my thoughts about the E815

Yes, If your phones shows the EV icon that means that EVDO coverage is available in your area.
I got the phone last night and it hasn't frozen on me or anything and I am amazed at everything it can do, even though EVDO is not yet available in my market. the Speech recognition is awesome. Much more to follow later.

 

I just ordered 2 of them -- one for me and one for my wife. I can't wait to see all the E815 can do. :browani:

 

I'll agree... the E815 is one of the better phones that motorola has put out. Nothing has beat the old startacs tho..

When it comes to bluetooth the phone uses a lot less battery due to the simple fact that when the phone is closed and you are using bluetooth, the display is not on. I've noticed a substantial increase in battery life when I'm using bluetooth.

The freeze problem is a known issues among users... It seems to freeze on me every few days and it always happens when I'm doing something with SMS or MMS. The phone doesn't completely "freeze" for me, it locks up and then the screen turns off and when it comes back on the display is very dim. Also, there seems to be an issue with the delivery of text messages... I've noticed every so often that if I stop receiving text messages, I can just reboot the phone and all the messages that never came through will magically arrive.

I'll love to say more stuff but I gotta get back to work before the boss catches me on here. More to come later...

 

I have not yet had any freeze issues with my e815(know on wood ), but my friend has had the 'freezing' issue you described happen to him once or twice.

 

Battery life seems great. I had my phone on all night and talked just less than 3 hours yesterday and the battery ended up on 2 bars. I turned it off about 4 a.m. when I went to bed and turned it back on around 9 when I woke up and it's still on 2 bars. I wonder how long the battery will still last.
RF is exceptional. My E815 got better service driving through a canyon while it was in my pocket, than my LG in my hand at the car window. RF is exceptional!!!
I have no idea how the mp3 player works and i haven't really had tons of time trying to figure it out.

 

I checked out the e815 and the new lg 8100 and I walked out with the LG. I compared both phones and I really liked the LG better. This is coming from a motorola guy who had the 710 and now have (not by choice) the v551 which I hate.

 

I got my phone the day it came out, so far i have had a few lockups and and the echoes when using bluetooth have made it unuseable..my father has the e815 and same thing...as far as the extended battery im using the v710s extended for the time being...

 

What phone did you get that is giving you trouble the moto e815 or the Lg 8100?

 

i have the E815....

 

I thought you were talking about the e815.

 

Im basically waiting on my rebate, then swappin this diffective junk out! Bluetooth is useless, i hate talking with the phone to my head..Speaker is o.k. at times but i miss hands free.....

 

Do what you must then get yourself the LG 8100, you will not be sorry this is a great phone

 

Is it Verizon's version of Bluetooth that is worthless or is it the phone itself?

 

thats a good question..im inclined to say the phone.. :loony:

 

I dont know if I got a defective phone but I had a terrible experience with the 8100. I now have the 815 and am much happier. The 8100 dropped a call on the Jersey Turnpike (not only dropped but went into searching for service for approx 15 seconds) I took the Jersey Turnpike home every weekend for 3 months and usually talked the whole way home and I never dropped a call with my A670.

Also, my up button would stick sometimes and you would have to push the down button to pop it out.

And finally I had a very hard time hearing people when using the 8100. So far I havent found any of these problems with the 815. Like I said my 8100 might have been defective but I am much happier with the Moto 815 so far.

Otherwise I loved the 8100 but the most important part for me is reception and sound quality and unfortunately it fell short there.

I will post a real review of the 815 once I have it for a little while longer.

 

I live in California and have had no problems with the LG 8100 at all. Every feature works great and no drop calls. I think you are right about have a bad phone. Enjoy the 815, I had the 710 and was a big fan of that phone.

 

My friend's sister just got the 815 and she's very satisfied with it.

 

the only problem i have with the 815 is that I cant find a person in the contact list by typing their name. only their first letter works ... I remember reading something about this a while ago but couldnt find anything when searching the site. Does anyone know how to type a persons name when searching through the contact list?

 

My only complaint on the E815 is, that the Vibrate mode sucks a$$!! It is way to weak!! Almost would be the best phone I have owned if not for the weak vibrator!!

 

what is EVDO? is it good to have the EV icon?

 

It can't be done.

But you can set the phonebook to only display the primary number for each contact, which should help you have to scroll a little less.

Good luck.
Andy W.

