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Motorola RIZR Z8 review: Slide and bend

10 January 2008 | Read the review | Post your comment
Motorola RIZR Z8 review: Slide and bend - read the full textWith the RIZR Z8 Motorola is creatively revisiting the realms of Symbian UIQ. Except for Wi-Fi, the handset offers full data connectivity, perfect display and high-capacity memory card support - all packed in a sexy black slider. A high-end multimedia device...

 

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The customer service in South Africa is of a very poor standard.After 6 phone calls to the sercice centre I am still waiting for assistance. All I wanted to know is how to set up my phone to show cell information.Can someone help me.

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  • 2008-02-28 10:21
  • Nxsf

this phone is excelent ....
you need to know that this was just a beggining...
2008 will be the year of motorola,2007 was a bad year for moto so this year motorola will make 5.0 mp phones on the MOTOZINE line
1.z12 with 3.2mp,wifi,3g....
2.ming2 a1600 is confirmed and it has 3.2 mp,gps, wifi
3.VIQ and motomagx will be usedon most phones....so......
motorola will be succesfull this year...

two things more...
HELLO MOTO

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  • 2008-02-03 19:19
  • PdRK

Thanks gka3000. I always knew some competitor fanboys have at least a little respect for Motorola, unlike the many others who relentlessly antagonize it. Kudos to you.

Yes, it seems that the Z8 has a lot of flaws. This is the first ever Symbian phone by Motorola; it is not perfect because it is the testbed for many more Symbian phones to come. I know even the software monsters Nokia and Sony Ericsson had their faults in their first Symbian phones too. Every first time is a tricky one.

The next generation Motorola phones will be completely different from the others. Long gone will be good old days of the unfriendly Synergy OS, say hello to the powerful Symbian and Linux systems. These were already used by the Z8, Z10, Z6, E8, E6, and V8. By this year we will see more phones running on the new systems and will be powered by more powerful camera sensors, thanks to Kodak's partnership with Motorola. This advanced CMOS sensor used by modern digital cameras today will be used by Motorola phones for the years to come, the first sightings being the X Pixl Z12 5mp camera phone and Skarven 8mp multimedia phone without compromising style and form factor.

Let's see what Motorola has in store for us this year and beyond.

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  • 2008-01-21 12:03
  • Rxcx

@ lostinusa -

hi im a nokia fan and ur right as the name ur using ur probably someone whose " lost in usa " ... cuz beleave it or not motos are doing great these days u want touch screen they introduced rokr e 6 multimedia phone with many features few months ago and the prize no one have ever introduced such a phone with a touch screen and functions to the market for that prize ... and nowadays motos got good built quality (eventhough im a nokia fan tell me a good nokia phone with a touch screen to buy did u find anything i think no ...) u want camera they got the z10 ... u want music they got e8 ... watch most of the english music videos & movies they are carrying motos around not nokia or sony ericssons ... take a look at the battery life of the e6 , e8 and u will understand how motos are doing ...

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  • 2008-01-15 08:44
  • w9Lu

Actually, I read more than review on this phone. By the way, this is the an incomplete review of this phone by gsmarena and I dont' know why they forgot to put their normals pros/cons. A better review can be found at Mobile-Review
http://www.mobile-review.com/r...-z8-en.shtml


Motorola has not improved on their lineup since 2005. Back then, they introduced the v3x [with 2.0 megapixel camera] and Ming [with linux and 2.0 megapixel too]. These products were cool at the time and were competitive against SE and Nokia. But since then, I believe a monkey took over and they were stuck with the razr and all their products have revolved around one concept- thin phones.

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  • 2008-01-14 23:40
  • 4uTu

What you wrote at 3) gave you away. You haven't read the review and therefore you shouldn't have commented at all.

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  • 2008-01-14 23:05
  • 0xiY

This phone is so 2005. 2.0 megapixel camera in 2008 ? What are they smoking.
Here are questions that you want to ask:

1) Does this phone offer anything technologically new? No

2) Is the price($400-450) fitting for a phone with these features? NO

3) And the age old motorola specific question, Does this phone offer any different than the v3 Razr ? NO NO NO

So basically, your getting a hacked razr that kick slides. Congratulations Moto, in an age of 5.0 megapixel cameras, wifi, touch centric phones, your offering us a modded razr.

