KazSur, rip away. In the past 4 years we've owned 4 Moto phones (not cell, home phones) and every single one of them, from the $29.99 model to the $119.99 model has been utter and complete garbage. Sad for a company whose products might have given us an edge in communications during WWII and the cold war. Doubly sad for a company who has (RAZR aside) seen their brand slip into the murky depths.
Right now I sit and look at the latest, most expensive atrocity we're stuck with, and here are the flaws: - when power goes out, the battery backup takes the time to BLOOP every couple of seconds, indicating the power is out. Well, gosh Homer, thanks, I really want to wake up at 2am and have to unplug both AC cord AND phone line! - when power is restored, it talks incessantly, there is no volume on either of these "features" - when power is restored, it resets to pick up the answering machine on RING TWO! And for the best: - calls suck. Yes, making a simple telephone is beyond the reach of the geniuses at Moto. Hello, Moto? What? SPEAK UP I CAN'T HEAR YOU! They put in some noise-cancelling hardware that will try to "mute" portions of the convo where someone isn't talking. Sounds good, to eliminate extraneous noise, and it works on a cell phone. But apparently they bought chips from Dell or something, because what it actually does is clip audio below a threshold that just happens to be the human voice making noises other than consonants. So we hear a lot of "T" and "K" sounds, but scant else.
Maybe Engadget can do one of those patented "open letters" to the nimrods at Moto's phone division.
The best Moto phones I've bought were an unlocked, unbranded RAZR V3i and an unlocked MOTOFONE F3 for places that don't allow cameraphones. I reflashed the V3i and customized it with some decent software, and the MOTOFONE has been solid since Day 1. That being said, I don't think I'll be buying any of their newer phones for quite a while. Their design department seems to be stuck on the same looks and names - lightning hasn't struck again for them since the original RAZR.
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KazSur, rip away. In the past 4 years we've owned 4 Moto phones (not cell, home phones) and every single one of them, from the $29.99 model to the $119.99 model has been utter and complete garbage. Sad for a company whose products might have given us an edge in communications during WWII and the cold war. Doubly sad for a company who has (RAZR aside) seen their brand slip into the murky depths.
Right now I sit and look at the latest, most expensive atrocity we're stuck with, and here are the flaws:
- when power goes out, the battery backup takes the time to BLOOP every couple of seconds, indicating the power is out. Well, gosh Homer, thanks, I really want to wake up at 2am and have to unplug both AC cord AND phone line!
- when power is restored, it talks incessantly, there is no volume on either of these "features"
- when power is restored, it resets to pick up the answering machine on RING TWO!
And for the best:
- calls suck. Yes, making a simple telephone is beyond the reach of the geniuses at Moto. Hello, Moto? What? SPEAK UP I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
They put in some noise-cancelling hardware that will try to "mute" portions of the convo where someone isn't talking. Sounds good, to eliminate extraneous noise, and it works on a cell phone. But apparently they bought chips from Dell or something, because what it actually does is clip audio below a threshold that just happens to be the human voice making noises other than consonants. So we hear a lot of "T" and "K" sounds, but scant else.
Maybe Engadget can do one of those patented "open letters" to the nimrods at Moto's phone division.
The best Moto phones I've bought were an unlocked, unbranded RAZR V3i and an unlocked MOTOFONE F3 for places that don't allow cameraphones. I reflashed the V3i and customized it with some decent software, and the MOTOFONE has been solid since Day 1. That being said, I don't think I'll be buying any of their newer phones for quite a while. Their design department seems to be stuck on the same looks and names - lightning hasn't struck again for them since the original RAZR.