Motorola W230 budget friendly multimedia phone

If you're looking for a best budget phone, you should take a look at the Motorola W230. It's an awesome phone to have as it's really cheap and very usable. Although it doesn't look that much good, it has features that can do an all around task. The features are made to be balanced and allow more convenience for the user. The functionality is really simple and easy to use, this is the phone that practical users will want to keep.

The Motorola W230 is rigged to please practical users. It has a powerful battery that can last up to 9 hours of talk time or 450 hours standby! Tell me how good is that? It can save up to as much as 500 SMS Message Storage, good news for people who love to text and save those memorable messages. The Motorola W230 really shines on practicality, it is also famous among many countries for being efficient convenient and most of all cost effective! It's even got the best cashback deals with free gifts, you can even get it with a free Sony PS3. But anyway, let's see what the Motorola W230 really has to offer.

The Motorola W230 is a slim phone, its just 110 x 45 x 14.7 mm in size and only weighs 80 grams. Because of its slim size and light weight, the phone is very easy to hold and keep in your pocket. It also feels a bit fragile as it's too light, but you'll get used to it fast. The casing design isn't something you see everyday. It's a solid bar design but a little distorted to add more style! The details on the phone looks totally cool. The user interface and the wallpapers perfectly match the casing color theme. It has the standard Motorola look even though it's a solid bar type of phone.

The phone has a bright, quite small in 1.6 Inch CSTN 65k Color Screen in 128 x 128 pixels resolution. The screen displays clear and colorful pictures. Videos are clear to see. You can see cool animation executed smoothly as you browse through the menus. It's pretty small but it's enough to be usable.

The W230 has good multimedia capabilities. Although not that great but enough to keep you from being bored. It is able to play various music files commonly used in mobile phones, such as iMelody, MIDI, MP3 and AMR . You can save up to as much as 2 GB of songs if you upgrade it's memory up to that level taking advantage of it's MicroSD memory card support. A good thing about the Motorola W230 is that it has an FM Radio and its in RDS, good to have when you're out of songs and want to listen to new ones. It also has Radio Alarm, good thing to have especially if you're keeping track of time or keep you scheduled for your favorite FM programs.

In calling and messaging, this is where the Motorola W230 really shines. It has basic to advanced messaging capabilities. The phone the basic SMS (Text Messaging), MMS (Multimedia Messaging) and even EMS (Enhanced Messaging), this just proves that the Motorola has no problems in receiving and sending messages. Sadly, it doesn't have a predictive text functionality but don't worry, you won't have any trouble texting with the W230 as it has nice keypads. The keypads are ergonomic, intuitive and responsive, it even looks good. When calling the phone uses Dual Band Technology, this is a low end network capability but it won't pose a problem if you're in the UK or USA as these places use GSM 900 and GSM 1800 frequencies. The phone has a CrystalTalk Technology which allows you to have good calling experience as you will hear your friends. Frequencies which automatically switches so you won't have any problem with the signal. The phone is of course a non-3G, so video calls are out of the picture.

The Motorola W230 is can connect you to the Internet but you can't really expect much. Internet connection pretty fast in GPRS which allows fast downloads. The Motorola has a pre-installed WAP browsers. Nothing to brag about but at least it's there. :)