Customer Reviews

Motorola Adventure V750 Phone, Silver/Black (Verizon Wireless)

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

My old phone was the Motorola KRZR. It was a solid, well made phone, but the keypad drove me crazy. It was as if all the numbers were under one solid sheet of metal, very close to one another, making it hard to dial without inadvertently keying in two numbers for one. The keypad on Motorola's Adventure V750 phone is what sold me on it. The numbers are distinct and very far apart. If you're a fumbling dialer, the Adventure V750 is the one for you.

The other features are good, too. I don't use the camera or video that come with cell phones, but I tried them out just for the heck of it and they worked pretty well. The slightly larger dimensions of the Adventure V750 allow you to view pictures or video a little larger than, say, the Motorola KRZR.

Options are very intuitive and easy to work. The menu is very easy to read and navigate on the larger screen. Voice commands are handy, too, as is one touch dialing. Blue Tooth is a handy addition.

The speaker is incredible. When on speaker phone people are very easy to hear. Better yet, if you have a musical ringtone it sounds super nice. Andrea Bocelli announces my calls now, and I sometimes don't want to answer until he has finished, he sounds so good.

One nice feature for a doctor to notice is that when Contacts are brought up the first listing is In Case of Emergency. You're given slots for three persons' numbers to be included here. That's a thoughtful thing to have.

I bought the black silicone skin case for extra protection. It turned out to be a good idea. It keeps the phone clean, and it keeps it in my pocket or on my car seat without sliding around. It also gives the phone a smoother hand, unlike one gets with the phone's diamond cut back.

There is one aggravating factor, however, which caused me to drop this to 4 stars from an otherwise 5 star rating. That is the push-to-talk (PTT) button. If you are not signed up for PTT, pushing the button defaults to Verizon's My Music menu. Because the PTT button is on the side of the phone, and because it can be pushed with a lot less force than the other buttons, I end up pushing it accidentally with the base of my thumb almost every time I flip open the phone. This leaves me with having to back out of something I don't want before I can make a call, instead of quickly bringing up the main screen. It can be locked, but it has to be locked every time the phone is closed; that's aggravating, too. Does anyone out there know how to permanently fix this?

Would I buy it again? Yes. It's still a great phone overall. Can you fix my PTT problem for good? Let me know.

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I replaced my old phone with this one and love it. Sound quality and reception are outstanding. This phone out performed my old Motorola V325i. This phone has great signal strength, especially in my house. I love the features on this phone. It has a drop call alert tone that I have not seen on other phones in awhile. I have not used the music or the push to talk parts of the phone as of yet. I do love the screen (inner and outer). Pictures are sharp and clear. Videos can be played full screen as well. This phone is shock resistant so I will be putting that to the test. I carry my phone in my front pocket and it gets bump a lot with the work I do. I do recommend this phone and will post later with an update.

WHO THE HECK AM I TO RATE THIS PRODUCT?

I've owned this phone now for 2 months, so I'm probably safe to leave a review.

First off, I'm a former RAZR V3m owner. I loved that phone right up until the day it started having mood swings, disconnecting calls or shutting down at random times. Then it was time for a new phone.

The V750 Adventure happened to be free with a 2-year Verizon contract renewal, and it struck me as a loaded, well-updated, ruggedized version of the RAZR, so I decided to take it. I haven't looked back.


WHAT ARE MY FAVORITE FEATURES?

[Call Quality]
Perhaps the most important aspect, this phone has excellent voice quality, on both sides. I haven't used the Push-to-Talk feature, so I can't vouch for that quality, but regular calls are very clear.

[Music]
I'm a big music fan, so the media capabilities of this phone are very important to me. I love that this phone (unlike the RAZR) has two ports: a micro-USB port (for charging and data-syncing) and a 2.5mm headset jack. This allows simultaneous charging and listening, something I couldn't do with the RAZR.

The entire bottom (not the back) of the phone is a fairly large speaker, which is angled slightly up toward the listener. This, again, is a significant improvement over the RAZR's tiny back-mounted speaker. The sound quality isn't awesome, but hey, it's a phone; either way, it's still light-years ahead of any other phone speaker I've heard.

