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View Best Sellers   Release Date: Q4 2003 Released For: T-Mobile - Discontinued Merging cutting edge technology with distinctive fashion, the Motorola V300 is a phone ideal for youthful consumers. The V300 delivers all the functionality necessary for a global lifestyle. In addition to taking and sending digital pictures, consumeres can download ringtones, wallpapers, and games. Users can use the V300 as their portal to the world by accessing news, sports scores, movie listings and email. And rounding out the messaging options, the V300 has AOL Instant Messenger service capability.

Technical Specifications
Network:	GSM 850 / 900 / 1900
Form Factor:	Clamshell
Dimensions:	89 x 49 x 25 mm
Weight:	122 g
Antenna:	Stub
Navigation:	4-Way Keypad
Battery Type:	650 mAh Li-Ion
Talk Time:	6.50
Standby Time:	200
Memory:	5.0 MB
Expandable Memory:
Imaging
Main Screen:	65000 colors (TFT) 176 x 220 px
External Screen:	2 colors (LCD) 96 x 32 px
Camera:	0.3 MP / 640 x 480 px / 4X Zoom
Audio
MP3 Player:	Accessory
FM Radio:	Accessory
Speakerphone:
Push-To-Talk:
Multimedia
Wallpapers:	176 x 220 px
Screen Savers:	176 x 220 px
Ring Tones:	24 chord / MP3
Themes:
Games:	J2ME
Streaming Multimedia:
Messaging
SMS:
EMS:
MMS:
Email:	POP3 / IMAP4 / SMTP
Chat:
Predictive Text:	iTAP
Applications
Phonebook Capacity:	1000
Calendar:	500 entries
To-Do List:
WAP:	2.0
Voice Commands:	9 names
Calculator:
Connectivity
Bluetooth:
Infrared Port:
High-Speed Data:	GPRS (Class 10)
Wi-Fi:
GPS:
PC Sync:	Accessory
More Information
Website:	Motorola V300 Website
Discussion:	Motorola Forum

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Motorola V300- Took a lickin' and Kept on Tickin'

I see that there are a lot of negative reviews of the v300. I would just like to say that I am sure that a lot of phones had bugs in them and that some people had bad experiences with it. But my teenage son loved his v300, and he beat the living hell out of it, but it kept taking pictures, the speakers worked fine, he text messaged all the time, and he had the phone for over 2 1/2 years before we switched carriers. The phone still works to this day, sounds great, and still has some of the sharpest cell phone pictures that I have seen so far. The little video feature even works great. I have to say that everyone has their own experience with these phones, and it sounds like many of the problems with these phones are probably related to a bad "batch" of phones that my son & I did not receive. Both our phones stood the test of time, and although my son's is battered and bruised, it still functions perfectly. My son has dropped it, accidently kicked it, even dropped it in the toilet (we immediately retrieved it and it still worked) so I have to give this little phone an A+ as it has withstood some demanding and harsh punishment and still works perfectly.

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Motorola V300

I have had this phone for about a year and a half and I have never had any problems with it.

Very clear sound and good mic.
can play mp3 ringtones, has good reception after you enable the 850MHz band, decent camera as far as VGA cameras are conserned.

I don't talk too much, but after a year and a half I charge it every 4-5-6 days. I turn it off at night and when I am at work though.
It charges up to full in about 2 hrs.

Haven't had any negative experiences with it so far. Doesn't have many extras, but what it has works good.

