Spectra WM-125 - Shower radio

Spectra WM-125 - Shower radio

Spectra WM-125 - Shower radio
Manufacturer: Spectra
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
The SPECTRA Group develops and markets a complete range of fun, contemporary and affordable consumer electronics products. PRODUCT FEATURES: Built-in AM and FM Antennas; LED Power On/Off Indicator; Waterproof Mylar Speaker; Splash Resistant Cabinet; Rotating Hook Handle.

Average customer rating: 4.0

Great improvement over my previous Motorola phone
Good phone but DON'T BUY if you need a voice recorder.
vastly overrated....
Cellphones aren't just for phone calls anymore!
Sexy Phone

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Manufacturer: T-Mobile
Product Group: Wireless
Binding: Wireless Phone
ASIN: B000K892KQ
2006-11-01

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Amazon.com Product Description

You've probably seen the wildly popular Motorola RAZR V3 in someone's hand before. With the quad-band GSM RAZR V3t, Motorola has made it even better. The sexy design is still here, as is the all-metal construction. This time, though, the phone boasts an updated and streamlined design, a sexy spun-metal finish, enhanced video capture and playback capabilities, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and a hot-swappable MicroSD memory card slot.

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<small><b>A sexy new spun-metal finish graces the RAZR V3t.</b> <small></td></tr></table> <b>Design</b>
At .6 inches thick, the RAZR V3t is virtually the same thickness as the original RAZR. And like the original RAZR, the phone's design takes the standard clamshell form factor to the next level with an impressive, fully-anodized aluminum construction. A large 176 x 220 color display with 262,000 colors dominates the inside of the top cover. The outside cover of the handset sports a supplementary 96 x 80 full-color display that can display caller ID pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. The 1.3-megapixel camera lens is housed above this display. Up/down buttons are placed on the left side for volume control.

Most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset's backlit control pad, which is precision cut from a single sheet of nickel-plated copper alloy. A mini-USB port is provided, which, while useful for fast data transfer, can also be used with compatible USB stereo headsets. Note that the phone does not have a standard 2.5mm headset jack, but the phone's enhanced mini-USB connector supports compatible stereo headsets.

<b>Calling Features</b>
The RAZR V3t's internal phone book can hold up to 1000 contacts while the phone's picture ID system allows you to assign pictures to your most common callers. The phone also supports polyphonic ringtones as well as MP3 ringers, allowing you to use portions of your favorite songs to alert you to incoming calls. A number of ringtones come preloaded on the phone and more ringtones can be downloaded from T-Mobile's t-Zones service. <table align=left width=100 cellpadding=20> <tr> <td> <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/v3t-tmo-2.jpg" border=0 align=top>

<small><b>The phone features support for myFaves.</b> <small></td></tr></table> For times when you want to be discreet, there's a vibrating alert. A built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear while voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family and associates as easy as saying their names. Speaker-independent technology allows any speaker to dial numbers with the voice dialing system. And because the RAZR V3t is Bluetooth enabled, wireless headsets can be configured with the phone for total handsfree operation.

Like to keep in touch without worrying about minutes or overages? The V3t is fully compatible with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves.

<b>Messaging, Internet, and Tools</b>
The RAZR V3t is a messaging and wireless Internet powerhouse. Support is built in for sending and receiving pictures, text, graphics, sound and video via messages. When used in combination with the phone's built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun (T-Mobile messaging charges apply). There's also a built-in web browser for t-zones downloads and mobile web browsing. T-Mobile's t-Zones service lets you receive and send emails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. If you need email on the go, the V3t comes with an email client that supports IMAP, POP3, and SMTP email standards. iTap text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

A number of handy software tools are bundled with the RAZR V3t including a calculator with currency converter, a calendar, and an alarm clock. The phone can also be used with Motorola's Mobile Phone Tools PC application to manage and synchronize contacts, calendar and other data with your PC.

