Why didnt i listen

PowerHouseDan

I was told stay away from the V3 why didnt i listen....The phone cant even keep up with me its like a delayed reaction with typin texts and everything .......... Or is it just me?

Sam Vimes

its not just you. i vote we start a petition to get motorola shut down.

i had quite an odd experience with a motorola today. in work (a phone shop) we kept hearing the motorola low battery sound from somewhere. first we established that it wasn't either of the v3's owned by staff (both faulty by the way). we established it wasnt any of the faulty phones by moving them and the noise still came from the counter. it turned out to be an old v300. not only was it off, but it wouldn't even turn on! the only sign of life was a low battery chime every five mins. all we could do to stop it was take the battery out

PowerHouseDan

The t9 text is shocking aswell. Its just sooooo slow with text, and if a message comes through when your in the middle of a text by the time select responses it opens the new txt and moves the other one in drafts before you finished.

TerrorFirmer

We warned you.

The whole interface is crappy. The way things work in the phone, like the text issue you mentioned, just does your head in. And every, single, fcuking Motorola phone is the same since the pre-v300 era, same bugs, same crappy gui, same rubbish style.

I agree we should start an anti-moto campaign

Attol

After I hear the message tone it takes a few seconds for me to be able to get the option to view the text, menus are PAINFUL, especially as you can only go through them at one speed. I have a few more days to see if I want to return this. I'm thinking I may... It looks fab but just is the most awkward, inefficient crappy little thing.

Sam Vimes

bring it back and get a decent phone. you wont regret it

parsi

Commander Vimes wrote:

its not just you. i vote we start a petition to get motorola shut down.

i had quite an odd experience with a motorola today. in work (a phone shop) we kept hearing the motorola low battery sound from somewhere. first we established that it wasn't either of the v3's owned by staff (both faulty by the way). we established it wasnt any of the faulty phones by moving them and the noise still came from the counter. it turned out to be an old v300. not only was it off, but it wouldn't even turn on! the only sign of life was a low battery chime every five mins. all we could do to stop it was take the battery out

As a matter of curiosity - if Motos are so bad why do two of your colleagues have them ?

Sam Vimes

i honestly don't know. they're silly people


edit: actually one of them got it for free in a staff competition

hobie

I have the new Moto E770v and it's such a cute little phone, Im sure it wouldn't dare have any of the problems mentioned above ...

Sam Vimes

the main problem with the e700v is it has dodgy bluetooth as you'll see on several threads on this forum

hobie

the main problem with the e700v is it has dodgy bluetooth as you'll see on several threads

Just put a Bluetooth connection in on my setup so it's a bit early to comment ..... I did however note that at least one thread suggested it doesn't work at all which is a bit confusing because as far as duplicating everything I'm doing with a usb connection, it seems fine so far :rolleyes:

parsi

Commander Vimes wrote:

the main problem with the e700v is it has dodgy bluetooth as you'll see on several threads on this forum

Both my e770v's hadn't any problems with bluetooth - in fact when I changed phones I used bluetooth to populate the new one will files sent from the old one.

Now over the weekend I had occasion to use bluetooth on a V3 and it was quite buggy - it often failed to recognise that a headset was in use. The same guy had to have another v3 exchanged as it was showing screen corruption.

Sam Vimes

why have you had two

parsi

One for me and one bought for Mrs.Parsi

Random

As already stated by Vimes and Infantry ... The V3 is just not worthy of your money. Go buy something buy Nokia or one of the new Sony Ericssons instead!

rogue-entity

MobileInfantry wrote:

We warned you.

The whole interface is crappy. The way things work in the phone, like the text issue you mentioned, just does your head in. And every, single, fcuking Motorola phone is the same since the pre-v300 era, same bugs, same crappy gui, same rubbish style.

I agree we should start an anti-moto campaign

While you are at it, maybe we can start an anti-vodafone campaign as well. Their branding in general is awful, their service (when I have used it) is not much better then O2 or 3, they are the most expensive for prepay (not too sure about contract), they have reportedly the lousyest Customer service, their branded/customised handsets are diabolical. In short, they suck!

parsi

But VF do have the best MMS roaming which is useful for me.

Random

By "best" you mean that they "have" MMS roaming?

Also, they do have generally good roaming rates for calls too.

hobie

Don't buy a Dell ....don't fly Ryanair .... don't use Intel ..... don't use Windows .... don't buy a Moto .... don't use Voda .... :rolleyes:

Can I keep my doggie ? .....

your man in the piccie of course ....

......

pj_samba

rogue-entity wrote:

While you are at it, maybe we can start an anti-vodafone campaign as well. Their branding in general is awful, their service (when I have used it) is not much better then O2 or 3, they are the most expensive for prepay (not too sure about contract), they have reportedly the lousyest Customer service, their branded/customised handsets are diabolical. In short, they suck!

For balance as a VF customer - I'd point out that they are the only op to have prepay 3G, for all intents and purposes they are as dear as o2 to the extent that there is no difference between them, their cust care is miles better than 3 or Meteor - on a par with 02 (not that that is particulary good) - but their range of handsets is the best (especially on prepay)

Sam Vimes

pj_samba wrote:

For balance as a VF customer - I'd point out that they are the only op to have prepay 3G, for all intents and purposes they are as dear as o2 to the extent that there is no difference between them, their cust care is miles better than 3 or Meteor - on a par with 02 (not that that is particulary good) - but their range of handsets is the best (especially on prepay)

i've found 3 customer care to be fantastic. most of the experience i've had with vodafone customer care is asking for unlock codes so mostly i've seen them lie a lot

1. they have to send away and it'll take a week
2. they have to post it out
3. they can't get it
4. 3 has data transfer charges

among many others

ciaran76

ciaranfo wrote:

By "best" you mean that they "have" MMS roaming?

Also, they do have generally good roaming rates for calls too.

I have used O2 roaming MMS when in France and UK and had no problems at all.

Random

According to O2 they don't have MMS roaming at all.

ciaran76

ciaranfo wrote:

According to O2 they don't have MMS roaming at all.

Strange

Cabaal

This is why I stayed with Nokia and got a Nokia 6680 instead of anything made by Motorola...dispite the fact they look really nice!

I've used several Motorola phones over the years and all of them were sluggish when entering text. I suspect that the processor is too slow for the operating system its running.

PowerHouseDan

Managed to swop the V3 for a 6630 today.....Even though i will miss the style of the v3

Sam Vimes

PowerHouseDan wrote:

Managed to swop the V3 for a 6630 today.....Even though i will miss the style of the v3

it doesn't matter how stylish a phone is if its on your desk at home not turning on

PowerHouseDan

What ya mean not turning on?

Sam Vimes

PowerHouseDan wrote:

What ya mean not turning on?

having read back i remember that your having motorola problem number 15430, slow interface, not problem number 4281634, not turning on. i apologise. i meant that theres no point having a nice looking phone if it doesn't work properly