Oh, and I don't find it heavy. *shrug*

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motorola strikes again...

i dont undersatnd why people have to write so many negative reviews about such a good phone. its been months since i got this phone and havent faced a single problem with it. As any sensible perosn would do, before buying this phone i searched for user reviews on net. all those negative reviews really confused me as i read about problems such as phone turning off by itself and camera being lame. but luckily i got my hands on my friend's v300 before having to buy it myself and i was impressed. the picture quality is atleast 10 times better than Sony Ericsson 616 and the phone has no reason to turn off by itself. This is a nice phone worth a second look if buying a new cell.

hope this answers any confusions you might have

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HARAKIRI (software mistakes)

I will start this review first with the POSITIVE things:

* good camera (all modern phones have non-professional camera, but the one provided in the V300 is enough for most people)
* battery autonomy (after one months of charging it quite often, now I charge it every 5-6 days)
* "soft feel touch" (good feeling of quality),
* robust feeling when opening and closing the phone (shell phones seem normally very fragile),
* reception quality is very good (better than my previous Nokia 7110 which was already very good),
* very intelligent ITAP dictionary (helps a lot in writing faster and is better than T9 logic of Nokia phones).

I will focus now on the long list of NEGATIVE experiences, reporting some problems that I submitted to the customer support. They answered very fast to these questions, but I guess that they didn't have many chances to actually solve these problems.

* T-Mobile software (banner, music and logo)
* Switching off/on by itself
* Network operator settings management
* Melodies management
* Low battery alert
* SMS memory


-> The problem that most disappointed me, the T-MOBILE SOFTWARE in general <-

At the moment the only place where you can buy the V300 is from a T-Mobile shop, or whatever other shop which is basically reselling a T-Mobile phone. These phones are called "branded" phones, because they have additional features according to the phone operator from which they are coming. You will get a T-Mobile V300 also if you pay the full price to have an unlocked phone, without contract with a T-Mobile SIM card.
You would think that it’s not a big issue, but in reality what they are selling you is not the regular V300 advertised in the Motorola website, but a "T-Mobile Motorola V300". You will realize that the use of other SIM is yes allowed (to send/receive phone calls, SMS, surf internet) but not welcome, just like if in Microsoft Windows you install a different browser than Internet Explorer.

The V300 is full of T-Mobile gadgets that you can’t delete: for example a T-Mobile melody while switching on and off the phone, "t-zones" logo appearing during the internet connections also with other providers, and dozen of links trying to connect in various ways to "t-zones" servers. In Motorola’s slang these links are called "banners", and just like in the internet environment, they are trying to invite you to leave what you where doing and to connect to the "mother" T-Mobile.
You find these banners everywhere in the phone, for example within the melodies, the games, the wallpapers and the screensavers. This means that you will click on them believing that you are loading a game from the phone, but in reality you are starting to pay to T-Mobile!! And there is no warning message to tell you that the next operations are not for free, but are at the owner’s expense!! If you don’t have a T-Mobile card, these attempts to connect are useless and expensive: the phone attempts to connect, starts to pay, and then realizes that you don’t have a T-Mobile card (too late!!!).
I tried to prevent the phone from accessing these banners but even blocking all the WAP access features from the "security->lock application", the phone is still free to access these features. So you can’t block these banners.
And what is worse, you can’t even delete them, because "they are part of the original T-Mobile software" (just like Internet Explorer and Windows). Part of the phone’s features are useless, because these banners are not working. They will just stay in your phone, on top of every page (so that they are more visible, and you can hit them easily by mistake), and remain there inactive. But at least they will contribute to your phone operator’s incomes, because every time you hit them you will pay immediately.

Even if it seems incredible, Motorola doesn’t offer neutral software for people who don’t want the T-Mobile brand version. And what is worse, nothing is mentioned in the official Motorola and T-Mobile websites.


-> HARAKIRI (software mistakes)

The phone is turning of by itself from time to time (that’s what I called HARAKIRI) even if the battery is full. After I turn it on again, I see that the battery has three lines, and the phone is working normally.
Answer from Motorola was to try to turn off the "battery save mode" (what is this mode, does it turn off automatically the phone to save battery ?!! ). By the way, in the instructions manual it’s nothing written about this option.
One time the display of the V300 remained blocked in its screenshot after snoozing the alarm clock. In that occasion I couldn't do anything with the phone, the keypad was not working.
Sometimes it happens also that the phone is switching off and on by itself when I’m in a WAP session. It’s a strange problem, because I don’t have to put again the PIN code, but anyway the phone call is interrupted and I have to connect to the server again (spending more money). It happened also while making a browser update through an SMS.


