As boring (or in the case of the W6, difficult) as they may be to look at, we've got to hand it to Motorola -- they've managed to pack in a nice mix of interesting features into the latest round of wallet-friendly W-series phones. Starting at the bottom, the W231 candybar has an FM radio with RDS and recording capability, media player, microSD slot, "streamlined interface" for text messaging (your guess is as good as ours), and Moto's CrystalTalk noise reduction circuitry. The
W388 and
W396 -- a candybar and flip, respectively -- are dead ringers for one another on the spec sheet, with both offering VGA cams and Windows Media compatibility in addition to the W231's decent list of capabilities. Our personal favorite, though, has to be the W6 (pictured), which has a few really unique features: a host of built-in training software (and A2DP doesn't hurt either) for making the phone particularly useful on the jogging circuit, the ability to export recorded data up to your PC in Excel format, and the tendency to burn your retinas with one of the loudest, most painful shades of yellow we've ever seen on a phone.
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posted Jul 20th 2008 8:54PM
this, ladies and gentlemen, is why motorola is going down lol
Looks like we now know what's instore for T-Mobile's summer line up!
It looks like Spongebob Squarepants threw up on a Razr...
wtf is up with motorola. all of their phones have the same os. all they do is make a new phone and put tha same ol bullshit inside no wonder motorolas goin down
wow, definitely going to buy this phone!
I must say this phone would be a good w-series phone (fm radio, micro-sd card slot, average camera) BUT WHY YELLOW?! Seriously Motorola, is this some kind of sick joke? I would rather have ANY color but yellow. If I do get this phone (for function purposes) I would either change the keypad and little circle things around the screen or buy a really good permanent black marker!