A great phone that lasted me almost 3 years!
Written: Mar 26 '05
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Pros: GREAT durability, survived many falls, good battery life, voice dial
Cons: some static and dropped calls, small distance between microphone and receiver.
The Bottom Line: A very durable phone with some nice features, but occasionally had static and dropped calls. Great if the distance from your mouth to ear is small, otherwise skip.
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| colstudent69's Full Review: Motorola V120E |
I got this phone almost 3 years ago and it was the best cell phone that I have had. I had one nokia phone and one samsung phone before this one. I currently have another motorola phone(you can see my review on the V180). But back to the V120E.
This phone took a lot of abuse from me, I'm a clumsy person and I must have dropped this phone from a height of 3 feet or more at least a dozen times. It never broke and only once did I have to take it in because the battery jammed from a 4 foot drop.
I liked the backlight on this phone and while the voicedial slowly lost its accuracy at identifying voices as the phone got older, it was still helpful to use the voice dialing the first 2 years.
The battery did last the full 3 years, but it slowly lost stamina as all cell phone batteries do. At the end of 3 years I could only talk for about 20 mins before I had to recharge the battery and standby was only one day. But the battery was great the first two years, I just didn't want to buy a new one.
Reception was good the first two years, but occasionally had dropped calls or lots of static. Not sure if it was the phone or the service company(Verizon).
My two significant negatives of this phone are that the antenna degraded pretty fast from the phone being in my pockets and the distance between the microphone and the receiver. Maybe if I had kept it on a belt holder it would have been better, but by the third year I rarely got above 3 bars of reception, usually two and people started complaining about hearing me. This was made worse by the small distance between the microphone and the receiver. If you have a big distance between your mouth and ear, I would avoid this phone.
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Amount Paid (US$): 60.00
Recommended for: Adventurous Technophiles - Tough and Durable
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