Motorola RAZR 2 & Synchronization Trick
25 December 2007, Hedi |
As the super fan of the StarTAC series of Motorola, I only buy V3’s since the release of the first “grey” Motorola V3. Then I bought a black one with the Video Camera on, then the V3x, the V3i + iTunes, and 4 days ago the RAZR 2 (also known as the V8).
The phone is super slim, with a huge external screen: almost same size than the internal. The phone is super fast and very reactive.
Not iSync compatible yet… Hope it will after 10.5.2.
I’m very happy with this phone, but indeed I’m not the kind of user that looks for “multimedia” in a phone, but I want something classy and the RAZR 2 is! The design is superb, it’s a bit heavier than a V3i, but lighter than a V3x. Camera 2.0 megapixels and it comes with 512 or 2 gigs of internal memory (not expandable).
The “new” feature of the RAZR 2 is the mp3 (and aac) music player and the “force feedback” external touch screen! When you go to media player mode and close the phone, you’ll have three buttons (pause/play, forward and back) when you touch the screen to press one of them, the phone returns a vibration. It’s for me more a gadget than a great feature.
The main menu is fully customizable, the phone is able to open huge photos (1680×1050 px), high bitrate mp3’s up to 320 kbps, but has a lack in video playback. 
If you want to have all of you address book contacts in your RAZR 2 I suggest you this trick, select all of your address book entries and send them via Bluetooth to the RAZR 2! It automatically adds them all!
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14 Responses
this phone is really beautiful!
But the problemin motorola phones is the OS!
Waiting for your opinion after trying an iphone Hedi!
i was impressed by it!even if it doesn’t phone right now
I was hesitating between the V8 and the iPhone (same price range), but I’m a FAN of Motorola’s products, as I am a fan of Apple’s computers and iPods (never loved the iPhone)… I’ve tried the iPhone: impressive toy but not a great phone (to me).
My V8 doesn’t work nicely with my mac. I know that iSYnc won’t work but It doesn’t mount on my desktop for file transfer either which annoys me because now I have to transfer all my music via bluetooth which takes forever.
Couldn’t mount it too. I tried to go to the connection settings and change from Data to Memory Card like in the V3i, found something similar but it didn’t work.
I suggest you to use the “browse device” feature via bluetooth and manage your files that way.
What file type do you have to use to bluetooth songs from your computer to your phone?
If you’re asking on what type of audio files the phone recognizes: mp3, m4a (aac), wave those are the ones I’ve sent to my phone; all were played. Never tried with a .wma…
I truly like this phone, i bought it on eBay and it came today. I give it a AAA.
So do I.. it’s a crush!
Cannot isync my address book which sucks but I got the songs on the by putting the disc in my digital camera and ragging them over from iTunes…
Hi Micah. iSync doesn’t support the V8 for the moment (hopefully it will on 10.5.2). For the moment I suggest you doing what I described at the end of this post.
this phone isss niceeee
The phone is good looking but it doesn’t iSync, so I’m moving back to a Nokia phone based on Symbian OS.
To whoever posted the following:
“If you want to have all of you address book contacts in your RAZR 2 I suggest you this trick, select all of your address book entries and send them via Bluetooth to the RAZR 2! It automatically adds them all!”
This would at least be somewhat helpfull to work around the missing iSync possibity to sync address book and iCal with Motorola RAZR2 V9 cell phone.
I tried it without success, though.
So please could you or anybody give a step-for-step help, how to send the address book entries “via Bluetooth to the RAZR 2″?
Would be great!
Steps to add contacts to phone:
Go to Address book, select all on the contacts save to file. Mine defaulted to a file called vCards.
Make phone bluetooth discoverable
In Mac, pull down bluetooth menu (You might have to put yours in the menubar). Select device Motorola V8, Send file…
Pick vCards file
Voila.