Motorola V3i RAZR Quad-band Cell Phone - Unlocked

by Motorola

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000HARRXQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,213 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

You've probably seen the wildly popular Motorola RAZR V3 in someone's hand before. With the quad-band GSM RAZR V3i, Motorola has made it even better. The sexy design is still here, as is the all-metal construction. This time, though, the phone boasts an updated and streamlined design, enhanced video capture and playback capabilities, a 1.23 megapixel camera, and a hot-swappable MicroSD memory card slot.

The RAZR V3i adds key enhancements to the wildly popular RAZR franchise. See it in more detail, open and closed.

Design
At .55 inches thick, the RAZR V3i is virtually the same thickness as the original RAZR. And like the original RAZR, the phone's design takes the standard clamshell form factor to the next level with an impressive, fully-anodized aluminum construction. A large 176 x 220 color display with 262,000 colors dominates the inside of the top cover. The outside cover of the handset sports a supplementary 96 x 80 full-color display that can display caller ID pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. The 1.23 megapixel camera lens is housed above this display. Up/down buttons are placed on the left side for volume control.

Most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's backlit control pad, which is precision cut from a single sheet of nickel-plated copper alloy. A mini-USB port is provided, which, while useful for fast data transfer, can also be used with compatible USB stereo headsets. Note that the phone does not have a standard 2.5mm headset jack, but the phone's enhanced mini-USB connector supports compatible stereo headsets.

Calling Features
The RAZR V3i's internal phone book can hold up to 1000 contacts while the phone's picture ID system allows you to assign pictures to your most common callers. The phone also supports polyphonic ringtones as well as MP3 ringers, allowing you to use portions of your favorite songs to alert you to incoming calls. For times when you want to be discreet, there's a vibrating alert. A built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear while voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family and associates as easy as saying their names. Speaker-independent technology allows any speaker to dial numbers with the voice dialing system. And because the RAZR V3i is Bluetooth enabled, wireless headsets can be configured with the phone for total handsfree operation.

Messaging, Internet, and Tools
The RAZR V3i is a messaging and wireless Internet powerhouse. Support is built in for sending and receiving pictures, text, graphics, sound and video via messages. When used in combination with the phone's built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. There's also a built-in web browser for mobile Web downloads and browsing via data service from Cingular. You can also sign up for Cingular MEdia Net service, which lets you read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. If you need email on the go, the V3i comes with an email client that supports IMAP, POP3, and SMTP email standards. iTap text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit-- a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

A number of handy software tools are bundled with the RAZR V3i including a calculator with currency converter, a calendar and an alarm clock. The phone can also be used with Motorola's Mobile Phone Tools PC application to manage and synchronize contacts, calendar and other data with your PC.

Imaging and Entertainment
The RAZR V3i's 1.23 megapixel camera bridges the gap between phones and quality digital cameras. The digital zoom-enabled camera is also designed to capture video. You can even print your shots on a Bluetooth-enabled printer. Embedded animated screensavers and full screen wallpapers are built-in so you can set up the RAZR V3i to suit your tastes. The phone supports games, as well as gaming connectivity via Bluetooth.

The RAZR V3i is a serious music phone, and thanks to integration with iTunes, it makes a great digital music player. Using the included software, sync the RAZR V3i with your iTunes library on your PC or Mac and listen to up to 100 of your favorite songs while you're on the go. iTunes software on the phone lets you shuffle your music library or select songs by artist, album, or playlist.

Vital Statistics
The Motorola RAZR V3i weighs 3.53 ounces and measures 3.86 x 2.09 x .55 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 6.67 hours of digital talk time, and up to 310 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the GSM/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Product Description

This latest version of the famous RAZR ultra-thin clamshell phone has an updated sleeker design and adds a microSD memory card slot, iTunes music player, and speaker-independent voice control. The camera has also been upgraded to 1.23 megapixel resolution and supports video capture. Other features include quad-band roaming, dual color displays, Bluetooth, and speakerphone.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I really am happy to have this phone, but not overly excited like I thought I would be!, November 19, 2006

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M. Tanner (Savannah, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motorola V3i RAZR Quad-band Cell Phone - Unlocked (Wireless Phone Accessory)

This phone is really nice. Before buying it I read many reviews. Some were negative and others were positive. I was a little bit worried about buying this phone after all of the negative things I read about it, but I pushed that aside and bought it.

I don't regret it, but I wish that I had researched it a bit more. When I first heard and saw the RAZR, I originally wanted the V3 in silver and kind of wish that I had just bought that one, but only because the V3 qualifies for the protection plan if it were to get stolen or lost. But it IS nice having an iPod on it. Mine holds 100 songs, I expected 50, but was surprised to find that it holds a lot more!

A few cons that I've discovered so far (I have only had this phone since Nov 14th!):

~It really IS slippery, I've dropped it twice, luckily no damage has been done.

~The front of it picks up fingerprints like a magnet. I find myself cleaning my phone all the time.

~The address book can get a teeny bit annoying, so I don't put anyone's emails in there unless I HAVE to. It makes the address book's appearance too cluttered in my opinion. I don't know WHY it wasn't made to include the email with the phone number, name, address, etc in just ONE entry and not several.

~Not a wide selection of ringers. For a hip-looking phone, you would think that there would be many ringtones.

~There is no protection plan on it, well at least for Cingular, I don't know about the other companies. But if my phone gets stolen or lost, I'm **** out of luck!

~The volume could be a little bit better for the headphones, great bass though on them. Also the volume of when you press keys to dial, you can barely hear them, so I can understand people being frustrated of not knowing whether they are actually dialing...but then again, you can always watch the numbers go on the screen. You don't necessarily need to "hear" the numbers being pressed.

As for Pros with the phone, anything that I didn't list as a con is a pro in my book if that makes sense!

