Motorola RAZR2 V9m Phone (Sprint)

Amazon.com Product Description

After creating a gadget/fashion icon in the original MOTORAZR, Motorola has upped the ante with the new RAZR ² V9m with cutting edge technology and enhanced features that make it even easier to use. The RAZR ² V9m offers data connectivity via Sprint's EV-DO data network--perfect for surfing the Web as well as downloading music and video from Sprint's Music Store and TV service. It's fully loaded with an arsenal of digital tools, including a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth connectivity for streaming music and photo printing, MicroSD memory card expansion, dual color LCD screens, e-mail access, digital audio player, and full duplex speakerphone. And speaking of cutting edge, the phone's stainless steel internal frame and cast aluminum housing support makes the RAZR ² V9m stronger and more durable than its predecessor.

Download new tunes from the Sprint Music Store and enjoy your favorite programs from Sprint TV.

Sprint Service Options
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, the RAZR ² V9m is fully compatible with Sprint's Power Vision service (additional charges applicable). With Power Vision, you can download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Enjoy full-color video clips or live TV of the latest news, sports, and entertainment from brands you know, like CNN, Fox, The Weather Channel, NFL Mobile, and more. Power Vision also serves as a portal for enhanced games. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

With Sprint TV, you can make your RAZR ² V9m your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

Sleeker, smarter, stronger: the RAZR2 V9m boasts a durable stainless steel frame and chemically hardened glass displays. Also see it in 3D.

Shoot and share your digital photos and short video clips instantly with Sprint PCS Picture Mail. Then either store the pictures and videos on your memory card, or send them from your phone to email addresses or other compatible phones. Archive your pictures and videos at Sprint's Picture Mail web site, and take advantage of advanced features that let you crop pictures, organize your own albums, share your pictures and videos, order prints, and more.

You can also stream music to your phone with Sprint Radio, offering over 30 channels of both music and talk radio--from Hip Hop and Latin Pop to NPR.

Phone Features
Designed to be even sharper than before, the RAZR ² V9m shaves two millimeters from the original MOTORAZR. Its one-piece housing has no parting lines (meaning fewer chances of break points) and the cast aluminum hinge underwent more than 100,000 lab tests to ensure durability. Even the exterior camera lens is stronger, as it is made with chemically hardened glass. Despite its slimmer profile, the RAZR ² V9m offers enhanced dual screens that make the phone seem larger. The 2.2-inch internal screen offers twice the resolution of the original MOTORAZR while the 2-inch external screen is great for checking caller photo ID, easily reading incoming text messages, and controlling music playback through onscreen controls. Both screens provide 320 x 240-pixel resolutions with support for up to 65K colors. Other Motorola-engineered enhancements include:

Upgraded Interface: With the redesigned, more intelligent interface, you'll be able to search for contacts faster and avoid duplicate entries for the same person while allowing contacts to have multiple numbers. The customizable main menu means you're never more than 2 to 3 clicks away from your favorite applications. And text messaging is easier, with the V9m recognizing what type of message you are sending.
Talk to Me: Originally designed to address the needs of those with vision impairment, the RAZR ² V9m is able to read the phone's interactive menus, contacts, messages and more aloud--adding convenience to your on-the-go lifestyle. SMS messages on the phone can be read and replied to with pre-programmed text messages without ever having to open up the flip.
Haptics: Motorola has incorporated breakthrough haptics technology--an interface that creates tactile feedback--that provides vibrating feedback in response to your finger taps. When combined with the virtual music keys, the haptics technology helps you to effortlessly control music playback.

The 2-megapixel camera includes a 4x digital zoom and it can automatically snap up to eight new pictures--letting you choose the best image from a complete series of pictures. You can even print photos wirelessly to a Bluetooth-compatible printer with just a few menu selections. It provides five resolution choices (from 160 x 120 to 1600 x 1200 pixels) and also features a self-timer and controls for brightness and white balance. The RAZR ² V9m is also an impressive video camcorder, providing up to QVGA resolution (320 x 240 pixels). You can record video for as long as you have available space on your MicroSD memory card, or choose a 10-second cap for videos sent via MMS. It supports H.263, H.264, and MPEG4 video formats.

