Motorola RAZR2 V8

Sure, a considerable amount of time has surely been spent on the design, to give it a swanky new feel and look. But features are not something that the phone boasts of. Sure, it has the usual stuff, but nothing that most other Motorola phone don’t.

However, it does what it purports to do quite well. I like the way the dictionary works during composing etc. The mechanism is adaptive and quickly learns the most used words, and also the sequence in which they are often used.

Alas, the phone has no expandable memory option, which kind of sucks! It's launched with options of 512MB and 2GB internal, with a price difference of about Rs 1,000. Pretty sad, for if the USB cable ever gets screwed up, you can’t retrieve your data unless you buy the proprietary one. It uses microUSB, so you will need to spend some extra dough.

The multimedia suite that comes bundled with the package is one of the fastest and best I have seen. You can synchronize and save contacts, messages etc on to your computer, and at the same time you get a wide degree of customization controls.

You can cut songs into ringtones and transfer them to your phone, and it’s pleasantly fast too. Using the suite you also see how images will show up on the mobile screen. You can also crop and touch up images.

Surfing is fun, since the phone comes equipped with the Opera 8.5 browser, so you can view the page without any page formatting issues. Also you can open more than one browser window, which makes surfing convenient. It supports EDGE (Class 12) and GPRS, and allows a full screen option.

You can customize menus and add new ones. This will allow you to arrange things in the order you want and also add new folders to make space for others.

There are some hiccups though. If you ever retrieve messages from drafts, you can't go back. You can either send the message or you will simply have to press the "red" button.