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Verizon Motorola Razr Maxx VE First Impressions Review - Multimedia

Alfredo Padilla Published on March 30, 2007 Comment on this

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 The Motorola Razr Maxx VE includes a music player and access to Verizon's Vcast music store. The music software allows you to view your music by genre, album, artist, song or playlist. You can also control your music using the exterior display and touchscreen controls. To start the music player whent he phone is closed you press and hold the shortcut key on the left side of the phone until the touch controls light up. You can then launch the music player by pressing and holding on the play/pause key for about 2 seconds. The exterior controls allow you to scroll between songs, play and pause your music. Anything more advanced requires that you open the phone. We found the touchscreen controls to be a little hard to get used to. We thought they were a little small, and might be prone to mistakes.

The Razr Maxx VE supports playback of Mp3 and WMA audio files, we were not able to determine if you can listen to DRM protected files or if you can syncrhonize your music with a computer. You can download music directly to your phone for about $2.50 a song from Verizon's VCAST music store. Sprint recently lowered prices for their music store to the more standard 99 cents per song, and it will be interesting to see if Verizon follows suit. The Razr Maxx VE does not include sufficient memory to store much music, we recommend you take advantage of the MicroSD slot to expand your storage if you want to use the Maxx as your music player. We were pleased to learn that the Razr Maxx VE supports the A2DP and AVCRP Bluetooth profiles, which allow you to use wireless stereo headsets. Wired headsets are plugged into the Mini USB port. We do not have any information about whether the Maxx will ship with headphones.

Video playback on the Maxx is less impressive than music functionality. You can playback videos using the "My Flix" application, but this is really meant to play back the small videos you take on the phone. There is also the ability to play streaming video via various Vcast services. The Maxx VE does not support Verizon's new mobile TV service.

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