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Tag : motorola slvr, unlocked, l7 phone

Company : Motorola List Price : $299.99 Amazon Price : $143.95 Used Price : Average customer review :

Features

• Unlocked for use with your existing GSM 850 MHz, GSM 1800 MHz, GSM 900 MHz or GSM 1900 MHz service provider and SIM card. Note: This phone does not come with service or a SIM card.
• Optional, removable memory cards store photos, music and video clips
• VGA Camera with 4x digital zoom, video capture and playback
• Bluetooth® wirelesss synchronization
• English manual (book), European Charger with US adapter and Headset

Product Description

Get ready for a special treat with this cell phone from Motorola. The popular Motorola L7 SLVR mobile phone is one of the thinnest mobile phones around, measuring at only 11.5 mm thick front to back. This small phone includes features such as a VGA camera, a large color display, and support for TransFlash (microSD) memory cards. The Motorola L7 also features Java games, an e-mail client, and WAP 2.0, so you can surf the Internet no matter where you are. Motorola SLVR combines superb performance with cutting-edge features, all within the sleek design of one of the slimmest phones around. Don’t just make a call, make a statement. Bluetooth®-enabled technology frees you from the confines of the cord and lets you do more with SLVR. Sync apps from your Bluetooth-enabled office laptop or use a Bluetooth-enabled headset to free your hands at home. It’s iTunes friendly; move to the groove and listen to your favorite MP3 music tracks. Store music tracks, digital photos, video clips, and more on removable memory cards. Sync apps from your office laptop or use a Bluetooth-enabled headset to free your hands at home. WAP 2.0; e-mail client supports POP3, IMAP4, SMTP; multimedia messaging service (MMS)compatible; short message service (SMS) compatible; T9 dictionary; polyphonic ringtones; integrated speakerphone; synch ML; miniUSB; EDGE (enhanced data for global evolution); GPRS (general packet radio service); Dial, Miss, Received Calls; photo caller ID; alarm; calendar; calculator; To Do list; total memory: 5 MB; tri-band GSM; standby time: up to 140 hours; talk time: up to 4 hours; dimensions: 113.5 x 49 x 11.5 mm; weight: 85 grams; standard battery: 820 mAh Li-ion; external memory: up to 512 MB with optional removable memory card; internal antenna; unlocked version.

Customer reviews

Unlocked version lacking Bluetooth and USB
The SLVR L7 (in my opinion) is one of the sleekest, feature-packed cell phones out there. Unfortunately, my provider (T-Mobile) doesn’t offer this phone, so I went with this unlocked phone from Amazon.com. The plus is that I had absolutely no problem using this phone with T-Mobile.

The down side is that this is a hobbled phone. ALL menu options for connecting a Bluetooth device are not only disabled, but are completely missing from this phone. To add injury to insult, the features that would allow you to connect the phone to a PC via USB are also missing/disabled.

I confirmed this through a lengthy call to Motorola’s tech support, who informed me that it would be impossible to enable the Bluetooth on the unlocked phone - even IF they did support it. Which they do not.

The bottom line is that the phone’s firmware cannot be updated to enable Bluetooth. For me, this is a dealbreaker … especially living in California, where it will be illegal to drive and talk on a cell phone without a headset beginning in January, 2008. Sadly, I have returned this phone to Amazon due to the fact that it does not meet the description for the item. I wanted to write this review to alert potential buyers of this … if I had known about the phone’s limitations, I would have not purchased it.

NO! IF YOU ARE BUYING THIS PHONE FOR ITUNES
If you are buying this phone for Itunes don’t, all quadband Slvrs do Not come with Itunes which is the exact reason that I bought this phone, do not buy this phone if you are looking for Itunes. The phone also doesn’t work with T-mobile Internet so I can’t get on the internet from it, also you can not download anything such as skins, games, multimedia texts, videos pics… etc, I am very disapointed with the phone and have been trying to replace it with amazon for a long time but they really arn’t much help. Be warned all that you are buying here is a phone that can send texts, talk, and take very poor pictures. This phone cannot browse the internet if you use a service other than Cingular, I really warn you not to buy this phone, you may as well burn you money.

Great but Japanese?
This is a great phone, but it came with not only English letters and numbers on the keys but Japanese too. It isn’t that big of a deal because it has English software, but it isn’t the software that has iTunes which was one of my reasons for buying this phone. Other than that it’s great it does have a music player similar to iTunes and has good picture quality for a VGA camera. It also has good reception. It texts good once you get used to it. It was a little hard at first.

Thin and Sturdy
This is not the latest phone in the market but i would buy it again. I never did like flip phones and that’s why this phone was appealing to me. Straight and thin and actually feels very sturdy. Almost like metal and not cheapo plastic. Main features that i like, quad band… so i can use it anywhere in the world, great bluetooth (syncs with my handsfree and gps), as well as has one mini usb connector for car, home, and computer conenction. This is great because now all i need is one cable to charge and connect all my gadgets.. camera, gps, phone…

Do not buy this if you need a music player, good camera, or internet access. THere are much better products out there.

This phone is trendy enough to be cool but not too fashinable that it’s uncool. It’s understated.

Motorola SLVR
great battery life, nice color screen, I’m enjoying every call I make! Plays more games than my other phone too.