The front screen sports media control buttons (play/pause, prev. track, next track) similar to my wife's KRZR K1m. However, what I really like about these buttons is that they're raised and rubberized, with a real "click" feeling to them; I hate those weird buttons on some phones (like the KRZR) that just "sense" your touch, with no tangible response.

The V750 supports up to 8GB of removable microSD storage, so you've got plenty of room for your music. You have the option to place music files directly on the microSD card (through some sort of adaptor) or sync up to Windows Media player through a microUSB cable.

[Ruggedness]
As a man, I grunt and say, "Oh yeah, it's RUGGED." I didn't think it would actually matter. It has. To my own surprise, I've dropped this phone a few times already, and it's survived with nary a scratch; it's truly rugged.

I've noticed that a few reviews around the 'Net have bashed the back cover as being "flimsy" and not fitting well. I've got to disagree. Granted, the cover is made of a fairly thin, flexible plastic that feels kinda rubberized to the touch, but if you put it on correctly, it fits perfectly tightly and does an excellent job protecting the phone. Additionally, the slight friction of the material helps to keep the phone from sliding around when placed on a flat surface.

[Displays]
The front screen is much larger than the RAZR's, and its wallpaper can be configured separately from the internal wallpaper. Another HUGE leap over the old RAZRs is that Verizon has finally provided a way to drastically switch the menu themes. We now have 5 themes to choose from, including the ugly old "classic" one (you know the one I'm talking about) and my favorite, "Vapor," with some interesting eye-candy effects to make you feel like you have a new phone.

[Miscellaneous]
OK, it looks cool. The whole silver/black with red detailing thing comes off real nice, along with the recessed, shiny Motorola logos on front and back. Smooth, rounded corners improve on the RAZR's sharper edges, and the speaker on the bottom looks a bit like the grill of a car, giving the whole thing a slightly automotive feel. Man-phone! Grunt!

The Bluetooth feature is great, as it allows me to move data between my laptop and my phone, use my Bluetooth headset, or (possibly) use wireless headphones.

The raised, round, backlit dialing buttons are well-spaced and provide a nice "clicking" feeling when pressed. I used to love the RAZR's buttons, but I now prefer the V750's.

Oh, and the camera is head-and-shoulders above the RAZR's.


WHAT DON'T I LIKE?

As you may know, typical headphones take a 3.5mm jack; this means that you'll need a 2.5mm-to-3.5mm adapter to use normal headphones with this phone. With the RAZR, any old adapter would work; I picked one up at Radio Shack for under $5. That adapter will not work with the V750. Only the adapter specifically sold by Verizon will work with the V750. Trust me; I'm still trying to get my money back from an online seller who sold me a generic adapter while advertising it as a V750 adapter. The good news is that the Verizon adapter currently costs only around $12, and it includes a microphone and call-answer button; this way, you can still use your favorite headphones to listen to music and take hands-free calls. If your car stereo takes a 3.5mm input (like mine), you can play music and calls through your car stereo and be completely hands-free.

I'm also annoyed that Motorola still insists on placing the external memory cards underneath the back cover; why not provide a slot on the side like LG and so many others? At least we're no longer required to remove the battery in order to get the card out, like we were with the RAZR.

That's it. I loved everything else.

I've only mad my phone for a week so far, but I love it. The interface is very user friendly. I don't use the camera/camcorder function often, but the pictures/videos are very clear. It also has a cool full screen view for videos that I haven't seen on other phones. My mom used it today and loved the buttons on it. It's almost impossible to hit buttons at the same time and so on which can be an issue with many phones. The MP3 player plays awesome compared to the one on my old Samsung. I'm not sure its anymore durable than say a razor, but I have the silver one and I think it' pretty slick looking. And again all my friends tell me calls are so much clearer than my old Samsung.

I bought the Motorola Adventure three days ago. It has nice features and claims to be tough. However, I will be returning it due mainly to an irritating, easily pressed button on the side, a speaker and cover that is just begging to get things jammed into it or drops of water inside, and much poorer reception in my house than my previous phone had.

I was up for a New Every Two through Verizon, and my little old LG VX5300 was quite a bit worse for wear. It had been dropped quite a few times, the screen had cracked from below zero temps, and it had been chewed on by puppies. It was time for a new phone.

