Customer Reviews

Motorola T722i Phone with Camera Attachment (T-Mobile)

5 star:		(30)
4 star:		(23)
3 star:		(16)
2 star:		(14)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

1. My phone takes 25 seconds to turn on, from the moment I press the power button until I get to the main menu. Other reviewers have claimed that it takes their phone 1.5 minutes to boot up, I am not experiencing this problem.

2. The phone is *VERY* light weight. And although it is light weight, it still seems sturdy and doesn't have that "cheap plastic" feel as some other phones do (such as Nokia). Compared to other phones (such as Nokia) this phone is above average in sturdiness, and is equal or lighter in weight to any other phone I have ever handled.

3. The screen is very nice. The colors are bright and the screen is very large. Some reviewers have said that the screen is not as bright as other phones. When I first got my phone I noticed that it did look a bit "washed out". I went into the preferences and adjusted the contrast from 3 to 4, and this helped quite a bit, now the colors look very nice. Some people complaining about the screen colors and brightness may want to set their contrast to 4 or 5.

4. The ringtones are plenty loud enough, both the standard rings and the polyphonic "megaring" tones are loud. You can also adjust the ring mode to either "loud" or "soft", then you can fine-tune the volume on a scale from 1-10. The ring mode is nice because you can very quickly and very easily lower or raise the volume without having to go through adjusting the volume one notch at a time. There is also a silent, vibrate, and silent+vibrate mode.

5. This is a very nice looking phone. I spent about a month shopping around, both looking for a good deal and trying to chose a phone. I looked at a lot of other phones on the internet, but nothing really helped me decide until I went into a cell phone store and checked them out in person. After actually checking out a real working phone in the store, and also comparing it to some other phones, I decided to get this phone. My opinion is that this phone is, without a doubt, the best phone on the market as of August 2003. But dont take my word for it, and dont base your opinion by looking at pictures and reading the "specs", go to a cell phone store and check them out in person. It is amazing how nice a phone will look in pictures but will feel like a cheap piece of plastic once you see it in person (such as some Nokias and Sony/Ericsson phones). Don't get me wrong, there are some nice Nokias and Sony/Ericsson phones out there, but I would say most of them are junk compared to this phone.

Well I just got this phone the other day and heres my immediate thoughts. Great price for the package (color screen, flip, camera, free headset, very useable belt clip). To go into detail, the color screen is good but not great. A friend of mine has the Sanyo 4900 and the color screen on that looks clearer during less light conditions but not as nice in highly lighted conditions. The headset works fine. The reception is 3 bars upstairs in my house and 2 bars downstairs. Call quality is better than the previous phones I have owned (old sprint one, and motorola startac). Changeable faceplates gives the phone a customizable touch. Ring tones sound a bit fuzzy with the phone open it seems but when shut sound fine. A very odd variety of ring tones as well. To sum up:

Pros:
Customizable
Clear Quality of Calls
Variety of Ring Tones
Belt Clip
Voice Dialing

Cons:
Color screen in darker settings
Lack of variety of actual background pictures.
Needs more memory.

I have both this phone and the Sony Ericsson T68i and the latter is a lot better. The Motorola's screen has poor resolution. The colors seem pretty washed out compared to the T68i. Also, the T722i is very slow. It takes over 1-2 minutes to boot up when you power on and it takes the same amount of time to load the included game. The camera attachment gives poor results compared to some of the other camera-based cell phones such as the Samsung. It works poorly unless there is tons of light and even then, the picture quality is mediocore. I'm not impressed by this phone. the battery life is good (lasts 3-4 days with 2 hrs of talking per day and no charging). It comes with a nice belt clip. If you're looking to buy this because of the free camera attachement, get another phone (such as the T68i for free and buy the camera attachment for $19 on any auction site).

This is a really good color phone, the only thing that really keeps it from being perfect (in my opinion) is that the phone it a little slow when responding to buttons being pressed. Sometimes if the phone is "busy" or "thinking" it will take 2 or 3 seconds to respond to a button that you just pressed. This is especially noticable when browsing the Internet using T-Zones.

I am using this phone on the T-Mobile network and have not experienced any dropped calls, the voice quality is very clear and the reception is good. The battery life is very good for a color phone, it lasts me about 5 days of talking just a few hours a day. Of course you can buy an extended capacity battery, and that would add much more talk time because it's about 60% more capacity.
The phone looks very cool, and I like that you can change out the faceplate if you so desire. The entire keypad lights up (not just the numbers on the key) so you can see it very well in the dark. The PIM software on the phone is good, although I wish you could store addresses too. The camera attachment isn't really worth much, mostly because the quality of the pictures is pretty bad. But it's good to have if you need a quick snapshot of something and don't have any other way to capture it. Although one nice thing is, besides emailing any pictures you take with the camera, you can also save them on the phone as wallpaper images.

The belt holster that comes with the phone is really nice, much better than the one that came with my old StarTAC. You can leave the clip on your belt and just detach the phone if you need to use it, then all you hacve to do is slide it back onto the belt clip. Motorola also includes a neck lanyard that attaches to the top of the phone if you want to carry it around this way, it's a nice little addition.

