Hands-on with T-Mobile's pink magenta RAZR
posted Nov 29th 2005 1:05PM
We were juggling a couple of RAZR V3s this weekend, our old silver Cingular model and that pink of pink phones, the magenta RAZR from T-Mobile. We can't say we're digging the color at all [Speak for yourself! -Ed.], but it sure turns heads when rested against one's manly cranium — we'll leave it up to you to decide if that's a good thing or not.
The phone does pack 1.5MB more usable memory than the original for filling up with those old skool VGA pics (most likely due to small firmware differences between the carriers), and the software has a newer version number, but other than the various T-Mobile branding and feature rearrangements, the main addition we noticed was video recording with sound (exciting, we know), which apparently Cingular just isn’t down with (though they’ve added it to their black version of the phone).
The signal levels were a dead lock between the two phones, though T-Mobile’s service sounded slightly clearer in a few test calls we made during our East Coast Thanksgiving travels.
Finally, her pinkitude’s keypad felt a tad bit nicer to the touch, but over all you’re looking at (mostly) the same lame software, a new lame color, and that same sexy sexy form.
that pretty nice, but when are you guys doing a hands on review with the v3c it is already out (for alltel)
-eleclipper
so yea... I have a black Cingular RAZR and it does in fact do video recording with sound. Also, it has the additional 1.5 mb of memory over the silver one.
"... over all you’re looking at (mostly) the same lame software..."
I love the look of this phone, it so thin and flippy! I do not however like any Motorolla software, it all sucks ass. I'll be looking at getting the next revision of this phone (3VX/v3X/x3V or whatever), but only if the software doesn't suck.
Cheers;
Poncho
I like the pink color. Anything that sets it apart from the rest of them is always a plus. I'd get one if they didn't cost elevendy billion dollars.
Metallic burgundy would be a more gender nuetral color. Actually, a custom designed paint job and graphic theme would kick ass on this phone.
Personally, I'm looking forward to the CDMA Razr hitting Verizon...but that's only because Verizon is the only decent carrier in my area packing the RAZR.
I love all the random whining about the software... nobody seems to know what they hate, and half the time it's simply the tired multi-entry for one contact phonebook gripe, which was been changed ages ago.
Honestly, it's just a silly phone. If you can't run the phonebook and hit dial, you probably shouldn't be buying a cellular phone anyway.
Carphone Warehouse have this (exclusively) in the uk, except they call it hot pink.
Small thought:
Why on earth do we need 2 pink versions ('Hot'/Magenta and 'Baby) of the same phone?
Waste of space on store shelves.
I find it funny that they point to it having an 'extra' 1.5 megabytes of memory. Considering how cheap memory is now a days, they can pack 128 megs without it costing much more or increasing the phone's size.
They just want to rip people off.
Oh, thank God! I was starting to worry that Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan wouldn't have anything to carry around with them this week.
I can back up the fact that the Black RAZR has video recording with sound - I have one, and it does indeed do it... its not very useful - but its there -
I bought a RAZR just yesterday for $50. No rebates. Even got a free DVD player. The bluetooth transfer from my mac mini seems a little slow, but overall, it beats my Samsung e105.
The back cover seemed flimsy going on, but the battery life claim (standby) is supposed to be 10 hours.
Please just release this phone for Verizon already, a puke green version will do. I've been so patient! And don't give me that "the RAZR is old technology" crap. So what if it is. It's still a breath of fresh air for us VZW users who have terrible phones to choose from.
I just want a phone that doesn't look like I have a tumor on my leg.
i still think it looks best polished to a mirror finish.
I love how everybody here in ottawa canada, has one now, cuz they are only $100 canadian (with a three year contract) woot! i think im gonna buy a couple for christmas gifts.
Haha ROKR sucks! I returned it after one day of hell, ill stick to my ipod nano thank you very much
At least it's not consumer silver. I'm so sick of everything being silver for DVD players to TV's to cell phones. It's become rare to find a consumer electronic product that is black or some other color but silver.
I just hope t-moBile gets a black Razr as well
Summary: Here is a hot pink RAZR
Where's the news?
Three year contract!?! Wow, that's terrible! Us Brits have 1yr contracts and the phone's free! And we feel ripped off by the call charges, too... Shows you how relative these things are, I guess.
I just picked up two silver RAZRs care of the CompUSA deal ($79 for both and just a 1 year contract with T-Mobile) over the Thanksgiving weekend. My personal opinion is that the people posting the h8 for Motorola's software online here at Engadget are idiots. I see no usability difference between it and Nokia's software or Sony Ericsson for that matter. Get off your high horse. I'm getting the best reception with the RAZR than I ever had with the Sony Ericsson T616 or the Nokias I had before that. If T-Mobile lands the new iTunes compatible RAZR with the internal 32 megs of memory (and expandable with 512 megs of TransFlash), I will be upgrading. Oh, and death to Cingular...err...SBC...err...NewAT&T.
T-Mobile's (and Deutsche Telekom, its parent's) corporate color is magenta.
I'm a straight male, but I would buy a pink/magenta RAZR.
Anyone know if the CDMA version o this phone can be used on the SprintPCS network?
I've been waiting forever for T-mobile to get the Razr. Now that they do, Moto is getting to release the V3i (with iTunes). I wanna know about that... when is is coming out? who's gonna carry it? why do i consider this phone to be a hot piece of ass? I want it now!