I would still recommend this phone, it is a pretty neat little gadget! And listening to a person on the other end is great too and it doesn't sound like a tin can, as some people have said!

Great price and offer. I still wouldn't pass it up. :o)

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great LOOKING Phone, but FRAGILE, December 12, 2006

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JK - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motorola V3i RAZR Quad-band Cell Phone - Unlocked (Wireless Phone Accessory)

No doubt about it - the phone looks sweet. The sound on the phone is clear and I seem to have better reception than my last motorola.

Having itunes on here is really convenient. No need to carry my phone and my ipod on short trips. I just use the included headphones (which I think sound pretty good) and jam away. If I recieve a call, the music pauses and I can talk (the headphones have a mic on them). After I'm done, the music comes back on. I thought that listening to music would drain the battery quick, but I had these on for hours at the S.D. Zoo and I had a lot of power left.

True, there is no standard mini jack enabling you to use your own headphones, but it does include an adapter that goes from the phone to a mini jack.

BUT!! The phone is pretty fragile. Cingular won't even insure the thing which makes you wonder if motorola hurried through the testing phase on the phone just to 'get it out.' I've gone through THREE plastic panel covers (or whatever they're called) because they crack VERY easily. This is the piece that covers the time on the front. If you plan on wearing jeans and having this phone share a pocket with your keys - think again.

Cingular DID send me a whole new phone, thinking my first one must have had something wrong with it - and no, the piece has not broken yet. But of course, I'm totally babying the thing now (but still no case for it - why buy a super thin phone if you are then going to pad it all fat with a case?)

If this plastic piece stays in tact, then this will be my best phone yet - if it busts, then well, I'm probably just going to buy another plastic piece.

Hope this helps.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If your phone breaks, dealing with Wirefly is a nightmare, March 14, 2007

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Lori A. Lamb "Lori Lamb" (Federal Way, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motorola V3i RAZR Quad-band Cell Phone - Unlocked (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Apparently the Motorola V3i has a reputation of suddenly not working:

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We weren't aware of that when we purchased this phone through Amazon, via Wirefly. We received our phones last week. Yesterday, my husband's phone just stopped working in the middle of a call between his Razr and mine. He hasn't been able to make or receive any calls, he can't check his voicemail through his phone and his phone is basically now a very nice paperweight with some cool ringtones.

It's not the cellular account or phone line, because we switched out the sim cards and his works in my phone, but mine doesn't work in his. The phone basically just crapped out after a week of use.

The instructions included in the box say to contact Wirefly for a Return Merchandise Authorization number within 15 days of activation. I called Wirefly and, after waiting for several minutes for a customer service rep, spoke with a man in India who was really difficult to understand. He told me that, before they could do anything about the phone, I had to contact Motorola and confirm that the phone was defective. Once that was the case, I could contact Wirefly again and they would process a return and replace the phone.

I called Motorola and explained the situation. Another person who was difficult to understand told me that my optins were to:
a. Call Cingular to see if they could do anything to fix the problem.
b. Take the phone to a Motorola store and have them check it over there.
c. Send the phone in to Motorola for repair.

She claimed that the problem should be reparable - despite all the evidence to the contrary that I've seen online. Basically, certain ones of this model of phone just stop working for no apparent reason and have to be replaced.

I didn't think Cingular could do anything since it appeared to be a phone problem and not a service issue. I also didn't want to take the time to mail the phone back to Motorola to see if there was anything they could do to fix it, so I asked for the location of a Motorola store near me. She asked for my zip code and put it in to her search along with a 50-mile limit, and she couldn't find any locations. Mind you, I live 20 miles away from Seattle, but her search didn't find anything and was limited to searching from a specific zip code. She couldn't tell me what stores are in Washington state or even how many Motorola stores are in the U.S.

No matter what question I asked, I would just get rote answers from the answer sheet she was obviously referring to throughout the call. I finally gave up and moved on, next calling Cingular.

Cingular Customer Service was great. They were prompt in answering the call and tried several different things to see if they could fix the problem with the phone. When none of them worked, they transferred me to Tech Support to see if they had any other methods that might fix the phone. When they found out that the sim card still worked in another phone and a different sim card didn't work in this phone, they confirmed the phone itself was defective.

I explained the problem with Wirefly, and the Tech Support Rep offered to call Wirefly while I held and confirm the defective phone so that they would process the return. It took quite a while with both of us on hold before he was able to speak with a Wirefly rep. Once he did that, he brought me back on the line and said he'd squared it away with them and that they would help me with the return.

Unfortunately, shortly after I was reconnected to Wirefly, the rep said she needed to put me on hold to get information and would be back in 2-3 minutes. She came back from hold and said since the phone was brought from Wirefly via Amazon, I had to contact Amazon about the return. She gave me Amazon's phone number.

I called Amazon, and the recording referenced their returns website. I checked it out, clicked through the fields to see what it said about returning the phone, and it referred me back to Wirefly. I was still on the phone with Amazon and got through to a Customer Service Rep with them. She confirmed that Wirefly was responsible for replacing/returning the phone and that they have an agreement with Amazon to do so, and she offered to call Wirefly with me on the line. She tried to make the call, but Wirefly's "customer service" had apparently closed for the day. Now I'm back to calling Amazon tomorrow to try to get this resolved with their assistance.

Basically, Wirefly keeps giving me the runaround because, for some reason, they don't appear to want to replace the phone with one that actually works.

The phone that *does* work is great. We can get service in our house, which we couldn't with our last cellphone provider, and the phone is fun and has lots of great features. And I realize that sometimes certain products don't always work and you might need to return or exchange them. But the frustration we've experienced with a week-old phone and a company that doesn't want to make things right is just ridiculous.

I'd never purchase anything through Wirefly again.