Motorola V220 Phones
Motorola V220 is a entry-level clamshell camera phone with partial features and economical way out!
Pros: Tri Band Clamshell Mobile, integrated digital camera, 32-Tone Polyphonic and Mp3 Ringtones, Voice recorder, Built-in hands-free speaker, USB port.
Cons: No infrared port, No Bluetooth, small screen, patchy sound quality, poor standby battery life, No FM or mp3 player.
Motorola V220 released just after the V500/V600 is a nice looking flip-phone, with a certain features and an average performance. The Mobile Phone offers basically the same features, but in a smaller, simpler form, to start with, the colour display, 65k colour screen is just a STN, not a TFT, makes it less vivid and crisp. It has external screen shows the time, battery life, signal strength, and caller ID.
V220 is embedded with built-in one-touch activation camera; it is an integrated VGA camera which enables the user to take pictures in three resolutions: 640x480, 320x240, and 160x120 and facilitates high quality MMS feature. Pictures when snapped can be saved as wallpaper, sent as MMS messages, or assigned to contacts for caller ID. You can also modify the Motorola handset with your choice of wallpaper, screensavers, themes, or different colour styles.
The dimensions of the Motorola V220 are 83x45 and it is about 22mm thick. Weighing around 104g, it is quite heavy for a phone of its size. The battery has a poor life of about 5 hours (talk time) and 200 hours standby. The Motorola V220 offers no features like the Bluetooth or infra red. However the phone does have some interesting features.
The Mobile Phone has built in speaker, a USB connection that enables exchange of data and pictures, also tri-band network dependent, pre-installed polyphonic ring tones and MP3 ringtones, also has space on the phones memory for the user to download many more ringtones from the Internet. You even can use the integrated MotoMixer application to compose your own ring tones.
The Motorola V220 has an internal memory of 1.8 MB and can store up to 1000 contacts in its phonebook. Under each entry, one can store six numbers and an e-mail address. All contacts can be assigned personalized polyphonic ring tones. 24 of these have been pre-installed in the mobile phone. The features include an alarm clock, a calendar, a calculator and AOL instant messenger.
Over all, a fair endeavour by Motorola has created this small, high quality but still low end cost mobile phone! So it could be a good choice for someone who likes the Motorola V220 phone with easy- to- use without any complex features.
Released on both pay as you go and line rental on most networks, it is available to all!
