Welcome to the phonearena.com review of the Motorola RAZR2 V9. The V9 is offered by AT&T and is a Quad band GSM phone with 3G data. It’s of course the same basic design as the RAZR2 V8 and V9m. We’ve got the glassy front model with a stainless steel frame, two mega-pixel camera and merged two-inch display on the outside.
It has a volume up and down and smart keys on the left side of the phone as well as a single camera key on the right side. The back is coded in the same soft touch fill we’ve seen before and there’s a single speaker at the bottom which is pointy loud. There is no mechanical option at the battery door so the user simply slides up to remove it. The V9 offers microSD for expansion and we’d like to see that the slide here is not covered by the battery.
The external display is a large two-inch QVGA display with 262,000 colors. By holding the smart key, the user can unlock the application and then touching it again will launch the music player. The volume rocker allows the user sort through their songs and they are sorted by a playlist, artist, and album. I touch the Play button and the music begins. However, this is the only use for the Touch buttons on the V9 but actually—disabled so many of the features that we found on the V9m but we’d like to see it in future software updates.
Opening the V9, they usual find a 2.2-inch QVGA display as another RAZR2’s. However, this display is 262,000 colors I suppose to 65,000 colors found on some which means the display is crispier and easier to read. Below it, you’ll find a fairly standard dial pad, a little bit different on the one found on the V9m. It’s got seven keys around the directional pad and the directional pad is a little bit smaller to the Edition of a back key below.
In the left and right soft key shortcuts for media net and it’s either video, send and in the back key. The dial pad still has the rubber numbers and letters which means dialing with one hand is simple enough. However, the phone is wide enough that text messaging is probably going to be achieved with two thumbs.
The left soft key is your options soft key and the right soft key is main menu. Unfortunately, the main menu is also accessed through the center directional pad key and you can obtain as the right soft key option. Given that there are many other personalization options on the V9 will give in a pass for this one. You can change the home screen layout as far as the shortcuts are concerned. You can also change the main menu both as how you look at it, either icon or at list view as well as reordering the menu to your liking.
The V9 runs the same synergy software Motorola phones have used for years and it runs fairly quickly. We found those stability issues and as nice and smooth. We do think that there are many options up on the top display that can be combined. AT&T music media net, AT&T mall and so the other video can all fall under one category. Under my stuff you’ll find a lot of multimedia features such as the media finder, camera, the video camera and games and applications but you’ll also find the tools which we think will be more appropriate top level setting.
The music player is a good player. It’s the native player from Motorola. You can check all of the songs that you have or play just songs on your card and accounts to create playlist. It supports MP3, AAC and other related AAC formats—the video player will play MPEG H263, WMB and real player formats. We like the extents of codec support shown by the V9. We find the same two mega-pixel camera on the V9 as we find on other RAZR variants.
The pictures are relatively good especially now through a lighting conditions. Colors are represented accurately although under indoor conditions, they were a bit faded. Options are semi—on this phone, other time capture is just a soft timer and under setup you can change the resolution or quality of the camera. The little end screen icon allows you to change the zoom up to—in this case, it will also change the style, the black and white blush—and other similar options, exposure and lighting. There is no multi-shot option and takes about three seconds to launch and capture picture and get back to the view finder screen.
Overall, we are fairly impressed with the V9. The phone offers great look, pretty—quality and we did find that in this area the hinge is a lot lusher than found on the V9m. We’d like to see more functionality out of the front screen but the user interface was fairly solid and we have no real complaints about the phone. For users looking for a sleek 3G phone, the RAZR2 may very well be your answer.
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