Sale MOTOROLA DEVOUR A555 8GB GOOGLE ANDROID 3G SILVER CDMA VERIZON TOUCHSCREEN - Smartphone Test

This isn’t a bad phone. I like the fact that it has the little touch pad as well as a slide out keyboard. These features, I think, give it an edge over my friends who have Droid X phones. It makes it easier to type as well as navigate around the screen without accidentally clicking on things.

Things I don’t like so much:

I have had to do a factory reset on my phone about 5 times now… and I’ve had it since July (7 months). Every once in a while, all of the applications that aren’t preinstalled will force close like crazy and you have to uninstall and reinstall all of them… Or I’ll notice that my lock feature and home button refuse to work. Because of the design of the phone, I get stuck on screens if I cannot hit “Home.” Also, the only way around this and the lock issue is to download apps which override the phone’s lock and home features. Then the buttons magically start to work again, but this usually triggers all of my apps to suddenly corrupt and force close.

Also, because it’s a touch screen and maybe the shape of my face is weird, while I’m talking on the phone it will randomly hit the speakerphone key.

In conclusion; they need to patch the OS or something because it’s obviously not stable and I know I’m not the only one who has had the same issue. The crashes are something I can live with. The factory reset leaves all of my contacts and since all my personal info is stored in my Google account, all I lose is the installed apps and data from them. For me, it’s no big deal. Just annoying. Otherwise, it’s a pretty good phone. The speakerphone thing is something that I can overlook, be more careful, and maybe see if there is an app to lock the button or something.

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Kevin Owens “kevin” (USA) –

  

the phone is well built…..milspec android if you wanna call it that….the internet is easy to navigate and the motoblur is rather handy for people with accounts on virtually everything facebook myspace yahoo etc…….i have never had a problem with the system on the phone nor with it randomly cutting off i have the otter box on it and the phone to be truthful is bulky with the case but other than that i have no complaints….i use this phone excessively and bout 8 to 10 hours through work it still has half battery by the end of the day if you dont run useless crap all the time then the phone will not die and the 3g is actually functioning unlike alot of verizons phones but all in all its worth the buy even after seeing the price on amazon…(which is much less than what i paid) i wouldnt consider it a waste of money android worth the money by far

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I ordered this phone which took almost a month for it to arrive. I got the phone and two weeks later the phone died after I used it all day which is normal for any smartphone but now the phone will not charge. It won’t even turn on when it’s plugged into the adapter. I tried three different chords and it just flashes the motorola symbol and a battery reading 2%. this phone was not worth the headache. Now I have to switch back to my old phone and wait to see if I can get my money back.

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