Motorola MOTOKRZR K1 (AT&T)

The Motorola K1 Krzr is one of the nicest phones out there. It is loaded with tons of great features including a 2.0 MegaPixel camera. Motorola could have added a flash to this phone but they decided not to. As a phone it is an excellent phone. My rating of this phone is not excellent because of a few things. The front of the phone is glass and cracks easily if dropped. Another thing is the delay it has when going through menus. Motorola always has this delay. Sometimes when you open the flip its takes a second or two until the screen comes on. Making this phone 3G would have been great considering the new 3G system that Cingular has. This phone is not for anyone who has a thing with dropping phones a lot.

All right, so I'm just out of high school, right? I text. I talk all the time. I play games, I listen to music 24/7. I do all of that stupid teenage stuff. And I was looking for the phone to put all of those things together minus being stupid and teenager-ly.

So I looked into it, I did my research, and this and the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic were my last two choices. I chose this one because it had a 2-megapixel camera. However, upon buying the phone (new from T-mobile) I found that it didn't take pictures any better than my brother's Samsung Trace (another T-Mobile phone, and a pretty good one at that). In fact, in most situations, the Trace took BETTER pictures in all different kinds of lighting. Even the CNET review of this phone agrees with me on that.

As far as the mp3 player goes, the application for the mp3 player runs PAINFULLY slow. The speaker on the phone for the music is nice and loud though, and the phone is capable of holding 2GB of memory, which is nice.

But all in all, the absolute WORST (and I mean worst. Just awful) part of this phone is the RECEPTION. Dear God. Now, I know that T-Mobile isn't world-renowned in its reception capabilities, but when I'm standing in the middle of my house and I have five bars of service then suddenly none, something can't be right. Now, I used to have a Nokia 3220 (look it up. It's not even a flip or slider phone) and compared to the Motorola KRZR, the Nokia's reception was FAR better. I took up this problem with T-Mobile, and they gave me a new sim card, but to no avail. The reception is still awful. So I thought I'd try something, seeing as I'm looking to sell it - I got my phone unlocked. So I put in a friend of mine's Cingular SIM card just to see if the reception would be better - it wasn't. And I live in the city.

Another thing I cannot stand with this phone is when I'm simply trying to send someone a text message and at the start of writing the message, I have service. And at when I try to send it, my phone is suddenly searching for reception! Also, when it comes to texting with this phone - if you are someone who texts frequently DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE. Go into a local phone shop and try out the texting for yourself. Motorola's iTap text messaging system is downright awful in comparison to most other brands. When you write out a sentence, it takes the KRZR so painfully long to finish it. As you text out a word, each character takes roughly two seconds JUST TO APPEAR ON THE SCREEN. And, if you are misspelling a word, the phone will not stop you like my old Nokia did. You can literally press the '5' key ten times and Motorola's iTap engine will try and make a word out of it like "Lljlljllkj". Ridiculous.

Also, even if you don't text, you will notice how slow the phone runs. Simply going through your Contacts can prove to be a lengthy task.

I bought this phone when it was 199.99 with a two-year service plan with T-Mobile. And for a college kid, that's a lot of cash. And I regret it. I tried out the phone in the store, and the texting thing even annoyed me in there, but I had my heart set on buying this anyway. I told myself I would get used to it and like it. I don't. At all.

Sure, the KRZR has got some nice features with Bluetooth, a nice shiny exterior, and the "Motorola" name tag slapped on it. But if you're planning on buying this phone, I wouldn't recommend it.

Great phone very graceful, looks very sexy for a phone. Wide array of features and accessories. Very easy to use interface, though navigating the menus can be a bit sluggish. The phone it self is a fingerprint magnet, the glass panel on the out side of the phone seems to cling onto everthing that passes by it. On the inside of the phone the keypad has been improved over the RAZRs. Now it sports a dedicated clear and go back button. Now going back to that fingerprint magnet. Since the keypad literally touches the screen while it is closed. If you have greasy fingers. You will find a mirrored image of the keypad on the screen. It is extremely visible under direct light. Another thing under direct light it is very difficult to read and comprehend the screen. Anyway the camera takes excellent images when the 8x zoom is not used. Anything lower than the 8x zoom is a pretty decent image. Next is the music player, the motorola audio player takes forever to load, but once inside it works perfectly very similar to an ipod. However the phone must be open in order to use the music controls. The Bluetooth on the phone works almost flawlessly. When paired with a Motorola HT820 for audio with stereo bluetooth. The audio quality is excellent, with the exception that it cuts out every once in a while. In my opinion the earbuds that came with the phone are pathetic and hideous. I would highly recommend getting the motorola MOTOROKR S9 A2DP Stereo Bluetooth headset or the one that I mentioned earlier. The wireless ones have intuitive controls and don't even require you open you phone to control the music player. The manual says in supports upto a gig of memory, honestly I wouldn't push it over, because a gig is a lot of memory for a phone. Other things the batter life is fairly good I am pretty sure it would last at least a week in standby. Next there is an intricate airplane mode, and it allows you to listen to music on an airplane, however it will not let you use Bluetooth while in this mode. Well I am tired of writing. The Motorola KRZR K1 has an excellent set of features, it look great but depending upon what light you have it in it can be quite a disgusting phone.

I decided to buy this phone because I love the razor.
I thought I would like this even more because it's smaller.
I do. I find the main features are not compromised. The key
pad, the ease to dial a number.
I'm still using my razor because I bought the krzr for my
son, but I test drove it first.