You can store wallpaper images, screen savers, ringtones and JAVA games on this phone as well. The only other negative thing I would say about this phone is that there just isn't enough internal memory to store games. I can get two games on it, maybe three, if two of them are under 20k. There is a lot of space for wallpaper images, ringtones and phone numbers, so there's no excuse for not putting more memory for games.

All in all I would recommend this phone, especially if you can get it for a low price or for free. It's a very good (but not perfect) color phone with solid features. It does have some drawbacks, but then, no phone is perfect.

I just got this, so maybe I haven't given it alot of time, but so far it is really nice. The reception is great and the phone is very clear when talking directly or using the included hands-free kit. It does take a while to boot, but I probably won't shut it down very often. The camera does not take super-great pictures, but I didn't get this phone because of the camera. To be completely fair, I have only viewed the pictures on the phone and have not emailed them to anyone. I have read that they look better when viewed on a PC.

I purchased 2 of these phones in July and I've been very happy with them. We got a great plan from t-mobile (nationwide 600 mins/$40) and this phone has been a pretty good performer. I don't use many of the features it has (internet, games, voice-activiated dialing, dig. camera)...mainly just for calling and talking. To those who say the picture quality is not good--IT'S A FREAKING PHONE! I've used it in the Pittsburgh area, Portland, Seattle, DC area and I've gotten good reception for the most part. Occassionally I won't get any reception in some buildings here in Pittsburgh, but it's not a big problem. Sometimes I will get reverb when I'm talking and the reception bar is the highest it can be, which gets kind of annoying. Another con is that the volume could be louder and its loudest level. Sometimes it's hard to hear. Other than that, it's been a good phone for me--a person who just wants a phone and not something fancy.

I've been using this phone for the last couple of months and I've been extremely satisfied with it. I've used candy bar type phones for the last few years now and I've gotten very tired of having to use the kepad lock to prevent it from accidently dialing calls while it's in my pocket. A flip phone is truly a better design. Voice quality and reception on this phone are great. I've had some problems with volume in extremely noisy situations, but at maximum volume, I can still here the person I'm talking with very well. Voice dialing is a convenient feature. Sure the camera attachment quality might not be that good. Maybe the color screen is a little washed out like some people say. And, maybe it's a little slow booting up or loading games, etc. (though I really don't think it's that slow). But, I do not think these complaints are central to what the phone was built for. Battery life is good. Voice and reception are good. Interface very easy to understand. It's compact, designed well, and seems sturdy. Overall, it's a phone I know I can be satisfied with for the next few years.

I bought this phone on Tuesday with the 3-7 day shipping at about 11 o'clock at night. The phone was in my hands by 2:30 Friday amazingly fast shipping and processing done by both Amazon and FedEx(Amazon shipped from Texas and I live in Michigan). I live in a very small town and T-Mobiles service just runs along the main interstate highway but it is amazing the quality i am getting for such a small area. I mean i was in my friends basement pretty far away from the highway and was getting a signal strength of 3 bars which is pretty good for talking, When im in my house i get 6 bars. T-Mobile so far has made me happy...

The phone is a work of art i mean its signal strength is probably the best ive seen. The battery charges amazingly fast in 3 hours and last a long long time. The typing system is awesome to sometimes you can type a whole name in without having to choose through the letters. The MegaTones have the best quality rings ive probably heard. The phone is pretty durable feeling and is small and light weight, can't even feel it. The camera is not that great on the phone and needs alot of light and not alot of movement to take a great shot, If you want a good quality look at it you need to have a connectivity kit to upload them on your PC then they look pretty good. I also love the color and the back lcd screen comes in handy alot. The game that comes on it is pretty high graphic and i can see why it takes a while to load other than that everything loads pretty fast.

Voice dialing comes in handy but would be even more handy if you could have more than 5 at a time. Some people had problems finding out how to set the voice dialing. The reason for that is you have 2 ways to save your contacts on your phone book, 1 is on the actual smart card chip itself or on the phone. If you save it on the phone you can pick an icon for the number like if its a cell, home, work, pager, and so on and you have another line that has a voice dial part and that is where you can record for the voice dialing. Then there is the Smart Card part that can hold contacts but you can't put an icon of what kind of phone it is and you can do the voice recorder for it. Another cool feature is the fast dialing where each number on your phone book has a three digit number, you put the three digit number in and press pound and it will call it.

I love this phone and plan on having it a long time.

This phone is ok. It is not definitely worth the $250 manufacturer retail. The color resolution is very low. No wonder they give you the camera for free; be aware, it is not an Olympus. I got this phone as a gift so I don't really care because I didn't pay for it. If you look at this phone and you are having second thoughts, please get the Samsung V205.

I love my 722i. I like the flip feature and am very happy with the reception. The polyphonic ring tones sound fantastic, and the downloadable ones are even better. Motorola is very durable as well, i've dropped this phone a couple times and still no problems. The large screen is easy to read and the ability to make the characters larger is very helpful. I'm sold on motorola