Motorola T720 (CDMA) User Reviews |
| 1. Posted by tech-geek |
Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:00 am |
In my opinion the T720 (CDMA) is on par with the high-end 2003 model phones. It is super small, stylish and fairly full featured with a color screen that is superb visually except in bright sunlight.
However... This little gem loves, and practically requires, excellent coverage with close towers in good geographical locations. Here in small town Indiana, we don't have this... and that makes the T720 a poor performer in this location.
One of the trade-offs for weight is a tiny battery that just doesn't cut it when the phone has to push harder to reach the tower. I'm now to the point where I carry an extra charged battery to get 60 minutes talk time in 18 hours away from the house. In an area without CDMA digital, it falls back to analog and a half hour call will drain the battery dry.
In the car if I'm in a low service area, I use a small magnetic car-top antenna that plugs into the rf output on the back of the phone (a little rubber nubby next to the internal antenna covers the port). The performance boost is AMAZING.
My guess is the shortfall of the T720 is that the internal antenna is inefficient (typical trade-off of size vs performance) and running hotter (more rf output) drains the battery.
Overall, the phone is a B minus... but could be an A minus if in a location with excellent coverage. Looking for a hard-core performer in poor signal areas??? Keep looking, this isn't it... not even close.
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| 2. Posted by anaron |
Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:15 am |
Cell phones are probably one of the greatest inventions since popcorn. I have had one for, well, seems like forever. My first phone was a huge Motorola bag phone, then a Motorola brick phone, then the Motorola Startac with a few other brands mixed in. I consider the Startac to be one of the greatest phones ever, durable and dependable. One of my last was ran over by a truck and crushed but would still send and receive. I jumped in the lake to retrieve a vehicle forgetting I had the cell phone. No problem, couple hours under a hair dryer and it was good as new. Now along comes the new generation, cell phone cameras, Internet, so on and so on. Never could we have dreamed of doing the things cell phones can now do. The technology has been absolutely fantastic. That is fantastic with one exception. Phones are so sophisticated and fragile that it takes very little to damage them. I am currently running 3 Motorola T720’s. They are very dependable and expensive phones equal to or better than the Startac. However, in the first six months of operation, the phones ended up with damaged LCD screens which are not covered under warranty because Motorola and the other manufacturers know they are fragile and will be damaged numerous times. Every time this happens, I must send it to Motorola and pay them another $75 or so to have them repaired. When I questioned Motorola about the fragility of the phones, I was told that maybe I needed to have a hard case made that would completely encase the phone for protection. That’s well and good if I don’t intended to use the phone. In their quest for smaller and better, manufacturers have discarded the key function of any cell phone, DURABILITY. I contacted my provider to see if they had any phone that would stand the abuse my phones get daily. Amazingly, there were none – all were almost identical in design. In every manufacturers quest to out do the competition and create the newest technology, not one of them designs a phone for the working class. When I say working class, I mean carpenters, mechanics, construction workers, ranchers, truck drivers, law enforcement, on and on or in my case, owner of a towing company. The phones today are made for the professional people who never have to pickup anything heavier than their briefcase, unload a load of steel, remove a motor, load a bad bull in a trailer, subdue a whacked out drug head, and who never have to crawl under a vehicle to remove the drive shaft (two of mine were broke doing this and the third was broke when I leaned against a vehicle to keep it from rolling.) The amazing part of this is that the majority of cell phone users in the world fall in to the “working class group”. Many of us do not care if we can take a picture, get on the net or access the computer. We just want a phone that sends/receives calls and stands up to the jobs we must do. Wake up manufacturers, you are slowly limiting your customer base in the name of competition and technology. I can almost guarantee you that if you ignore the needs of the working class, you will have less sales thereby resulting in less revenue to design the gimmicks you now call cell phones. Someone capable of a little forethought needs to design a phone that will stand up to the daily activities of the working people! We want a phone that will receive calls and make calls but most important, we want a phone that will not break every time we lean up against a fence to rest!
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| 3. Posted by terrylscoville |
Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:19 am |
I have had the motorola t720 for a couple years and have really enjoyed it. The only major issue is that when I plug something in the bottom (charger, wireless headphone), my phone will sometimes turn off. It will also shut down if I close the phone up to hard. Battery life has been extremely good, and dropped calls a minimum.