-> NETWORK OPERATOR SETTINGS <-

I downloaded some network operator settings (excellent service from Motorola website). I'm using regularly three SIM cards (due to my work, I need different cards for different countries), and I quickly reached the maximum number of settings that I can store on the phone. Counting three settings for operator (MMS, WAP-CSD and WAP-GPRS), if you have many SIM cards it's easy to reach the maximum. This can happen for example if you give the mobile to your girlfriend, or if one day you want to change operator.

The problem is that you can't replace the settings arrived via SMS, because beside these settings it's a small symbol of a padlock, that means that you can't delete them. And if you have already the maximum, the phone is refusing new ones or modification to the old ones.
Answer from Motorola is that you have to reset the phone (losing the address book, photos, melodies, games and so on, that cost a fortune in terms of time and money). Or send the phone to them and they will cancel the settings for you (but not for free, as they clarified).


-> RINGTONE management <-

I downloaded a polyphonic melody that I can listen to, and is correctly appearing in the "downloads" menu. But the same song is not appearing as an available ringtone from the "change ringtone" menu in the settings. Other songs that I downloaded from the same website are instead appearing both as downloaded items and as available ringtones, so I don’t understand what is the problem with this song. I tried to bypass this problem from the "downloads" menu: I can "apply this song as ringtone", but when I receive a telephone call and this ringtone is selected, no sound is coming from the phone. Answer from Motorola was to download melodies only from Motorola's website (!!!!)
Additionally, Motorola changed once more the logic for composing a song directly from the phone. I think that including all Motorolas, there are at least five completely different ways for input of new melodies. This means that you can’t use most of the melodies listed in websites for do-it-yourself composers. Once more, the best way is to pay and directly download a melody from internet.


-> SWITCHING ON/OFF MUSIC <-

The music while turning on and off is from the T-Mobile TV spot (very loud and ugly in my opinion). You would want to set another music because you don’t care about T-Mobile and you don’t want to hear this jingle every single day, or eventually you don’t want to have any start music at all, not to disturb your neighbors. Well, it’s impossible, because it’s part of the original software (official answer).


-> LOW BATTERY ALERT <-

The phone makes a loud noise when the battery is low. So far so good, other phones wait till the very last minute to do it. The problem is that the V300 will make this alter also if you set the phone to mute !! This means that when you are at the cinema or during a conference, the V300 will give you the nice feeling of being undesired from the others. You may want to turn off the phone then, and here comes the most stupid of all the stupid things !! The phone will continue to make this alert even if you turned it off !!! If it has low battery it will continue with this sound all night long !! Think about it if you are in a train, and want to sleep or you are in a meeting and you can’t plug it to a battery charger !!
The only way to stop the sound is to put it to charge or (if you don’t have the charger with you), to open the cover and take off the battery. Who programmed this sound alert ?


-> SMS memory <-

I also noticed that you can’t save SMS. If take away your SIM card, put a new one from a friend, and then put again yours, all the messages that you had on that card are definitely GONE !! They are no-where.


-> CONCLUSION <-

Basically it’s a phone with a good hardware and good basic calling functions. This shows a step in the correct direction from the old fragile Motorolas.

B U T: it’s costing 300 EUR, not 100 EUR , it has only TWO games and a firmware that MUST be improved in reliability and cleverness. If you don’t have a T-Mobile card, part of the phone’s features are wasted.
Being only youth and software problems, I'm confident that Motorola can do something quickly, including something for the mobiles already sold. For example they could offer a service to register their product in their website, where according to the serial number they could inform us about software updates or possible product recalls.

I think that all the users should have the right to choose if they want the T-Mobile branded phone or not. If Motorola advertises a non-branded phone in their website, then they should sell exactly what they promise.

