Motorola V180 (Unlocked)

My husband’s first phone when we first switched our service to Cingular in Feb. of 2005 was the Motorola V180. I read all the specs on it and he didn’t want anything fancy, just something that would work good, have a good battery life and get a good signal.

The Motorola V180 has the following features (Information can be found on the internet):

• Instant messaging for quick and easy chatting

• Motomixer application to mix unique ringtones to play on the 24-chord polyphonic speaker

• Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and Enhanced Messaging Service (EMS) for sending pictures, animations, wallpaper, icons and ring tones

• J2ME MIDP 2.0 support for application, ringer, wallpaper, graphic and game downloads

• Peer to peer 2-way games (SMS, GPRS and CLDC 1.0)

• Conference calling and integrated hands-free speakerphone

• Datebook and Phonebook synchronization via accessory USB cable to easily organize your life

• WAP 2.0 compliant browser with GPRS Class 10 for high-speed data transmission

It also boasted of their “quad” band network which later was reduced down to tri band and they stated it had a talk time of 5.83 hours.

This Mororola did have a good signal and it did have a good battery life and good talk time but after only a few months the phone started having static noise and it just got worse over time. Customer service tried some updates and then finally said to return the phone for a replacement and they would send the same phone. The replacement phone had the static noise upon the first use. The static on the phone was so loud that you could not even hold a conversation then it would just turn itself off and often wouldn’t power back up.

This was our second brand by Motorola and both turned out to be disappointing phones over all. My husband now has another brand phone. We didn’t try for a 3rd time on this Motorola.