Motorola V80 Mobile Phone Review

Motorola V80 Details

V-ger OK. Let's be honest to ourselves. This is a great MOTOROLA phnone. Meaning that it is not worse than any of the triplets. Compare it with other manufacturers its puny. Why?
First of all, I have it for 6 months. Total talk time is 375 hours. Half of it with a HS801 BT head-set. Of course you have to understand, that I use it as a business phone also.

Mechanics: Rather OK. Had to exchange the flip only once and it was mainly the foult of my boss, who thought it to be a flip-phone. But it gets loose after a week or so. The built is also OK. Fall down a couple of times and no problem. Joystic is usable, but since it is higher than the soft buttons it just broke down. The rubber gave up basically.

SW related failures: Basically it is a V600. 85% of the board is the same, only modified for the display. It is a great thing that you can unlock the menu while closed. However, not turning the menu upside down, than makes it hard to use closed. Also, how come that I have to open it for dialling even with the BT head set on? Though calling back an SMS sender while the phone is closed works. SW design failure originating from having the V600 SW just modified where needed but not thinking over the addid style functionalities.

So much for the V80, now let's see Motorola related failures. I understand, that what I will write here does not bother 95% of the users as the function is not used by the majority of Mobile users.

Alarm clock: Why do I have to enable it every day? Most other phones can be set up for a weekly routine. Also, if you enable and than change the time, you have to disable and re-enable again.
Contacts: Why does it cut the names after 12 or 16 characters - do not know the logic yet :) - when syncronised from a PC? Also strange because it accepts long names entered locally.
Contacts2: Why do I have to browse through 385 entries for a phone number? First of all, you can only filter for the first letter in a name. Other phones I used had the function of typing the name and the list narrowd by that.
Contacts3: Why does it make 5 entries for a single contact if I have phone, mobile, pager, fax and e-mail entered. It is rather accepted to show the name once and than pick what number you need.
Syncronising events from a PC is also strange. An event may repeat every day, but not every workday - that needs to be 5 events. You can't have the same event on Tuesday and Friday, that needs to be added as two separate events. It is a problem, because any SW I use on the PC have these functions and at syncronising it returns an error.
Syncronising2: Why in the name of SW writers do I need external SW to be able to syncronise it with Outlook or Lotus Notes. Mac is a different story. I don't want to list manufacturers here who could writhe a plug-in wher I just click a button, get a coffe and by the time I drink it everything is done in the way I want it. No afterwork (like adding digits to the names) is required.

So all in all: Motorola V80 is a good phone, when you use it as private phone and have a dozen or so contacts stored.

V80 SW is problematic only where the V600 SW wasn't modified for the alterations between the two phones.

Motorola in general. Use it as a phone, MP3 player, camere (if you like). Take it to parties, etc. One thing you should never do with a Motorola phone: Use it as a business phone. It will just give you headaches.

Alicia Hey, I would like it if someone could spare some time to help me out i just bought this phone and i am having the hardest time trying to figure out how to send and recive pictures is there somehting i need to do or prgrame if anyone out there know it would be greatly appreciated for you help
thank you very very much
Ms. Alicia

Oscar It´s an Xcellent phone.Unafortunately yesterday it was stolen :(
I used it for about 8 months and I didn´t have any trouble, except 2 or 3 times it freezed.It´s very stylish, looks really cool, especially when receiving calls/msgs that turn on the motoglyph.It amazes people!
About the joystick, worked fine 4 me.Don´t know how some people break it. Do they play PacMan with it?
I would like to buy another one, but I´ll buy another model since de V80 only worked in Buenos Aires and didn´t in the rest of the country, because Argentina uses GSM850 outside B.A.
I´ll think about it...perhaps a Siemens CF76 or a PEBL...

Lee Black beauty!Bought it in Thailand for 8000baht.Came with bluetooth headset.Cost in oz dollars,about 270.A real bargain.All my mates love it.Bit girly though really.No really worrisome bugs to speak of.Nothing that drove me nuts.No probs with the joystick and I really use the thing well,although carefully.Remember,it is a phone,not a hummer.If you pick up one cheap enough then I would suggest the purchase if only for the perve factor.I gave my Siemens s65 to my wife.Gorgeous phone that one but as with all my previous Siemens phones,buggy as hell.Nice one Moto.Would have liked more memory and the ability to shoot vids though.

vitaliy I have this phone for few days. if somebody could help me with the sound options. How to turn off the keypad sound and connect it to the pc. thanks ahead

22 i had this phone it's really great yes bleutooth yes can change internet but you gotta set up the connection but this phone piss me off it dont last long the rotation thing is damn cheap my phone broke after 3 month and couldnt get it fixed at all they ask me 3/4 price of the phone to fix it better buy a new 1 -_-

Susan This phone has been sent to the repair shop X 2 because of screen freeze. Also whenever I put it in my hangbag the screen flips open and either calls someone on spped dial or lights up and wastes battery power. Also difficult to get the charger to work. Waste of money and very irritating design. I will go back to Nokia and keep it simple!!!

Mike The phone is great...one problem the green button used to access about the whole phone breaks off very easily! Besides that this phone is great but not worth the money when you cant use it. I would go for the sony walkman phone...same type of idea with the rotation but it is also a mp3 player with 256 memory built in.

Tony From Canada I bought my new Joystick for my v80 from ebay for $10(CDN) and I went to put it in when I realized I had no idea how to install it and that I hadn't received any instructions from the person I bought it from ... would anyone know of a website where they give instructions ... or does anyone know how to do it themselves ... If so please e-mail me back!!!

EBAYer When i close this phone, it "locks". Is there anyway to change this setting?