Motorola C350 Review

Overall Rating

Colour Screen.
Easy to operate.
Good predictive text function recgonising most words.

Ringtones are far too quiet
Messages very very very slow to open
Have to wait over 5 mins from when the phones turned on to get any messages

When I first had my C350 I thought it was great. But after about a few weeks I began to realise that it wasn't that good a phone. It began to run so slow. When you receive a new message it takes you about 10 seconds to open while the phone decides whether or not it wants you to read it. Sometimes it will just crash when you are in the car and sending a message. This brings me on to another really annoying fact. The font used for the message is terrible. The 'I's and the '1's and the 'L's all look very similar unless you write the whole message in upper case font.
When you have the phone with you in a quiet place you can hear all the tones really well. But as soon as you go out somewhere with your friends you can't hear them. Also to add to this the vibrate function is useless. When the phone is set onto Vibrate and ring it will vibrate for a bit then play the tune with bursts of vibration and because you cant select how long you want the phone to ring out for before cutting off to send to your voicemail, by the time you do feel it vibrate it is far too late.
Whilst you're in a call the good thing is that you can set up a call beep to tell you how long you've been on the call. I.e. it can be set to beep every 60 seconds so that you know how long you have been on that call.
The menu on this phone is very easy to navigate. I had never had a Motorola before and I got the hang of using it in almost no time at all. I think it is possible one of the most easy phones I have ever had to use.
The phone is packed full of many useful features like the calendar and currency converter and call related features.
I got this phone because I thought that it looked stylish and had quite a lot of good features for the money. The case is very easily scratched. In the first few weeks I had scratches on the screen and now it looks like I have had it for about 5 years. My friend also has the phone and his is in a similar state. I would advise anybody who is buying a phone to go and have a look at it in real life or have a go on your friend's phone because that way you can check for things like ring tone volume and the general operating speed of the unit. I'm getting fed up of this phone and I have just ordered a brand new Motorola V500 on Orange. Reading reviews on this site I have decided that this is the perfect phone for me.