The MOTO RIZR phon is a bit thicker than the RAZR when kept side by side, but it’s a lot narrower, though not as narrow as the KRZR. The length is almost the same as the RAZR, just a wee bit longer.

The MOTO RIZR has very typical Motorola styling and it also appears just like a clamshell to many eyes. It applies RAZR-like styling to slider phones. Ever since I heard about this phone being called the RIZR, I’ve just been smiling at the aptness of the name.

It has a little ridge below the display to facilitate the slide process on the otherwise smooth phone. This ridge tends to accumulate dirt around itself very quickly and in a few weeks it’ll look like the dirtiest part of the phone. Also, the ridge is also placed a little too far away from the bottom of the phone, so its actually more convenient to use the navigation pad as a means of pushing the phone open.

The slide action is smooth and spring-loaded – just give it a push in either direction and it’ll take it from there. Sometimes the phone tends to open itself while putting it in or taking it our of your trouser pocket.

The phone fits very nicely in the hand and is comfortable to hold up and talk. It feels a little heavier than the RAZR, but it’s still quite comfortable.

The display on the MOTO RIZR is a very common 176×220 resolution screen, which sounds a little low for a phone released this late, but you have to keep in mind the fact that the phone isn’t too expensive. The display size is also a little small – much smaller than the RAZR – so the low resolution is somewhat compensated for. Pictures look good on the display despite the low resolution. Even in sunlight, the display is readable and doesn’t look washed out.

The Z3 has the standard Motorola P2K UI like the other Motorola phones. Some people like it, some people hate it. I got to grips with it with the KRZR, but somehow, I didn’t enjoy using the RIZR UI too much. Typing SMSes was extremely annoying with the iTap for some reason, and the UI is also a bit slow compared to the KRZR.

On the upper part of the left side of the clamshell in Motorola RAZR MAXX V6 there is a notice a dual volume key and a small button that enables the user to access a small menu on the secondary display. The bottom part of the left side of the handset features the miniUSB port.

The right side of the phone in Motorola RAZR MAXX V6 features the camera button and a small eyelet for a wrist strap with the Motorola logo that has been included in the sales package. The front cover of the handset features a mirror-like surface which makes fingerprints very obvious. Right under a small secondary display you’ll be able to notice some touch keys that act like controls for music player. Unfortunately they are not that responsive, but you might get used to it if you insist on controlling the music player with the phone folded. Under the music controls the clamshell bears a small Motorola logo that flashes blue the moment you’re receiving a call. This is accompanied by 2 glowing blue lines found on both the phone’s extremes.

The 2 Megapixel camera has been placed above the small display and features a 2 LED flash. The measures of the device (104 x 53 x 15 mm and 105 grams) place it in the medium sized clamshell class. The phone looks pretty sturdy and solid, so you don’t have to worry about the closing mechanism. Unfolding the clamshell will definitely make you believe that you’ll be able to text for hours with it. Unfortunately, even if it features a “huge” keypad, the keys are pretty hard to push, which obviously lowers the responsiveness. Otherwise the RAZR-like layout of the keypad looks pretty cool, and features a big 4-way navigation D-pad for an easier browse through the menu and a special button (under the D-pad) which activates the Internet browser.

Dressed in the same deep burgundy color that the RAZR2 V9 is, the handset is stylish. The high glossy material on the front makes it even more attractive. The display screen takes up most of the front showing very bright and rich colors. Even on medium brightness, it was easy to make out what was displayed in very bright environments. The D-pad, found just below it, is large and comfortable to use and its texture distinguish it from the rest of the handset.The small buttons that make up the keypad and the navigation keys are rather annoying to use. They don’t take much effort to be pressed but it has to be right on them. If the surrounding area is pressed instead, it takes much more effort to activate the button. They are far too recessed and small to be easily felt without looking down at them and they are spaced far apart requiring lots of movement. Regular keys would be much better than what we have here.

The Z9 feels very sturdy and there was very little play in the slider in both closed and opened positions. The handset doesn’t feel as if it’s going to fall apart or break easily at any time.

Featuring quad-band frequency access, the Motorola V330 delivers all the functionality necessary for a global lifestyle. Through AOL Instant Messenger, busy travelers can stay in touch with friends and family by using the V330 as their portal to the world.

Merging cutting edge technology with distinctive fashion, the Motorola V330 is strikingly familiar to its predecessor, the V300. Featuring a rubberized blue shell, the V330’s clamshell design measures a comfortable 89 x 49 x 25 mm and weighing 114 g.

Closed, a 96 x 32 px monochrome screen of the Motorola V330 displays two lines including time, signal and battery strength, phone status information, and even messages to notify users of incoming calls. Above the LCD, a lens to the 0.3-megapixel VGA camera is situated, able to capture images at up to 640 x 480 px in resolution.

