Motorola v171

This is a renewal for v150 with minimal differences that mostly concern another body design and colour solutions.

• Class: low-end
• Position in the line: above Motorola v150
• Rival phones: Philips 330

• General features
  • Announced in October 2004, in the market since February 2004, official announcement on the 6 of January 2005
  • GSM 900/1800
  • High contrast graphical display with the resolution of 96x65 pixels shows up to 4096 colours (STN), up to 3 text lines with 16 characters in each + service line and one more design line
  • Battery type Li-Ion 650 mAh
  • Battery life:
  • standby mode up to 180 hours
  • talk mode up to 210 minutes
  • J2ME MIDP 1.0
  • Weight: 87 grams
  • Dimensions: 87 x 45.6 x 22.7 mm
  • Volume 70 cc

   

• Memory
  • Phone book, up to 100 numbers in the internal memory with several numbers for a name but total number of entries can't exceed 100.
  • Memory for 20 SMS
  • Organizer memory for 500 events

   

• Call management, ring tones, voice functions
  • 16 tones polyphonic call alert, up to 128 instruments
  • 35 tones and call melodies, a possibility to create own call melodies (up to 32). All the melodies are polyphonic
  • MotoMixer melody editor (creating polyphonic melodies)
  • Loading iMelody or MIDI melodies
  • Vibrating alert
  • Different ways of vibracall working, schemes
  • Voice dialing, up to 20 entries

   

• SMS

• EMS (ver. 5.0)
• Predictive text input iTap
• SMS Chat
• Peer-to-peer Chat

 

• Connectivity
  • GPRS (4+1)
  • WAP 1.2.1

   

• Organizer and extras
  • Themes (screensavers, wall-papers and ring tones, these all is meant when saying a theme), a possibility load new themes
  • A possibility to create own menu tags - MyMenu
  • Calculator, currency converter
  • Calendar, date, time, alarm-clock (as a memo in the organizer)
  • Organizer, various types of events
  • Games

Eldar Murtazin (eldar@mobile-review.com)
Published — 15 January 2005

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