Motorola KRZR K1

Guide price: £180.00

Compact fully-featured flip phone. This phoned wowed people with its stunning good looks back in 2006, and it is now back, with an even better specification due to popular demand and available in a beautiful pink (Rose Bloom) and packed with an integrated music player (with expandable memory) a 2 megapixel camera (the original KRZR had a 1.3 megapixel camera) 8x digital zoom, video camera, full stereo Bluetooth and all in a very slim, tactile, half shiny, half rubberised pink finish case, with external and internal full colour screens!
Straight out of the box this phone phone encourages you to hold and play with it, so beautifully made and crafted out of alloy and mirrored glass, no cheap materials or plastic used here! Made to withstand the rigours of everyday life either in a glamourous handbag or scratchy jean pocket, this phone will stay looking good whatever you throw at it! You may want to keep nasty greasy fingerprints at bay with the black pouch provided though!
Setting up is also a doddle, the KRZR features very easy, logical software with an interactive help menu and automatic MMS and Browser configuration, so you are ready to surf the web or send a picture message almost immediately after the first initial battery charge.
The phone is completely customizable and has plenty of onboard skins, ringtones, screen savers and themes and obviously you can use your own images or download more from the web.
This mobile is so easy to use and really a delight to personalize/customize. The manual is also logically set out and written in plain English, it actually encourages you to read it!
In a week of intensive testing with two Network providers the Motorola outperformed my bulky Palm Treo! It kept a signal better and call quality was far superior, the music player can also handle Apple's AAC and AAC+ files in full stereo Bluetooth and obviously the camera and its premium video capabilities put my Palm 650 totally to shame!(along with almost everything else!)

KRZR Pros:
Ultra-slim and totally ergonomic with its fit to the face(ear to mouth)flip-phone shape.
Quality metal build
Excellent battery life
Excellent call quality
Accomplished music player.
Superb camera/video recorder
Intuitive menus and general ease of use
Ability to add up to 1gb of extra memory with a cheap to buy MicroSD card
Ability to connect easily via Bluetooth with Mac or PC
JAVA enabled so you can play great games on it!
Mini USB jack for charging and data (making it very easy to charge)
Very 'Pretty in pink'

KRZR Cons:
Slow initial start-up
Predictive text fast but horrible!
Fingerprint magnet!

Hilary's Conclusion:
Beautifully made, beautiful to look at and has all the features a thoroughly modern girl could want, including a superb music player and a truly great onboard camera! Leave your iPod and Digicam at home and just take the gorgeous KRZR K1 instead! And yes, I want one!

Special Features:
Stereo Bluetooth
EDGE for high speed data access
Music Player(compatible with most popular music formats)
2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and onboard image editing
video recorder with MPEG4 capture and playback
2 TFT colour screens
Polyphonic ringtones
Vibrate Alert
Speakerphone
Pre-Loaded Java (J2ME) games and screen-savers
Picture Messaging
PC Connection (Data)
MicroSD Card Slot
Voice command
MotoSync- Sync your contacts and calendar with a touch of a button

Make sure you take a look at the additional photos and check out one of the sample photos taken with the KRZR K1!

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