http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/ Engadget Comments for Motorola's SLVR L7 now available from Cingular http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
To all the people complaining about the lack of multiple numbers per contact - read the bloody manual. The standard format of the SIM cards does not allow that (ok, MOT did that for Nextel phones but their cards are not compatible with other phones) and by default MOT phones store to the SIM card.

When you create a contact, choose 'store to phone'. Then while in the address book, hit menu and select View: 'primary contacts' instead of 'all contacts'. Then it will work like you (and I) like - each contact may have multiple numbers but will be listed only once - with the 'primary' number. There will be an icon shown indicating the type of number (main, mobile, home, work, etc) and you can go between them using 'right' and 'left' arrows. This applies to all MOT phones, not just SLVR.

To people complaining about the search method - hit menu while in the phonebook and select Search Method from 'Jump To' to 'Find'. This was available for a while on most MOT phones.
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WARNING!!!
If you buy one off of eBay, there's a very good chance it's a German package. The charger is of the European type, with an US adapter. This makes it very bulky for traveling. The User Manual will probably also be in German, but most sellers seem to be including a PDF file of the US manual.

The main problem, however, is that there seems to be some sort of bug with the Bluetooth implementation. Basically, syncing over Bluetooth doesn't work with the German firmware for many people. There is a way to flash the phone with US firmware, if you're willing to take the risk.

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Anyway, good news is, the address book has been improved (slightly) over the one in the RAZR V3. It can now store street address info. Unfortunately, that info doesn't seem to sync from my computer (iSync, under OS X 10.4.4). Normally, I'd blame Apple, since they wrote iSync, but based on Motorola's track record for pathetic cell phone software, I'm inclined to place the blame there.

Of the many GUI problems in the address book that drive me nuts, two are particularly annoying:

1) As stated by #27, the "Jump To" feature is half-@assed, where you can't enter "CR" to jump to names that start with "CR", which just about every other phone I've used can do. Instead, Motorola's phones (including the SLVR) jumps to names starting with "R", as soon as the "R" is pressed.

#44, note that "Jump To" is NOT the same thing as "Find". Perhaps, you've gotten used to Motorola's pathetic address book interface, which is why you don't understand what other people are complaining about?

2) When viewing the contact list showing only "Primary" numbers, selecting a name/number takes you to a "Detailed" view of that number. Fine, if your contacts all have just one number.

What it SHOULD do, is give you a list of all the numbers under that name.

Someone at Motorola needs to take a look at a "Real" address book. My old Siemens worked so much better, it's not even funny.

Overall, I like the phone enough to keep it. None of the Samsung or LG phones will sync with iSync, and I'm not too crazy about the Sony-Erricson offerings. I've read about some problems with Nokia address books too, so there really isn't an "ideal" phone for me.]]>Feb 14th 2006 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Feb 15th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Feb 15th 2006 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Feb 16th 2006 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
Please if any1 know how i can make the volume louder on the headphones and take off the audio part of the movie clip in the sound area please tell me

Thank you]]>Feb 16th 2006 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Feb 18th 2006 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
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Awful UI, awfullly organised tool set, AWFUL manual (that's a misnomer), awful telephone support (you'll need to speak bloody hindi or urdu to get through to them), AWFUL support software that they have the nerve to charge $30 - 50! THEN they (Moto) switch you to freakin' Cingular where the mouth breathers keep telling you they need to provision the Internet in order to get the phone to communicate with my PC via USB. Oh - OR, they will put you on hold for a "techie" for whom you can wait 42 minutes like me to be told - you guessed it - it's Motorola's gig...

Am I PISSED? You bet I am.

I bought mine yesterday. I am returning it tomorrow.

UTTER CRAP! ]]>Feb 21st 2006 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Feb 22nd 2006 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Feb 25th 2006 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Feb 27th 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Mar 2nd 2006 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Mar 2nd 2006 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Mar 5th 2006 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Balller91@cs.com


(label the mail) SLVR PHONE INFO ]]>Mar 10th 2006 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Mar 23rd 2006 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
the skinnable themes are pretty cool too, jazzes up the interface.

mobile phone tools is the easiest way to load up ringtones to the phone- bar none. as well as contacts, calendar, etc. midi to wav to mp3 files work for ringtones. you don't even need a cable since the phone comes with one.

alternative is to connect it to your pc, open it up as flash drive folder, and find the audio folder. put your ringone in there. Then on the phone, go to "my stuff, "sounds" and hit the menu button- select storage device and then storage card. you should now see all the stuff on your storage card. select the song/file, press menu, copy, to phone, and then exit out. now you can use it as a ringtone. mp3 files are fine as long as they are less than 128kb/sec like itunes. you can only use files on the phone as ringtones.