A further remark: T-Mobile probably thinks that their customers are so proud of having sounds and images from their beloved company that they will like to show them to everybody. For example, concerning the switching on/off loud music, the customers will be so happy to hear every single day this T-Mobile melody, that they will never want to change it (because anyway, they are part of the original software and they can’t be changed).
Do they really think that the customers are so stupid and crazy about T-Mobile marketing gadgets?
I’m not sure if the V525 is having similar problems with Vodafone, but my personal opinion is that there is a tendency to bind the user with a phone operator for the rest of his life (or at least of the phone’s life). And this is happening using some tricks learned in the PC software business.

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V300 Review

I have been using a V300 for 11 months. Here is my feedback:

- the unit is extremely heavy, it feels like a rock
-the speaker is great, the mic is great, people hear you crystal
- the battery life is OK for the first 8 months. then you need to charge every two days (if you use it a lot)
- the software is buggy, you need to restart sometimes. For example if you type too fast for SMS, it may crash.
- the CPU is slow, so let's say to take a picture, it would take forever to save it. Most applications run slow.
- The biggest plus for thie phone is that the phone sounds like a land line.
- The biggest minus is that the software is ultra slow and buggy.

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Its very good.

I went through so many reviews online and got very scared about the negative things that was said about the moto V300 that i didnt want to even mention buying it. but then i realized some good things about the phone that made me buy it. it's been a month i purchased one and it doesnt seem to bother me at all. the picture quality.. oh my god when i first fliped opend my new phone it was really clear and crisp. and the camera is also very good. i honestly love my phone so much that im in love with it. yeah everything else is nice the speaker phone ringtones but no blue tooth which is good for me that will keep my privacy in a safe place. im very satisfied very happy.

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My two cents on the V300

The V-300 from T-Mobile is very similar to that of Cingular's V400.
The only difference is the Keypad size and menu design but they are almost identical.
The V300 has a better internal screen than that of the E715. It has speaker phone and voice activated dialing. Rumor has that it could play MP3 ringtones. Battery Life is decent only if you don't play too much games or use the View Finder to take multiple pictures.
PROS Better Screen, Speaker Phone, Voice Activated Dialing, Cost less than E715 & V300,
CONS Keyboard could be better, Flash w/ the Camera would make it a whole lot better.
Hopes this helps

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Moto V300

My wife and I both got a T-Mobile V300 and have had no problems for the last 14 months. The phones worked fine for all of our needs. Admittedly, we did not use them for MP3 playing, web access, email, or txt message-we wanted a cell phone.
Call quality was excellent as well as battery life, camera, and display. OK, the keys are a little small and the letters are a little hard to see, but the voice dial worked fine after you get the number in the phonebook.
Overall, we love the phones.

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The Motorola V300 is a Total Crapshoot!

There just isn't any way to know if getting this phone is a good idea. I bought one at the same time that my girlfriend bought one (Feb '04). We have both had significant problems with ours.

I have a friend that works for T-Mobile. I complained to her about my phone's problems one day. She asked what type of phone I had. When I told her it was the V300, her reply was, "oh yeah... we have a lot of problems with those phones. I got rid of mine." Luckily for her, she works for T-Mobile so she gets phones dirt cheap. For the rest of us suckers, we're just stuck.

However, I have one other friend that has this phone who has never had a single problem with it. This person has owned their phone for a year as well and uses it often.

The problems that my girlfriend and I have are completely different problems though.

With her phone, it turns off all of the time and the speaker is so quiet that she can't hear people talking if there is any background noise. These problems didn't develop until after 6 months of use.

With my phone, the speaker no longer works... at all. If people call me, they can hear me, but I can't hear them. It isn't a reception issue -- the earpiece speaker just broke one day. I have had other strange problems as well. My phone crashes like a computer every once in a while.

There was one time that I was trying to call someone. The phone was ringing and all of a sudden went dead. I looked at the display to see if we got disconnected. The phone display still said "connected" though. "Hello... hello." I don't care what the phone says, we're not connected. So I hit "end." Nothing. The phone still says "connected." I close the phone and open it again... it still says "connected." I close the phone, count to 30, and open it again -- it still says "connected." So, I gave up and tried to turn it off. It wouldn't turn off. The display just said "connected." I couldn't believe it. I had to take the battery off to get the phone to "re-boot."

