependable phone. The editors have rated it as very good and the users have given it excellent ratings. The users have provided it with an 8.4 on 10. The phone has good functional quality and has quite a reasonable price of $29. The phone has a color display but the texts come in a tiny form. The display screen of the phone is rectangular in shape and is not too big. The cell has a VGA camera in built, which takes pictures in about three resolutions.

It is equipped with digital zoom; about 10 kinds of frames and the color, brightness are adjustable. The camera does not have a flash facility and is unable to record a video. The photo quality is keeping par with the VGA camera. Self portrait can be taken with the help of the mirror strip available on the front side of the phone. This phone also has a large memory of including about 1000 numbers in the contact list, allowing at least 5 numbers and two email addresses against each entry. The other features are multimedia messaging, voice commands, Bluetooth facility, speakerphone, world clock, calculator, notepad, calendar and also an alarm clock. It also allows the GPS services. The phone also includes 22 polyphonic ring tones and other alert tones. The photo of people can be saved in the memory of the phone against each number or against each group formed. But these photos cannot be seen in the external display of the phone.

The call quality of the phone is fine and quite sharp and the speaker phone works excellently and clearly. The users came with no serious allegations against the phone. The battery supports at least 4 hours of talk time. The phone is user friendly and has an integrated blue tooth support.

Due to the VGA camera the photo quality lacks excellence and the internal display is of a low resolution.

The Motorola Razr2 V9m (Sprint)

This phone is one of the best among the choice of the cell review site editors. The editors have awarded it with excellent rating. On the other hand the users of this phone has awarded it very good, giving 7.8 on 10, while the editors provided it with 8.0 on 10. The design of the phone is quite attractive as it is very thin but not the thinnest in the world. This helps in gripping the phone too. The best part of this phone is its external display; it is about 2 inches and the widest among cell phones. The phone is equipped with a 2 mega pixel camera without a flash.

The picture quality is excellent. Video can be recorded with sound. The pictures can be transferred with the help of the Bluetooth. The camera supports zoom and pictures can also be edited. Other qualities of the camera are that the brightness, color scheme can be set according to need. The Razr2 V9m has a wonderful music player. The music quality is much better due to the stereo sound. If connected with Sprint’s Power Vision; the phone allows its users to view more than 50 T.V channels. The phone is packed with multimedia features. The memory is quite strong. It can hold up to 1000 contacts, allowing 5 phone numbers, email, and home address, job title, web page address. Contact groups can be formed with the provision of setting a photo with each group. It also has general features notepad, converter, calculator, calendar, stopwatch, voice recorder, alarm clock and over all multimedia messaging. The ring tones are polyphonic in nature even video ring tones are available.

The best part of the phone is its gorgeous look and the user friendly nature. The picture quality of the camera demands attention too. The phone has a vibrating tactile feed.

The video quality of the phone is somewhat poor and the internal display is not strong enough.