Moto T720?
Written: Oct 03 '03 (Updated Oct 17 '03)
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Pros: Nice, big, color screen...
Cons: Just about everything else... Read and discover...
The Bottom Line: Not the greatest phone, but probably one of the worst... Check it out for yourself and read this...
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| gonja4000's Full Review: Motorola T720 Cell Phone |
We've all seen the TV commercials for this "stupendous" and "tech-worthy" phone of all hones, right? Ones showing all of the GREAT features and the famous Verizon phrase
"Can you still hear me?" bla bla bla! It's allllll mumbo jumbo. And here's how it all started.
Surely the commercials caught my eye and my Cingular plan was running out, so I had to be the first one to have this phone. Everyone was talking about it, "WOW! IT'S SO COOL!" Well... That's what they thought. After I got it with my America's Choice Plan (No roaming, 500 mins, free nights and weekends) everything was grand, GREAT even.
Quickly, my phone began to instigate me. It almost was trying to get on my nerves.
-Often my phone would cut out and it would say "call ended" and it would show me a phone hanging up on my screen. Now, how irritating would it be to you if you were in the middle of a big business deal and it cuts out 4 TIMES! That person isn't going to want to deal with you anymore and you can kiss your money down the drain as well as a portion of your project area. Thank you Moto...
- Right in the middle of important phone calls with business associates as well as my baby, which were fuzzy almost everytime to the point of nonrecognition, the phone would shut off and ceased to turn back on. I returned the phone and they gave me a refurbished T720 with a broken antenna (you know, the phone with the wondrous retractable feature). I thought nothing of the antenna, but then a couple of weeks later, my phone stopped working, yet again. This time, I took action into my own hands and let aggression take over (my phone is in a hundred pieces, WHOOPS! :) )
Those are only a couple of the things that happened, if I were to continue with all of them I would be here all night, then probably most of the next day, seriously.
Before I go on, you probably would like to hear about some of the features that this glorious phone has to offer:
-Large, 4096 color screen
-Bright backlight
-Cool poly and mono musical and cartoonish ringtones (the phone comes with 32 preset ringtones, and there's room for another 32 that you can download with the next feature)
-Get it Now! (so you can download the ringtones, trivia, restaurant info, weather programs, pictures, and much more, but it downloads pretty slow, so don't plan on calling anyone for a couple of minutes)
-Voice recognition (however, it tells you to repeat the name more times than solicitors call my house, and that's around a hundred billion times a day *slight exaggeration)
-iTap software that tries to predict what you're typing in and lets you select from the rest of the letters instead of typing in your whole message. Sometimes it's a pain so I just turn it off and type it in regularly, I think it's quicker that way anyways.
-TTY digital capability for the hearing impaired. I, obviously, don't know how this works, but I know that my phone's got it along with tons of other phones, so it's really nothing special.
-Retractable antenna, OOOOO! AHHHH! whoopity doo...
-Caller ID, awesome feature that every phone made right now has. It's easily blocked with *67, which makes the person's number come up as "PRIVATE". So calling back that prank caller isn't as easy as C I D.
SPECS
-Average weighted phone of 4 ounces. Feels lightweight, but if you hit someone with it, wow, it hurts (I have a girlfriend who likes to throw stuff and thinks that it's funny, haha hehe owie... NOT FUNNY LADIES! :) )
-Talk Time of up to 90-225 minutes, but it's more like 60-100 minutes... Did I mention that it has a lithium ion battery! WORKS MAGNIFICENT, CAN YOU TELL! :-p
-A supposed standby time of 69-343 HOURS! YEAH RIGHT! I'm lucky if I get only a few couple minute phone calls and the phone lasts me one day! Well... not even one day,
like 17 hours! WOW! Sorry about my being so positive about this phone, but I think you understand why.
Well, here's what the Main Screen shows
pretty basic stuff:
-An analog and/ or digital clock
-Date (month/day/year)
-Pitiful Battery, I mean, Battery Meter
-Message/Voice Mail
-Signal Strength meter
-But the Icons that you can use are pretty neat and do a little dance for you when you select them.
When you purchase your phone
You will be supplied with
-A T720 POS phone :) (obviously)
-"High performance lithium battery" (notice the quotes...)
-Car charger, well at least I got one because the lady forgot to ring it up :) SHEESH! I'm such a swindler, haha, j/k
-As well as a nifty little 360 degree swivel holster with belt for you Clint Eastwood,"Make my day..." addicts. Quick draw your phone into a night by yourself...
TIP:DO NOT clip your phone onto your car's visor, it will cut and deform it
because it holds on so tight. Take my word for it, mine's all messed up now. Thanks phone...
I paid around a hundred bucks for this phone because of the $100 rebate that I was able to connect with because I turned in my other phone. That was a neat idea, take my broken phone that's better than the phone you're selling me away...
I wouldn't recommend this phone to anyone. I know that the T722 and T730 are now available, I'm not sure how those are, but if they're anything like this, which the main screen's basically the same, so I don't know how much they changed about it, stay away from the phone.
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Recommended:
No
Amount Paid (US$): 100
Recommended for: Stylish Trendsetters - Hip and Trendy
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