Useless mob. Ph. Feature.

[issatree]

Hi to all,
My friend was given a Promotional Ph. as he is a good Customer of this Electrical Place. Gave it to me as a gift. Thankyou. No box, no booklet, just the Phone.

1st. problem ; locked into a certain Ph.Co. I wanted to use another one. yes we can unlock it for you $110.80. Jam that?.

2nd.problem ; Found a Co. in the UK, sorry we can't unlock it, got my money back.
Next UK Co.sorry can't unlock your Ph. Can't get my $A10.99 back.
PayPal could not help me, Sorry.

Found someone local, they would unlock it $7.50, Beautiful, Done.

3rd. problem ; Good Camera ?. Have taken 40+ Photos. Impossible to get them out.
No holes for a Cable to connect to the Computer. Dash. Walked all over Geelong.
7 Ph. places I went to, "Sorry it wont happen, will not Download Photos ".

Googled, Motorola W218, Review.
They were right, It will not Download the Photos.

Why oh Why would a Co. do something so Stupid ?.

Anyway the Ph. works OK, has a great FM Radio, but you have to use the Ear Phones for it to work, as it is also the Antenna.

I must be to old, can't get the Stupid things to stay in my ears.

As I said the Phone works OK. ????
Regards,
issatree.

[Avery]

Email the photos to youself.

[NCArcher]

Bluetooth transfer?

[petersemple]

It looks like a very basic phone. No Bluetooth, no email, no pxt. Not sure of any other way to transfer photos from a phone if there's no cable, so it might be that you can only view them on the phone and that's it.

[damian]

Motorola Motorola W218

probably doesn't have bluetooth. There is a reason nokia and apple own teh mobile market.

[Gingermick]

Summary of key features:
• Compact and thin candybar form factor
• Internal antenna
• FM radio
• Polyphonic Speakerphone
• Up to 1 MB available memory²
• Large 65K TFT Display
• VGA camera with 4x zoom
• Stores up to 500 phone book entries with multiple letter phone book search
• Text messaging via SMS; stores up to 750 SMS messages¹
• PC Connectivity via Handset Manager Software

handset manager software

[damian]

MOTOROLA W210 W215 W218 W220 W355 UNLOCK DATA CABLE - eBay, Cell Phone PDA Accessories, Cell Phones PDAs. (end time 17-Nov-09 18:41:34 AEDST)

data cable $17ish...

UNLOCKED MOTOROLA W218 FM RADIO CAMERA DUAL BAND GSM ! - eBay, Cell Phones Smartphones, Cell Phones PDAs. (end time 04-Nov-09 07:10:06 AEDST)

whole phone for $50ish

[Gingermick]

Dont know anything about motorola but I do however have a sony phone that plugs in via the same spot, same connection, as the recharge.

[chippy 71]

Buy a card reader and download them that way!

Colin,.

[BobL]

Buy a card reader and download them that way!

Colin,.

It doesn't look like it has a removable card.

[joe greiner]

How about re-setting your life, to just before the "gift"? Start over (reboot) from there, but without the "gift."

Might be the path of least resistance.

Cheers,
Joe

[chippy 71]

It doesn't look like it has a removable card.

If it can take photos and you can view them after, then I would think it has a card, I can't see how it could work without one as the images have to be stored somewhere.
But I am often known to be wrong.

Colin.

[BobL]

If it can take photos and you can view them after, then I would think it has a card, I can't see how it could work without one as the images have to be stored somewhere.
But I am often known to be wrong.

Colin.

One would think so, but reading the product blurb it says it has up to 1Mb of memory configurable by the vendor and there is no mention of any other card.

My BIL had a phone like this - the (dumb) idea of the camera was you just took the photo and looked at it on the phone and then overwrote the pics.

[chippy 71]

One would think so, but reading the product blurb it says it has up to 1Mb of memory configurable by the vendor and there is no mention of any other card.

My BIL had a phone like this - the (dumb) idea of the camera was you just took the photo and looked at it on the phone and then overwrote the pics.

I too had a read of the product blurb and noticed the oddity of the 1Mb of memory with no mention of any card. If this is the case, what a pointless exercise producing and selling a phone like this with such low specs, beats me!

Colin.

[blonk]

How about re-setting your life, to just before the "gift"? Start over (reboot) from there, but without the "gift."

Might be the path of least resistance.

Cheers,
Joe

I agree, don't you hate it when you get something for FREE, and it's not perfect! I hate FREE stuff at the best of times, but when thet same FREE stuff doesn't do what I want, I get frustrated that I spent absolutely NOTHING to get it!
It was a free phone, use it for what it's designed for (phone calls). If not go and BUY one that does what you want, then complan about it! Crikey, some people just want it all.