Along the left side, volume keys adjust earpiece and ringer volumes during calls and standby. Underneath, a Smart Key allows users to perform frequent basic functions by anticipating likely subsequent actions such as selecting a menu item after it has been highlighted. A Voice Key is located along the right side, used to create recordings or issue voice commands.

A USB-capable data port is housed on the Motorola V330’s top edge, along side a standard 2.5 mm jack allowing handsfree access through wired headsets. Optional accessories can be attached through the Connector Port located on the bottom, or just a charger.

Flipped open, a 176 x 220 px screen is capable of displaying 65K colors. Positioned below, a 5-way navigation keypad is flanked by Send, Power / End, Browser, Camera, Menu, and Left and Right soft keys. Fairly standard, a numeric keypad allows iTAP predictive text messaging with a few simple key presses.

Out of the box, the Motorola V330 comes with a standard 780 mAh Li-Ion battery, travel charger, hands-free headset, SIM card, and user manual.

The V220 is an entry-level camera phone. It looks similar to its big brother phones, the V300, V500 and V600, but does not have as many features. Cost-savings start with the colour screen, which is small and uses STN technology rather than TFT, making it less bright and crisp. The camera is very poor quality and tends to take fuzzy dark images. Other areas where Motorola have economised are in the reduced memory, no Bluetooth, no quad band, no infra-red.

On the positive side, the V220 is smaller and lighter than the other Motorola clamshells, so could be a good choice for someone who does not need the more advanced features. The Motorola V220 has a curvaceous silver design, and the V220 is still a well-specified phone, with a digital camera, MP3 ringtones, handsfree speaker, USB connection for transferring pictures to a computer, and triband, and is a good choice when the budget is tight.

The front of the handset of Motorola E815 boasts a 1.5-inch-diagonal, 4,000-color external display, which gives user the time, the date, signal strength, network connectivity, battery life, and photo caller ID info for incoming calls. The phone’s camera lens is placed just above the screen, with the LED flash below and to the left, between the Verizon and Motorola logos. Overall, it closely resembles the Motorola V710 both inside and out.

Flip open the Motorola E815 and you’ll find the vivid, razor-sharp 2-inch-plus-diagonal internal display, which supports 262,000 colors and is very easy on the eyes. Images are saturated in rich colors with plenty of details, although we were disappointed by the E815’s staid menu, a relative letdown compared with the snappy animated menus on Verizon’s other V Cast phones. We also had a hard time seeing the display in direct sunlight. You can control the contrast, brightness, and backlight time on the screen, but you can’t change the font size.

The Motorola E815’s silver, beveled keypad looks great and comes with a five-way navigational control, a menu button, a Clear key, a separate camera button, and the Talk and End keys. Additionally, the toggle acts as a shortcut to four user-defined features. The keys were a little slippery for our thumbs, and we had some trouble with the 0 key, which doesn’t give you a satisfying click when pressed. On the other hand, we love the dedicated speakerphone button, which you can activate before a call, located on the left edge of the handset just below the volume rocker. You also get dedicated camera and voice command buttons, which sit on the right edge of the phone. The headset and TransFlash ports, which are both protected by rubber flaps, lie on the top edge next to the antenna.

A large 240 x 320 color display with over 262,000 colors dominates the inside of the top cover, while the outside cover of the handset sports a supplementary 96 x 80 full-color display that can display caller ID pictures, time, call information, battery and signal strength, and more. The integrated VGA and 1.30-mega pixel digital camera is housed above this display. Use the VGA camera for live two-way video calls at up to 15 frames per second. Up/down buttons are placed on the left side for volume control, as well as the camera button and mini-USB port.

Most of the features and on-screen menus for RAZR V3xx are controlled by a five-way center button on the handset’s back lit control pad, ( which is precision cut from a single sheet of nickel-plated copper alloy!!!). A mini-USB port is provided, which, while useful for fast data transfer, can also be used with compatible USB stereo headsets. The RAZR V3xx however does not have a standard 2.5mm headset jack. Lastly, a charging port is placed on the bottom of the phone, and an unobtrusive internal antenna is safely tucked away, keeping RAZR V3xx’s design compact and portable.

The RAZR V3xx’s internal phone book can hold up to 1000 contacts while the phone’s picture ID system allows you to assign pictures to most common callers. RAZR V3xx also supports polyphonic ring tones as well as MP3 ringers, allowing caller to use portions of their favorite songs to alert you to incoming calls. For times when the user want to be discreet, there’s a vibrating alert. A built-in speaker phone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to the ear while voice activated dialing makes calling friends, family and associates as easy as saying names.

Speaker-independent technology allows any speaker to dial numbers with the voice dialing system in RAZR V3xx. And because the RAZR V3xx is Blue tooth enabled, wireless headsets for calling, and even wireless stereo headsets for music can be configured with the phone for total hands free operation.

