Motorola T191 Review

Good Points
Size
Easy to navigate menus
LOUD ringtones

Bad Points
The external aeriel can be irritating
The games are limited
Users can't add their own words to predictive text dictionary

General Comments
This phone is small and can look stylish, but if you are buying a phone for style alone, you would be better off investing in a phone that has for instance a flip-top, colour screen and polyphonic ringtones. Saying that, it is one of the most classy and stylish cheaper phones on the market.



I found the menus easier to use than those on Nokia phones, although the "soft-keys" ('Select' and 'Back') are the "wrong way round" (ie 'Select' is on the right and 'Back' is on the left), which may prove a little confusing and frustrating for those used to Nokia (and many other) systems.



There are quite a few ringtones, but you'll have trouble finding one you actually like. You can, however, compose your own, and the phone vibrates when receiving calls or text messages, so you can switch the ringer off altogether without missing calls.



The five games are (with the exception of the ever-popular Snake) pointless and are not fun to play. The instructions for the games are not clear in either the phone or the manual.



The phone has predictive text messaging, but you can't add your own words to the dictionary and it is a little time consuming switching from predictive input mode to standard ABC input mode.



The battery standby time is quite good, but once you start talking it runs down quite quickly. I've also had difficulty with the charger -- you have to make sure it's properly plugged into the phone and after a while it can slip out quite easily.



Overall though, it's a good-value, stylish little phone, which I have, and will continue to reccomend people buy.