Cell Phones : Motorola E815

Overall this is the best phone Ive ever had.Great graphics, great sound,great keyboard, superb call quality. Battery time is great compared to my old t730. 1.3 camera takes good quality pics. Has movie mode with sound.Good looks. My only complaints so far would be that there is no camera lens cover, I carry it in my pocket so sometimes it gets lint on the lens. And the outer display is low resolution (but big & color). Neither of these are a big deal to me. Hide Full Review

I like this phone a lot. This is my first cell phone and I've had it for 3 weeks.

The Good:

The internal screen seems big enough and has great contrast and color.

The keypad has a great feel.

I've always had great reception, even inside buildings.

The battery seems to last and last. I don't have the problem that other people report of the phone switching from EVDO to 1x that kills the battery. Where I live and travel (so far) I always have EVDO, so I don't have the switching problem.

40 MB internal memory is pretty good for a phone. If you need serious storage (to use the phone for an mp3 player, for instance (in stereo if you buy the stereo headset)) you can use the transflash (I put in a 512 mb).

You can play any video files you want as long as you encode a file from your computer and copy it to the transflash. At the recommeded compression levels, you can get about 1 mb per minute of video!

I could go on and on about the good features but I must mention...

The Bad:

I wish the phone was a bit thinner and lighter.

The outside screen is kind of low res, but at least it's color.

Verizon has crippled some of the phones features, encouraging you to use Get it Now to purchase ring tones, etc. But it's easy enough to get around some of these limitations.

The vibration is weak. I've had the phone on vibrate for about a week, and I've never actually felt it yet.

Overall, I think it's a great phone. Hide Full Review

Just bought the phone and it rocks! I've used several phones and really did my research on this phone and the competition. The E815 wins hands down. I have several friends thats are tech nuts and they are planning to buy the phone now. The bluetooth works great and everyone is amazed at the quality of the pictures it takes. The flash is a good touch as well. I haven't used the Vcast but the screen is cristal clear. The outer screen isn't the clearest but what does that matter. I've had no problems with reception and speaker phone works find. Other reviews give problems with battery charge but mine has never gone below a 4 of 6 bars, even after an hour of talk time and text messaging. I would recommend this phone to anyone. Hide Full Review