Updated 14 Feb, 2012, 6:01 pm IST

REVIEWS / MOBILE PHONES / MOTOROLA MOBILITY INDIA PVT LTD

Motorola RIZR Z3

04 Feb, 2007, 11:46 am IST | Aalaap Ghag | Mobile phones

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The Z3 is quad-band GSM phone. We usually don’t talk about network reception, because pretty much all the phones work just fine everywhere we try them, but the Z3 kept dropping the network at several somewhat closed areas. It alerts you when it gets on or off the network and I could hear that several times a day.

The phone also has support for GPRS and EDGE as well. Browsing speeds were acceptable, but the browser doesn’t do too good a job of reformatting the web to fit the small screen. After seeing the S60 browser in action, this is what happens.

It has around 16mb of built-in memory, and a microSD memory card slot. The microSD card is hotswappable; it is placed above the sim card.

The phone supports Bluetooth 2.0 along with A2DP stereo profile. It does USB 2.0 and supports the convenient Mass Storage profile so you can just hook it up and drag and drop files in the mobile folder without using any software.

The phone comes with the Yahoo! Go mobile application suite pre-installed, that gives you Yahoo! Search, Mail, Finance, Cricket, Messenger and Tones. These require a GPRS or EDGE connection to work, of course.

Battery
I expected this phone to last a little longer, but it only works for around 3 days on average use. This might be affected by the frequent network searching performed by the phone. I didn’t make too many calls, but I did receive a good amount of calls and browsed the web a fair bit.

However, the phone recharges via the standard miniUSB port on the phone, so this will not really be a problem to most of us who are constantly near a PC, be it at home, at work, or on the move with a laptop. It didn’t last me too long, but I never ran out of charge without any means of recharging it.

Conclusion
The RIZR Z3 has been priced well at Rs. 13,500. It offers the same features as the KRZR K1, but it does it for around Rs. 2,500 less, and it also offers a newer form factor.

However, The RIZR is late. Samsung has been making sliders for years and they’ve pretty much perfected the art. Motorola led the way with their slim and stylish RAZR, but they’ve been overtaken in that race. The RIZR offers an alternative to Motorola phone buyers who’ve been wanting to get something other than just another RAZR, but it doesn’t offer much more. The RIZR won’t do to the slider market, what the RAZR did to the clamshell market.

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Tags: Motorola , RIZR , MOTORIZR , Z3

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