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Author: mobile-smile.net

Description: Features
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.



The V9m's camera doesn't offer a flash.

The 2-megapixel camera takes pictures in five resolutions, from 1,200x1,600 down to 120x160. Other camera features include three quality settings, brightness and white-balance controls, a self-timer, a multishot mode, three color effects, six frames, a 4x zoom, and six shutter sounds. The camcorder records clips in three resolutions with sound. Editing options are limited to a self-timer and brightness and white-balance controls. Clips meant for multimedia messages are capped at 10 seconds, or you can shoot for as long as the available memory will permit. Speaking of which, the V9m has a generous 65MB of user available memory. That's shared between all functions, so you're better off buying a microSD card for maximum storage.



The V9m had excellent photo quality.

For easy photo printing, V9m supports Bluetooth photo transfers or you can send them to Sprint for printing and home delivery. In our tests, photo quality was very good. Colors were sharp, object outlines were distinct, and there was enough light.

You can personalize the Razr2 V9m with a greeting and a variety of color themes, screensavers, clock styles, and alert sounds. You can always get more options from Sprint via the WAP 2.0 wireless Web browser. Gamers get demo versions of four Java (J2ME) titles: Brain Challenge, Ms. Pac-Man, Tetris, and Tower Bloxx. You'll have to buy the full versions.