Motorola Renew W233 Handset (T-Mobile)

The new Motorola Renew W233 offers very decent, eco-friendly design that also provides excellent call quality. It is one of the world’s first carbon neutral cell phone. It is made completely by recycled water bottles (all plastic parts). Also, the packaging is made from hundred percent recycled materials.

Design

The Motorola Renew has a very beautiful color schemes. It perfectly fits with its popular eco-friendly image. On all three sides of the handset a lime green trim is nicely giving contrast to its black rear cover as well as the cream keypad. It is very compact, and is only 4.4 inches tall, 1.8 inches wide, and 0.6 inches in thickness. It is very light in weight so you can easily carry it in your pocket or bag. However, the shell is completely plastic, but when you hold it in hand, you will not feel like that.

The display screen of Renew is small and having a low resolution, this is what anybody can expect from a basic handset. The display screen is only 1.44 inches wide and has 128×128 pixels. However, the display is much bright with a clearly readable text. The brightness and the font size can not be change here. You can change the timer in the backlight and choose from the list and icon menu designs.

Four-way toggle along with a central OK button, with two soft keys, and Talk with End/Power buttons are there for navigation. The controls provided for navigation is of plastic, but the arrangement is comparatively very spacious.

The keypad is good with its wide spacing. However, they are flush, and the individual buttons are separated from one another. Even there is bright backlighting available. At first, the dialing was bit difficult, but after short learning typing text is real quick. There are very few controls.

A Mini-USB/charger port and a 2.5mm headset jack are very conveniently placed on different sides of the phone; however Renew does not provide any dedicated volume rocker. This means that every time while you talk on the phone you have to lift the phone from your face during a conversation so that you can adjust its volume with help of toggle. This is not very convenient way for the users.

Features

It has about 500 contacts phone book with enough room for entering 6 phone numbers and e-mail ids in a single entry. The SIM card can hold 250 additional names as well. You can save callers to groups and pair them with one of 35 polyphonic ringtones. Motorola Renew does not offer the photo caller ID.  The essentials features included in this model are vibrating mode, multimedia messaging or text messaging, a speakerphone, an alarm clock, a calculator, USB syncing, and support for a T-Mobile’s My Faves service.

Motorola Renew also provides basic music player, which is an exciting addition on such a phone which does not even have a Bluetooth. You can also transfer music via any memory card slot that supports cards up to 2GB.

Get the Motorola Renew and personalize it with a variety of wallpaper, and screensavers. You can even download many more options from the t-zones service of T-Mobile by using the WAP 2.0 Web browser. There are 2 games included in the handset Tetris and Sudoku. You can also buy more games titles if you like to.

Performance

CrystalTalk feature of Motorola helps to block the surrounding noise. The speakerphone is nice, but not very exclusive. The Renew has a battery life of nine hours, which is really very high at this range. They also promise that the standby battery life of Renew is 18 days.

Specifications:

Service provider: T-Mobile
Vibrating Alert: Available
Voice Recorder: Available
Phone Book Capacity: 500 names and Numbers
Voice Mail Capability: Available
Polyphonic Ringer: Available
Alarm Clock: Available

Additional Features:

CrystalTalk technology
Post-consumer recycled plastic material
2 GB memory
GPRS Class 10
Mini USB

Display

Display Type: LCD display
Diagonal Size: 1.6 inches
Display Resolution: 128 x 128 pixels
Color Depth: 16-bit (65000 colors)

Power

Battery installed Lithium ion

Messaging / Data Services

Short Messaging Service (SMS) Yes
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Yes
Messaging / Data Features Text messages, Multimedia messages (MMS)
Messaging Services MMS

Dimension & Weight

Width: 1.8 in
Depth: 0.6 in
Height: 4.3 in
Weight: 2.9 oz

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