512mb limit on the card, read somewhere 1g card pulls too much voltage for the phone to handle. with 100 songs I still have ~75mb free for pics/videos. Haven't thought about using it as a flash drive until now...

100 songs is inconveinent, but plenty of music for one sitting. it's great not to have to carry around a separate bulky mp3 player.

and to everyone who complains about the volume- have you blasted out your eardrums already? the enclosed headset is plenty loud enough to damage your ears... see ya' in a few years when you're totally deaf...]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Mar 24th 2006 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/www.BryanKollar.com]]>Mar 26th 2006 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Mar 27th 2006 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
Does the Slvr L7 support the 1 gb tranflash card or not? Thats all. Thanks

Vicente
]]>Apr 7th 2006 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/1) You need to delete the sim card entries inorder to not see the entries twice(1 on phone and 1 on sim card) I could not find where to delete sim card, but if you buy the much needed and worth it phone tools, you can do this there, and you can backup the address book onto your computer so no need for sim card entries.
2) If you personalize it with separate ringtones for different entries, you will get the same ring tone for calls and text messages, annoying.
number 1 and 2 were email responses from motorola, so this is correct info.
3) Not sure if the alarm has a reoccurence setting.
4) The missed/received calls are only 10 people, and its a list of both combined and hard to tell you missed calls b/c its not alway displayed.
5) The clock is not visible during a call and it also cannot be on the screen saver (if so, let me know how please)


other than that, the phone works great, nice size, itunes player is cool and works well with speaker phone, and you can charge your phone on the computer like an IPOD as long as it is not completely dead....so they say.

IF you get the phone, buy the phone tools for 30 bucks or so............you can edit mp3's to use as ring tones, alarm, and you can back up address book, coordinate with outlook, edit your photos on pc to put into phone or take off of phone.
thanks
chris]]>Apr 8th 2006 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Apr 10th 2006 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Apr 22nd 2006 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Apr 22nd 2006 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Apr 23rd 2006 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/May 3rd 2006 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.cellphonestalk.com/cellphonereviews/motorola/motoslvr/intro.html

"Bluetooth (Class 2) and integrated handsfree capability."

what exactly is class 2?]]>May 4th 2006 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
Kudos to the user who explained how to create multiple phone numbers for one user without creating multiple entries.

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i just got this phone today and i have a few questions:

1. what is "fixed dial" and how does it apply to speed dialing/1 touch dialing?

2. how can i be able to use speed dialing (like holding down a number, pressing the number once and hittint send, etc.) from contacts that are stored on my SIM card?

3. is there any other way to get to the REAL detailed view (that shows the speed dial location, store to:, catagory, ringer ID, etc) other than changing the "speed no."?

4. How come my SIM card has 17 text messages on it and my phone says "messages full"?

thanks.]]>May 5th 2006 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
QUESTIONS:
Is it possible to play the itunes music file as a ringtone? If so, how do I go about doing this?

thanks.]]>May 9th 2006 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/May 12th 2006 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/May 15th 2006 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/

my screen name is coke can kicker on aim, so shoot me a message. gabe_lafleur@yahoo.com is my email, and yahoo screen name. get in touch if you own the phone. peace. (looks like a tight ass phone though, ill post another once i get it)]]>Aug 11th 2006 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Aug 15th 2006 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Sep 13th 2006 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/i have a new black slvr.
and i dont know how to work it yet, i just got it yesterday, and i cant find it anywhere online.

thanks,
nicolegoodman01@yahoo.com]]>Sep 14th 2006 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/
can someone please tell me!!]]>Nov 21st 2006 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Jan 31st 2006 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Jan 31st 2006 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Jan 31st 2006 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Jan 31st 2006 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Jan 22nd 2007 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/I suppose Amazon will have this Motorola cheaper than Cingular though... ]]>Jan 31st 2006 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/motorolas-slvr-l7-now-available-from-cingular/Jan 31st 2006 9:43AM