Control music playback with the virtual digital audio player buttons on the V9m's external screen, which includes tactile feedback.

With up to 2 GB of storage (via optional MicroSD memory card), the RAZR ² V9m can store up to 1000 of your favorite songs. It offers compatibility with Microsoft Windows Media Player 11, enabling easy synchronization and transfer between phone and PC. You'll be able to modify music playback with the flip closed thanks to the virtual contextual music controls that appear on the external screen. And you can keep playing music even while surfing the web, sending text messages, or even using the camera.

This phone provides Bluetooth version 1.2 wireless connectivity, and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and audio/video remote control. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server.

Other features include:

65 MB internal flash memory
Up to 1000 contact entries, each with up to six numbers and two email addresses
USB 2.0 wired connectivity, with mass storage capability
Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones
Voice command and dialing, as well as ability to record voice memos
PIM functions including calendar, calculator, alarm clock, and world clock
M4/T4 hearing aid and TTY compatibility
aGPS capable for E911 emergency location/sGPS

Vital Statistics
The RAZR ² V9m weighs 4.13 ounces and measures 4.06 x 2.1 x 0.47 inches. Its 770 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.6 hours (215 minutes) of talk time, and up to 310 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 CDMA frequencies and is compatible with the EV-DO data network.

Customer Reviews:

Worst customer service.......2007-12-22

This phone is fine, but the customer service at Sprint is the worst. I would recomment getting the phone with a different carrier. I have never been with a different carrier, so I really don't have a basis of comparison, but it could not possible be as bad as Sprint.

Be careful of carrier,Phone is great........2007-12-02

I purchased this phone having at a great price and received it on time, no worries. I'd seen the phone in person and knew I would love it. Amazon's price could not be matched in store.
Amazon's purchasing system did not allow me to provide my own cell phone number to carry over. Instead I was instructed the purchase would create a new account and I would deal with customer service to have my old Nextel number replace this new one on the Sprint phone. Unfortunately, the Sprint tech over the phone was completely unaware how to do this and with his supervisor's help, messed up both accounts so badly it took 5 other people to fix it. If you purchase through Amazon I highly reccomend you take the new phone and old one into a physical store and have them do the change.

Phone is Great but Sprint Customer Service is the Worst!.......2007-11-06

I do like the phone, but I would advise everyone out there to go with a different carrier than Sprint. I had a Sprint account a few years ago and thought the service was pretty good, but not now. What a mistake it was to switch from T-Mobile.

The worst thing about Sprint is that every time I call customer service, I get sent to the Philippines. And they are so rude! Today, I asked for a phone number in North America but they said that all I could do was keep hanging up and calling back until I was connected to someone in America. I called eight times and every time I was connected to the Philippines. The representatives there could not understand me very well and I was having problems understanding them. Also, they do not have the power to adjust any charges.

Stay away from Sprint!!!

All-Time winner for the worst design goes to!!!.......2007-10-29

First before I write this review, this is MY review; so I don't want to hear the genetic replies like "Oh, you are using the phone incorrectly", "I never had those problems", and "Maybe your phone is just defective." Trust me, my take on the Sprint Motorola RAZR 2 V9m is coming from years using every type of phone, from every major carrier.

Pros:
1. Large inside and outer screen.
2. Sprint TV/Radio application works well.