<b>Imaging and Entertainment</b>
The RAZR V3t's 1.3-megapixel camera bridges the gap between phones and quality digital cameras. The digital zoom-enabled camera is also designed to capture video. You can even print your shots on a Bluetooth-enabled printer. Embedded animated screensavers and full screen wallpapers are built-in so you can set up the RAZR V3t to suit your tastes. The phone supports games, as well as gaming connectivity via Bluetooth.

The RAZR V3t is a serious music phone; its next-gen phone status aside, the V3t stands alone as a great digital music player. And because the V3t sports a swappable memory card slot, you can bring all of your favorite music with you.

Boasting support for the Java 2.0 format, The V3t will let you enjoy most of the latest cell phone games, anywhere you go. The phone comes stock with preloaded games, and more games can be downloaded from T-Mobile's t-Zones service. The V3t also sports an airplane mode feature, which allows the user to safely use the non-wireless functions of a phone (such as music, games or organizer functions) on an airplane during flight.

<b>Vital Statistics</b>
The Motorola RAZR V3t weighs 3.30 ounces and measures 3.90 x 2.10 x .60 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.0 hours of digital talk time, and up to 12 days of digital standby time. It runs on the GSM/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews:

Great improvement over my previous Motorola phone.......2007-05-14

My previous phone was a Motorola V330 -- the blue one. After almost 2 years, I lost it. Now, I'm glad I did. The V330 had many good features, which are continued here. It also had many problems which are rectified by this new phone.

The good features which are carried over:

1. Clamshell design with big color screen with SVGA quality
2. Bluetooth for wireless earpiece/microphone and stereo headset
3. Built in speakerphone
4. Voice activated dialing with bluetooth
5. 1.3 megapixel camera with 8X digital zoom
6. AIM Instant Messaging
7. Plays JAVA games
8. Internet and instant messaging
9. Large memory capacity, including micro SD memory expansion, which can store lots of pictures, video and games.
10. It comes with USB cable so you can transfer songs and pictures. You can purchase software to help u/l and d/l pictures, ringtones, etc. directly from your computer.
11. Most thematic elements can be changed including Polyphonic ringers, wallpaper, screensavers, etc.

IMPROVEMENTS OVER THE V330:

1. The phone book has been reorganized so that there is now one entry for each name, and then a subdirectory for each of the person's different phone numbers.
2. The 5 way navigation key is improved, although still a bit difficult to use due to the flat keyboard.
3. The "call" and "hang-up" keys are now properly backlit so that it is possible to see them at night.
4. The hands-free voice dialing on the V330 required you to record a sample of the name. It would only dial by name. And usually, it would not understand you. The RAZR uses phonetics. It is activated with a button on the side of the phone, which brings up a voice menu. You tell it "name dial" or "digit dial" (or one of several other commands) and then you can dial by saying the name, or phone number. You say the name, then tell it to dial work, mobile or home. This is a great improvement, and works almost every time.
5. The RAZR front screen is not the typical little motorola blue/gray clock display. It is a proper color screen showing signal strength, battery strength, your main screen wallpaper and a clock.

MP3 PLAYER

The MP3 player seems to be an afterthought, and is not well thought out. First, it does not play enough audio formats, pretty much limiting you to MP3s with bit rates of 192K or less -- no variable or high bit rate MP3s. Having to mess with the audio formats gets me to the point of saying "Why bother?" To me, the main advantage is that I'd lose an MP3 player in about 10 minutes, and I lose my phone about once every 2 years. The MP3 player sounds good. It is java based rather than hardwired. Since it is software based, it takes some time to start up and the controls are not wonderful because it does not have dedicated control keys.

However, the main issue I have with the phone is not the MP3 player, but the things which are not included in the box. The phone only comes with a 128k micro sd memory card and does not come with the stereo headset. The memory card is mounted inside the phone on top of the battery, rather than in a slot on the side where it should be. This is only a minor inconvenience.

