Motorola KRZR K1 Review Part 1 - Not the portable multimedia computer I am looking for
Courtesy of the Hill and Knowlton (Hill and Knowlton Blog) Motorola Bloggers Relation Program, I picked up my free trial Motorola KRZR K1 phone (complete with new phone number and unfortunately locked to Rogers) yesterday. Bottom line so far: for the power multi-media creator user, Nokia's phones are much better and I would pay my own money for a Nokia N95 or N93 or my mythical N999, I wouldn't pay my own money for the KRZR.
Cool
- Came in an awesome aluminum briefcase
- Great form factor and light weight
- USB Charging
- Text Auto Complete even with ITAP turned off
- Camera has a nice mirror for self portraits
NOT COOL:
- Cheesy Operating System (ugly to me but YMMV)
- Adapter for normal headphones must be unplugged to answer a call!
- no flash for camera - Nokia flash is not great but better than nothing. Sony Ericsson flashes are much better!
- the web browser doesn't allow you to change the home page (Rogers bug not Motorola bug?)
- the web browser is primitive and bad - sorry to be harsh, but compared to Nokia's Web kit browser or Opera, this browser is a toy: it doesn't support upload of attachments to mobile gmail, no way to enter a URL to surf to (you have to create a bookmark), many, many problems
- ShoZu doesn't work on this phone (Rogers bug?). A phone without ShoZu is like a phone without sunshine :-) !
- No WiFi - I wouldn't pay my own money for a phone without WiFi
- No obvious way to upload your photos or videos without going through USB or Bluetooth "chain of pain" - I prefer ShoZu but there's no support to upload photos to flickr and photos and video to Vox which the built in Nokia gallery app on all recent N series phones does
- Voice Recognition doesn't work for all commands (e,g, I can't turn off Bluetooth with a voice command)


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Jonathan Greene
Sun, 2007-03-11 17:26
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There's a Moto Blogger Program?
How'd you get in that one? I'd love to try other devices and services... The Nokia program has been very beneficial thus far.
Roland
Thu, 2007-03-15 20:25
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they emailed me and asked me in!
n/t
Anonymous (not verified)
Thu, 2008-01-31 12:15
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Changing Home Page KRZR
Sounds to me like part of the problem is you have a locked phone, the KRZR does allow you to change your homepage by editing the WebAcess..
Roland
Thu, 2008-01-31 23:22
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you are probably right
you are probably right
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