Motorola V525

Despite some reports that Motorola's can be troublesome, I have had no bother with my Motorola V525 . I think that its the finger trouble when people who open and close the flip in a nervous fashion instead of using a worry egg, and those who like to dramatically snap them closed who create problems. If you are a fiddler, who can't keep your hands still for more than a minute, then a flip phone is not for you. Try snapping your spectacle case open and shut when your nervous, it'll be less expensive than taking it out on your mobile and blaming Motorola.

The Motorola V525 has a good speakerphone and the Stuntman and monopoly games are good. It also has bluetooth but the camera is rubbish and it takes fuzzy images. Buy if you're looking for a basic mobile phone, but it is not for you if you are a wealthy business guy who shows off his phone at a business meeting.

The Motorola V525 is a much better mobile phone than the current V360 I have. It's simple to use, has lots of easy to access functions, you can programme your own soft keys how you want them, and there is lots of photo memory.

The only real faults seem to be that the screen in photo mode goes blurry after a while, and the poor battery life, which lasts about two days with normal usage. Saying that, my wife now uses it and says it's the best phone she's used, and then there's me stuck with my horrible replacement.

On the first day I got the Motorola V525, I charged it up as I should, and during my first call it completely died. Thus began my constant battle with Motorola. They replaced the phone. The second V525 had exactly the same faults- switching itself off, just showing a blank white screen, dying in the middle of a text on a full battery. I eventually got a THIRD phone- same thing. I have lost count of how many times I have sent this phone off to repair. Despicable. I would urge people not only to avoid this phone like the plague.

At first I thought the Motorola V525 was a great phone but then the camera went blurry, I found how chunky and heavy it was and the battery life is poor (I tend to have to charge it every 2 days) sometimes when picking a ringtone it won't end unless you take the battery out and it switches off on its own. It scratches with the slightest knock and I am experiencing that I cant hear anybody when I phone them or they phone me without putting the hands free in or putting it on loud speaker. Atfer I while I became very disappointed with this phone and cant wait to change and I bet all the upgrades of this phone will probably have the same problems!

Having been a Nokia user most of my life I thought I'd try something different, and went with the Motorola. Having never owned a camera phone before this was ideal at first, till I realised how poor the picture quality was most of the the time, how poor the battery life was (2 days max) and how this phone has an odd habit of deciding to shut down on its own accord and turn the screen to white for no apparent reason!! I'm also not fond of the little side buttons that, if you happen to knock them when in your bag, change the level of sound. Very annoying!! The sound quality is very good and it's a nice size and not too heavy, but I'm afraid the bad outweighs the good, I've just ordered a new Nokia and will be quite glad to go back to a trustworthy model.

In summary, the V525 was a poor choice. Having always had Nokia phones, I made the decision to diversify and regretted it from day one. Despite complaining to the mobile phone provider, I have had no joy in resolving the problems. With 5 months of my contract left, I have had no choice but to source another phone - back to Nokia!!! Will never buy/recommend Motorola.

I've had my Motorola V525 for just under a year now. It's the first Motorola phone that I have owned and I won't say it's the last. Having said that, I get bored very easily with phones. The only reason that I have kept this phone for so long is because I was on a 12 month contract with Vodafone and I couldn't get an upgrade. I have just ordered a Samsung E800 that should be coming tomorrow, so I will be able to see what the camera quality is like on that phone as my Motorola was the first camera phone I have owned. I was quite impressed with the memory size for pictures as I have taken well over 200 pictures on the highest resolution and I am only up to 80% on the memory. I didn't actually open the instruction manual when I got my phone, but I found the phone very easy to use, and I liked the way that you can personalise all of the different hot keys and buttons etc. All in all, a good phone, and I would recomend it, as it is a nice phone to use. Just make sure you never have your charger too far away from you as the battery only lasts me for 3 days tops and I don't use it all that much!

I got the phone for my birthday and at 1st it was hard to use but a few days after I knew how to do everything. In my opinion It's the best phone you can get! Highly recommended.

I got the Motorola V525 the day it came out which was my birthday. I like the phone itself but it does keep switching itself off for no reason. Also when it's in my bag it's easy to knock the side buttons and alter the ring volume. I also accidentally push the right side button when I pick the phone up which is annoying. I've just changed to a Nokia 6600 so I will give the v525 to my daughter as it's only a year old. I wouldn't buy another phone with the same design now.