Jul 15

First Impressions of the Motorola V600   Posted by sharps, tagged with

I'm not writing a review - but here's one I did read that was useful - http://www.mobiledia.com/previews/motorola/v600/ there are countless others out there.

Ergonomically it's as good a cell phone as I've ever had (and the list is long) - that includes the software. My wife (a classic right-brainer) has the same phone and she got up to speed fairly quickly. It's not the fact that she could that is interesting; it is that she actually wanted to - the phone has some pretty useful features that she actually wanted to make use of  - whereas generally (and surely true for the majority) she typically only uses about 10% of the features.

The first cool feature is the pulsing light show on the front of the flip that you can customize for different callers - not useful in any way; just cool; the second is the fact that it runs Java - I haven't found anything useful to run on it yet but it's great to see the Java logo finally appearing on consumer devices - more of that in the future I hope. The V600 also gas a camera - I used to ask myself why you would need a camera (poor quality at that) on your phone; now I have one, let me try to justify it :

1. try find a new phone that doesn't have a camera bolted on
2. our family is spread across the world and we use email and digital photos a lot
3. It's a camera that can email photos and you can make calls on it too
4. I always have my phone with me, only frequently carry a camera

but the quality really is poor, good enough for email (and I guess weblogs) but that's about it.