Review: Motorola RAZR V3i
"Motorola’s epochal RAZR was the most desirable handset of its time. The seductive form factor tended to distract users from some fairly irritating software decisions that Motorola’s designers would probably, given their time again, have made differently. Now they have been given their time again, and this time they seem to have fixed most of those niggles leaving us with the V3i: a handset that finally delivers on the original unit’s promise.
Cosmetically there are a few minor changes from the first RAZR, with a cool brushed metal finish .The Motorola logo is now illuminated and absorbed into a slightly larger exterior display. The external display also has status lights for charging and Bluetooth. Overall the software is pretty self-explanatory, with most functions easily accessible with a combination of the menu key and the circular cursor pad. There are a couple of minor eccentricities; Ring sound and ring volume are located in quite different parts of the OS and MP3 playback is handled by a little media player tucked away not – as one might imagine – in the media player section but under Java games. Note that the MP3 player on the review unit was not, as appears to be the case with some providers, the implementation of iTunes pioneered in the ROKR but a serviceable equivalent that I must say I got on with fairly well....
