3GScottishUser
13th April 2005, 10:19 AM
From Mobile Today's Dealer Panel (01/04/2005):
Production at the Motorola phone factory has been particularly prolific in recent months. Its been a banquet of cheap phones, fashionable top-end phones, flip phones, bar phones, music phones and, of course, 3G phones.
This week the panel gets to grips with the 3G V975, available on both 3 and Vodafone. Davis is unsure which Motorola handset this is, but a colleague reminds him: Its the one without Bluetooth.
An incredulous Davis retorts: Are you sure? Im shocked. Motorola more than any manufacturer knows how important Bluetooth is to customers. Youve got to have it on phones like this. What a waste of time.
Dooa expands the point. Its particularly disappointing because Motorola puts Bluetooth even on its cheap phones, he says. It is a bigger priority for a bigger chunk of the market. [...]
The panel catches sight of the aerial and the mood drops further. The inside of the phone turns Croucher off: It looks cheap and shoddy inside; like its made up of recycled parts.
However, the V975 is small, which is a first for a 3G Motorola and still a rarity for a 3G phone. It means that dealers have more than the LG to offer fans of small phones, the panel says.
Furthermore, the LG handsets are picking up a reputation for being unreliable and having a high rate of returns, something that is alarming dealers and making them particularly keen for an LG alternative. [...]
In a bid to find some redeeming features, the panel quickly chimes: Theres plenty of GP [gross profit] to be had. Ward tells us that the £123 from giving it away on 3s Talk & Text 600 is quite favourable in comparison to the Motorola E1000 (£40) and the latest LG (£90).
Dealer Comments:
Alex Croucher, KJC, Southampton
Good, if you like shiny Motorola clamshells.
Rob Davis, ThatPhone, Middlesex
Not bad, but definitely not great.
Raj Dooa, RD Communications, Surbiton
Hope we dont get the returns we get on the LG handsets.
Daniel Ward, Warnercom, Reading
Nothing spectacular.
VERDICT: MAYBE
The size and price save this Moto from its glaring omissions
Full Mobile Today Motorola V975 Article (http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/artman-test/publish/article_257.shtml)
Production at the Motorola phone factory has been particularly prolific in recent months. Its been a banquet of cheap phones, fashionable top-end phones, flip phones, bar phones, music phones and, of course, 3G phones.
This week the panel gets to grips with the 3G V975, available on both 3 and Vodafone. Davis is unsure which Motorola handset this is, but a colleague reminds him: Its the one without Bluetooth.
An incredulous Davis retorts: Are you sure? Im shocked. Motorola more than any manufacturer knows how important Bluetooth is to customers. Youve got to have it on phones like this. What a waste of time.
Dooa expands the point. Its particularly disappointing because Motorola puts Bluetooth even on its cheap phones, he says. It is a bigger priority for a bigger chunk of the market. [...]
The panel catches sight of the aerial and the mood drops further. The inside of the phone turns Croucher off: It looks cheap and shoddy inside; like its made up of recycled parts.
However, the V975 is small, which is a first for a 3G Motorola and still a rarity for a 3G phone. It means that dealers have more than the LG to offer fans of small phones, the panel says.
Furthermore, the LG handsets are picking up a reputation for being unreliable and having a high rate of returns, something that is alarming dealers and making them particularly keen for an LG alternative. [...]
In a bid to find some redeeming features, the panel quickly chimes: Theres plenty of GP [gross profit] to be had. Ward tells us that the £123 from giving it away on 3s Talk & Text 600 is quite favourable in comparison to the Motorola E1000 (£40) and the latest LG (£90).
Dealer Comments:
Alex Croucher, KJC, Southampton
Good, if you like shiny Motorola clamshells.
Rob Davis, ThatPhone, Middlesex
Not bad, but definitely not great.
Raj Dooa, RD Communications, Surbiton
Hope we dont get the returns we get on the LG handsets.
Daniel Ward, Warnercom, Reading
Nothing spectacular.
VERDICT: MAYBE
The size and price save this Moto from its glaring omissions
Full Mobile Today Motorola V975 Article (http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/artman-test/publish/article_257.shtml)