 

The type of search you're asking for is something Moto will be implementing in their next generation (Linux-based) OS - unfortunately, it looks as though VZW is forcing Moto to load the VZWRed OS on their phones as well, so we'll probably never see it.

 

Evolution Data Only or Evolution Data Optimized, often abbreviated as EVDO, EV-DO, EvDO, 1xEV-DO or 1xEvDO is a wireless radio broadband data protocol being adopted by many CDMA mobile phone providers in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Israel, the United States, and Canada as part of the cdma2000 standard. 1xEVDO is pronounced "One Ex-E:- Vee-Dee-Oh." It is commonly referred in the industry as DO (Dee-Oh). Compared to 1xRTT networks currently being used by operators, or the GPRS and EDGE networks employed by their GSM competitors, 1xEV-DO is significantly faster, providing access terminals with download speeds of up to 2.4 Mbit/s. Only terminals with 1xEV-DO chipsets can take advantage of the higher speeds.

It should be noted that 1xEV-DO is not part of the cdma2000 roadmap, since the architecture is not dependent on a switched voice network to operate. Instead, the 1xEV-DO standard can be found in IS-856. The initial design of 1xEV-DO was developed by Qualcomm and Lucent in 1999 to meet IMT-2000 requirements for greater than 2 Mbit/s downlink for stationary communications. Initially, the standard was called High Data Rate, and renamed to 1xEV-DO, Rev. 0 after it was ratified by the ITU. When deployed with a voice network, 1xEV-DO requires a separate radio channel of approximately 1.25 MHz. A successor to 1xEV-DO is planned for deployment in 2006 and 2007, and is known as 1xEV-DO Rev A. Rev. A offers fast packet establishment on both forward and reverse link, along with air interface enhancements that reduce latency and improve data rates.

A competing standard called 1xTREME was offered to the ITU by Motorola, Nokia, and Texas Instruments. This standard was ratified by the ITU, and placed into the evolution of CDMA as cdma2000 Rev. C and Rev D. This standard became known as 1xEV-DV, for Evolution-Data/Voice, since the channel structure was backwards with IS-95 and cdma2000 , allowing an in band network deployment (1xEVDO requires an overlay network when deployed in mixed mode.) It should be note that from both a technical and financial perspective 1xEV-DV was more attractive to operators, as the capital spent for the network deployment and management of disparate 1xRTT and 1xEVDO networks is both significant and difficult. However, the equipment was not available for 1xEV-DV in time to meet market demands, so wireless operators instead deployed 1xEV-DO service instead.

With the dual announcement of Verizon and Sprint's deployment of 1xEV-DO in 2004, and similar announcements by smaller operators in 2005, Qualcomm in March of 2005 suspended development of 1xEV-DV chipsets, and focused their efforts towards improving the 1xEV-DO product line.




If you don't use VCast or DATA, then you will not notice a change whether your phone shows EV or 1x. Voice will stay the same. Hope this helps!

 

It's okay while you're sitting in class or something but it sucks when you're moving around. This is one thing I dislike about the phone as well as the way the media gallery is set up. I somehow don't like that too much either. But other than that it's an awesome phone IMO.

 

It's a huge phone. In this day and age of micro electronics why would Motorola build something that looks like it came out of the 1980's? It doesn't fit in pants pocket and when it's unfolded it look likes Maxwell Smart's shoe phone.

 

stockscalper: Have you actually held the V710 or E815? If you had, you'd know that it's only marginally bigger than the v60, and fits quite nicely in a pants pocket, unless you're one of those leather pants-wearing freaks.

What, exactly, are you looking for in a phone, anyway? First you say that the E815 is 'huge', then you complain that the GSM RAZR is 'huge'. What is it you want in a phone, exactly? The Zoolander phone? A brain implant? Something like a phone can only get so small - you've got earpiece and mic placement to consider, plus not all of us have itty-bitty tiny hands with which to dial a microscopic phone.

And how, exactly, does the E815 look like it came out of "the 1980s"? Have you seen one bolted to a dashboard, or tethered to a bag the size of an igloo cooler?

 

Critic I was wondering the same. When somebody calls the RAZR huge (and not in length or width but thickness) shows some sort of depth perception problem perhaps?

Maybe the Moto scalpel which is half the thickness of the RAZR will satisfy his need for a phone to be thin enough as to allow osmosis.