Motorola i275 Phone - Black (Nextel)

Average customer rating:

Overall Good Phone

Nice Enty Level Nextel

Warranty? What warranty?

Almost perfect

WARNING AGAINST NEXTEL

Motorola i275 Phone - Black (Nextel)

Manufacturer: Motorola
ProductGroup: Wireless
Binding: Wireless Phone

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Product Features:

Capture images for personal and business purposes and send them to friends and colleagues using the built-in 310k pixel camera with 4x digital zoom

Direct Connect enabled - the walkie-talkie service that instantly connects you to all other Nextel users

Safe, hands-free cellular conversations are always available with the built-in speakerphone

Use the private speaker button to switch from the external speaker to the earpiece for private conversations or to minimize disruptions in quiet environments

If you need to make a 911 emergency call, the GPS feature can also help emergency personnel locate you

ASIN: B0009N5LCA

Amazon.com Product Description

With the i275, Nextel injects their line of powerful phones with a serious dose of fun. With a built-in VGA camera, multimedia messaging, downloadable games, a speakerphone, and support for Nextel's legendary Direct Connect walkie-talkie service, this phone is all about lots of fun and plenty of functionality.

Take a closer look at the i275's functions.
Design
The i275's candybar form factor sports a large, 128 x 128 TFT color display with 65,000 colors. The speakerphone unit is located on the rear of the phone, as is the VGA (640 x 480) camera unit. Meanwhile, the trademark Direct Connect and menu scrolling functions can be controlled from the side of the phone. The phone's control pad also features a five-way button that can control most of the phone's functions. There's also a 2.5-millimeter headset jack for connecting a hands-free headset.

Calling Features
The i275's built-in address book can store up to 600 contacts for quick and easy management of phone numbers and email addresses. The phone comes with built-in polyphonic ringtones plus a vibrating alert. More polyphonic ringtones can be added via download from the Nextel Online service. Voice activated dialing makes calling your friends, family and associates as easy as saying their names, while a built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear. And if you have an emergency, the i275's GPS location technology pinpoints your exact location when you dial 911.

One of the key features of any Nextel phone is support for Nextel's Direct Connect walkie-talkie technology. The i275 fully supports the service, which allows for one-touch conversations with anyone else on a Nextel phone, or with entire groups of Direct Connect users. It's like a having a CB radio with enough range to cover all of North America, Canada and Latin America. With the i275's powerful Direct Talk function you can also communicate in walkie-talkie mode when you're not even connected to the network. The system works anywhere, anytime between compatible phones within a range of up to 6 miles (range will vary based on terrain and conditions). Direct Talk provides a reliable back-up communications tool in times of emergency, network outage, or when traveling to remote areas not under Nextel coverage such as hiking, cruise vacations or inside buildings. And last but not least, the i275 features a walkie-talkie private speaker button. This switches from the external speaker to the earpiece for private conversations or to minimize disruptions in quiet environments.

Messaging, Internet and Tools
The i275 features MMS-based support for mobile-to-mobile or mobile-to-email text, images and audio messaging. When used with the phone's built-in camera, MMS messaging opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit-- a plus for mobile email and text messaging users. Getting on the Internet anywhere is easy with the i275, as well. Nextel's optional Nextel Online package allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. Nextel Online also features games, ringtones, realtime news and sports updates, virtual address books, and more-- all delivered to your Nextel phone. Also, because the i725 is GPS-enabled, you can use Nextel's location-based safety services like Mobile Locator, which allows you to locate a friend or family member's phone location at anytime, right from your computer. And finally, the i275 ships with a calendar, as well as a time and date clock.

Vital Statistics
The Motorola i275 weighs 4.6 ounces and measures 4.8 x 1.93 x .98 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 165 minutes of digital talk time, and up to 101 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the IDEN 800 frequency. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

What's in the Box
Motorola i275 handset, standard lithium-ion battery, travel charger, user's manual.

Customer Reviews:

Overall Good Phone.......2006-06-03

Overall the phone functions well. It has many features and is easy to read, hold, etc. My biggest complaint is that there is no alarm clock feature. The camera is not the greatest, but it IS primarily a phone, not a digital camera.

Nice Enty Level Nextel.......2006-03-08

I got the i275 for my wife about 9 months ago, and it has performed very well.

Cons: Camera is not the best, but if you want a digital camera, buy a digital camera. If you want a phone, buy a phone.

Pros: Nice sized candy bar phone; Easy to read color display; Excellent call quality; Good speakerphone; Pretty durable - she's dropped it enough to know; Direct Connect feature.

