Mar 31, 2008 10:50 PM
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I purchased Motorola W230 exchangin my old Nokia 3200. The specs and features are available at https://motorola.com/ motoinfo/product/details.jsp?globalObjectId=219 so no need to discuss it here. Promo descrption is available at https://tech2.com/ india/news/value-mobile-phones/ motorola-launches-the-motoyuva-w230/29551/0
I am using the handset with 2GB MicroSD. It is really a very good value for money handset. Also it is good to have handset without camera instead of one which is of poor quality and is practically useless.
Major things that I likedabout W230 is looks great, clear and loud speaker, great quality of bundled earphones. They are really loud and clear, in office environment one will require to reduce the volume while talking over to someone. The speaker is also of nice quality which I use to listen to old songs night and the volume is audible in entire area of 175 square feet room.
My expirience with the W230 is:
Negative: Software is not like Nokia. i.e it is not platform based. One should not expect same set of features in similar phones some small glitches or enhancements are there which differs.
Negative: Does not support JAVA a very big negative in these days when most color phones from Samsung and Nokia are supporting it.
Reseller said it has modem. No software bundled to use it. Am trying hard to use is as modem but no success as yet. The driver folder contains 1 INF file which is useful in phone charging using the computer's USB port.
Negative: Fonts are fixed size everywhere. They are large and size is not configurable causing lesser characters to be displayed on small 128x128 screen.
Negative: Messages cannot be moved from sim to phone. Once has to choose either memory. It is not dynamic.
Positive: Does not have option to choose phonebook memory. Here it is dynamic. One can change the memory of contact from SIM to Phone and vice-versa.
Negative: No playlist creation for files on Memory card. Although it is possible for files on phone memory. I an not able to understand why they're doing it this way. Assume it must be software bug.
Negative: File management option for moving files from phone to card and vice-versa is missing.
Negative: Categorization of files on card is not possible which is possible for pictures and sound on phone memory.
I would still recommend W230 because it is able to play MP3 and has Radio apart from basic phone with very good quality of sound. The negatives get setoff against this. And one cannot expect too much in Rs.3000.
I purchased this because I just wanted to change the handset and was using the handset for voice calling, WAP surfing, FM Radio and MP3 player.
What I lost in my old handset was Infrared, Torch and Java.