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  • 2008-01-13 21:56
  • 4uTu

Why this review not complete enough
There's no key features, main disadvantage,least screen shot, no 360 degrees spin,no speakerphone test,no screenshot of multimedia, no audio quality test,no web browser,
I do not know why there's people say thanks for this review?
it's not complete enough.
Motorola laways been a good thing for GSMArena.
i'm very disappointed with this review.

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  • 2008-01-12 06:48
  • F$Rp

Thank you for the review. It's refreshing to read a bit about Motorola, this is an intriguing one and I was highly interested in finding out more about it. As for "don't worry... motorola fan boys doesn't exist" - we're not called "fanboys", we're called gentlemen, and we can spell.

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  • 2008-01-11 19:48
  • Mtrf

My biggest beef with this handset is the attrocious quality of the finish, on both sides of the handset there are rectangular bumps where the memory card and charger plug in and they look and feel totally out of place.
that and its really unreliable but thats to be expected from any smartphone

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  • 2008-01-11 18:44
  • S35r

this fone is crap

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  • 2008-01-11 16:52
  • M3s@

Since they didn't put them down, I'll jot down a few pros and cons for this handset. I work in a mobile videogames publisher and change my "work" phone every so often...
Pros:
It is "different", the slide and twist mechanism certainly catches the eye.
Great screen quality, the handset I got came with the film Bourne's Identity and video playback was fantastic.
Sound is also very good.
Cons:
Matte plastic looks cheap.
Uncomfortable numeric pad (you already mentioned this)
Messy UI. Very messy, it's like they wanted to say "OK we'll use Symbian but change it completely so it clearly says Motorola", and they busted it. Navigation was not clear or user-friendly at all, working with mobile phones I am used to get the devices and overlook everything else in the retail package, and this actually had me fishing for the manual to be able to cancel an alarm I had previously set. The rest of the team were equally non-impressed (or rather negatively impressed) by it too.

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  • 2008-01-11 11:36
  • i5qv

a bit late with this aint we :)

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  • 2008-01-11 11:14
  • Mx@E

Dilmeet, I guess pro and cons are not present in this review because the genuine review at mobilmania.cz also lacks pro and cons. It is not the they-love-nokia-hate-motorola case I think ;)

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  • 2008-01-11 10:33
  • 0BiV

i so agree, its strange and rushed, where the hell is the good and bad?

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  • 2008-01-11 08:44
  • 0mHS

Very strange review by GSMArena.......looks like a rushed 1......first 1 ws the nokia 5610 and now moto z8........please podt your regular reviews guys.....

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  • 2008-01-11 07:38
  • vGfs

there arent any pros and cons....strange by GSMArena.......

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  • 2008-01-11 05:32
  • P%{C

@GSMArena:

first you said this:

"Whether you should choose UIQ for your next smartphone is a matter of discussion and according to us the most controversial point of argument should be the touchscreen functionality. We feel that the toll it takes on navigation usability is greater than the added benefit of handwriting recognition, which is the only feature that really can justify the use of a stylus. Somehow, the smartphone platform cannot really use the stylus efficiently as much as PocketPC does and it turns into more of a deterrent since you have to use both your hands to do things you could have easily done with a simple joystick or a D-pad if one was available."

That time you're yelling for the TS presence that you had even said that it shold have been non-TS at all and now you're saying...

"When we eventually made it - and even got the thingy going - it was another disaster. The Z8 doesn't have touchscreen support and the control pad is your only option for working with the application interface. It's kinda irritating to look at icons on the screen and not being able to use them, plus some functions - even essential and irreplaceable ones - are not accessible by way of the control and navigation keys."

What's yhe problem with you guys there... are you a UIQ hater?
anyway as for the lack of softwares for UIQ eventually there is StyleTap a cross platform made for both S60 and UIQ phones which enables them to run most of the available Palm OS apps.

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  • 2008-01-11 05:31
  • 2A3m

fanboy,ceiling fan is the best option!

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  • 2008-01-11 03:39
  • M@T2

@Z
don't worry... motorola fan boys doesn't exist

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  • 2008-01-11 00:40
  • Pnfa
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