Overall, my wife likes this phone. We also think highly of NEXTEL's coverage and customer service. The story of how I got the phone illustrates NEXTEL's reasonable customer service. I ordered the phone, then decided that it was a little pricey, so I took it back to the store from which I ordered it (on the 13th day of the trial period) only to find it closed during its posted hours. I called NEXTEL and told them the situation, that it was Friday, and the store would not be open over the weekend. The helpful rep took the phone number of the store, called, confirmed the hours (which were on the store's answering machine), then came back and apologized and took all the charges for the phone off my account. On top of that, she told me that since there was no way to return the phone to that store until after the 15 days were up to go ahead and keep the phone, since the store could not take it back. I was flabbergasted and impressed at the same time!

As far as dropped calls are concerned, it almost never happens, in fact, I dropped many more calls with my previous provider (Verizon) than with NEXTEL. Make sure you check coverage before you sign up with any provider. Go with the one gives the best coverage where you live, work, or travel. If NEXTEL covers your area well, don't hesitate.

Warranty? What warranty?.......2005-12-22

I had been very happy with my Motorola phone until the battery started losing its charge within a day, even when the phone was turned off. The friendly but incompetent customer support kept me on the phone for an average of 40 minutes for the repeated calls trying to figure out the problem. After the phone had finally been sent to their technical service center, they returned it to me that the phone was irreperable "due to customer abuse." I have done nothing to that phone that could have caused any damage (unless using it to make phone calls counts as "customer abuse"), but got the same comment, without explanation after I had sent the phone in for a second time for reevaluation. It seems that Motorola is just trying to get out of fixing or replacing the phone free of charge under warranty. You'll be fine with a Motorola phone as long as it works. After that, you're on your own.

Almost perfect.......2005-09-30

This phone is awesome. I love it...the only thing that would make it better is a longer battery life. It barely last compared to other phones i have but the features and quality of this phone are awesome.

WARNING AGAINST NEXTEL.......2005-07-22

My problems with nextel did not stop when I canceled my service. I will get to the problems with the service. When I went to get a new phone a day before my contract expired, I of course wanted to keep my number. So as I went to get my Cingular phone (highly recommended), I had the old number switched to my new number. Today, I get in the mail my nextel statement for the month with a $200 early termination even though I had not canceled my service, but had simply got a new phone and switched my number over. This was on icing on the cake after 2 years of absolutely amazingy bad service from nextel. In my town, not a small town by any means, there are very few places that have any service. In the largest subdivision, you cannot get service anywhere. I constantly get comments from people trying to reach me that get the classic nextel line...Please hold while the nextel subscriber you are trying to reach is located. Most of the time I would not even recieve incoming calls, calls would go straight to my voice mail. Not only would I not get the calls, but often I would not even get the voice mails until days or even weeks later. When I did actually take calls (and call out), I cannot count the number of times I've had my call dropped. I recieved so many different error messages sometimes I wonder if they just spend all their time at nextel thinking of different error messages to program into their phones. That brings me to the selling point of nextel, the famed and well-loved direct connect feature. This is an absolute joke. Direct connect only works MAYBE half the time I tried to use it. Even then, in the middle of the conversation I would be greeted by the loud beep of my phone telling me I wont be talking to that person anymore. Of course, I would expect nothing less from the nextel network. Text messaging with nextel is next to impossible. If it did not take hours to send or recieve a message, it took days, or maybe didn't even come at all. The internet access was fine, it the rare instance that it worked. Of course, when you don't have service, you don't get the internet access either. I was constantly getting the message "network not available". Calling and trying to complain to nextel is futile. Trying to get through to customer service takes forever and once you get through they do nothing. My experience with nextel has been nothing short of a disaster and I write this trying to warn anyone considering nextel. Stick with Verizon or Cingular and you will be much happier in the end. Don't make the same mistake I did.

Product Description

You will receive 1 high quality Rechargeable Battery. This Rechargeable Battery 100% fits and is properly matching !

Ni-Cd Rechargeable Battery (originally packaged factory-new merchandise)

This high capacity rechargeable battery definitely disposes of more power than the original rechargeable battery included in delivery of the unit. This rechargeable battery can be used instead of the original rechargeable battery without any problems and can be recharged with the available standard power supply.

Features of this rechargeable battery:

safety due to heat and overcharge protection
more power than the original
excellent fitting accuracy, certified quality merchandise, not an original accessory
the standard battery charger can still be used

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