Motorola Timeport
Written: Mar 24 '01
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Pros: Lightweight, lots of features, clam shell style with color.
Cons: On very bright sunny days, the screen is difficult to see.
The Bottom Line: This is a great and stylish phone, and highly recommended for its price. A recommended service plan would be using Verizon.
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| charlenep's Full Review: Motorola Timeport P8767 Cell Phone |
It has a compact clam shell style and weighs about 5 ounces. You get standard features found in most phones, such as a built in mini browser, access directions, stock quotes, and airline information. The difference is they are in color with this Timeport phone. The neat feature about this phone, is that it comes with Organic Electro-Luminescent color screen. With this the display shows your numbers in vibrant colors, such as blue, green and red. Very visible in sunlight as well as the nighttime. Speaking of the sunlight, I found that with the brightest sunny of the day, you will have difficulty. Seems the visibility is for the average sunny day.
You also great a great quality of sound. Several choices of styled rings, with no musical styled rings. I personally myself enjoyed the musical rings, but was a small toss for the quality of this phone.
The screen works on a 160 hour stand-by time and talk time of 3.5 hours using standard lithium-ion batteries. Battery life is just about as equal to the average. You will get about the same amount of talk time compared to The screen will dim down, after some time of not using, therefore reading may be a little difficult. You will have to press the keys a number of times before you get the screen back up for good reading.
One feature that I really felt was going to be a problem, is the keyboard itself. The buttons are Convex and are very easy to press, although the numbers are very small and close together. Could be a little difficult at times. They do offer side mounted buttons for help in this feature. Seems they were already aware of this when they made it.
You can store up to 99 entries in your address book. You can store upto 4 numbers per person entered. They offer icons for easy identification. The Timeport can operate on two different types of digital CDMA networks (1,900 MHz and 800 MHz) and can roam in areas where only the (800 MHz) exists.
Timeport is a little costly, right smack in the $300 area. But for a sleek, slick look, it is a sure pick. With their features, it is a very stylish phone. If that's what you base your purchase on. Now through Verizon, the phone is still available for around $279 and up, depending upon area. I have heard of some being able to purchase new ones on auctions on the web for about $200.
Accessories: you can get yourself the data connectivity kit so that you can use your Outlook database. This kit will load the phone to the contact database and therefore you can connect to the web from your phone. With this kit, you can also use your phone as a modem or fax machine.
With comparison to some other phones such as the Nikoa or StarTac, I find that on the Timeport you have to go through several key pressings to use your address book, where with Nikoa you do not. I found that the entering of your address to your address book could be on the difficult side, with Motorola, with Nikoa it was quite simple.
This is a great and stylish phone, and highly recommended for its price. A recommended service plan would be using Verizon.
www.motorola.com
Schaumburg, IL
800-331-6456
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 279.00
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