I've had a ton of problems like this -- buggy software. The V300's issues seem so random. Some people have no problems, some have a lot of problems. However, the problems don't even seem to be consistent from phone to phone. It is a complete gamble.

Trust me, I treat my phone well. I don't drop it. I don't get it wet. I baby it and it still went belly-up.

My girlfriend called T-Mobile about the problems with her phone. Since it was still under warranty, they told her she could get a new one. They wouldn't give her a different phone though. What is the point of getting a new one when there is a good chance that it's just going to be junk as well?

So, out of the four people I know that have this phone, three of them have had extreme problems -- one has not. Although one of the three is a T-Mobile employee and has told me that T-mobile has a lot of problems with this phone.

I quit using mine about four months ago. I guess I had to quite since the earpiece doesn't work anymore. I am still paying for it though -- it's too expensive to "violate" our contract and cancel the service. It looks like they got me again!

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Do not buy the Motorola V300

The bad reviews about this phone are all true. I had the phone for about 1 month and the screen just froze one time when I was talking to somebody. I was trying to end the call but it wouldn't. The call was still going and I closed and opened the phone and it still won't end. Then I tried turning off the phone and it wouldn't. So finally I realized I would have to remove the battery to turn it off or else the minutes will keep going...
After 11 months, the phone started to go crazy. I would be writing a text and about to send it when the screen would just go back to the main screen, and everything I just wrote is gone!! This kept happening over and over again! And also when I press the call (green) button to retrieve the latest dialed calls, it will show it for a split second and then just go back to the main screen. So annoying! I can't wait to get rid of this phone and good thing my contract is up so I can start shopping for a new phone.
I also experienced the phone turning off by itself once or twice.
The headset also just stopped working yesterday. The earpiece doesn't work anymore, but the mouthpiece does. So you can't hear the person you're talking to, but they can hear you. What's the point.
So my advice is..skip this phone..unless you like your cell phone to do its own thing.

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V300 has several flaws.

My g/f and I bought our V300's over 1.5 yrs ago. Since then, we have been through 6 total. 3 of hers had issues with the sound going out in the headset. I have had 2 with the same issue (sound going completely out) and one with the display going completely out. My current one, the sound went out and now the phone won't even turn on. Before it went out completely, the screen was having a hard time turning on when I opened the phone due to the rubber piece that gets depressed by the "peg" sticking. I have a couple of friends that have had the same problem and it's simply chalked up to an engineering decision that shouldn't have been made. For those that haven't had this problem yet, it will happen, but not for a while if you don't use your phone often. I used it all of the time and the opening and closing action of the phone I was told, causes "normal wear and tear" and thus it causes the ruber piece to wear out. ~Food for thought~ I also have emailed the CEO and Susan Nokes regarding the issues I have had in combination with Motorola and Assurion (the tmobile insurance provider). Assurion responded back within the hour and I have yet to hear anything from T-Mobile (just sent the email today and should take them 24 hrs or 1 business day). Good luck to all of you and I for one am going native with another phone soon.

~Mike

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Motorola V300

I live in dublin (see my location)

and i bought a v300 about 6 months ago on meteor. My previous phone was a nokia 3310 and i have to say i have been very happy with my phone ever since. I do have a few minor complaints (though not in any way related to the apparently massive number of complaints the uk phones are generating, probably based largely on the t-mobile branding)

1) Picture quality- though i soon learned that my initial bad pictures could be remedied by changing the setting from "auto" to whatever the conditions actually were ("night" "indoor (office)" etc.), the picture quality is nowhere near as good as the quality on some nokias, most specifically my friends 7250, with generally far fewer features but a definitely superior camera

2) speed- i have NO problems with it crashing or turning itself off or anything along those lines (and all i get when i turn it on is a little 'hellomoto' graphic), but most specifically when texting (although the suggestive text is a good idea, at times it can be frustrating in a somewhat limited dictionary, though not as bad as nokias on my old 3310) the speed of the cpu does not enable it to keep up with me, and the intelligent predictive text is so slow that i have the word typed in already. Example... if i go to type "predictive", my phone suggests as i type

p.. s
pr.. pp
pre... present
pred... prefer
predi... predicament
predic... as above
predict... predictable
predicti... predicting
predictiv... predictive

the problem being if i bother to type that slow to wait and see what it suggests, on my old nokia, i could already have typed "predictive text is great"

though i admit, just now i went to type that sentence on my phone, and it got it first off, just a second slower than my old nokia would have.

