I got my hands on a new Motorola Razr V3i with iTunes. I'm quite impressed with the phone, but as usual, I have my 2 cents to put in. These are my observations:
Pros:
- The phone is amazingly sleek. It's almost half the thickness of my Nokia 6260, while offering more features.
- The external LCD is quite feature-packed - incoming numbers, camera viewfinder, missed call notification - all rolled into one.
- The keypad is quite nice to work with. And it boasts of at least 3 additional navigation keys apart from the ones offered by Nokia - This helps getting things done faster.
- The phone ships with a 256 MB card - enough for storing quite a few songs for iTunes.
- The camera offers quite a few funtionalities out-of-the-box - colorize, zoom, lighting conditions, etc. The camera can zoom up to 8x (digital, of course).
Cons:
- Americans chose right-hand driving because the British drove on the left. Carrying on the tradition, Motorola has the Select/Activate/Yes softkey on the right, and the Cancel/Back/No softkey on the left. This can be quite irritating to Nokia users. It could easily have been offered as an option (Left/Right handed phone).
- There's no way to cancel a call while the phone is closed. You can only mute the ringer/stop vibration using the volume keys on the sides. The caller will get the impression that you missed the call - not cancelled it.
- The phone is not exactly plug-and-play. Windows required a restart to install the phone, and I still have not managed to make the Tools application, which ships with the phone, to work. iTunes does not detect the phone either.
- No Symbian - the biggest drawback. This means that we are primarily restricted to applications developed by Motorola and not by third party providers.
If only it were possible to get Nokia 6260's software onto the Razr V3i!
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