Cons:
1. Does not support any of Motorola Bluetooth headset and headphones that I own. Even my new Moto Bluetooth stereo headphones that came out before the RAZR 2 even came out, don't even work.
2. Daily White-Screen freeze errors.
3. Text input in third-party app's in annoying. the "1" key cycles though characters that you will never use just to get to a period or @ sign. the "0" key is used to cycle though the rest and again goes though characters that you will rarely use just to get one you will use a lot.
4. The touch-screen is way too sensitive. If you don't have a key-lock set, you will find that the TV app will load in your pocket and turn to a channel. Or it will just load the app and waste the already pathetic battery life. Even if the key-lock is on, the vibrate feature will go off so many times that when you goto use the phone, you will end up having 1 bar, maybe 2.
5. Horrible battery life. Unlike the A900, Katana, and pretty much all other slim-phones, the RAZR 2 gets really hot when using it. Heat means wasted energy, thus making the battery life the worst I have ever seen. If you are using bluetooth, and/or the TV app, or in an area with a weak signal, battery life can be as low as 40 minutes.
6. The UI is SLOW! I mean as slow as slow can get. This comes to it's full power of annoyance when you end up loading an application that you didn't mean to, and closing it down takes 5 to 10 seconds to close down. This will happen a lot, because the buttons are so close together, that you will end up loading the music or TV app without even trying. Scrolling through you content is horrible. Images take what seems like months to switch to the next.
7. No real media player. You can not fast forward or rewind video clips. So those days of watching movies and shows on your phone are over. Unless you want to sit and watch it from the beginning.
8. You can not hear the volume when setting the level for the ringer, alarm, ect. This most basic of features shows how low Moto has come when making phones.
9. The lower set of speaks has a groove where overtime it will cut into your fingers when holding the phone to watch TV.
10. The inner display has the typical data and time features, but with the RAZR 2 you can not get rid of the date. So if you have a cool screen saver, you will see "00/00/000 Day" on the screen. So if you have a cool pic of a Cele you are into, their face will be blocked.
11. The web browser is HTML, but it renders the site into pages. So a normal sized site will be cut into many pages. Some sites are cut into 10+ pages. Unlike Opera mini which can render the entire page in one window. You will be scrolling page to page just to see the content you like.
12. Since the browser is HTML, WAP sites can't be loaded very well if at all. So if you want to download a Java app through a WAP site, you might not be able to at all.
13. Third party apps can easily cause the phone to lock-up. Basic app's that load on even the most simple phone will cause the phone to lock in a white screen and you will have to pull the battery to get out.
14. Alarm doesn't always go off. This has happen to me a lot.
15. When you use the speaker-phone or use the speakers with Telenav, the sound quality is horrible. On the other end my friends make me repeat what I am saying. The speaker-phone has been known in the past to be one of the best features found in Moto phones; this is not the case with the V9m.
16. Buttons on the side are tiny. With a plastic snap-on case they are very difficult to press.
17. THE PHONE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A HEADPHONE PORT!!!! So you can not use it as a portable music player without playing the content through the speakers, or a Bluetooth headset, which most likely will not work.
18. You can not set images from your memory card to display as wallpaper.
19. Music playback is dependent on using Sprint's Music Player, which crashes a lot.

There isn't much good to say about this piece of ****. I know it took a lot of dumb engineers from some place where the labor is cheap to make a phone this bad. They had to wake up every morning thinking of every possible way to make something this bad. It takes hard work to make a phone that is 1,000,000,000 times worse then the worse phone I have ever used the VGA1000, but Moto did it. I think it is time for Motorola to make TV's again. Because as far as phones go, I don't think they could make a worse phone then this. Well, most likely they could. Man, how bad will that phone be?

I waited years for a media Moto phone through Sprint and I am disappointed beyond words.

So in closing, the V9m is like Windows Vista; full of bugs, overly priced, lackluster features, and will be used as an example of how an over-hype product can kill brand loyalty. -47 Trillion out of 10.
RIP Moto V9m, you will never be missed.

Best Phone to Date.......2007-10-18

No review, I am not a phone junkie. This phone is the best I have had in 15 years. Easy for my fat fingers to dial. Like the heavy solid feel. Clear and bright. Must use Keyguard or phone works alone in your pocket.

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