Motorola ACTV Phone, Canary Yellow
Posted by admin | Posted in Gadget | Posted on 06-04-2010
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- Durable flip phone in yellow with rubberized sides for easy gripping and chin strap for easy clipping to belt or bag
- T-Mobile’s MyFaves service provides unlimited calling to your five most called contacts
- 1.3-megapixel camera/camcorder; Bluetooth for handsfree devices; MicroSD expansion up to 2 GB; Mayo Clinic InTouch software
- Up to 7.5 hours of talk time, up to 240 hours (10 days) of standby time
- Includes: handset, battery, charger, wired handsfree headset, user manual
Amazon.com Product Description
With tough style and fun features, the Motorola Active for T-Mobile is a great communications partner for your active lifestyle. It features a rubberized exterior for easy grippability and even comes with Mayo Clinic In Touch software packed full of first aid tips. It’s compatible with T-Mobile’s MyFaves service for unlimited nationwide calling to your five favorite people. Other features include a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture, Bluetooth for ha… More >>
I’ve had the same problems everyone else is exhibiting with this model. Having had two Motorola’s before, and loving both, I couldn’t understand why this phone sucked so hard. For instance- I downloaded a ringtone (I don’t have Internet for my phone, otherwise I’d have made my own) and found I couldn’t apply it to a phonebook contact because the ringtone wasn’t saved to my SIM card. …And as far as I read in the manual, I wasn’t allowed and therefore couldn’t save it to the SIM card. Lame.
I contacted the place where I purchased it and wanted to go back to my own phone, but was told I can’t downgrade. So now I have a roughly 22$ paperweight, a 30$ VISA giftcard (from my rebate) and my nice old phone. Maybe there’ll be something better on the market in two years when I upgrade for cheap/free again.
Rating: 1 / 5
Positives:
–feels nice to hold
–reasonably sturdy
–looks reasonable
Negativs:
–alarm : must be reset everyday. you cannot program it to ring at different times on different days without creating multiple alarms and even then, you must remember to turn the one you want on. Every once in a while, the phone will fill the alarm list with copies of the alarm you created which is pointless and annoying
–battery : for a phone that doesn’t do very much, this has extremely short battery life, needing to be charged every 1.5 – 1.75 days.
–music player takes forever to load music from the SD card every single time. You cannot do anything else on the phone while listening to music and the program “crashes” every so often after a few songs rebooting the phone.
–dropped calls, even in areas of good service… I can’t prove it is the phone’s fault but I had another t-mobile (very old) phone that did not drop similar calls.
–the phone crashes when interfacing with the pc via usb
–event reminder does not consistently send reminders. sometimes it works, sometimes not. What’s the point?
–the phone has a mechanism where it switches from vibrate to ring when charging. This does not consistently work.
These phones are still available on T-Mobile’s website, usually for free with any plan. Do not choose this phone under any circumstances.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a terrible phone and I would give it a zero if I could.
I renewed my contract with T-mobile and was looking for a durable phone, which the ACTV W450 was advertised as. To my great regret, I got one for myself and one for my husband. I wish I had read some reviews first.
1. Terrible batteries – phone #1 – in the first few weeks, the battery kept running down even after having been charged a few hours ago. This happened so often that I took out the battery from phone #2 to use. Even now, about once a week, the battery from phone #2 gives out suddenly (i.e. going from full charge one minute before to completely discharged) in the middle of calls. We have to recharge it before making any more calls.
2. If the phone is flipped closed and a call is received, sometimes the screen stays dark (i.e. no phone # is displayed) so one can’t tell who’s calling before they flip the phone open – which automatically answers the caller. So I can’t screen the calls. This seems to be intermittent and may be related to the poor battery life.
3. The SIM contacts (from my old phone) have to be individually transferred to the phone memory before they can be added to speed dial, etc. In fact, I’m constantly trying to figure out which # was added to SIM card and which to phone memory.
4. The buttons are difficult to feel – it’s impossible to dial without looking at them.
5. There’s no voice activated dialing, even when connected to bluetooth, which makes for hands free calling basically limited to receiving calls only.
6. The T-mobile offer it came with said it was “$50″, i.e. I paid $100 and expected to get a $50 refund. Instead a few months later, we received a credit card offer with a $50 amount on it – no one at the T-mobile store mentioned that we were not getting a check but a credit card although we were there for an hour getting these phones! The only way you could tell how much was left on the card was to call a phone # or set up a web account etc. So we were constantly trying to charge down to the last dollar – it was such a pain that we threw the card away without using it up and I called the credit card company to cancel it just to make sure.
Rating: 1 / 5
cons:
- charge only lasts 1 day with light use.
- camera is terrible.
- cheap monochrome display on outside.
- very small display on inside.
pros:
- outside surface texture feels nice!
Rating: 1 / 5
This is the worst phone I’ve ever purchased. I refuse to fulfill the next year and a half of my contract with this phone. It is software glitch heaven. The battery only lasts less than a day. It periodically deletes my ringtones. It wouldn’t let me reinstall them. I had a replacement phone (same model) sent to me, and it seemed to be working fine for a couple of months, but then the same problems started. While sending a text one day, it shut off on me. Apparently, the battery was dead, even though it was reading a full charge while a was working on that text. When I started it back up after plugging it back in, my ringtones were gone and the battery was confirmed as dead. I sent the ringtones back to my phone. Unlike last time, it let me reinstall my ringtones, however, the battery problem was back, just like the old phone. I’ll go to bed with it reading a full charge, and when I wake up, there’s no charge left. Either I’m making sleep walking calls, or it has problems. I think it’s a software issue, and that it really does have the charge, but the software is reading the battery wrong, because this replacement phone was working fine till a couple of weeks ago. I WANT A DIFFERENT PHONE!
Rating: 1 / 5