Motorola V710 from Verizon

Today, I spent some time reading up on the Motorola V710 from Verizon after rethinking the Treo 650 that I posted about in a previous post. It seems like after a lot of review reading, and my second thoughts about carrying around a huge phone with me that I decided to look for an alternative.

It looks like the V710 seems to have most of the options that all other high end phones have, without the PDA functionality.

As a compilation of pros and cons of the reviews I read, here’s what I can list. I guess I will put an update to this post later when I actually have the phone in hand, and verify the claims:

Pros:

Great looking screen (stays bright even in direct sunlight)
Speaker sound is very good
Memory Expansion card SD/MMC card
Voice recognition
MP3 player
Decent battery life

Excellent Coverage

Cons:

Bluetooth is disabled for certain functions unless activated by Verizon
Camera doesn’t seem to work as well in low light condition
It is a little larger in size than a regular featured phone
Front LCD doesn’t seem to be fully customizable with custom pictures

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Thanks for the feedback Sean. I think every phone is going to be missing something. Unfortunately, my work kinda forced me to get basically one model which is the LG VX4500, because they didn't want us to have any camera phone. pretty sucky deal if you ask me, because that limits our choice of phones to about 4 models, 2 of which are plausible, and one of which is way too expensive (the Samsung i600). Currently I have that VX4500, and the features are awesome in it, but I'm hating the reception on it, it always cuts me off when I'm talking, or cuts in and out... doesn't look like a good phone!