Being that I am so hard on phones, I had been very interested in the GZ'one which is also built to certain military specs, including being water resiswtant. Upon seeing the actual GZ'one in the store, I found that the newer design is rather ugly (looks like a big stone) and HUGE! The salesman directed me toward the Motorola Adventure, telling me it also was built to certain military specs, minus the water resistance.

The Adventure was slightly smaller than the GZ'one (it's still quite a bit wider than my old phone, and not much thinner) and the price tag was a little less than the GZ'one. It looked kinda sleek, too.

When I saw the huge screen on the front, I figured it would be easy to crack it, or at leas scratch it beyond recognition. The salesman assured me that the screen's glass is tough enough that it will not easily get damaged. Time has yet to tell an that claim. However, I found quite a deep but small scratch on the inner screen by the time I finished running errands and got the phone home. Grr.

Besides it's supposed ruggedness, the other thing that made me buy this phone is the fact that the keypad is all one seamless piece of plastic, which I'm assuming will help prevent the sticky keys that my old phone developed, and the keys which are easy to hit individually. The buttons are spread out and it would be difficult to accidentally press the wrong key or two keys at once. Plus, the "5" key is indented, which makes it very easy to dial or text without having to look to be sure you're hitting the right key. Texting is a joy with this phone, except every time you go to enter text it comes up as Abc text and you have to manually go to a menu to choose iTAP (Motorola's version of T9 or "predictive" text). There is no default to set it to iTAP. Grr again.

As far as size and weight, the Adventure may as well be a big ol' slab of stone. It is very broad and a little awkward to hold (and I have large hands for a lady) although it allows for nice big screens, and it is as heavy as a rock of equal size would be.

The speaker on the bottom allows for gorgeous sound and wonderful volume (no more missing calls in the car when the stereo volume is up high). But if this phone is intended to be tough, what were they thinking when they made the speaker cover in a way that it will be easily jammed with pocket (or purse) lint and dust? And a droplet of rain or splash from a spilled drink can enter right in and cause speaker havoc.

There is a big red button on the side which is for either PTT or the music player menu. This button sticks out way too far and is activated by hardly any pressure on it. In the three days I've had this phone, I've accidentally hit this button at least half of the time I pick the phone up, which then opens the music menu. To shut off the menu and to save battery life I then have to open the phone and hit the 'end' button. Very irritating. The outer buttons can be locked, but you need to do it every time you close the phone because every time the phone is opened they unlock.

I've used the camera a few times, and it has already frozen on me a few of those times. Luckily, just closing the phone for a few secs seems to stop the freeze. There is no flash for the camera.

With my old LG (Verizon service as well) I got three to four bars of digital reception anywhere inside my house. With the Adventure I've had two bars, and as I'm glancing over just now I see I have only one bar.

So, for what I would imagine is the "typical" cell phone user, this could be a great phone. However, I was looking for something with less bling-y feeling and more practicality and ruggedness, which I'm not feeling with this phone. I think this phone has too many unnecessary weaknesses.

I bought this phone because it said it was rugged and tough to break, but it was broken after three months. I am a chronic phone-dropper, but I didn't think that would be much of a problem with a supposedly tough phone. I must have been wrong, because I dropped this phone and the whole front screen shattered. It stayed in place and still worked, but looked terrible. I assumed it was just my fault, but I have since seen other people with this phone that had the same problem.
The hinge is plastic and weak-feeling and the V-CAST button on the side is too easily hit, so that 90% of the time, when you pull your phone out of your pocket, the music screen is turned on.
I would never buy this phone again, having seen phones reaching fates similar to mine.

I'm now in my third month of service with Verizon Wireless and I can say without a doubt that I am dissatisfied, to say the least. My biggest source of dissatisfaction comes from the phone itself, a Motorola V750 Adventure, and most of the problems with the phone can be laid directly at the feet of Verizon Wireless.

