Simple, functional and fashionable - MOTOFONE has the features you need and can count on plus the look you aspire for, at a price that fits your pocket. Billions of people around the world have yet to make a phone call - and billions more have only just begun to explore wireless technology. Technology can be intimidating however MOTOFONE is convenience in voice communication.
Price Range: $45.99 - $79.00
The crux of whether or not the MOTOFONE will appeal to you lies in its feature set — or lack thereof. It’s a GSM-capable mobile phone, which in the Australian market is locked to Optus — and it comes with a prepaid SIM in the box. It’ll do SMS, and you’ve got a choice of some very standard monophonic ring tones. That’s it, however — there’s no Bluetooth, GPRS, camera, GPS, 3G, HSDPA or even simple phone games. If you’re incurably addicted to features like this you’ll find the MOTOFONE vexatious in the extreme. Then again, it’s a phone, and it works. Why pay for stuff you don’t need or use?
In case it hasn’t sunk in yet, the MOTOFONE is just a basic phone, and as a basic phone it works quite well. Call clarity was good in our tests — those of a paranoid bent might like to note that the default call volume is quite loud — and battery life was fairly solid. Motorola rates it for up to 450 minutes talk time and up to 270 hours standby time — largely because when not in use the screen powers down to a simple digital clock display. In our testing, it lasted around three days heavy usage before needing recharging. This brought up one of our lesser concerns about the MOTOFONE, and that’s in the fact that it takes quite a while to recharge. This isn’t a concern if you’re an overnight recharger, but it’s not possible to do a quick recharge and get anything but a perfunctory charge into the MOTOFONE.
Motofone’s design follows the latest fashion trends. Certainly nobody had expected the cheapest phone on the market to be only 9 mm thin and thus being the slimmest Motorola ever. The other two dimensions are 114 x 47 mm. Its weight surprises too - meager 68 g. Despite of looking fragile the phone stands bending pretty successfully thanks to the solid and resistant plastic material used for its covers.
Summary of key features:
- Stylish thin design
- Durable housing for optimal performance despite dust and sun
- High-contrast screen using new ClearVision display
- Large font size for easy readability
- High-volume for call clarity in loud environments
- Embedded polyphonic ringtones in eight voices
- Ability to download ringtones
What you get:
- MOTOFONE F3 phone
- Battery Door
- Battery
- Travel Charger
