PCMAG reviewed the
"design focused" Motorola SLVR L6 recently giving it 3.5 out of a possible 5 rating. The tri-band GSM/GPRS L6
holds the honor of being the thinnest phone currently available in the US. While it doesn't sport EDGE, iTunes, or
memory expansion like its yet-to-be-released big bro
SLVR L7,
PCMAG was stoked by the L6's "good voice quality" and "dazzling design." On the downside, the VGA
camera was found to be "poor", the speakerphone "so so", and sturdiness suspect after a drop caused
a panel to dislodge. Bottom line, if you choose your cellphones as an ornamental accessory to your cocktail of choice,
then this is the phone for you.
posted Dec 26th 2005 12:00PM
The photo shows the L7 not the L6.
chris, you're right. Changed to show L6.
That is a picture of the L6. The L7 aka V8 aka SLVR is this: http://gsmarena.com/motorola_slvr_l7-pictures-1053.php
Why are all Engadget posts showing up twice in my Bloglines RSS reader?
Call me weird if you will, but the SLVR doesn't even look good to me! The keypad looks terrible! (Just in case you care, I do like the Moto Razr, keypad and all.)
I dig it -- but I'll wait until the Treo 950+ is this tiny.
Fishes,
narco.
Motorola needs to stop with these "thin" lines and actually put some work into their GUI and menu system.
Bah, more motorola crap!
will moto top nokia with their Razar-brothers and Pebble-sisters designs?
what do you think?
for me, I am getting a little sick of their predictable designs....
ok its been bothering me for months, is it supposed to be short for silver or sliver...it technically could be either, although sliver would make more sense. but please someone tell me for sure!
It's "sliver."
Since when did voice quality become a differentiating factor for phones? All the major phone manufacturers basically use a small number of radio types across all of their phone models, which means that the quality differences between models will be minimal. Reviewers are completely subjective in evaluating voice quality - some use the number of bars showing up under 'signal strength', some use voice loudness, and some just make it all up. These days, the only drivers of voice quality are the operator and the proximity to a base station.