Motorola V180 Mobile Phone Review

Motorola V180 Details

emme i currently have this phone... the reception SUX and trust me its not my phone company its the PHONE and its sooo horrible

Shackman DO NOT buy this phone, It has the highest failure rate of any phone i've ever seen.

4 out of 5 V180's that I have sold failed with in the first 2 weeks.

Alan123 Gee, I am sorry to hear about all your V180 problems, I absolutely love mine! Just replaced the inside LCD yesterday (bought new replacement on Ebay for 20 bucks), but can't blame the phone, my granddaughter dropped it onto the concrete. Not the phone's fault.

Always have great signal strength (I am out in the boonies too), never drops a call, battery lasts a couple of days.

I have changed a couple of things:

1. Got a fancy case (with smiley faces on it) (ebay)
2. Got a new telescopic antenna (ebay)
3. Body Glove padded clamshell case (ebay) it bounces pretty good now ;)
4. Completely changed my menues, hot buttons, etc with a freebie program called P2KMENUEDITOR (right softkey is now MESSAGES instead of MMODE, first program I have found to define every key on the phone) .. from Russia, search for it, don't remember where I got it

All in all, my V180 has been a workhorse for the past 6 months and I have no intention of replacing it in the near future.

Thanks

John I bought the V180 in November 2004. I have had one replacement phone. The problems I have experienced are: an excessive amount of dropped calls and being unable to get a signal where other phones are working and a message: "Emergency only" displaying on the screen whenever I enter a store. I cannot rely on this phone at all.

<unknown> this is a kool fone i luv it yeah baby

<unknown> Incredible battery duration. Specs say 216h, but once tuned (with usage) it can stand up to 280h in wait mode (even talking every so and so up to 1 h in total, so maybe it can last up to 300h).

james I've had my v180 for six months. The outside screen and the inside screen has went blank. It lights up, but no readout. Any easy fix?

tom check this out: www.brokenv180.com

<unknown> This phone is not mine it belongs to my GF. She received her V180 for $30 with her contract with T-Mobile. The only time that I would ever hear her cuss was when using the V180. I insisted it was the service, I was wrong. Dropped call after dropped call (if she could even get a signal) I finally went to a T-Mobile store and they gave her a Samsung as a loaner explaining that Motorola has had antenna problems with the V180. The difference was like night and day, the Samsung worked almost flawlessly. New "improved" V180 arrived in the mail and was problematic from the first moment. Sometimes there would be a screen, sometimes not. Other times parts of the text would super impose itself over other parts, or the screen would simply appear pale at best, and no measurable improvement in signal. This only helps to bolster my opinion of Motorola`s poor cellular products from my own experiences.

Cynthia I bought this phone for my daughter and she says that she can't ever get any signal. I have a motorola but mine always has signal, she always has dropped calls and her faceplate is cracked from being dropped, it also freezes for no apparent reason at all she says after her contract is over she will by a new phone.