Motorola E815 (0/5)
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| View all reviews for Motorola Mobiles | | Discuss Motorola E815 | The latest Motorola device is the E815. It has come as a enhancement over its predecessor – the Motorola V710 – last year, anxious fans gave it mixed reviews. Unfortunately, its wonderful design and robust multimedia features were overshadowed by the crippled connectivity features.
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.
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