| Motorola M3788 |
| General |
| Network | Gsm 900 / Gsm 1800 |
| Announced | 1999 |
| Status | Discontinued |
| Size |
| Dimensions | 140 X 50 X 25 Mm, 150 Cc |
| Weight | 170 G |
| Display |
| Type | Monochrome Graphic, Optimax |
| Size | 96 X 32 Pixels, 4 Lines |
| | - Fixed Icons |
| Ringtones |
| Type | Monophonic |
| Amount | 11 |
| Customization | |
| Vibration | No |
| Memory |
| Phonebook | Sim Only |
| Call Records | 10 Dialed, 5 Received, 5 Missed Calls |
| Card Slot | No |
| Data |
| Gprs | No |
| Hscsd | No |
| Edge | No |
| 3g | No |
| Wlan | No |
| Bluetooth | No |
| Infrared Port | No |
| Usb | |
| Features |
| Messaging | Sms |
| Browser | |
| Clock | No |
| Alarm | No |
| Games | No |
| Colors | |
| Camera | No |
| Battery |
| | Standard, 700mah Nimh |
| Stand-by | 110 H |
| Talk Time | 230 Min |
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Motorola - M3788Motorola M3788
Advantages Basic functions work well
Disadvantages No games, no ringtone/pic downloads
Last christmas guess what my Dad got me for christmas, a mobile...of all the phones...he chose the m3788e.
For some reason my dad thinks I need a mobile, the real thing is...I don't. I send the occasional message or call the occasional person but I'm not really a heavy user of it.
The phone serves all my purposes. It
A) phones people
B) stores peoples numbers
C) sends text messages
D) could roam internationally if orange would wake up and see what its competitors are doing
E) allows me to accept incoming calls
F) works for hours on end
G) charges the battery
H) allows me to brush up on my technical vocabulary in any number of foreign langauges.
But seriously that's about all I need from my phone and that's all it really does.
The only problem with it I have had yet is that one of the battery pins got squashed and meant I couldn't charge it, so all i had to do was press down on the back and it popped back into place.
I still have £47 left on my phone since the beginning of the year.......
And I can listen to the Orange woman all night if I want too...she has such a sexy voice!
But if you want a phone that you can download new ringtones to or or play games on this is not the phone for you, and it is rather large and heavy compared to friends phones.
So to sum it up: good functionality, not good for games n'that.
Advantages Sound Volume, Reliable, Battery Life
Disadvantages Size, Basic, Scratches Easily
I have found my motorola 'brick' to be very reliable and very easy to use. I learnt how to use mine without the manual (but then I'm not one to be very aquainted with manuals, waste of my time!).
I've got my brick on Orange, so I can't really comment on other networks that this phone may also be available on. If you are on Orange, then to know what your credit balance is, simply key in 453.
The phone cost me nothing, because my boyfirend gave it to me, but i understand you can buy it for around forty pounds. They don't sell it in Argos anymore, but you may be able to find it somewhere. It's like the T10, not widely sold because it's getting a little old now. Because the brick has been around for a while now, it has had the chance to evolve and improve.
MENUS and OPTIONS
On the phone book you can store upto ninety numbers, which I have filled up but I find ninety spaces to be quite adequete, as I only use half the numbers in my phone book eg. I have Fox Mulder's home and mobile number stored on my phone. I say no more.
The phone book is easy to use, names can be upto twelve characters long, but only in capital letters. You can view you phone book in alphabetical order or in location order (this is when each name and number has its own number as to where it comes in the ninety numbers). I don't use the location order, as I dont understand it myself, why there are different numbers for each name and number is beyond me I'm sorry.
Also on the phone book you are able to view the last ten calls made, and the last ten calls received, and seperate from each other. This includes the number and the name if the number is stored in your phone book. Unfortunately it does not say when the call was made/recieved which could be handy for reference. Although the phone does notify you on the main screen if you have missed a call, but you need to check the last ten calls received to see where the call came from.
There is also a fixed dialling function on the phone book menu, but I dont't use this. Next to this there is a one-touch dial setting. I don't use this either, which is basically the same as fixed dialling anyway. I see this as an added bonus which isn't completely necessary.
