anyone own a motorola V276?

[Hyperlite]

mine should be arriving today or tommarrow, just wanted to see if anyone had one and what they thought.

 

[Ktulu]

I had a v265, which is basically the same phone, i loved it until i broke it

 

[Hyperlite]

it LOOKS the same, but as far as i know, the v276 has a slightly larger display, and a bit better camera. was the display on the 265 a TFT LCD?

 

[Ktulu]

v265:

Internal Display : 128 x 128 Color 65K CSTN with up to 7 Lines of Text/ Icons/ Prompts
Weight : 3.77 oz.
External Display : 96 x 32 STN
Dimensions (H x W x D) : 3.6 x 1.8 x 0.9 inches

v276:

Internal Display : 128 x 128 TFT 65k Colors
Weight : 3.77 oz.
External Display : 96 x 32 STN
Dimensions (H x W x D) : 3.6 x 1.8 x 0.9 inches

they seem about the same though the internal display is CSTN on the 265(whatever that means)

 

[Hyperlite]

ah i see. thanks for the info. i'm hyped about this TFT lcd though.

 

[melchoir]

I have a v265, it's been pretty good to me thus far.

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: Hyperlite
ah i see. thanks for the info. i'm hyped about this TFT lcd though.

good choice my friend, BTW who is your provider

 

[Thegonagle]

V276 has a slightly silvered faceplate where the V265 had glossy black plastic. Screens are the same size, but the V276's is better because it has a wider viewing range, and you can still somewhat read it in ambient light after the backlight goes off. And the hinge creaks.

I bought mine at Best Buy because I could buy it without a contract extension for $50 less than at a VZW store. The hinge on the first one was creaking badly, so I took it back to Best Buy (which I should know by now as "Don't Buy"), where a couple of sales people, a 21 year old "manager," and a couple of "techs" hemmed and hawed and treated me like a criminal for a while before they let me exchange it for a second handset... on which the hinge also creaks.

Other than that, it's a fine phone compared to my LG VX6100 because it actually pulls in a signal reasonably well (like my three previous Motorolas), and the sound quality is better, so I don't have to say "what, what, can you hear me now?" as often as before.

New thread topic that makes no sense: What's better, Motorola or Best Buy? (Hint: The answer isn't Best Buy.)