Motorola E365

it's shoite. would have been better off sitting on me bollix than going out getting dis. better off getting two cups and a string! dont waste your money. sell it for gear!

I had the Motorola E365 mobile phone for a long time. It's not bad value, sturdy, it works, and you can have fun with the the built-in camera (and transfer pictures too), but the response is slow, and it is generally out of date with newer, faster, more customisable, better looking mobiles.

Motorola must be kicking themselves after making the E365. It is truly the worst mobile phone that I have ever owned.

Not only is the screen quality bad, but the features are stingy, and the camera is nothing to shout about. The battery life is poor, and I have had over 10 different problems with it.

The Motorola E365 mobile phone was a big let down. Numerous problems were encountered with the phone. It was a terrible battery saver, and the camera was terrible! The good points however, were that the screen was simple and easy to use.

I got this phone for my birthday and I loved it. It's a good phone for someone who is getting their first phone (which was me at the time) but honestly I would look at something a little bit more advanced. Infrared is a huge feature on a phone and you would have to be crazy not to by a phone without it. Other phones like the SAGEM MYV55 or the Sony Ericsson T610 and T630 are a little bit for advanced and you can tape songs off the net and set them as your ringtone. They are the same price but as I know many people are choosing their phones between the Motorola E365 and Nokia 3200, don't buy either of them because I have the Motorola and my brother has the Nokia and there both poor. The only advice is write down what you want in a phone and then search reviews and work out which phone is the right one for you.

The Motorola E365 is a good enough phone over all, this was my first Motorola and I was impressed. I would recommend it to people.

Positive aspects:

The main reason I bought this phone was for it's size - it really is small, and a lot easier to keep in a pocket than many of the clamshell designs. It's a very 'professional' looking phone, and not overdesigned with curves and wacky shaped buttons like many mobiles. It has a very nice, bright, screen, and everything is very readable.

Negative aspects:

The buttons are too small for regular use, and their clicking seems a bit cheap sometimes. The phone's software is bloated with stupid extras like wacky, meaningless, Japanese-style games, horrible ring tones, and too many unnecessary multi-level customization options. Even on the lowest setting, the phone's ringer is far too loud, and on the maximum setting it's deafening! Basically, it's hard to get a sensibly low ring volume that won't embarrass you. As far as I can see, the number buttons 1, 2 and 3 can't be reassigned to your own speed dials (they are preset to answerphone, etc.) which is particularly annoying as in the past I've always used 1 to phone home, 2 for work etc. The camera is frankly pointless, but then the same goes for most mobiles I guess. Even on the maximum resolution, the pictures are horribly grainy, the lens gives a distorted fish-eye view, and it takes forever to save or load the resulting pictures. The phone software has crashed a few times, necessitating removal of the battery for a few seconds before it'll come back to life.

But worst of all (I saved this for last!), it is not possible to turn off the loud and lengthy jingle the phone plays every time it is turned on or switched off! Well, it is possible to stop it, but only by having the phone's normal ring option set to a silent mode! Naturally, this is somewhat ridiculous as most of the time you will want the phone set to use an audible ring tone! It drives me nuts every day, and will be the primary reason why I'm unlikely to buy a Motorola next time.

Summary:

Overall, the E365 is a usefully compact little phone, but let down by all the unnecessary and childish clutter in the menu system and nasty little buttons. And that on/off jingle!!! This phone certainly betrays its Far-East origins, where miniaturization and gimmicks reign supreme.

The Motorola E365 was a replacement phone for a Sony Ericson, bad bad choice. The main draws are the camera and the price. At £80.00 for a camera phone you would think you couldn't go wrong. After a mere few days the screen had been scratched and got a dusty coating on the inside, don't know how. I expect the phone screen to get scratched, its bound to happen but not to the easy extent this one does. When typing a txt message I found that I kept pressing the total escape button, bringing you back to main screen and loosing my txt... no I dont have big fingers but yes, it is annoying. The other appeal was the camera. WOW...not. The camera is ok, that's not the problem. The problem is that you have to keep very still when taking a picture, or the subject does. It's no good for quick snapping or else you get a blur, not very cool. I also found that my phone kept freezing a lot of the time and without anything else to do I had to keep taking the battery out, which obviosly can't be good. Sometimes the alarm clock won't go off and the next day something else wont go as well, this was before I dropped it on the floor. Also, it has bad bounce - as in completely switches itself off and refuses to stay turned on for more then a few seconds. Talk about being hard to get. And for the conclusion, it doesn't look sexy at all, a guys phone if you will. Big and square with none of those lady like curves.

Overall I say this phone is a good one and I like it as this is the type of phone I've always wanted to have - but I had some minor problems with the phone which I've mentioned in the summary of bad points - rest of its features are cool.

The Motorola E365 is a good phone compared to the ones that I have mentioned above. It is one of the best camera phones for that price. And definitely, what most of the reviews that the other reviewers have written is in my experience incorrect!!!

This is one wonderful phone.