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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #63014 in Cell Phone Accessories
• Color: Black
• Brand: Motorola
• Model: MOTVE20KIT
• Released on: 2007-09-04

Features

• Clamshell phone with cool RAZR style and external display with touchscreen controls for music playback and text message inbox access
• Sprint Mobile Broadband Network via EV-DO connectivity; Sprint TV and Sprint Music Store enabled; GPS turn-by-turn directions via Sprint Navigation
• 2.0-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, MicroSD expansion to 8 GB, access to personal email and instant messaging
• Up to 4 hours of talk time, up to 230 hours (9.5 days) of standby time
• What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, 256 MB MicroSD card, quick start guide

Amazon.com Product Description
Sleekly styled with typical RAZR flourishes, the Motorola RAZR VE20 clamshell phone for Sprint offers one-touch access to its music player, text inbox and menu controls from its external display. In addition to fast 3G speeds from Sprint's high-speed EV-DO network, you'll enjoy GPS navigation capabilities for accessing the optional Sprint Navigation turn-by-turn direction service as well as access to Sprint TV's video-on-demand with full-motion video and vivid sound. The VE20 is also a great choice for a cellular audio player, with access to the Sprint Music Store for over-the-air downloads and wide multiformat support for loading your music onto optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 8 GB in size). Other features include a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, voice dialing, access to mobile email, and up to 4 hours of talk time. This package includes a 256 MB MicroSD card to give you the room you need for larger work files, presentations, reports, documents or fun files like photos and music.

The cool Motorola RAZR VE20 flip phone provides touchscreen controls on the external LCD for music playback and accessing your text message inbox.

Sprint Service
Supporting the EV-DO high-speed data standard, this phone enables you to download and stream high-quality video, straight onto your phone. Where coverage is available, EV-DO connectivity provides average download speeds ranging from 400 to 700 Kbps, with peak rates up to 2 Mbps. This device is backwards compatible to 1XRTT technology in areas where EV-DO is not yet available. With Sprint TV, you can make your cell phone your always-on source for news, weather, sports and more. This comprehensive video service combines high-quality streaming audio and video from channels including the NFL Network, ABC, The Weather Channel, Fox Sports, E!, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and more.

Sprint brings you closer to this season's NFL action with NFL Mobile Live, which enables you to listen to the live radio broadcasts of every NFL game throughout the 2008 regular season. Sprint is making it easier to follow a specific team by carrying a live radio broadcast for each game, including pregame and postgame reports in most instances. NFL Mobile Live also allows NFL.com fantasy owners to monitor the performance of every player in real time directly from their phone. Key information for individual players will be easily accessible, including real-time game and season cumulative stats, rankings, player profiles and photos. NFL Mobile Live is free of charge to Sprint data subscribers.

The Sprint Music Store enables you to buy, download, and then jam out wherever you are with new songs or old favorites. Offering a growing selection of more than 1.6 million songs, the store provides you two copies of each song--one for the phone and another for the PC, as well as the ability to burn songs to a CD using Windows Media Player. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you.

This GPS-enabled phone provides optional access to Sprint Navigation for driving directions on your mobile phone--by voice and onscreen. Along the way, turn-by-turn directions will be announced in a clear voice and displayed on your phone. For example, Sprint Navigation will say, "Go 1.2 miles and turn right on Elm Street." As you approach the turn, you will hear, "Turn right on Elm Street." Sprint Navigation also provides proactive traffic alerts with one click re-routing. And it's easy to find restaurants, banks, cafes, hotels and more from over 10 million points of interest across the U.S.

With Sprint Mobile Email, you'll get easy access to your favorite home email services including AOL, Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN/Windows Live Hotmail and more. And Sprint Mobile Email Work enables you to access email from corporate servers, including Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Lotus Notes Domino versions 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 (with the latest software update).

The VE20 features a 2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth stereo music streaming, and MicroSD memory expansion to 8 GB.

Phone Features
The Motorola RAZR VE20 has an internal 2.2-inch display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 262K color depth. It's complemented by the external 1.6-inch LCD (120 x 60 pixels, 65K colors), which offers touchscreen controls (with haptic feedback) for accessing the digital audio player, your text message in-box, and a shortcuts menu to the phone's main functions. It also displays the current time, signal strength, battery life, and incoming caller ID.

The internal phonebook allows you to assign up to 600 entries, each storing seven numbers for a total of 4,200 numbers and up to 1,800 email and 600 Web addresses. You can save callers to groups and pair them to a photo or one of 27 polyphonic ringtones included with the phone. It's compatible with 32-chord polyphonic ringtones as well as real-music (MP3) ringers. The phone has a 30 MB internal memory, which can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 8 GB in size).

Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version __), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and file transfer. With the A2DP Bluetooth profile, you can stream your music to a pair of compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server (requires Phone As Modem Service Plan).

The 2.0-megapixel camera provides five resolution options for shooting still images (from 1600 x 1200 pixels for printing to 160 x 120 pixels for sending via messaging). It also features three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, multishot capabilities, a self-timer, and six shutter sounds (including silent). You can also capture video clips with sound in three resolutions. and you can choose to shoot for as long as you have available memory or cap clips at 20 seconds for sending via MMS messaging.

Other features include:

• Voice-Activated Dialing: Say the name of the person you want to call, and the phone dials the number automatically.
• Personalize your phone by downloading unique ringers and assigning them to numbers in your address book so you'll know who's calling by the sound of the ring or style of animation
• Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
• Download and play entertaining, interactive games that you'll want to play all the time
• Messaging: Sprint Mobile Email, SMS text messaging, MMS multimedia messaging
• iTap predictive text entry
• Digital audio player compatible with MP3, AAC/AAC+, and WMA; can play music in background while accessing other phone functions
• Flight mode enables you to listen to your music with cellular connectivity turned off
• WAP web browser
• USB connectivity
• 3.5mm headset jack

Vital Statistics
The Motorola RAZR VE20 weighs 3.5 ounces and measures 3.9 x 2.0 x 0.6 inches. Its 910 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4 hours of talk time, and up to 230 hours (9.5 days) of standby time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA/EV-DO frequencies.

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Customer Reviews

Love my VE-20
Just thought I'd kick in my two cents... a cell phone tends to be rated, not on how well it does everything, but on how well it serves the user's needs. In my case, I called up Alltel (my server company), told them I was going to be a difficult customer, and read off a list of requirements. In my cases, there are many features I don't use, and don't want. Whether they work or not is of no importance to me. I don't text, and I don't use the internet on my phone. Don't want a 'smartphone'. But the features I required, all 16 unique points, were ALL there, and they all work to my complete satisfaction.
Just to highlight a couple of the (to me) more important points:
Voice recognition is great. No confusion, no repeats. In the last couple of weeks, it has interpreted my speech correctly every single time I used it. Far better than my last phone!
Volume is nice and clear- even for an old guy like me who's a bit hard of hearing.
Large expandable memory- I can (and do!) put my favorite movies on the phone to watch when I'm bored waiting in line at the store. Movie playback has portrait/landscape options, so I can turn it sideways to fill up more of the screen. It gives me the best movie playback of any phone I've tried.

There are other features that I like also, but those are big ones for me. The VE-20 performs exactly how I want it to. From my perspective, that makes it a 10 out of 10. I can understand how someone else might have other needs and rate it differently.

Terrible for texting
The camera is a 2mp, so it looks good. both screens are beautiful. However, the lag with texting is so terrible that I've found myself screaming at it and nearly snapping the phone in half.

UPDATE: I just got a Blackberry Tour and I took this Motorola out in my driveway, opened it up, and smashed the S*%% out of it with a hammer. It felt great.