The Motorola c261 is a dual band GSM camera phone. The stylish svelte phone which has a candy bar style has been launched keeping in mind the youth. The phone is stylish, sleek and has cutting edge features. Moreover it weighs only 91 gm.
It mostly includes the standard cell phone features like a speakerphone, 200 name and address book, a large and bright LCD display with 65k color display and polyphonic ringtones besides simple messaging. The VGA camera with 4x digital zoom has 640×480 resolutions. It also has a WAP 2.0 browser. The battery standby time and talk time are also good, with the former being 250 hour whereas the latter being 7.5 hour. The handset is neither Bluetooth nor infrared enabled. The menu is typical Motorola style with no changes.
The Good
- Is sleek, stylish and light. Looks good in its black outfit.
- The 7.5 hour talk time and 250 hour standby battery is awesome. Certainly this may attract many.
- A dynamic memory phonebook where you can store multiple numbers for a contact and personalize your contacts too.
- A loud and clear speakerphone. And this is certainly the best feature according too me in this phone. The speaker sounds great sans any disturbances and can be set as per your volume needs.
- Low Price. The phone certainly is going to be a hit at this front. Even I’ll give a perfect to the it’s team for placing the most apt price.
The not so good
- No Bluetooth or infrared connectivity. A sure disappointment for Moto fans and people going to buy out this phone. I mean how will you add on stuff to your phone? I think the team for the sake of a low price compromised at this end.
- Little memory, poor entertainment facilities. If the lack of Bluetooth and IR connectivity was a disappointment, this might probably a bigger one. With only 1.8 MB of memory available to the user where will they store their downloaded stuff?
- Text messaging is very slow. Surely this wasn’t expected. You cannot provide any phone with such a degraded essential feature.
The bottom-line is that Motorola c261 caters all those who are looking for a stylish yet simple phone with minimal features. Moreover the phone serves your primary needs for pictures, but you cannot go overboard because of its low storage memory. This phone can surely be one of your best bets for your first phone. This phone makes you get used to the functionality of a cell phone. Moreover the JAVA applications like iTap, Currency Converter, Calculator, Stopwatch are add on features. And the pre loaded games like Soccer and Crazy is for all that fun of yours.
Sometimes the text messaging seems to be very slow making it quiet boring at moments. And the low memory is on for the disappoint front of the users.
But the catch is the price of the phone.
Priced very low this can be surely on of your best buys at such price. Except a phone or two from Nokia (which indeed are camera-less) this phone should surely be a hit among students and first time users. The phone with a good large readable screen and decent voice quality serves this sect perfectly!