Transferring music files involves interfacing with Rhapsody, rather than using the elegant and useful Motorola Phone Tools software that I used happily with my old V365. Transferring MP3 files is an excercise in patience. I do not care for Rhapsody's interface anyway, which is why I use ITunes. I finally figured out how to get the files out of my music folders onto the phone after loading Verizon's version of Rhapsody. Sometime during the course of trying to get the phone to work, I inadvertantly activated V-Cast. Getting that credited off my bill was difficult, but finally accomplished, although I still got stuck with a portion of the billing for a service I didn't want and never used.

I've tried to come up with a way to use normal headphones with this unit; not happening. The 2.5mm headphone jack will only work with a two way headset. Attempting to plug a good set of phones into the jack results in nothing, so I seem to be stuck with a MP3 capable cell phone - the reason I chose this phone to begin with - that is a lousy MP3 player. I now also have a pile of adaptors that don't work. If there is an adaptor that will work, the Verizon store salesman in my area doesn't know about it.

Why Verizon chose Rhapsody over Motorola's own file transfer program is a mystery to me, as I would think the ability to handle all your digital files with one easy-to-use program would make for a happier end user, which as I am beginning to discover isn't too high on Verizon's priority list. This concludes the music portion of my criticism of the V750's shortcomings.

Now for pictures. The Motorola V750 includes a 2 megapixel camera - no flash. No flash I can deal with. Apparently, the only way to move photos off my phone and onto something I can use as a photo editor involves sending the photo via text to an online album. That's something I can't deal with. Here's a clue: texting photos without a plan costs $.25 per photo, or you can opt for a plan at I forget what ridiculous cost. The Motorola V365 I had while I was with AT&T Mobility allowed me to transfer into my editing software using - you guessed it - Motorola Phone Tools software at no additional cost. So I now have a camera phone - the 2 mega-pixel camera being another reason I chose the V750 - that is a lousy camera.

I've been told that data on an optional memory card can be transferred directly using an USB adaptor - yet another unnecessary expense.

The main purpose of a cell phone is to make and receive phone calls, and at this the V750 is adequate. I'd like to blame all of the V750's problems on Verizon, but Motorola desrves at least some of the blame for allowing Verizon to talk them into making this piece of junk. If all I wanted was an adequate cell phone, I'd have opted for the freebie that comes with the detestable contract and to heck with it.

In effect, I'm paying for something I can't use properly.

I have better things to do with my life than worry about a cell phone, so as I had time, I made several trips to the Verizon store trying to come up with the right combination of software and adaptors to make this phone work, to no avail. By the time I figured out once and for all that this phone was not acceptable, it was too late to trade it in for something else. Apparently, the only way to get a usable phone in the Verizon sytem is to go with a smartphone. How AT&T managed to get it done with a lowly V365 is beyond me. Maybe they're just smarter than Verizon.

I don't recommend either Verizon or this phone. If you're going to go with Verizon anyway, stay away from this phone.

Having read the previous reviews on this phone which mention problems with the push-to-talk button bringing up the Music menu, I too had this problem. It's due to a built-in default if the customer doesn't subscibe to push-to-talk service. My local Verizon store fixed this issue by mechanically disabling the push-to-talk button so that it didn't function at all. Most Verizon stores may not be aware of this quick fix or may not want to do it, but it exists and it solves the problem. On another matter, this phone is NOT water-resistant. If that is an important feature, check out the Casio Boulder that Verizon carries. The sound quality isn't as good, but it's water-resistant. One caveat with the Boulder is that it can be hard to find replacement batteries when Casio updates the model. This was the case with some of their previous models.

this is a great phone with a ton of great features that u will love. For example the push to talk feauture is a great feauture for people who need to talk instantly. It's extremely durable and a great phone with a good camera and camcorder and good contact book.

Overall, I like this phone.

Pros: 1. The rubberized key pad (I tend to have lots of dirt and hay in my pockets and the rubber prevents it from getting in the keys... plus it looks cool). 2. I get really good reception almost everywhere.

Cons: However, I have so far gone through three of these phones. The alarm clock on the first one didn't work, on the second one I had a hard time hearing people talking to me and visa versa AND it had pictures of the previous owner taking pictures of themselves in the mirror with the phone (the store said it was a new phone, but it obviously wasn't), and now the alarm clock has stopped working on the third phone (I've had it for about two months now).