A further summary of a published report that I have already on a former mobile phone from me. After my previous experience with Motorola, which included actually, that I probably never go out of operation would smart, but the text input iTAP always worked fine, I again ventured to a device made by Motorola after I’ve sometimes seen by chance in VDF have. W180 I had never heard, and the price came to me in connection with a CallYa package but still extremely low, as the flat thing that could ever be good … So just 20 times paid €, € 5 starting balance were within, and sometimes look to see whether it can do what.
Design:
But: very nice. Rather like the Motofone F3 ajar, but a little thicker and narrower. Elegant, glossy front, so you can see the But every Fettfingertapser. Keys illuminated in a beautiful deep blue, the menu button from a bright red ring, surrounded the ribbed outer direction button again occupied in four places with luminous points. The numbers and selection buttons to the top and bottom with rubber-like, also blue, bright, mounts provided. Display is not that big, but enough. Listeners-and micro-framed part very quietly into the surface. Both sides embossed with “Motorola” logo on the back side, I have never seen before, also marked with a pattern. Does not look feminine or that I as a guy running around and it can.
Processing :
Even in the low-class is necessary to make any concessions in terms of processing, unfortunately do not understand that some manufacturers really. The W180 has valent, which is already shown on the slick surface. No gaps between the key frames, where dirt would come in, the ring menu is well framed. Certainly it is a surface film better than mobile buttons but in view of the fact that they are broken up by the buttons and the menu ring mounts, very neat. In any case, the plastic around it is pretty tough, I have scratches after three months, reinbekommen at any point. The only thing that strikes but then, is that the battery is inserted at the back in the top half and the battery compartment cover in the operation of the device but rather creaks. But that can live well.
Operation:
The buttons are large and far enough apart so that you get along well with larger fingers. Even in the dark, the setup was no problem on the keypad, there is no corner that is not illuminated. The display is sharp for its size, quite ok, however, applies here as in virtually all devices with a color display that it is in strong sunlight is not good to read. Do you with background colors, silver is with me best, and the contrast experiment.
The key pressure point is a little hard, but we still do not have to take both hands to operate. What struck me then, and this will be the point where Motorola has saved, is that the menu navigation is also sometimes end up in dead ends. May have been used by another device, the user interface and transferred in a hurry on the W180. So you can for example Telefonnrn. transferred from SIM to Phone. Normally, one would then select by means of symbols to determine whether it is a phone no., A fixed line, etc. acts. But here is nil, the device then consistently marked with the symbol “mobile phone”.
So it is with the calendar. It is because the function “Dates Today” and “day view”. Is it really the same jumps, but in “day view” for the complete list of the month. A screen saver, although the menu does not work because the screen turns off completely anyway. Such small things are somewhat disturbing. Should perhaps be addressed in the context of an update.
Positive : Motorola is one now to those who have done it, that the alarm works even when the device!
As for me personally the most disturbing is the changed iTAP. In the past, saw the thing, the words that are most used, and had added after the first few letters in “ghost writing” the word. It took the menu to move the cross at the top only in order to complete Sun So fast I never gesmes again! Unfortunately, it is now so that below each (!) Word is compounded with difficulty, and will then be confirmed. Simply put blank space does not work. Too bad, so it is only as good as other manufacturers.
As for me, but then out of this device but then completely dissuaded, the schnarchig slow processor, the need for each entry, a commemorative second. So alone even for the key lock. You think every time that you have missed the button. Apparently Motorola has saved here the most.
Battery:
Holds with my moderate use over a week without Bitches. Unfortunately, once again, about three and a half hours of charging, as with all Motorola’s, which I had before. But supports mini-USB connector for charging, which, however, stresses such as too meager instructions explicitly, not charging via the PC.
Sound:
Motorola used here, the new “Crystal Talk” standard. Do not know what that means, but you can communicate very well, unless the caller uses the speakerphone function, as we hear nothing even more.
Instructions:
Nil, there is so little on the small Faltblättchen so complicated that it is better just throw it away.
Conclusion: If you can live with the limited processor speed and want to write cumbersome sms is well served with this unit.
Pro : processing, design, functionality
Con : low-end model for software
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