Motorola W385 Cell Phone Review - Messaging
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Mark Brezinski Published on December 28, 2007 Comment on this |
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Supported Email Services (0.0)
The W385 has a web-based email client. We only award points for an actual software email client. Real (read: not web-based) clients download your email onto the phone so you can access your messages even when you don't have access to the network. Fancier email clients will download your email automatically the instant you get it. They will also typically handle POP or IMAP accounts, whereas web-based clients will only be able to accept a handful of popular services, such as AOL or Yahoo! mail. In case you haven't put this information together to sleuth out why we think web-based clients are worthless, allow us to pose you a question: if you have network access and can only use popular services, why not just browse to the real thing?
Push Email (0.0)
N/A: No email client.
Multiple Email Accounts (0.0)
N/A: No email client.
HTML and Attachements (0.0)
N/A: No email client.
Email Customizations (0.0)
N/A: No email client.
Time to a New Message (0.0)
N/A: No email client.
Email Usability (0.0)
N/A: No email client.
Supported IM Services (0.0)
MMS Support (5.0)
SMS Smiley Face Interpretation (0.0)
Smiley faces are just two more symbols for the W385 to render, nothing more.
SMS/MMS Ease of Use (6.0)
SMS and MMS messages are fairly basic. The inbox contains a list of entries that contain a read/unread graphic, the sender's name, and the first few characters of the letter. You can sort messages by time/date, read/unread, priority, or size. You can also lock messages, which prevents them from being deleted, which is a nice feature. New messages are fairly simple. You'll need to choose SMS or MMS before making a message. Once you do, you're whisked away to a dense forest of "To:" fields, below which is a clearing: the body. Under this is a field for subject, or fields for MMS attachments. You can choose to preview your messages and even add a priority level if need be. Again, fairly basic functionality here, but what is available is easy to figure out.
Time to a New SMS Message (3.60)
It took 2.78 seconds to bring up a new SMS dialogue, which was a bit slow. The process starts with opening the phone. The left soft key will open up the messaging menu. From here you need to click select twice, once for new message, and again for New SMS message. Also, we noticed the OS wasn't as fast as we originally thought it was: the phone took longer to hop around menus than we thought it would.
| Cell Phone | Time (sec) | Score |
| Motorola W385 | 2.78 | 3.60 |
| Motorola Krzr K1m | 3.28 | 3.05 |
| Motorola Razr V3m | 4.58 | 2.18 |
| Samsung Juke | 0.75 | 13.30 |
| LG Chocolate VX8550 | 2.61 | 3.83 |
| Samsung Blast | 1.35 | 7.41 |
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