The battery life is, well, very good. It can last for days, it really depends on how long you charge the battery up for. Sometimes I leave my phone on at night, sometimes I switch it off at night. You can view the battery life in two different ways. At the top of the screen in the right, there is a small icon which shows a battery with three cells in it. Three cells shown would mean full life. No cells shown would mean no battery life left, and so the phone would need re-charging. I find it doesn't take long at all to charge the battery up. But the longer you keep the charger in for, the slower the battery loses its life. If you open the back of the phone, you will see that the phone has a huge battery. The other way to view the battery life is by going to call related features and show battery meter. This is much more detailed, as the life goes down in ten 'segments' from a plus sign to a minus sign. I have found that if you leave the charger in the socket switched on for long, that the plug gets very hot. I turn this off often when I am not using it. I would not like to see what would happen if I left it switched on. So, if you are one of those people that leaves everything switched on all the time, watch the heat of the plug.
Still on the call related features menu, you can also restrict your phone number. This restricts your ID on the next call you make. You can choose call barring. Here you can bar outgoing or incoming calls. If you change your mind then you are able ton cancel all barring. This can be useful for if you are, for example, at school and you don't want people to call you, but you don't want to swit ch your phone off. This can sometimes be better than to just turn off the ringing, because you phone would still be able to recieve calls, but you wouldn't be able to answer them. So sometimes pointless, unless you wish to know if anyone tried to call you.
Next on the menu is MESSAGES. This i a well use part of my phone, as I tend to send and receive a lot of messages, these can be sometimes cheaper than to call people. Some people would say that messaging can be fun, but I myself find it quite tedious. Letter after painful letter. It takes a while to write the damn thing, and then you find there is no space left so you've got to go all the way back through the messege, going through letter by letter, to shorten words and then go back through the message again to finish it. Sending messages with the brick, you must go to message editor, which is easy to find on the mesages menu. To delete a previous written message, hold on the cancel button. You see, the previous message you wrote stays on the message editor. I like this as it means I can go back to it if I want to finish it or if I choose to save it later, or perhaps I don't want to send it for another hour or so. When you save a message, it goes to the outgoing messages box. This tells you how many messages you have stored here. You also have the option of deleting a messages by pressing the OK button when 'view options' shows up on the screen at the bottom. This is shown on every message, received and outgoing messages. Options for outgoing messages are: send message, edit message, delete message and go to next message. Options for received messages are: delete message, reply to message, return call, edit message, go to next message and delete all messages. You view the received messages and the outgoing messages in different 'boxes'.
Also on the messages menu we have message settings, here there are options you can choose which are: service centre (which is a number ), expiry period (which is a number of hours, something I don't understand myself, which could be a result of totally ignoring the manual! But then I don't think I've actually needed to use it anyway, whatever it may be!) and outgoing message type (which is where you can choose from text, or voice. I choose text).
Voicemail can also be called from the messages menu. This is something that you need to pay for on Orange. The cost varies between different networks, so it would be almost pointless on comenting on the cost here, and I suppose I've been writing a lot as it is. I'll give your eyes a rest!
Next menu along on the main menu is PHONE SETUP. First along is where you ar able to adjust the ring volume. This is complicated, but once you're used to changing the volume frequently it is much easier to do. I don't often change the volume, unless I'm in a loud place and I need to be able to hear my phone. To change the volume, the picture is much like the battery meter picture, a plus sign for increasing volume and a minus sign for a quieter volume. To make it quieter, you must hold on the 'speaker' button (there is a picture of a speaker on this button) and because you can hear the ringing whilst doing this, you are able to hear the volume of the ringing get quieter. To make it louder then let go of the speaker button and hold on it again to make the volume go the other way, towards the plus sign. You will be able to hear the volume of the ringing increasing. If you made it too loud and you want it a fraction quieter, then let go and hold on the volume (speaker picture) button for a short time. The longer you hold on the button, the more the volume increses/decreases. This phone has a good loud volume. I find this uselful if I am in a loud place.
Next option is to turn the ringer on or off. This is pretty simple. Next you can set the ringer tone. There are eleven different ringing tones. Tones cannot be dow nloaded off the interenet like other phones. ten of these ringing tones are just 'rings' but different types of rings. Here is the list: standard tone, single ring tone, british tone, french tone, german tone, bravo tone, three ring tone, siren tone, quick tone, high tone.
