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[Motel75]

Originally Posted by MATHA531

I don't particularly like Motorola phones and have been told (never having owned one) that their early quad band models sucked.

True, there were some problems, though I don't think it was anything to do with the quad band per se. The first Moto quads were the "triplets" -- v300, v525, and I think v600. They had a habit of frying very easily. My wife went through three v525s, the first lasting four moths, the second lasting a week. (The third is still going strong after three years.) However, the reception on all four bands was perfectly fine, and the RAZR V3 is essentially nothing more than a flattened-out triplet.

Having dealt with earlier frail Motos, I'm not sure it was anything particular to that series. However, Moto supposedly had a lot of problems with getting both 850 and 900 to work satisfactorily using the same antenna, although I can't see this as being a huge hurdle, and a few years of labwork ought to have solved this long ago.

I just wish they'd make everything quad by default, rather than (as in Nokia) treating it as a high-end "feature". Surely it would save trouble from the customer-service point of view.

One more piece of advice: If your TMO phone contains the MyFaves software, you would be well advised to delete it before using it on another network. I didn't, and received a flood of text messages on some European carriers.