Motorola V180 (Unlocked)

This phone is not a quality phone. I will list the few pros first:
1. Sleek
2. Ton of features (speaker phone, java enabled, ringtones, aim, etc)
3. Fairly compact

Now to the issues I had with this phone (and the replacement sent)

I had to get this phone replaced 3 months of buying it b/c of dropped calls, poor reception and sometimes it wouldn't ring. The issues were so frusterating when a Samsung with T-Mobile wouldn't have the problems in the same locations.

I went to the place I bought it from and the sales guy there said they have had tons of problems with this phone. He said I have to keep reporting issues to T-Mobile and after 3 replacements they will upgrade me to v188. Supposedly that one is more reliable.

Even though I had the phone replaced after 3 months - in another 4-5 months similar problems started creeping up again.

I would have the phone sitting next to me and it had full service and the phone would not ring when I get a call but it would tell me that I missed a call and that I have a new VM.

Small but annoying problem - every time I make a call it says call fwding on - TMobile couldn't even turn that off.

Every time I receive a call and answer the phone and it would still show that I missed the call. Again annoying.

Speakerphone - don't even bother - after about 2-3 months of use it will stop working. This is a big problem since speaker phone was one of my primary requirements.

With the speakerphone kaput I turned to the Handsfree set. Well that only lasted about 2 months and it stopped working as well.

My wife has the same phone and has similar problems and poor battery life to top things off. She had her phone replaced to no avail.

Note that the issues persisted with the replacement phones! I am in the process of getting this phone replaced again and perhaps I won't have issues but Motorola has struck out twice so I am not holding my breath.


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