Motorola MOTOACTV W450

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Too Many Glitches

11 Dec 2008 jesslg127

4.7 out of 10

Phone looks great and has a pretty good camera but it has a lot of glitches that cause much frustration. My husband and I got ours the same day and we both have had problems. The phone deleted the entire phonebook, stopped sending text messages and the # option to change the text entry doesn't work all the time. The memory fills up so quick because of all the default pictures and you can't delete them. It told me to delete messages and kept a received message in limbo for download. I deleted pictures, videos and messages and when I went to download it kept freezing and wouldn't receive the message. I rebooted and still can't send text messages, it says it's in process of sending and doesn't send it. One time it sent old messages with new.

Pros

Great camera, gives option to shrink picture. Nice phone design.

Cons

Deletes Phonebook, won't send messages, memory already filled with default animated pictures, won't receive messages held for future download.

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30 Nov 2008 robert c guy

3 out of 10

On the surface it is a 'neat' phone. It has a little flare to it here and there with pretty animations for a few things. So ends the good side of this phone. I won't tout the other basically functional features (camera, audio storage, etc) because they are not unique or special in any way. I will focus on something a little less immediately visible: the user interface. It is rancid. Aside from the furstration of sometimes not being able to receive simple text messages until I have rebooted my phone the rediculous attempt to reinvent predictive text entry is a horrid frustration. I am sure it sounds spectacular that it will learn new words or try to adjust to your preferences while you type but it has an apparently rather limited dictionary size for custom words and after a little while will simply forget words and if you text rather a lot like myself that means that if you haven't used a word for say, half a day, it will vanish and later that day when you go to use it again it will not be there but by that time you will already be accustomed to things being unpredictable about the predictive text because 'adjusting' to your useage means that the order things were in a couple hours ago or even the last time you typed something may not be the order they appear in the next time you want to say something. It is slow. Some features (cycling through text entry modes by pressing the # key) work sometimes and not other times while typing the same text message. On rare occasion it even freezes up (though only once So far have I had to actually remove the battery to get it to shut off and restart). Staying with this phone was a horrible mistake having signed the contract but I really did not see much better for user interface from the company.

Pros

looks nice, fairly durable hardware

Cons

slow, very mediocre options for device preferences, clunky user interface.

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20 Nov 2008 Anonymous

7 out of 10

This phone is a good basic phone. The sound quality is very good. The design is unique. It has some nice features (that all other phones have) but I can't seem to be able to install games. Tmobile only has 1 game you can download for it. That is it. One game, are you serious?

Pros

Design
Sound

Cons

Battery life
No games

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