0 Comments Motorola Rizr V3- Pushing my buttons

That is competing for the most pathetically lame headline ever. I’m not even afraid to admit it.

D500 vs Rizr V3- D500 wins by efficiency 

I have been testing the new Motorola Rizr for just over a week now and cannot tell you what a nightmare the phone is. It is a beautiful looking phone, very young and trendy. That’s where it stops. I have been looking at getting a Motorola for a while now as they have a very fashionable edge to them. Even the names are cool in my opinion. A while back I saw photos of Paris Hilton with the pink Motorola V3. I should have known right then that they are a bad choice.

Let’s start with the dismal battery life. The last charge has lasted two days, which included 15 minutes of calls during those two days. Horrendous. The charges before that lasted about the same. Let’s not focus on this yet because I am taking the battery to be checked. I cannot convince myself that they knowingly made a battery with such poor performance.

The predictive text is so shockingly slow that I want to cry. I type too fast for the predictive text and then it completely loses the plot and starts throwing out words that make no sense. Add to this the small point of ending off a sentence. If you use a full stop(With predictive text), then start typing a new sentence straight away without leaving a space after the full stop, it loses the plot again. Because you have not left a space after the full stop, for some bizarre reason it connects that full stop with the word you are typing, creating a language of it’s own.Let me try explain.

If the last word of a sentence is “can” with a full stop at the end. Like this

“Because I can.“Straight after that full stop I try typing the word “See”

This is what the Motorola gives me:

Because I can’Pde

Is this some sort of joke Motorola? Are you trying to flip me over the edge? Because it’s working. So after full stops you need to leave a space. Why? This is bizarre.

Also, I sometimes find myself typing a message and then something happens and I need to close my phone quickly. On my Samsung D500(Best phone ever!) it would save my message immediately. My Motorola just deletes it. Great.

Typing messages on the Rizr is just something you don’t want to do. It’s more of a hassle than anything else. If I am replying to a message, I type the message and make a mistake in the typing. Now the “Send” button is right above the delete button, so quite regularly I try hit the delete button and instead hit the send button. People think I am smoking crack. Charlie V sms’d me the other day asking something and I replied “79″ He asked if my life was in a downward spiral. No not yet, but if I have to keep this phone any longer I will go into a deep state of depression.

My Samsung D500 was like a gift from the cellphone GODS! The keys had more of a stiff feel, where when you press them they would positively click in. The Rizr’s keypad is too soft and squishy, and so when typing quickly you will not press quite hard enough and miss a letter. The predictive text goes mad and absolutely loses it. After typing a few messages in a row, you feel your fingers stiffening up like you have been riding a mountain bike all day. Trust me, I know the feeling.

I’m not even going to go more into this review. Maybe I wil ltalk about this phone more in the future. I probably won’t. I don’t want to talk about the other so called “features” This phone is not a feature. I finding my mood deteriorating fast. What a poor phone. I suppose when someone as stupid as Paris Hilton uses a Motorola, you should run for the hills. I’m not even sure if she uses it anymore!

When you are advertising a phone to attract a young and trendy crowd(Cough cough), then you should design one with an easy to use keypad as the majority of young people send lot’s of sms’s. It’s not rocket science Motorola!
Samsung please save me…

This nightmare needs to end.

NOTE: I will do a review on this phone again at a later stage. Please do not take the poor battery life as a standard feature on all these phones. I am having it checked out soon, but I had to throw this review out there as I promised you I would. If nothing is found to be defective with the battery then I’m going to go on a cruise liner and drop the phone in the Atlantic.

Sean Lloyd

Editor