Replace Your Cellphone

Motorola, a Fortune 100 company, first brought out the RAZR V3 into the market in July of 2005. The model was the first of many generations of slim, compact, versatile, and smart 2G and 3G phones that the company came up with.

As the unique style of the RAZR V3 became more and more popular around the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, upgrades of the original unit were born, such as the V3c, V3t, V3i, and others. The models changed based on the cellular service providers that wish to offer better versions, like Vodafone, Cingular, and T-Mobile.

A little over a year later, Motorola released the Motorola RAZR V3m, a multimedia phone packed with dozens of better features. The phone’s strong feature lies on the 1.3-megapixel camera and music capability through an integrated music player. Unlike its older counterpart, the V3m has a longer lasting battery. Its internal memory is 40MB, which can be expanded with a storage device up to 1GB.

Verizon Wireless from the US, with over 53 million customers, was the lucky dog that first owned the rights to releasing the RAZR V3m to its subscribers. Owners of the mobile unit can have access to 3G service, and the VZ Navigator, which is Verizon’s GPS service. The V3m boasts of its Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO) capability, which enables users to access the internet at high speed over their mobile.

Verizon added some touches to the V3m, such as modifying the user interface from the standard Motorola menu, to a Verizon interface. To access the camera and music, one has to scroll to the “Get It Now” menu, instead of finding an icon on the menu to get them there directly. Most users were not particularly psyched by it, so they found ways of reverting back to their V3m to the original Motorola interface.

Like the other V3 versions, the V3m has Bluetooth capability, where users can exchange data from phone to phone wirelessly. However, Verizon has found a way to prevent sharing of unlicensed applications, music, and the like, by removing the Object Exchange (OBEX) profile on the V3m. If a phone does not have the OBEX profile, it can only send data via Bluetooth to another phone if it has the same profile as the sender. To add to security, Verizon also disabled USB transfer of music and applications to the phone.