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Motorola Moto Z8 review | Features

Published on: Saturday, December 8th 2007                   Written by: Nic Rossmüller - Photography by: Dennis Hissink

Motorola Z8 LCD monitor

T he monitor of the Motorola Z8 is a 2.2-inch, sixteen million colour screen. The colours are clearly reproduced on the LCD monitor of the Motorola Moto Z8. When playing a movie, the quality is fine and the images can be followed well even in fast moments. Large differences in contrast may cause problems at times. The dark areas seem to be of a dissimilar colour on the monitor when large differences in contrast are occurring. After transferring the pictures to a computer the colours were reproduced correctly again.

Motorola Moto Z8 review

 

Motorola MotoRIZR Z8 Software

Motorola MotoRIZR Z8 Software

Motorola Moto Z8 File transfer

The Motorola Moto Z8 is standard delivered with Motorola Synchronisatie software. This software offers the possibility of connecting your phone through USB or Bluetooth with a computer. Once connected it offers the possibility of synchronizing your handset with the computer in order to get your email settings on your handset. When the cell phone is connected through PCSync it is a piece of cake to manage files like photos, music, ring tones and documents. The connection of my notebook through USB was reasonably fast; transferring 100MB took around 4 minutes. Through Bluetooth it was somewhat slower; the same amount was copied onto my notebook in 4.5 minutes.

Motorola RIZR Z8 Phone menu

Motorola RIZR Z8 Phone menu

Motorola Moto Z8 Menu

The intuitive menu of the Motorola Z8 works fine and is easy to scroll through rapidly. Even the beginning mobile phone user will find his way through the menu in no-time at all. The information about the icons is not placed below the icons but on top of the menu which makes you have to look up to see what a certain icon stands for. Unfortunately the Motorola MotoRIZR Z8 is not equipped with a document viewer or pocket office, so viewing your files on the road is not possible. The menu's background can be set to black, grey, or you can create your own.

 

Motorola BK70 battery

Bourne Identity movie

Motorola camera 8x zoom

 

Motorola Z8 Earbuds

Motorola Z8 Earbuds

Motorola Z8 MP3 player

Music and movies can be played with the multimedia player. Songs and movies can be stored in play lists which makes it easy to find them again providing you organized your files in a logical way. The operation of the multimedia player is easy and intuitive. Clear indications tell you which button you have to use for a certain function. The sound quality of the standard Motorola headset is fine; bass as well as high tones sound natural.

Motorola S9 headset

Motorola S9 headset

Motorola S9 Bluetooth headset

The Motorola S9 is a trendy Bluetooth headset with easy operation. You can use the Motorola S9 as a hands-free set and as a headset. The sound quality of the high tones as well as the low tones is fine. Once you are used to the ease of a Bluetooth headset you will prefer it to a normal headset with wires. The left side of the headset contains buttons for answering and finishing a call and on the right side we find the buttons to turn the volume up and down. Finally the on/off button and the Bluetooth connection button are found on the back.

 
 
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