T-mobile wants $30 for the headset, and a lot more for an adequate 1 Gig memory card. (You can find the headset here on Amazon or on Ebay for a lot less, and memory should be around $20.) The headset does not connect into a standard jack, but plugs into the mini-usb port which doubles as the connection to the computer and charger. This means you cannot plug it into a home stereo, although you could probably connect it to a USB connector on a car stereo.

The motorola stereo headset is very cool in that it has a microphone built in and doubles as a wired headset for the phone. It sounds good, with nice high end and good, although not excellent, tonal balance.

CONCLUSION

Excellent cool looking flip phone which doubles as an adequate MP3 player, if you are willing to put up with the player's quirks and the cost to make it functional.

Good phone but DON'T BUY if you need a voice recorder........2007-05-02

I just got this phone, but one of the things I needed was the Voice Recorder but T-Mobile cripples the Voice Notes function by not allowing you to save your voice recordings to the phone; inexplicably, you can only forward them to voicemail. YES, that's right -- you CANNOT save them to memory for review later, so the "Voice Notes" function is basically worthless. (The other lesser RAZR's from T-Mobile let you, and CIngular and Verizon's version do too.) But with the V3t, you're SOL on Voice Notes. Great decision T-Mobile -- I'm returning the phone and going with Verizon.

vastly overrated...........2007-05-02

I don't understand the good reviews for this phone... The menus are a pain in the neck and look like they were designed by a second-grader, I tried unsuccesfully to add phone #s to the speed dial,an easy thing on most phones, after reading through the poorly written manual and trying everything, I just gave up ! Even the 1 megapixel camera sucks, I took better pics 5 years ago with a Nokia.
I went back to the store and exchanged it for the Samsung T629, within minutes I was putting #'s in speed dial and going through the easy to use menus, all on a high resolution screen. It felt like driving a Ferrari after having been on a go-kart.What a difference ! I will never buy a Motorola product again.

Cellphones aren't just for phone calls anymore!.......2007-04-26

This is the best cellphone I've ever owned. Very happy with it. It has everything from camera for picture and video, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN messenger and ICQ. And of course good ol' fashioned text messaging/email. And don't forget MP3 player!

I was very excited to find out that not only could I easily drag and drop MP3's directly onto the phone from my PC but also pictures from PC. You can use any picture as your wallpaper and the picture will "stretch to fit" the screen.

True, the phone comes with a mono earpiece, but for listening to MP3's all you have to do is buy the stero headphone accessory which is easily available on accessory websites. (I got my V3t stereo headphones for $5.99!)

The phone's very easy to figure out. I rarely had to look at the owners manual to find out how to do something.

This is a fun, exciting phone and I highly recommend it.

Sexy Phone.......2007-03-24

The new BLACK T-Mobile Motorola V3T defines a "sexy" phone. I bought this phone specifically for the music player, yet the stylish slim design that the Motorola's have (unlike the formless Nokia bricks).

Pros:
- The blue-glowing Motorola symbol (that the V3's don't have)
- Very impressive signal strength and battery life (Only need to recharge 1-2 times a week)
- Black is way sweeter than the mainstream silver (although the Dragon tattoo is pretty nice)
- Setting Songs from your microSD as a ringtone (though it is a little tricky to figure out. You need to transfer the ringtone from your microSD to your phone's RAM via "Switch Storage Device")
- Cool MyFaves Icons to assign to each of your friends (MyFaves is where you pick your 5 favorite phone numbers and get all the calling for free). Most people call their top 5 people for 80%-90% of your minutes (prove it to yourself and check your bill). I usually have at least half of my 1000 minute plan left over now that I've switched to MyFaves.

Cons:
- Only comes with a 128 MB microSD card which holds about 35 songs. A 1GB microSD card costs about $25.
- Ships with mono headphone jack (not 2 ear headphones)
- Non-standard headphone jack. Uses mini-USB instead of normal earbud/iPod headphone jack.
- Can't find the mini-USB adapter so that I can use my earbuds

Conclusion:
Solid phone for 2007 if you're looking for a Music Player phone that still maintains a sleek design. Get T-Mobile's myFaves if you tend to call your tight-knit circle of friends a lot.

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