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REVIEWS / SMARTPHONES / MOTOROLA MOBILITY INDIA PVT LTD

Motorola Motoming A1200

07 Apr, 2007, 2:20 pm IST | by Shayne Rana | Smartphones

Battery
I’ll just come out and say it. The battery sucks. This is the only big problem I have with the phone. The standard 850 mAh Li-ion battery doesn’t live up to the expectations of the phone. Now I know the brochure and any other source of information will tell you that you’ll get 7 hours of talk time, but that ain’t exactly true. I hardly got a little over 4 hours of talk time. Not good, Ming ol’ boy. Not good.

Another strange thing I encountered is if your battery is completely drained or you switch the phone on and connect to the charger or USB the antenna gets switched off and the phone can’t be used to make or receive calls. It says ‘Battery Charging’ on the main screen but the battery icon remains unchanged and the phone powers down on its own. But no issues if the phone is already on. Hmm… that puts a bit of a damper on things.

Conclusion
Aside from the rather disappointing battery life and the fact that it’s not too easy to 'write' messages, I have to say, WOWZERS! This is a great phone. It’s packed with features and its user friendly as well. That’s most important. At around Rs. 14,200, this is an amazingly good looking, compact, full touch-screen phone with all features: 2mp camera, media player, FM radio, memory card support, blah blah blah.

So the bottom line - Drop what you’re doing and go out and get one.

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Tags: Motorola , Motoming , A1200

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