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Motorola Renegade V950 Reviews
1. So So
13 Oct 2009 by Leo
43.3%4.3out of 10
For the most part, this phone is "okay".... I certainly wouldn't spend much money for it! The battery life SUCKS on a good day. It locks up, applications don't work and freeze up. When you first get the phone, if it works....leave it alone. I made the mistake of updating it, and now most of the stuff DOES NOT work. And you can't go back to a prior version.
Has potentialLock ups
Battery life sucks.
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2. Gets worse...
29 Jul 2009 by liz
76.7%7.7out of 10
The phone seems great at first...has gps, tv, camera with flash, DC, the music buttons on the 2nd display, and just about everything else.
Then you realize that the battery cannot handle all these features, so in 4 hours you have to charge it. Then you find out that each text message is limited to 160 words. If you have something longer to say, you have to send the first and start a second.
Then it begins turning off randomly, then the screen goes black, blue, yellow and fuzzy.
I spent money on extra chargers for work, my bf's house, the car, and the extended battery. The extended battery made no notable difference, and in a month, I had to replace the chargers because they broke from over use.
gps
tv
camera with flash
music
DC
video
speakerBattery life
Only 160 words per text message
LOTS of Glitches
Turns off by itself
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3. v950
23 Jun 2009 by dirty harry
100%10out of 10
Battery life sucks so I bought a extended battery which is a good improvement phone now lasts 2 days even using a lot of data. The main improvement they need to do is get back to using external antenna's!!!
nice phoneno external antenna
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4. Impressive...depending on what you owned before
27 Apr 2009 by Liz
83.3%8.3out of 10
It is nice to have a phone with SOOO many features. The problem is that you have to charge it constantly to be able to use the feature and not kill the phone by noon. I use the car charger and bought a second charger for work. I broke the chargers from using them so much...
I did get the extended battery which helps a little, but not that much.
Camera is great...flash is a great feature. Video is good too. Internet runs smoothly and tv is awesome. Music player works well and the buttons on the front make it easy to use.
I am not too familiar with the DC...I have only used it once.
The texting is hard because it only lets you write 160 words per text. You can only recieve that many as well, so long msgs get divided into several texts and they dont come in all at once or in order. So, it can get frustrating. Also, a keyboard would be nice.
It tells you what time you started the call when you hang up but if you go back later and want to see how long the call was, it doesnt say. I find that annoying too.
FEATURES -
TV
Internet
Mp3
Camera
Video
etc...Battery
Text Msgs Limits
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5. Like the look hate the way it works
2 Jan 2009 by superman83758
50%5out of 10
This phone is raw but the texting sucks the battery sucks and it freezes and shuts off all the time i hate it. i had the rumor before this and it was 23078025 times better. the phone sersiouly has issues. the chirp volume sucks. I bought this piece of crap when it first came out for hundreds of dollars and it was not even worth a fuckin cent fuck sprint fuck all you guys
raw outlookphone sux
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6. Nextel Direct Connect???? Not according to Sprint.
24 Dec 2008 by Anonymous
100%10out of 10
I purchased this phone about 3 weeks ago due to T-Mobiles lack of customer service and failure to move with the times. Every network out there has 3G and so does T-Mobile but with only one phone that can bennifit from its features.
The Moto Renegade looks and works great, have found no problems thus far. Problem I am having is not with the phone but rather the carrier. I signed up for the simply everthing plan the offer and its great, but apparently not all phones are created equal like I though.
Apparantly when Sprint bought Nextel they needed to switch the Nextel towers and Phones to work with all sprint products they sell. My phones DC feature only works on certain towers in certain areas. Sprint tells me that this is the new SPRINT DIRECT CONNECT and that it is not available in my area but my phone says otherwise. Does anyone understand how this system works? I thought I had it figured out but apparently not.
Is it a Nextel DC or Sprint DC?
