Motorola L6

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Motorola L6 Dimensions (w/h/d): 49 x 113 x 11 Weight: 110g Talk Time: 515 hours Stand By: 372 hours Camera: Camera Resolution: VGA Handset Type: Standard Coverage (Band): Tri Video: Bluetooth: Mp3 Player: Mp3 Ringtones: MMS: Java Games: Radio: GPRS: Email: Internet Browsing: 3G: Flash Memory: WiFi:

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Our Review of the Motorola L6

The Motorola L6 is part of the ever growing (or should that be shrinking?) range of slimline handsets. Measuring a flab-free 11 mm thick front to back, the L6 is one of the thinnest mobile phones ever, and weighing in at a mere 91 grams, one of the lightest as well. The L6 definitely follows the trend set by the RAZR V3 clamshell. Straight away the slim exterior grabs you and begs you to scream out at how thin it is.

The Motorola L6 definitely follows the trend set by the RAZR V3 clamshell. Straight away the slim exterior grabs you and begs you to scream out at how thin it is.

In comparison to the similarly skinny RAZR phones it is not so wide, which will be a relief to some user's already taxed pockets, but it has managed to retain the same decent size screen as its older sibling. The L6 is also deceptively solid, despite its diminutive appearance. That's not to say you could throw the handset against the wall like the good old Nokia 3310's of yore, but the L6 does have a very solid and durable feel.

The keypad on the Motorola L6 is a slight re-imaging of the keypad from the RAZR. The buttons are all even and made from plastic, which does spoil the feel of the phone slightly. Texting is also an issue due to the poor feedback of the buttons. It does take more then adequate force to get the desired 'click' that registers that you have actually pressed a button. So you can imagine that writing a long drawn out text message can be a frustrating affair. They say the devil makes work for idle hands…

The menu is accessed via a four-way rocker button with a central selection key, along with four additional buttons for quick-access and two traditional call and cancel buttons. The VGA camera is adequate for casual snaps and fun videos, but not a patch on some of the more powerful cameraphones doing the rounds, and you certainly won't want to upload any shots taken anytime soon. The pixellated travesties that the L6 churns out certainly won't look good on your Facebook profile.

The L6 is also deceptively solid, despite its diminutive appearance. It has a very solid and durable feel.

Unfortunately you won't be able to build up a sizeable photo album, up as the L6 is very low on internal memory. The number of pictures and videos you will be able to store on the L6 is also severely limited by the non-expandable 10MB-odd memory limit. The same goes for the music player – yes, the Motorola L6 does indeed sport an MP3 player, but the memory limit means that you'll be limited to uploading a few songs and audio files to be used as ringtones or text alerts.

This brings us neatly to the software onboard the L6. This is a bigger barrier to texting than the poor button feedback. As the number of characters in your text increases, the slower the message editor becomes. Its fine for short, sharp messages but anything more than that becomes a problem. Not only does the message editor become slow, all of the operating software seems to slow down to a crawl. The one compensation to this is that the L6 has an excellent backlight, which means texting in the dark is not an issue. A must when you consider it might be dark by the time you finish writing a message on the thing.

The L6 has a mere 10.6 megabytes of on board memory and it is not expandable. This is puzzling as the L6 is able to play MP3 files so you would think adequate memory would be in place. Instead the lack of memory makes the MP3 player virtually redundant.

 Pros

The L6 definitely has a unique style of its own.

 Cons

Very basic set of features when you compare the L6 to more modern handsets.

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The wafer thin premium looks of the L6 come at the cost of functionality. But if you are a person who would like a slim line phone that does the basics, the L6 won't disappoint, but if you want more features, look elsewhere.

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