Motorola Z9 - user opinions and reviews
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6.4
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6.2
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6.2
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- Rhino
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Motorola is cheap, has poor build quality and above all it is way to expensive for the feature set that you get. If anything go Nokia Samsung or Sony Ericcson.
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- 2008-06-18 19:27
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- Anonymous
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Call quality for the Z9 is very good for me. head and shoulders above the crappy iPhone call quality.
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- 2008-06-18 05:50
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- eddie
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The sound call quality of this phone is awesome. The speaker quality is ok. Other than that, not worth it. You can get SE, Nokia, LG, or Samsung and have a far superior phone. Thanx, eddie
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- 2008-06-17 21:02
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- Stuart
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Hans,
I can't answer you directly whether the Z9's sound quality is good or bad. Since the Z9 and other Motorola phones are utilizing Crystal Talk Technology, I could base my feedback to you from my personal experience on this particular feature since I'm a V8 user. I'll break my feedbacks to 3 sections.
1) Internal Sound quality
Crystal Talk Technology - so far the best I've experienced, compared with Sony Ericsson, Nokia and PDA phones.
2) External Sound quality
Rear speaker - not bad at all, lose out to the old K750i Sony Ericsson (I was surprised with its performance) but is better than the K550i which is a later model. I believe the "W" walkman models should outperform the Z9, maybe, maybe not.
3) Based on reviews
Try CNET, I've read the reviews, I would put it as approx. 95% of users review said the Z9's Crystal Talk is the best.
So which one are you looking for? The internal sound quality or the external?
Based on my V8's Crystal Talk performance, I would say it's fantastic, really clear and crisp. The bass and treble are well balanced, unlike many phones I've used, they tend to have higher treble, making conversation with someone that talks loud uncomfortable to hear.
I'm currently eyeing the Z9, personally I don't like to have the 3G feature as it'll consume more battery than normal but I can't say the 3G is bad as it's a feature that many users want - but not many uses it.
Hope the above helps.
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- 2008-06-17 08:47
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- eddie
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> In reply to moto_w_GPS @ 2008-06-14 18:26 from 02KCThe same reason you want a phone for a GPS. The Z9 could be an awesome phone, but lack of good camera and functionability makes it a piece of crap. Motorola sucks in the camera dept. My girls sony W580 with no flash takes a better picture than motorola. I'm sorry, people want and all around good camera phone and motorola just does'nt cut it. And when all you're competitors are making them, you better step up motorola. Thanx, eddie
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- 2008-06-14 21:15
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- WiFi_n_touch_suck
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Sorry guys, WiFi is not the future. Grab yourself a data plan and you will see why looking for a WiFi hotspot is for beggers. AT&T Wireless offers unlimited MediaNet for like $15/month on 3G. Do not waste your money and battery life on WiFi eequiped phones. And what are you going to do with a touch screen? Put your fingerprints all over it and pretend you are cool like Apple fanboys? Give me the responsive feel of real buttons please.
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- 2008-06-14 18:32
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Who buys a phone for the built in camera? Give me a break if you want to take and edit pictures buy a real camera and get Photoshop! Final Motorola is including GPS in there non-smart phones! Now GPS there is a feature every phone will have after July 11th (aka iphone 3G release day, thanks Apple a year too late on the GPS, we have all had to suffer). The Z9 has JSR 179 support, meaning you can run free GPS location based midlets (never buy AT&T's or anyones GPS crap for your mobile it is a rip off! Now if Moto would put this in a better form factor (slide phones suck!) and stop charging an arm and a leg for crappy media features they might have a product.
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- 2008-06-14 18:26
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- eddie
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I owned this phone for about a week. It's very sleek and pretty. Has some good features, but not enough. Pictures ok, but can't do anything with them once taken. No croping, editing nothing fun. This phone sucks. It's boring. I took it back and bought an unlocked K850i by sony ericsson and am so happy I did so. I bought the razor when it was first released and did the same, took back. Motorola phones suck. Motorola better start picking up the ball because it's bouncing away. If you have ATT, don't buy this phone. Wait for something or buy Sony ericsson W580, so much better. Thanx, eddie
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- 2008-06-10 13:57
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> In reply to hans @ 2008-06-02 11:44 from TSU2Yes I agreed
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- 2008-06-06 12:11
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- hans
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> In reply to Anonymous @ 2008-05-04 19:45 from TRZ3i aggree that moto 2mp is better than nokia 3.2 mp! even my moto rokre2 1.3camera is good during night compare my friends phone nokia n80.
but my krzr k1 is other story.
the camera quality is bad compare my previous
moto v6
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- 2008-06-02 11:44
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- raythan@#$$%@#%@gmai
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hello everyone i am currenlty planing on purchasing this phone by chance, is this phone a touch phone like the lg chocolate or is it a regular phone like the z3 please let me know thanks.
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- 2008-05-30 18:25
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> In reply to Stuart @ 2008-05-29 09:20 from vV5BVery true on that comment, Stuart. Adding bells and whistles WILL drag the battery down. Even my iPod Touch can't live for 5 hours surfing the net using WiFi. This goes to show that phones cannot do everything we wanted them to do. We're pushing the phone to the limits wherein everyone will think that the best ones are the phones with the most features, not the best.
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- 2008-05-30 08:35
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- Stuart
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I agreed on the inclusion of WiFi and touch screen too for future models.
On camera, the 2.0MP is nothing to shout about BUT it's picture quality is not bad either. I'm currently not a Z9 user yet but have used Z3 and currently using V8. The 2.0MP did not disappoint me, in fact I used it to take pictures and email to my clients. Viewing from Microsoft Office Picture Manager, the pictures were generally good, I would say.
The other concern on too much features in a mobile phone (applies to all other brands)would affect it's battery consumption. 3G, Camera with flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, Music player, would definitely drag it's power. That's why most of the PDA phones nowadays have battery above 1000Mah and yet, talk time aren't impressive.
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- 2008-05-29 09:20
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