Updated 14 Feb, 2012, 6:01 pm IST

REVIEWS / MOBILE PHONES / MOTOROLA MOBILITY INDIA PVT LTD

Motorola KRZR K1

29 Nov, 2006, 12:20 pm IST | Aalaap Ghag | Mobile phones

User Interface
The UI on the KRZR is the standard Motorola UI that’s found on any of their phones, with almost no tweaks. One problem I had was with the SMS composition screen (other than some of the iTap eccentricities): after you finish typing, the center key of the navigation pad doesn’t send the message —it brings up the Insert menu, with which you can add pictures or phone numbers etc. to the message. The right soft key is the Send key, which I thought was a little unintuitive. Other than that, the UI is mostly the same.

One thing I really do like about the UI is that its really, really fast. It’s as fast as the V3i.

Tech
Like the RAZR, the KRZR is also a quad-band GSM/GPRS phone, but there’s also EDGE support now. Bluetooth has been upgraded with stereo A2DP support, although it’s still v1.2.

The phone also has a standard miniUSB slot, and it also recharges from it like the V3i does. But the KRZR also shows up as a standard Mass Storage Device in Windows, so you can simply drag and drop music, movies, photos etc to and from the phone like any other drive. No iTunes required!

The phone comes with 20MB memory – double that of the RAZR. The microSD/TransFlash slot has been maintained. The card is placed on the rear under the battery cover, like the V3i. Even the E61 had a similar place for the memory card, and while it can be inconvenient in that phone, users of the KRZR or RAZR are less likely to switch memory cards as often.

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