There is one music tone, named music. I don't like this, but then this phone is ideal for me concerning ringing tones because I don't like musical rings. They annoy me greatly. I just like the ordinary, phone ringing. Mine is set on standard tone.
Next along is phone lock. You can choose from automatic lock, to lock now, and change unlock code. Lock now gives you the option of locking it. To unlock you phone, you must type in a four digit password. Other phones do not require an unlock code, but the good thing of having to type in a code is that you can have your phone switched on if you don't want anyone to look at eg. your messages. You can change the unlock code to something easier if you want. Although the default code is 1234 so there's no forgetting that!!! But maybe you want to make a more difficult code to keep the family out! This, I advise you not to do. You may forget it. Like me. I advise a year of birth, as the code is four digits. I have my cashier number as my code, as I work in a shop with cash tills, and I only want to remember as lttle numbers as possible so I tend to use one number for everything.
Also on the phone steup menu, there are some stuff about pin numbers. I tend to leave these alone. I don't want to mess up my phone. The temptation to fiddle around with these pin code things is very great. I've done it before. All I can say is LEAVE IT ALONE, if you don't know what you're doing. Like me. There is an option of making a new security code. This is six digits long. The default is 000000. Pretty easy, but I like to customise my phone so I set it to my date of birth.
Other options on phone setup are ex tended menus, which can be switched on or off and language selection. I like this. But dont change the language. I did this and I was totally lost! Lost for a number of hours and I was toatlly panicking like crazy! Lnguages you can choose from are: English, Suomi, Francais, Deutsch, E^^hnika (no, I have no idea either!), Magya, Italiano, Norsk, Portugues, Espanol, Svenska, Turkce, Automatic, Dansk, Nederlands.
There is battery saving mode, which I've switched on. I don't know why someone would want this switched off anyway. It would puzzle me. Surely everyone would want to preserve their battery life?
You can select keypad tones. I don't. I keep mine on no tones. You could if you wanted, have normal tones or single tones. Having keypad tones are annoying enough to someone sitting next to you, but writing a text message can be hell let me tell you.
Last on the phone setup menu is phone status. I don't bother with this. I don't think its essential. So I wont coment on it.
The next menu on the main menu is NETWORK SELECTION. On this menu there is: available networks, network search, preferred networks and find new network. I have never needed to use this, and I doubt many people would know how to use this. I for one don't, and I don't think I really need to. I only use my phone for calls, messages and to store phone numbers and other numbers such as my national insurance number.
Last menu is CALL METERS. This I'm sure you've guessed is obviously about calls. You are able to show call timers. Here you can show last call, total for all calls (both of these are the times in hours, minutes and seconds) and reset all timers.
Also on call meters, you can set audible call timers. This is single alert timer and repetitive timer. I've never found these necessary to use, and so have never used them.
Next is set in-call display, which allows you to choose if you want to show time per call or no in-call display. I find that leaving it set on show time per call is useful to see how long I've been on the phone for one call. I can view this during and after the last call.
Last in the call meters menu is lifetime timer. For a moment I was worried that this meant they counting down how many seconds I have left to live. Obviously though, this is no death clock. I have one of those on my computer screen saver.
Now I've gone throught the menus (breathe a very hefty sigh of well awaited relief), I'll explain other features of the phone.
There is no WAP feature, so access to the internet cannot be made. However, I'm guessing that would cost a bomb to use anyway. Som I'm fairly glad I don't have that function. If the brick rang the internet accidentally I would be broke in a matter of minutes!
RECEPTION. I find the reception pretty good. I've never had a failed message or call because of bad reception. You can view the quality of reception in your current area, by looking at the top left of the screen in the corner. This picture stays here, even when ficking through menus. The reception is measured using five bars. The bars getting higher as you go further to the fifth bar at the end. When reception is lower, then the number of bars decreases from the the higher ones, leaving lower bars at the other end.
When the ringer is on, then there will be a picture of a bell underneath the battery meter in the top right of the main screen. This also stays when viewing menus.