Again, though, another disappointing aspect (and this can be quite infuriating) is that "1" is not automatically punctuation (i.e. a full stop) but rather the digit "1" and it takes few clicks to change it to a full stop.

However, this is compensated for by the massive memory it has for words you type- much bigger than nokia's on my 3310 (especially useful if you use a large dictionary of informal words).

My advise would be ONLY buy this phone if you want some more of its features, i.e. e-mail, calender, voice recognition etc. but it is a bit expensive if all you want is a camera

On the whole, though, a very enjoyable phone, the negatives far outweigh the postives. Comes with a nice standard selection of different ringtones, no need to download when you can change to a new funky one each week from the phone itself.

Finally, to summarise

pro
1) aesthetics
2) rarity (relative to most other motorolas/nokias)
3) sound (really good reception)
4) good battery life for a feature-packed phone
5) Intelligent, but not necessarily quick text

cons
1) speed of cpu
2) picture quality can be hit and miss, but only to be expected. Just a knack of getting to know the camera settings

But really, the biggest con is speed, but this is more than compensated for.

However, i know that in the uk this fone is only available on t-mobile. there are better phones out there on free contracts, especially with the widely cataloged horrors of this fone on t-mobile, but on pay as you go, provided you don't mind the initial outlay, it's not a bad fone.

I would advise, though, that what appears to be this phone in black (the v535??) seems to have all the same features + video capture.

all in all though, enjoyable and recommended

4/5

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Motorola V300

Several months ago we exchanged a low-end cell phone we used for our T-mobile service with a V-300 and the other day we accidentally discovered how hearty this phone really is. Somehow, my wife accidentally dropped the phone into a half-full glass of water to where it was three-quarters submerged in water for at least 30 seconds before she noticed where it went.
When she finally pulled it out, we could have sworn it would need replacement considering all of the funny reactions it was having (fancy that). But being an ex-EMT, I refused to let the patient die without a fight, so I stood up half the night blow-drying the innards (which were dripping wet) and rested it on a heated pad for the rest of the night. (There was obvious moisture on the inside) I also said a prayer to my God because He knew how much my wife depends on that phone for business.
Next day...that Motorola v300 was, and has, been working as if it never came close to Davey Jones' Locker. That makes up for a lot of "cons" in my book. Thank you Lord...and well done Motorola!

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Motorola V300

The problem with most reviewers, is that they have not owned a better phone. If you upgraded from a crappier phone, you will be quite happy with this...but since I have downgraded from a near perfect model (a sprint phone, by sanyo - SCP-8100), I'll tell you what I believe to be wrong/right with this phone:

Pros
The only thing that this phone had that my first one didn't: mp3 ringtones. Excellent feature! The only problem is that it's very hard to find free ones on the web, and the t-mobile selection is slim and pricey. 2 dollars a peice. I could buy the whole song for half the cost.

The color quality of the menus is quite nice also.

Message-sending menus are easy to navigate.

Multiple speed dials.

But those are not great things...

Cons:
The face-screen is very small..it has no picture-flash feature to show you the face of who you're calling on the outside cover. The time is in large print though, so that's good.

Text Messaging:
The text system this phone uses is obnoxious. You have to select every word that you type, instead of just being able to press the space key. It takes forever compared to the sprint version.

Ringers:
You can't have it ring and vibrate at the same time. It has to do one or the other, or one and then the other.