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7. good phone found battery problem
17 Dec 2008 by torrence joseph
83.3%8.3out of 10
i have had my motorola v950 for some time i had to replace my initial unit one time due to recycling and or rebooting alot. i had a problem with my battery at times as well but i was told that the initial battery came factory made. you have to run the battery down when you recieve the unit then charge it up. when i did that i found that my battery can actual last more than 24 hours also if you are a heavy bluetooth user remember the pop up stating that using bluetooh will use a little more battery usage. i work at least 10 or more hours a day. when i utilized the v950 i was amazed at the amount of battery life i still had on the unit for thoes who have one try these tricks: backlight make it 10 to 15 seconds, keypad make it 8 seconds. lower the standby mode time also. for thoes who work at night try it also. doing that in itself sufficently worked for me. i still have my 950 and i must say it is a rugged phone. folks dont throw away the unit or kick it to the curb just yet. cuz i found it to be a very great and reliable phone i love the speaker the call quality was good and very reliable. oh by the way i forgot try also turning the network setting(roaming) to home or sprint only. found out when you are auto mode it always makes the phone push to keep a good signal if you know you live in a good area with great sprint coverage then you won't need the auto mode use it when you know you are in a far area. any questions just email me. good luck folks
good speaker quality, very loud, good tactile feeling, very ruggedinitially had trouble with phone but solved problems
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8. GREAT PHONE LOAD OF FEATURES
12 Nov 2008 by TOM ANDREJKO
90%9out of 10
ok let me start off by saing i been with nextel since 2001, i wasnt happy with the merger i didnt like what sprint was doing at first with wanting to shut down the nextel network, i have a special place for nextel. but i also wa getting tired of there old phones, i had a i880 which was allright but had none of the features i really wanted. the only thing good about the iden network was that it was bulit from the ground up for ptt. but i dont need that anymore, so i wanted more coverage, better phone features. and ptt just to have incase i wanted to use it. the hybrids are garbage i mean come on no roaming??? great if your in a market for it, but if you move outside of one you either have no : "walk talk" or no pcs. sprint piggybacks off verizon for roaming. then this phone came along ha everything i could want, rugged, evdo, great display, sprint interface, roaming, sprint tv, plus ptt. and for all the guys and gals blaming sprint for the ptt problems maybe if you did a little research before you buy a phone you would know it does not work off of iden it is a cdma phone. they are just keeping the ptt name as nextel dc instead of q-chat, which is good. go on there website and look at the coverage for there dc and it will show you.i was well aware of the coverage area before i bought this phone. if you just need ptt stick with nextel they are the best for that i dont think any one is ever going to replace that and have it work like it did, but if your like me that wanted better coverage more features and a better phone, and ptt on the side, this is your phone!! hopefully a software update will fix the battery life, i found a quick fix thou, just turn off data when your not using it, lasts for 3 days with that off.
CDMA, QVGA DISPLAY, SPRINT INTERFACE, SPRINT TV, GPS, STEREO BT,LOUD SPEAKERS,GOOD CAMERA,EVDO REVA,PTT,MILITARY SPECBATTERY LIFE WITH DATA ON, BUGGY SOFTWARE, NEED TO EXPAND MORE DC COVERAGE
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9. nice phone, and total crap at the same time
11 Nov 2008 by justin brown
50%5out of 10
i bought this phone about 7weeks ago. at first my only complaint was how the text predictor worked. i had a sanyo phone before this one, and the text worked awesome. if you sent a certain text regularly ie. "snowboarding tomorrow?" or "on way home" etc. the phone would take the first 3 or so letters and auto phrase it out for you. not so with this phone. it also doesnt have a dictionary that you can place words that wouldnt normally be found in a dictionary, such as a friends name or a resturant name etc.
moving on, soon i found out that the alarm function only worked about 50% of the time. then, as i used it more, calls started not connecting and the phone would "lock up" like a computer that is virus infected. the only way to get it to respond after this was to turn it off and back on. NOT what i expect from a "high end phone".
also as i have read on a few posts, and can attest to myself, the battery life sucks. it says this is a military shock spec phone, but i hope no military personel try to rely on it in the field, it will die on them and hopefully that is the only casualty on their mission.
i took it in to replace it today. it took about 45 min to an hour at a "flagship" sprint store and they just gave me a new one. which is ok, but any ringers you purchase go by by with the old phone, and make sure you get your original sd card if you have pics or vids you dont want to lose.
looks rugged (if only all the internal functions were).
screens are big.
camera takes good pics.
flash is bright.no missed call alert light.
text format sucks.
battery life.
is it really rugged if it breaks within days of you buying it?
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10. GREAT PHONE
3 Nov 2008 by FireMedic
100%10out of 10
Sprint and nextel by far has great customer service in store where i am from. That is why i left that piece of shit company verizon wireless. Anywho, I traded in my old I930 towards this phone. I love this phone, Everything works on it great. This has to be the best cell phone I have ever had.
EverythingNothing
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