Motorola MOTO U9 Review

Messages:

Everything is organized as expected here. When typing a message, the text input can be predicted by iTap system (Motorola’s alternative to the T9), which works just fine. Once multimedia content is inserted, the message turns into MMS. There are preloaded templates for both Text and Multimedia messages, which can be edited; new ones can also be added. Messages can be moved from the inbox to ‘my folders’ if you want to save them on the phone instead of on the SIM card.


The E-mail client supports both IMAP and POP3 mail boxes. When setting the account up, you have to write only the username and the password, the wizard connects and obtains the settings automatically for more popular servers. If the settings cannot be found, you’d have to fill them manually.


Connectivity:

Motorola MOTO U9 is a quad-band GSM/EDGE global phone, which can work on any continent. It doesn’t support 3G, so the speed for internet browsing will be limited to EDGE’s limitations. For local connections, it can use Bluetooth v2.0 (Stereo Audio is supported) or the microUSB port on the bottom.

The Internet Browser suffers from the limited speed of the connection. Large pages, such as PhoneArena and the desktop variant of YouTube render properly, with correctly ordered columns, etc., but sometimes instead of images and graphics there are ‘x’ signs and white background. The multimedia files have been dropped by the phone, because of the slow data. However, this browser would be usable for smaller pages or for ones, where the text is important but is not a real alternative of those found on some other new phones, such as Sony Ericsson, Nokia with S60.