Review: Motorola V360 and T-Mobile

Upon moving back to the United States my family needed to re-do just about everything. We started with our cell phone service. Our second day back in the States we knew exactly what plan we would be going with, after I check out the services online.

My family decided to go with T-Mobile’s family service, with four (free) phones. We get 700 minutes a month, which is the minimum but suitable for us, and free nights (starting at 9) as well as free weekends and free calls between T-Mobile customers. Compared the the family plan provided by Cingular, we get a pretty rocking deal. I also looked at Sprint and struggled navigating through Verizon’s terrible user interface online.

Our Phones: The Motorola V360

In the States the average consumer sees three kinds of phones; the Razr, a flip phone, or a junk phone. This is a terrible way of seeing phones but it is true. I told my parents NO RAZRS… so we went with a flip phone by Motorola, with a 4X zoom, MP3 player, Micro SD slot, USB charging, blue tooth enabled, Video Camera super phone. I have been using the V360 for two weeks now and am very impressed with it.

The design is nice, it is about the size of most flip phones in the U.S., but offers much more features than most on the market today. I have been greatly impressed with the phones reception, having an antenna-less design, despite everyone’s complaints about T-Mobile.

Aside from being a phone the V360 is an awesome toy… I do not think I will ever like playing music on a phone, but adding my own ring tones, songs, pictures and videos is something I enjoy about this phone. I have been shocked at its quality pictures and video capturing as well.

Check out some video too…

The phone syncs great through blue tooth with my new Macbook Pro and charges through USB, which is a plus. It also includes a free hands free set, now all I need is a car (just kidding on campus I can’t have one anyway)

The Motorola V360 retails for $280 USD or free with a plan from T-Mobile, and has shown be that there are good phones outside of Europe. My dad did well in picking them out too!

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[...] It was a typical day at Six Flags, we paid their crazy 35 dollars for a ticket, 15 dollars to park, $3.29 for a water in the 96 degree heat of Maryland, waited in their 2 hour lines, paid 21 dollars for a two person lunch and had all of our stuff stolen. Okay. So maybe the last part was not typical, but the way that their employees handled the situation was terrible. So in the terrible heat and after dropping a good 15 bucks on water, we decided to go to the water park and cool off. The five guys who were hanging out put all of our stuff, wallets, money, phones, shorts, debit and credit cards, etc. in our friend Dustin’s bag. We went swimming and everything was fine, we would check in on the bag every now and then and it was great. But then we went to the wave pool and came back ten minutes later and our bags were gone, I was furious as were the other guys. I have never had anything stolen from me and it is a pretty scary feeling. People are terrible. All of us guys went running around looking for the bag and I took my Dad’s cell phone and called my phone expecting to hear Intergalatic by the Beastie Boys somewhere near by. But we got nothing. Luckily, Dustin headed to “Guest Relations” and our bag was found. We went through the bag however and everything was missing or ruined, my debit card was not stolen, neither was Dustin’s. But my 300 dollar phone was gone as well as all of our money, and all the guy’s phones were trashed. After Dustin came back we all said ‘no way,’ we are going right back to “Guest Relations” to find out about this bag. At “Guest Relations” we found out that a security guard, who do not like to be called guards but rather officers,  returned the bag, which was rather suspicious. The people at Six Flags did not know what the ‘officer’s’ name was, hmm… So our bag was just mysteriously returned, by an unnamed ‘officer’ and stuff was missing and wet. Weird. The ‘Guest Relations’ workers do not have the ‘officers’ sign in and log when something is brought back, they just have stuff thrown back at them by any random person (whether they work for their company or not) The people inside the ‘Guest Relations’ building were snobby, not in anyway caring about our 400 dollar loss at their over priced park. I filled out their stupid form about my lost content, with all the basic information. After arguing back and forth with these people, about how they could care less about people and only about our money, I had to do an interview about my stolen content with a “Grade-A” Guard. The information was all on the form I just filled out and I asked why he could not just get the information from that form. He said he could but it would take longer, and he would like to do it this way instead. Wow. After all of this we finally found out that our bag was found in a toilet, that was why it all of our stuff was wet. And when we were through with Guest Relations we decided to leave, and never return again. [...]

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