v220

Sam Vimes

just wanted to warn everyone who'll listen not to buy a motorola v220 under any circumstances. it will break and when you get it fixed it'll break again. and when you get it replaced that one will break. getting the picture?

TerrorFirmer

Don't know much about the reliability of the phone, but the phone itself as phones go is pretty crappy...

1985

the battery on mine packed in after 2 months, so i just cut my losses and gave up on it

went running back to nokia

drdre

yeah my friend got it on speakeasy last week and the battery is fcuked and guess what he got annoyed and threw it in the bin.

Sam Vimes

btw im not goin by my own experience. i work in a phone shop and 80% of the repair book is the v220. ive told customers that we dont have it in stock even though we do just to save them the hassle

maidhc

is it just me or are most mobile phones these days awful? My experiences (not all mine - some owned by family:

Old
Nokia 1611 - Worked, some brick though
Siemens c25 - boring, but worked
Nokia 6150 - brilliant
Siemens m35 - freebe, worked grand
Siemens s45 - brilliant, but keys a little iffy, still being used
Moto v66i - brilliant, still being used
Nokia one with rubber body -brilliant, still used

New
Sendo s330 - Died, replaced, dumped
Motorola v220 - serious build quality issues, repaired
Siemens c65 - awful, crashes all the time, even after being sent back
Motorola v180 - good, but weird irregular battery life, sometimes hangs up after 7 minutes....

Does it make sense to spend a bit of money on a phone? Do they tend to be more reliable then?