Volume:
This is just plain annoying. When you want to turn down the volume, it makes noises based on the level of volume you're at and goes down everytime you press the key. My sprint phone did this silently - the point of being able to turn down the volume is so that you don't disturb others or yourself... Now when I'm someplace and forget to turn the volume down - I have to leave the room because my phone will make noise if I try and turn it down.

Camera Quality:
Crappy. Dark and dull with little definition.

Recording Feature:
Well, it has one, but it doesn't let you put your recordings on as ringtones. How lame.

Weight vs Solidness:
This is horrid. The phone weighs as much as my thicker sprint phone did, but it has no backbone. When you click it shut and open it, it's quite wimpy...and it's harder to hold to your ear because it feels like empty plastic. If it's going to do this, why does it weigh so much?

Battery-life:
Okay, at best. It's not -that- bad, but still. I can get about 4-5 hours of phone convo in until it starts dipping down.

Freezing:
About 3 times this has happened, for random reasons.

Slowness:
Boy, is this phone slow. It takes forever to store pictures. My other phone was one click, done. This is probably the most annoying feature.

Phone-book:
When storing multiple numbers under one name, it comes up with the name twice in your phone book, with a different icon next to it...that is sort of hard to see. No sub-menus or sub-numbers. I have to do a double-take all the time to make sure I'm dialing the right number.

Ruggedness:
Well, I can't be too hard on it - my sanyo was the best of the best when it came to this. It must have hit the pavement, fallen down the stairs, had it's battery flung out a million times. Once, my friend even drop kicked it across the parking lot. It's dented all to pieces...but barely. I had that phone for 2 or 3 years, and through constant abuse - including getting dipped in Dr. Pepper - it lasted, and I never had one problem with it.


T-mobile itself: Don't get t-mobile if you go outside of the city areas. I got no connectivity in rural idaho when I went to yellowstone on a trip, and my friend with verison had 4 bars. Free roaming? What good is that when there's no where to roam.
This company also has the crappiest phones ever unless you get the super pricey ones (and even then, buyer beware).

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This phone is a nightmare.

I hate this phone. But that's ok because apparently it hates me too. I bought this phone in September of 2004 because my old phone, the Motorola v66 (dinky little phone but useful), was crushed in the moving process to school.

That's fine, it was my birthday so I bought the v300 as a gift to myself. My mom also joined the plan and we split the bill, she got some bulky ugly Nokia and I got my v300. It looked so much cooler than my last phone: color screen, speakerphone, melody composer, CAMERA, holy crap this will rock. I had no idea what I was in for. It worked great for about... 3 months. It did those buggy things that other people are reporting: go white for a few minutes and turn off, or restart itself, or say a call is connected even when its over, not respond to you pressing the hang up button, etc. But these aren't major problems, these are things you deal with it, they cause you no harm.

Some superficial critiques right off the bat:
1. Melody composer pissed me off. On my v66 I could program the notes to make my stupid little Super Mario ringtone or whatever, this "composer" is a joke, all you can do is add random sounds and mix crappy default ringtones with other crappy default ringtones. Thanks for nothing.
2. The camera sucked. I expected better, but it's not like other camera phones out at that time were anything special. I could draw clearer pictures though with my feet. Occasionally, in perfect lighting, if the correct planets are aligned, you will get a clear picture. But whatever you do don't move the phone while you're saving the picture or it will somehow come out blurry (like someone shook an etch-a-sketch after you drew your picture, I swear to god).

But onto the real issues:
1. No service, ever. I realized that I lived at school in a concrete box of a dorm so I figured hey I understand. But other people had service usually and I can't get more than 2 bars on a good day. Then I went home.... and the problem continued. No matter where I went I had the problem.
2. Dropped calls: When I actually got a signal my call would be dropped after about 10 minutes. If you want me to be exact, the mean was about 10:23, sometimes a little sooner and sometimes a little later. This happened like clockwork as I sat on my phone and watched the bars slip down to nothing as I sat there on the line doing the obligatory "I don't know if you can hear me but I can't hear you so I'll call you back ok?".
3. Earpiece anyone? Right around this time was when my regular speaker broke. If you don't get what I'm saying that means that my phone only worked with the headset inserted on speakerphone. Which means I either looked like a douchebag with a headset on or I looked like a jerk with my phone on speakerphone in public. Oh well the calls only lasted 10 minutes anyway.

