The Motorola v176 is a flip-top low end Tracfone with modest features.
First of all this is a dual band GSM phone which supports only 2G networks. With its flip top design the phone is eye catchy. The soft keypad is simply awesome.
The CSTN 128×160 pixels screen supports 65k colors with a bright display. The phone has a standard Li-Ion battery (720) with a standby time of 260 hour and a talk time of 7.5 hour. The sound is one of the best features as besides all those pre loaded polyphonic ring tones, the phone supports MP3 tones and has a composer too. It has a WAP 2.0 browser. And as already mentioned with its soft keypad the phone supports instant messaging besides SMS, MMS, and EMS. The phone is not Bluetooth or Infrared compatible but it does have a USB port. But with 3MB of internal memory and no expandable card slot, the phone will not cater much of your entertainment needs.
The Good
- The flip top design is awesome
- The 7.5 hour talk time and 250 hour standby battery is excellent.
- A dynamic memory phonebook which can store up to 500 records.
- A loud and clear speakerphone.
- USB port to meet all your entertainment needs.
- The soft keypad is probably the best feature of the phone.
- A 32 preloaded ring tone set with some new and exciting music from the company
- Push to talk feature (the general folks may not be much familiar with this!) is another advantage of this phone and places it much higher in this low range category phones.
- Unlike Moto’s c216 which falls in the same category, the v176 has an organizer with alarm for various events.
The not so good
- No Bluetooth or infrared connectivity; can be disappointment for some users but the USB port is always at the rescue.
- Text messaging is very slow. This might probably be the feature I would give a miss to this phone. You have to wait for probably some seconds before you can see what you’ve typed.
- Low internal memory and no expandable slot. This feature will again disappoint the entertainment seekers. With only 3 MB of internal memory, this would surely be a skip for the entertainment frenzy.
- Screen presentation is not so good. Those old fruits and flowers background for Motorola will surely be thumbs down from me.
Motorola v176 is for all those who are looking at a stylish yet affordable phone with some exciting features and at the same time serve their entertainment needs (even if only to some extent, as in this case!) then this is the smart choice for them. The phone overall has a good design and sound quality but as far as the menu and other sophisticated features are concerned you need to check out the other phones from Motorola.
