Motorola phones are still rubbish
I should have known better.
All I wanted was a decent, small phone that could store my work diary and contacts from Outlook - the problem between me and most phones is that I have over a thousand contacts. No, I’m not that important, I just have to be able to contact individuals and companies on mailing lists, and it’s handy to have them in my own Outlook diary in case I need to call when I’m not at a computer. Until a couple of months ago I was using a T-Mobile Smartphone (with free Co-Pilot SatNav, which was kind of handy) - but the Windows Mobile 5 software started to complain about the volume of contacts, so I gave it away when I sold the SatNav bit. I tried resurrecting my old C500, but that seems permanently SIM-wedded to its old nefarious Orange masters despite various hacks, so I gave up there.
On to my wife’s old Sony Ericsson K750i - broken sliding lens cover, so the camera doesn’t work any more, but the phone itself seemed ok. The downside is it only takes 400-odd contacts (why??? it has a 2 GB M2 card in it!), a ‘feature’ of the software. Obviously people who take pictures don’t have many friends…. on the upside, it does sync nicely with Bluetooth to OSX/iCal. So with this I have about half my contacts, and of course that means none of the ones I use every day…
So I looked around for another cheap, newish phone with Bluetooth, and settled on the Motorola SLVR L6. GBP40 from Ebay, and it arrived in great nick. A big plus on this phone is its selling point: it is very thin, and doesn’t poke into your leg from your trouser pocket when you sit down. However, I should have remembered my previous experience with Motorola handsets: older models had terrible GUIs and were awful to use, and the L6 is no exception. It’s hard to describe exactly what is so maddening about it, but it just is. For example, when entering text, spaces, capitals, T9 etc. are in different places to virtually all other phones; it’s as if you’ve got into a new car to find the brake and accelerator pedals have been swapped over. You can’t do things like press-and-hold a key to get a contact to call or text, and when you choose a recipient for a message you can’t easily see which number (landline or mobile) you are using. Maddening. Oh, and the Bluetooth sync doesn’t work properly either. Finally, the screen design is poor. I don’t know whether it’s the resolution or the choice of font, but you can only get about 2 appointments displaying per page - hardly useful.
Motorola, your phones are still rubbish. Though it hurts to say it, I’m going back to Smartphones….
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yes i agree they have no space for a song and are abosurlouley rubbish specialy the razrs