So I called up T-Mobile. They blamed it on the phone itself and suggested I send it in to get a refurbished phone since I was under warranty. Alleluia. Or not. I send it in and get my beat up used. Thank god. I now have service usually..... which is a plus. But sure enough, about 2 or 3 months later I have the exact same other problems. I drop calls after about 10-11 minutes, and it only works on speakerphone.

Well, to be honest, I turned off the phone for a couple days straight (I was in Vermont anyway and had no service) and the dropped calls problem ceased. Actually I thought I was getting some of my earpiece service back but that was just a fluke I guess. I don't think someone should have to turn off their phone for a couple days just to get it to not drop the calls. And the speakerphone thing is pissing me off.

To sum it up this phone is just a bunch of unnecessary hassles. I know a bunch of people who have this phone, but they've gotten it recently so I haven't heard anything negative yet. But I met someone who I play rugby with who also has this phone and had trashed it, citing the exact same problems. I didn't have a chance to ask about specifics but I'm pissed to know that I'm not alone (or maybe not pissed that I'm not being singled out here).

In any case, save yourself some trouble and don't get this phone.

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Motorola V300

The cell phone in question is an absolute piece of garbage Motorola V300! My wife and I have had 3 (three) phones each that had issues from dropped calls, no reception, unregistered SIMM errors, poor voice quality, failing ear speaker, failing speaker phone, degrading signal quality, and inability to receive incoming calls if left on more than 24 hours!

We were baited into the V300, and promised a Samsung equivalent phone (the one we originally wanted!) by both Fry's, and T-Mobile---It took ONE YEAR, and a half dozen defective V300's---until they agreed to honor their initial promise---and now we are supposed to get a Samsung phone---no camera---WHOOOOOOOPPEEEEEEEE!

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V300 Never MOTO again!

I bought this piece of dung for $300.00. I've had nothing but trouble with it ever since. It's almost impossible to charge, I have to connect the charger over and over again before it will actually start charging if ever. After a year and a few days it became impossible to hear the caller. I know 3 other people that had the same phone and had the same problem. (And after reading these reviews I now know many, many more!) I called Motorola and fought with them for three days before they agreed to fix it. They ended up replacing the top portion (with the ear speaker in it). It took me two weeks to get it back. They then tried to bill me for a replacement phone through my carrier; T-Mobile and I had to fight for three days to get that charge reversed. After a few months I had the same problem not being able to hear. When I called they informed me that it was out of warranty and I would be charged to repair it. Charge for what? To have it break in another 3 months again? I have had cell phones for many years and have always taken whatever free Nokia that was being offered at the time and never had a problem with them. They still work fine to this date years later! For once I thought I would treat myself and BUY a "cutting edge" phone and got suckered out of $300.00 for a Motorola piece of garbage and it has been problems from day one. Motorola makes garbage, charges top dollar for it, and won't stand behind it when you have a problem with it. Their customer service sucks; all they know how to say is "there will be a charge for repair". If you can understand them when they say it. Never! Never Motorola again!

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Motorola V300

I was very disappoint that this phone erased a bunch of my SMS messages when I put my SIMS in that I took out of my Samsung V205. I don't know how much memory the V300 has but it appears to be a lot less than the other phones I use.

The menus are all backward compared to Samsug. I don't remember having as much trouble and confusion when switching from Nokia to Samsung.

I got the Motorola used and I was surprised at how much the paint had worn off on front and back face plate.

I did like that it had voice dialing. Battery life was extremely short so I think I had a bad battery. I just bought a data cable and a CD full of ring tones and screen savers... only to have my daughter take the phone back before I could try them out.

Overall I didn't really like the phone very much and only used it when I was charging my Samsung.

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