Motorola V220 (AT&T)

I have had many cell phones and many different services. When I switched to Cingular back in Feb. of 2005 I got this Motorola V220 phone because of it's specifications. (As a side note, this phone has since been discontinued)
Motorola boasted of features such as:

-Built-in tri band VGA camera with 4x zoom
-Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) for sending pictures, animations, wallpaper, icons and ring tones
-Motomixer application to mix unique ringtones to play on the 24-chord polyphonic speaker
-Instant messaging for talking to friends and family in real-time
-Datebook and Phonebook synchronization to easily organize life
-J2ME MIDP 2.0 support for application, ringer, wallpaper, graphic and game downloads
-WAP 2.0 compliant browser with GPRS Class 10 for high-speed data transmission

I also was intrigued by their boasting of the battery life, which they say is 5.33 hours and the GSM network of GSM 850 / 1800 / 1900.

I have been very impressed with all of the features except for a few:

- The battery talk time is not 5.33 and truthfully, out of our household of 4 cell phones, mine is the worst one and needs to be charged every night whether I use it or not.
- The camera has broke not once but twice on me. 1 time I was in a car wreck and the phone hit the floor busting the camera. Cingular was nice enough to send me a replacement of the same exact phone and then I accidentally dropped it and the camera broke on the new one too.
- It is very easy to hang up on a phone call if you accidentally press one of the volume buttons that is on the side of the phone. I have done this numerous times.

Other than the above mentioned items, I have found this phone to be very ok, but I'm not into all the fancy things on a phone I want the battery to last a long time and I want to get a good signal.

I get a signal almost anywhere, the sound is clear, I like the easy to use silent, vibrate and ring functions on the side of the phone, I have downloaded some very nice mp3 ring tones, it's easy to email from the phone.

After two of the camera's breaking on me though I do not think that I would get this phone again.

I hope this has helped.

Cingual Wireless service is top notch, but this cell phone is particular was the worst I've ever used. There were 4 of this kind in my household and they all had problems at one point or another. Black screens, Dropped Calls, Very low quality camera, and short durability.

The screen began to show a distorted image and is now completely blacked out. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS PHONE--LOW DURABILITY.

I bought this phone because it was the type of phone I wanted at a good price. It was listed as like new. After receiving the phone I found out that the camera did not work at all. I tried to contact the seller about it but did not get a reply. The next day the LCD screens went out. I took it to be looked at by a repair person and they said it had been wet before. So this was a very bad purchase, bad experience, and nothing I can do about it but take my loss and buy another phone. I am not going to get one from E-Bay because I am afraid now that this will happen again.