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| 4. Posted by aschuett |
Tue Sep 21, 2004 4:30 pm |
The phone has (according to Cingular person on the phone) a bad wrap for going from 5 bars to 0 in a conversation in about a second. In reality, I've maybe experienced this once. The flip-phone design is very nice, and hides the inner screen. The outter screen has a silver frame which is not part of the faceplate, and is therefore not a $10 replacement after you scratch it. I have not needed to replace this at all yet, and I have had no problems with the actual LCD display, but then again I have a belt clip. I never stick my phone in my pocket. To fix any scratch on this frame, you need to buy a front LCD (which I've seen for $35-ish). Other than that, the thing performs wonderfully for my hours of endless conversation.
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| 5. Posted by veilfore89 |
Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:15 am |
This phone is a little complex and less modern. It does have issues with signal in phone calls or in the house as I've experienced. Not much good in the customizing area, not able to change power up or down graphic, not able to really change the menu style or color schems that much. It does have a very sensitive LCD Chip as I've gone through one although this phones a year old. Battery time is fine when on stand-by but not much on talk time or game time.
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| 6. Posted by psyop63b |
Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:52 pm |
I have had my T720 for nearly two years with Verizon Wireless, and in that time I have had very few problems with it or the service. The Motorola name is gold to me. The phone gets incredible call reception, durability, reliable connections, ease-of-use, and other features such as web browsing and get it now that I have not used extensively.
I have had a few incidents where the phone seems to "lock up" on me, and the 2.5mm headset jack will not work unless something is plugged in at the onset of a call, but I would buy another one in a heartbeat.
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| 7. Posted by flyingismylife |
Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:17 pm |
My wife and I have had two of these Motorola T720 phones for about a year now. They have demonstrated many problems with losing a call (typically around 5 to 10 times during a 25 mile drive across Dallas) as well as having very minimal sucess in dialing out from inside buildings, home, etc, while other phone users are able to dial out with little or no problems. My phone in particular seems to be getting progressively worse daily about locking up to the point of having to remove the battery to reset and other times it will reboot in the middle of a call just as if the power was turned off. Not a very stable design at all. My old Nokia was a much superior and more stable phone. Beware of this one!
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| 8. Posted by Wonderfully |
Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:34 pm |
I've had a Motorolla T720 for about a year or two (by a contract) and to be honest, I've seen much better! I've had problems with the battery jumping from a full charge to no cells at all in one call! Also, the size--which may have been small in 2002 is now consider "really big" (quoting from a friend). The picture quality isn't very impressive. You can see a lot of lines in them. Personally, I like LG better.
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| 9. Posted by britni84 |
Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:08 am |
I would not recommend this phone to anyone. I bought it after owning a nokia for a long time and was very disappointed. The Motorola was very slow and would not process request very quickly. Also, many of my calls would be cut off. The phone eventually broke and i got another nokia which i am very happy with.
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Motorola T720 (CDMA) Specs |
Technical Specifications |
| Network: |
AMPS 800 / CDMA 800 / 1900 |
| Form Factor: |
Clamshell |
| Dimensions: |
89 x 47 x 23 mm |
| Weight: |
112 g |
| Antenna: |
Stub / Extendable |
| Navigation: |
4-Way Keypad |
| Battery Type: |
750 mAh Li-Ion |
| Talk Time: |
3.75 |
| Standby Time: |
343 |
| Memory: |
500 KB |
| Expandable Memory: |
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Safety |
| Radiation (SAR): |
(1.30 W/kg) |
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Imaging |
| Main Screen: |
4096 colors (STN)
120 x 160 px |
| External Screen: |
2 colors (LCD)
96 x 32 px |
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Audio |
| MP3 Player: |
Accessory |
| FM Radio: |
Accessory |
| Speakerphone: |
Accessory |
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Multimedia |
| Wallpapers: |
120 x 160 px |
| Screen Savers: |
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| Ring Tones: |
16 chord |
| Themes: |
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| Games: |
J2ME |
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Messaging |
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| Chat: |
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| Predictive Text: |
iTAP |
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Applications |
| Phonebook Capacity: |
500 |
| Calendar: |
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| To-Do List: |
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| WAP: |
1.2.1 |
| Voice Commands: |
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Connectivity |
| Bluetooth: |
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| Infrared Port: |
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| High-Speed Data: |
cdma2000 1xRTT |
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| GPS: |
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| PC Sync: |
Starfish TrueSync |
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More Information |
| Website: |
Product Website |
| Discussion: |
Motorola Forum |
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