Moto RAZR2 V8 at T-Mobile

T-Mobile today became the first carrier in the US to pick up the RAZR2 V8, the rarest version of Motorola's thin clamshell phone. The new design is limited to 2.5G Internet access over EDGE but compensates with 2GB of built-in flash memory that helps the device fulfill its media-savvy role. Two songs and a one-month trial for Napster's subscription music service help users get started, T-Mobile says. Unlike the V9 or V9m, the V8 is also the only RAZR2 to run Motorola's more advanced, Linux-based MAGX interface instead of the older Synergy code and should run more smoothly while elegantly handling more features.

The gray-colored, aluminum and steel handset has built-in software to handle T-Mobile's MyFaves preferred caller feature but is otherwise unchanged from the reference RAZR2, which shares the same 2-megapixel camera and stereo Bluetooth audio as other models. The slightly thinner design of the V8 lacks a microSD slot, however. T-Mobile ships the phone for the same $250 as most carriers offering the RAZR2 with a two-year contract but will sell the phone for $400 contract-free.

By Electronista Staff