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 Ok here's a first Q, are the people who gave this phone a horrid rating check to make sure it was the V330 and NOT the V300? That brings me to my second point, the look of the phone is almost exactly the same as the V300 (now THIS particular model was almost crappy) so people might have confused it. A friend got this phone a little while ago and so far he seems to have no problem with it, in fact he is immensely satisfied and I am myself planning to get this phone and after much much asking around and reading countless reviews, I dont think the phone has bad reception OR drops calls , I would blame T-Mobile in some areas. So practice before you preach!!!
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Ok, well first of all I want to make clear that I didn't buy this phone through amazon.com, I bought it directly through the tmobile.com website. When I decided to switch from cingular to another carrier I looked at verizon and tmobile, after hearing that tmobile wasn't as good as cing or verizon I was a little worried, however at least in my area (South FL... Miami/Fort Lauderdale area) I get great reception everywhere I go and even inside my own house which is great because I didn't with cingular. Of course you all know that this has nothing to do with the performance of the phone. Ok, so I've had the phone for about a month, ignore people that say that they've had this phone for around a year... they're DUMB... this phone came out May 2005 so they're referring to the Motorola V300 NOT the V330... they look exactly the same except for the awful keypad on the V300. The V330's keypad is more like the V551... it's nice and organized and not crazy looking like the V330. The phone has a nice screen, it's bright and colorful, and if you put it on the brightest setting you can see it outside in the FL sunlight which is great. The battery life is good too, I get around 5 hours of talk time which is better than my old phone, I use my phone a lot for text messaging, making calls... so far so good. The camera takes good pictures, if it had a resolution of 1 MP it'd be awesome, but the pictures are ok quality and besides I got this phone to make calls and not to take pictures. The menu is great, you can customize it however you want, even the left and right soft keys... you can assign whatever you want. The only downside to this phone is the phonebook, it could be better but unfortunately it takes a while to figure out how to use... those who say you have more than one entry are partly correct... you need to save your contacts on the phone, if you want to add another number for the same person you scroll down to more... then you add a new #, however you're not done yet... in order to only see 1 # for you contact you must go to your phonebook press the menu key, scroll down to setup, then in view change it to "Primary contacts", it's on all contacts by default... after doing that you should have 1 entry and you'll have more than 1 number for you contacts, you can even add an email address if you want. Besides the phonebook this phone is great, I'm more than happy with Tmobile's customer service, reception and most importantly my phone... motorola definately made the V330 a great phone.
but WHY would you get it? EVERYONE has this phone. Don't do it.
I really do not know to whom I can blame for this problem. The phone V330 always in trouble even after getting new equipment (no battery) from T-mobile. The battery looses the charge every 1 hour talk. I never use any extra features in the phone except call receiving and talking. I have reported this issue to T-mobile but the issue is not solved yet. Other problem is, T-Mobile coverage is extremly poor in Orange County area(Sou. CA). This is something I did not know before buying this plan.
