Short Review: Motorola RAZR V3x 3G Phone
5-May-2006I have a new phone. It’s a Motorola RAZR V3x 3G UMTS clam shell. I got it because it was a nice solid full featured phone that was AU$0 down on a cheap-ass AU$20/month two year plan.
The V3x has some great and annoying features that I will cover later along the lines of recent Girtby.net and OddThinking phone-toutin’ posts.
This post is about realising that I’m an impostor. I should not own this phone. I’m not in this phone’s demographic.
Exhibit A: The PC sync/update application’s splash screen. Helping to dispel the myth that pretty much every 3G business case is built around porn.
If this is aimed at my demographic, then these are systems engineers enjoying requirements elicitation à trois.
Exhibit B: I had been calling my phone’s colour “blue.” I’m mistaken. The colour is “Cosmic Universe Blue,” and I’m sure the capitalisation is important.
Upon considering these two pieces of evidence I thought I’d been sold the wrong phone. A good phone salesperson would determine quickly that I need a phone that comes in “Video Killed The Radio Star Commodore 64 Beige” with a picture of Mr T and Sheena Easton on the splash screen.
Never mind. I set about bringing the phone kicking and screaming into my demographic.
I was sure it would reject me for attempting to use ring-tones that were older than, say, the canon of Coldplay or Britney Spears. Fortunately I’ve managed to sneak on the opening bars of Bureau’s “Only For Sheep” and Epyx Games’ C64 classic voice talent from Impossible Mission: “Another visitor. Stay a while. Stay forever.”
If I can figure out how to get it to make 300 baud modem negotiation sounds when it connects to the Internet I’ll be right at home.
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what is the stock memory card that comes with the
jon | 17-Jun-2006what is the stock memory card that comes with the v3x?
Jon, Mine came with a 64MB micro-SD card -- though this
Chris | 17-Jun-2006Jon,
Mine came with a 64MB micro-SD card — though this could be specific to Telstra. I would have thought they could be a little more generous given the emphasis of music playback in the marketing.
Yep a 64mb Sandisk MicroSD, got it from telstra too
Joey | 24-Dec-2007Yep a 64mb Sandisk MicroSD, got it from telstra too
Oh, and Mine came with a Motorola branded microSD-to SD
Joey | 24-Dec-2007Oh, and Mine came with a Motorola branded microSD-to SD card converter, so it might be from Motorola, and thus not depend on the carrier.
Every time I see that splash screen, I can help
ZigZag | 9-Jul-2008Every time I see that splash screen, I can help but notice that the ‘girl’ on the far left is actually a guy in drag. Just look at the hand holding the phone! Luckily there’s enough of a shadow hiding his adam’s apple. Maybe Motorola promotes transvestites and crossdressers, maybe they thought we’d be too dumb to notice. Just my 2 cents. You be the judge.
I loved that Impossible Mission C64 game. Played it for weeks.
The information in your site has become REDUNDANT. Your use
Holly | 30-Aug-2008The information in your site has become REDUNDANT. Your use of scripts or layouts has altered the layout making any threads illegible in 3 different browsers used.