When you have a message, you will be alerted by if you have it switched on. But if you don't, and you don't hear or check you phone for a while there will be a little picture of an envelope next to the bell picture. To view the message you only need to go to the message menu and go to received messages. It will say how many new messages you have received. If you have no more space left for messages (upto ten outgoi ng AND received messages together) then an evelope picture will appear near the middle of the top of the screen. messages will need to be deleted to make space for newer messages. You cannot read new messages if you have no space left.
If you have a voicemail message, then you will need to listen to it in the messages menu. A picture of a tape will appear on the main screen if you have voicemail.
THE PHONE EXTERNALLY and other features
It is quite a large phone, about thirteen and a half centimeters not including the arial. The arial is about three to five centimeters long, depending on which bottom part of the arial you measure from.
As far as I know, the phone comes in a blue colour and a blackish-grey colour. The back and the arial are black on all phones though. I like the coulour of mine. It is the blackish-grey colour. The screen is very shiny, which is one of the things I love about the look of the phone. I polish it to keep it that way. Yes, I know. Sad. But then again, true. Because it is shiny it can scratch easily, so I look after it. You can purchase a cover for the phone for about six pounds. They sell them in Argos for this price displaying the brick inside it, even though they don't sell the phone! At the top of the phone, above the screen, but where the shininess continues, the word motorola is printed in white letters. You can probably see the phone in the picture above, but still. I explain it in more depth. Above the word is where you put your ear so you can hear people talking to you. It is a small circle.
The buttons are rubber, and the buttons make writing text messages very easy. One of the easiest set of buttons to press I have come across after using many phones of other people. The buttons are spaced evenly, leaving a good space so you do not end up pressing two buttons at once, or the wrong button. They are largish buttons, measuring eleven millimeters by four millimeters. They light up a round the edges when the screen lights up. The screen stays alight for about sixteen seconds when you stop using it. Sixteen seconds is quite a long time. It is a good strong light. I sometimes use it to see in the dark, but just to look at little things, otherwise I'd a torch. The on/off button Is a small round rubber button underneath the star key. It is an easy button to press. When you switch the phone on or off, a small noise is made to notify you.
To access the menu, there are two arrow keys underneath the OK button. The arrows point right and left, left also goes down, and right goes up. This is because the menu format is that of menus being viewed by scrolling up and scrolling down. Pressing OK is obvious as to what it does. It just confirms what you would like to do. This series of three buttons are on the right of the fone, above the number keys.
Above the number keys on the left is a series of three other button, all above one other. At the top is the cancel button, a red letter 'C'. bellow that is an arrow pointing upwards. This is quick access menu. There are nine options in this menu. In order they are (and they go along sideways, three being shown on screen at once): Call voicemail, Divert On/Off, Message Editor, Read Messages, Add to SIM, Battery meter, Lock Now, Find Name, Switch Line 1/2. These all include big pictures with them.
Below the arrow key is a button with a picture of a speaker on it. This is the volume button. This can be used as described earlier, but can also be used to change the volume of the PHONE, not the ringing volume. This can be done while in the front/main screen.
The phone has two sockets. One of the right for the charger, and one on the left for headphones.
The screen displays three lines of text, and text messages can use upto one hundred and sixty (160) charaters. When writing messages you don't have the option of predictive text, but then I guess that can be a good thing because I don't like predictive text. I use a lot of slang in my text messages to fit in more words. Predictive text for this purpose would be a nuisance. I have found the screen resolution to be quite good. It has improved since the older version.
Overall, it is a good, robust phone. It is fairly heavy in weight, but I like a heavier phone, it makes me feel less likely to drop it for some reason. I wouldn't expect it to be any lighter really, because of its size.
There are no games, but that doesn't bother me. I only wanted a phone for communication. If I wanted to play games I would have purchased a Gameboy. This phone wouldn't attract children. It's a phone for people who want to use it as a phone. That's just what I like about it. Not a fashion statement. I was attracted to it and that's all that matters. If you want a phone for fashion, don't choose this phone. Choose some over-priced Nokia piece. If you want a good, strong, reliable phone that works well for your needs (which would be to use it as a phone) then this is a good choice.
That's all I can think to say about the Motorola Brick. If I think of anything else then I'll add it. Thanks for reading my op. I hope it helps you. |
| Common misspellings on this brand: omtorola |
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