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Very nice phone with good features!
Pros
Smaller, user friendly phone with direct connect
Cons
No outside display; have to open to see who is calling
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
This is a nice phone with good features, although if I had bought the phone I would have gone for an upgrade from the i60C.
Why I have one
Just to put it on the record, I did not buy this phone. My job requires me to carry a cell phone, and the plant that I work at has approximately 300 people with cells. Due to the high amount of internal 'burning' of minutes, we negotiated a deal with Nextel to install a tower by the plant and lock us into a deal where we would guarantee them service for 3 years. Due to this, I recently had to switch from a nice Kyocera(I will write a review on this soon) to the Motorola i60C.
The Good
This phone has a very good battery. In my case, it has two very good batteries. The package deal that my company bought into was the phone, two batteries, one car charger cord, one wall charger cord and the belt clip. In any case, each charged battery will last you approximately 160 minutes of continuous talk, and without continuous talking I have had them last 4 days.
The phone is very eye appealing. The Motorola belt clip allows you to carry the phone with you, and it looks good. Also, the belt clip is very sturdy, and I have not had the problem of this phone catching on things and falling off at odd places. This is a big plus over the previous Kyocera I had.
The i-60C has a large phone book. It can hold up to 250 entries with up to 7 entries under each individual. The one downside to the phone book I have seen is that it does not allow me to plug in whole names. There is only 11 characters for the names; other phones I have had in the past have much more spaces than this, and most of my friends names do as well.
The i-60C has large buttons that are easy to manipulate while driving. What I mean to say is that the keys are large enough that you know where you are at without looking. This can be very handy while driving or in a crowd.
Along the same lines, the speakerphone option is very good. Just think, you don't have to buy that expensive hands free system to use this phone safely! The speaker is very loud, and the reception is also very good. I have not had problems with the speaker dropping out or the other person not being able to hear me while driving 70 miles an hour in a loud car.
The antenna is also a very nice feature, as any of you that have broken antenna's in the past will know. The antenna on the i-60C is easy to remove and replace in case of breakage. I had a Motorola 120C that this was definitely not the case with!
Finally, the SIM is a nice feature. I have only had my phone for one month and I have already had to replace it. I was working at the plant and it was dropped into a pool of liquid, which of course sent the display on the fritz. I took it in to our local rep, and she took the SIM card out, put it in a new phone, and away I went. I had all of my own contacts and everything already programmed in, as they go with the SIM.
The Bad
I have already mentioned some of the things that I do not like about the phone. Here are just a few more.
This feels to me like a cheap phone. Nothing in comparison to the star-tacs of old, but still not as sturdy as the Kyocera and 120C that I have owned in the past. The plastic seems flimsy, and it feels like it would break if dropped. I have dropped it several times and not had any issues, but it still feels flimsy to me.
The flip phone is not easy to manipulate with one hand. I have had several calls that I try to open the flip while driving and it opens partially and then closes again. This of course sends the person to voice mail right away, and then you get the annoying tone letting you know that you have a voice mail. This is not a huge deal, but it is something that has happened enough to where I have noticed it.
There are not as many 'flashy' things as there were on the Kyocera and 120C. The ring alternatives are very minor, and the on phone display is not intuitively easy. I have not had the time to set down and read the book to get all of the information, but I didn't have to with the other two phones.
The best
The main reason to buy this phone is obviously for the Nextel Direct Connect. If it were not for this feature, I would have stuck it out with my Kyocera. I do like this phone, and I like the features of it, but after having several other more user friendly and attractive phones, I would like to have something with a little more pizazz!
Just to put it on the record, I did not buy this phone. My job requires me to carry a cell phone, and the plant that I work at has approximately 300 people with cells. Due to the high amount of internal 'burning' of minutes, we negotiated a deal with Nextel to install a tower by the plant and lock us into a deal where we would guarantee them service for 3 years. Due to this, I recently had to switch from a nice Kyocera(I will write a review on this soon) to the Motorola i60C.
The Good
This phone has a very good battery. In my case, it has two very good batteries. The package deal that my company bought into was the phone, two batteries, one car charger cord, one wall charger cord and the belt clip. In any case, each charged battery will last you approximately 160 minutes of continuous talk, and without continuous talking I have had them last 4 days.
The phone is very eye appealing. The Motorola belt clip allows you to carry the phone with you, and it looks good. Also, the belt clip is very sturdy, and I have not had the problem of this phone catching on things and falling off at odd places. This is a big plus over the previous Kyocera I had.
The i-60C has a large phone book. It can hold up to 250 entries with up to 7 entries under each individual. The one downside to the phone book I have seen is that it does not allow me to plug in whole names. There is only 11 characters for the names; other phones I have had in the past have much more spaces than this, and most of my friends names do as well.
The i-60C has large buttons that are easy to manipulate while driving. What I mean to say is that the keys are large enough that you know where you are at without looking. This can be very handy while driving or in a crowd.
Along the same lines, the speakerphone option is very good. Just think, you don't have to buy that expensive hands free system to use this phone safely! The speaker is very loud, and the reception is also very good. I have not had problems with the speaker dropping out or the other person not being able to hear me while driving 70 miles an hour in a loud car.
The antenna is also a very nice feature, as any of you that have broken antenna's in the past will know. The antenna on the i-60C is easy to remove and replace in case of breakage. I had a Motorola 120C that this was definitely not the case with!
Finally, the SIM is a nice feature. I have only had my phone for one month and I have already had to replace it. I was working at the plant and it was dropped into a pool of liquid, which of course sent the display on the fritz. I took it in to our local rep, and she took the SIM card out, put it in a new phone, and away I went. I had all of my own contacts and everything already programmed in, as they go with the SIM.
The Bad
I have already mentioned some of the things that I do not like about the phone. Here are just a few more.
This feels to me like a cheap phone. Nothing in comparison to the star-tacs of old, but still not as sturdy as the Kyocera and 120C that I have owned in the past. The plastic seems flimsy, and it feels like it would break if dropped. I have dropped it several times and not had any issues, but it still feels flimsy to me.
The flip phone is not easy to manipulate with one hand. I have had several calls that I try to open the flip while driving and it opens partially and then closes again. This of course sends the person to voice mail right away, and then you get the annoying tone letting you know that you have a voice mail. This is not a huge deal, but it is something that has happened enough to where I have noticed it.
There are not as many 'flashy' things as there were on the Kyocera and 120C. The ring alternatives are very minor, and the on phone display is not intuitively easy. I have not had the time to set down and read the book to get all of the information, but I didn't have to with the other two phones.
The best
The main reason to buy this phone is obviously for the Nextel Direct Connect. If it were not for this feature, I would have stuck it out with my Kyocera. I do like this phone, and I like the features of it, but after having several other more user friendly and attractive phones, I would like to have something with a little more pizazz!
