Motorola USB Data Kit for Motorola V Series and Timeport Series Phones

by Motorola

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 2.2 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000063CCT
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,691 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

Product Description

Keep in touch wirelessly while on the go. Access the Internet, e-mail and personal data from your laptop computer using your wireless phone as a modem.

Motorola Data Connectivity Solution CD provides: enhanced modem drivers enable communications on new high speed data networks; GPRS Manager extends compatibility to select GSM compatible phones; TrueSync synchronization software offers easy setup with a more intuitive user interface, simplified installation as well as an automatic port and device detection.

What You Get: Motorola Data Connectivity Solution CD; USB Data Cable.

PC/System Requirements: Compatible with Windows 98SE, ME 2000 and XP. TrueSync is compatible with Outlook 97/98/2000/2002 and Lotus Notes versions 5.0-5.6. Please note: USB is not supported on Windows NT 4.0 or early versions of Windows 98.

Compatible with Motorola T720, C332t, V60i, V60c, V60t, V60g, V66, V120c, 120x, 120e, 120t, Timeport™ 270c, 280 and V200 Personal Communicator.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Motorola USB Data Kit for Motorola V Series, July 29, 2002

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Joshua Antony (Staten Island, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motorola USB Data Kit for Motorola V Series and Timeport Series Phones (Wireless Phone Accessory)

This is a great product, period. It allows you to update all your phone book, type in your memos, and schedule in all your events and meets throughout the year. If your a worker on the go, then this is definely the product for you because not only do you have a get v series phone but you can also use it as an organizer as well. The best part is that you'll be able to type entries in via your personal pc so, you don't have to deal with punching entry with tiny phone keys (you'll appreciate your keyboard even more) or small cell phone displayed. Beware though, the Starfish software is a bit tricky to install especially if you'll running Windows XP, just make sure to get all software updates before you start synching. LASTY, MAKE SURE YOUR PHONE IS READ AS A MODEM ON YOUR COMPUTER AND NOT A PHONE, OTHERWISE THE PHONE HAS NOT INSTALLED CORRECTLY AND YOU NEED TO CAL TECH SUPPORT AT MOTOROLA.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, once you get it to work, February 7, 2003

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Jason (Illinios) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motorola USB Data Kit for Motorola V Series and Timeport Series Phones (Wireless Phone Accessory)

This is cable and the accompanying software are in theory quite powerful. The software allows you to synchronize information in your phone with other sources -- most notably Outlook and Palm Software.

Don't even bother trying to run the TrueSync software that's including in the box -- it is so poorly designed and buggy that it is unusable. Motorala offers an upgrade to TrueSYnc 3.1, which is so far superior that it feels like a whole new product. Just install the old version (the update refuses to install otherwise) and go to the Motorola site for the update.

Be prepared to spend a little bit of time setting everything up to begin with, but once you get going it works great. With due deference to the experiences of other reviewers, the software works great with both Palm devices (although you need Palm's HotSYnc software for things to work) and Outlook. I simply plug in my phone and my PDA, click a button and within a minute or so, all of the information in my phone, my PDA, Outlook, and Palm Desktop are synchronized with one another. This is highly recommeneded if you need these features.

Also, it is rumored that with thisd cable you can dial your phone into an ISP to connect to the internet. This feature hasn't worked yet for me and I haven't been able to work things out with the tech support people at Motorola, so I can't recommned this product for that purpose.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't Sync Contacts "By Design" (3.1 version), May 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Motorola USB Data Kit for Motorola V Series and Timeport Series Phones (Wireless Phone Accessory)

From Motorola's customer support site:
"The phone only supports one phone number per contact per field. So when you perform a sync with contacts that have multiple phone numbers, TrueSync enters each contact separately as many times as you have phone numbers for it. This is working ***as designed***."

All personal information management software (like MS Outlook) allow you to enter more than one phone number per contact (fax, cellular, home, etc). If TrueSync cannot sync contacts with more than one phone number then TrueSync is completely unsuited for its intended purpose.

TrueSync also puts duplicate contacts on your phone each time it is sync'd with your computer. So if you have 30 contacts with 3 phone numbers each, after three sync's you get to manually delete about 60 duplicate contacts from your phone.

TrueSync will also hose up all of Outlook's Business Name fields. By default TrueSync maps Outlook's Business Name field to the phone's Company field. After sync'ing, all Business Names disappear from Outlook's Address Card folder view. If the phone's Company field is mapped to Outlook's File As field, then it rearranges all of the Business Names. Delta Airlines becomes Airlines, Delta. This happens no matter how TrueSync's First Name, Last Name setting is adjusted.

TrueSync also removes all of the formatting from Outlook's phone numbers. Nicely formatted numbers like (800)-555-1212 becomes 8005551212. This happens regardless of whether TrueSync's Preserve Phone Format option is selected.