The RAZR V3xx is a messaging and wireless Internet powerhouse. With HSDPA and EDGE technology, the RAZR V3xx delivers broadband-like speeds for downloading, Web browsing, and data exchange. Leveraging these advanced capabilities, the RAZR V3xx allows for live two-way video calls at up to 15 frames per second, over the air music and video downloads, direct media streaming, and more.

Support is built in for sending and receiving pictures, text, graphics, sound and video via messages. When used in combination with the phone’s built-in still and video camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. And because UMTS and HSDPA support built right into the phone, you’ll be streaming and downloading at speeds so fast that head will spin. Used in combination with one of Cingular’s Media Max plans that supports Cingular Video (additional Cingular charges apply), the V3xx will allow you to play high-quality news clips, sports clips, weather clips, and more–right on your phone. And with Cingular’s exclusive partnership with HBO Mobile and HBO Family Mobile, user never be at a loss for something good to watch.

It’s attractive, packed with features and, save for poor video quality, it’s a good performer as well. While the original Razr was a Cingular exclusive for the first six months of its life, Moto spread the carrier love this time around. The CDMA Razr2 V9m lands at Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, and Alltel, while the GSM Razr V9 comes to AT&T.

Though thin phones have become ubiquitous, you can’t talk about the trend without mentioning the phone that started it all: the Motorola Razr. Its slim shadow continues to loom over the cell phone world, and Moto continues to capitalize on the design with countless updated models. But it’s only the Razr2 that brings a total makeover to the design. Though it can’t qualify as the world’s thinnest phone (not like it would hold that record long anyway) the V9m is slimmer (4.05×2.08×0.46 inches) than the original Razr V3. Yet more importantly, it just looks a whole lot sexier and more streamlined. The hinge is somewhat more prominent, but the “double chin” bottom that holds the antenna is hammered almost flat.

One of the most notable features of the V9m is its external display. Measuring a generous 2 inches, it’s one of the biggest external displays we’ve seen on a cell phone. Its 65,000 color resolution gives it a bright and vivid look that’s easy on the eyes. As expected it shows the date, the time, the battery life, the signal strength, and photo caller ID. You can also use it as a self-portrait viewfinder for the camera lens, which sits just above. Yet that’s not all that’s interesting about the display.

It also features three touch controls along the bottom. Each control features vibrating tactile feedback, which is something we’ve been hoping to see on more cell phones for a long time. The feedback makes the buttons easier to use though it’s worth noting that you need to touch the control just right to make it work. Also, you’ll need to be able to see past the fingerprints that the display attracts so easily.

Completing the exterior of the phone are the aforementioned camera lens (there’s no flash), a volume rocker, and the Motorola smart key on the left spine, plus a camera shutter button on the right spine. What’s really cool is that each of these controls offers tactile feedback as well. As a result, the thin volume rocker is easy to find when you’re on a call. The Micro USB/charger port sits on the left spine while the microSD card slot rests behind the battery

The Razr2 V9m is packed with multimedia features, but we’ll start with the basics first. The phone book holds 1,000 contacts with room in each entry for five phone numbers, e-mail and Web addresses, a job title and company, a street address, and a memo. You can save callers to groups, assign them a photo for caller ID, and pair them with one of 20 polyphonic ringtones. If you want to get really creative you can assign a video ringtone as well. Other essentials include a vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calculator, currency and unit converters, a notepad, a tip calculator, a stopwatch, and a voice recorder. It’s quite a decent selection overall. You get a world clock as well, and it’s one of the best we’ve ever seen on a cell phone.

Bluetooth is also onboard, and music fans will be pleased to find a stereo profile. One-the-go types can make use of the V9m’s speakerphone, voice dialing, instant messaging and e-mail, USB mass storage, and PC syncing. Sprint’s Wireless Backup is also a feature. Using the service you can transfer your contacts to Sprint’s servers for safekeeping.

As an EV-DO phone, the V9m offers full support for Sprint’s 3G services. You can connect to Sprint’s Power Vision streaming video services for a variety of content, much of which is exclusive to Sprint. Included are Sprint TV, which offers movie previews, live TV, and on-demand programming from more than 50 channels including CNN, VH1, ESPN, Comedy Central, and the Cartoon Network. And in a nice change, the video player interface shows a spiffy new design. Sprint Movies delivers full-length, pay-per-view movies, while NFL Mobile offers same-day football highlights. Furthermore, you get Sprint’s On Demand service for access to a host of information such as news headlines, sports scores, and weather updates personalized for your ZIP code.

The V9m’s music player is unchanged form other Sprint music handsets. That means the player’s interface is rather stark with album art as the only visuals. You can create playlists and there’s a shuffle and repeat mode. For your listening pleasure the Sprint Music Store offers simultaneous track downloads both to your PC and wirelessly to your phone. Just remember that you’ll need to store them to a microSD card. The airplane mode turns off the phone’s calling functions for listening to music while in flight.