Motorola L6 calling and messaging phone

This candy bar offers up sweet, slim style, along with features like a VGA camera, conference calling and Bluetooth. Does this fashionable phone belong alongside your couture?

Design

The slim (0.4 inches), eye-catching Motorola L6 looks great thanks to its brushed metallic finish, but all that metal weighs down the handset (3.1 ounces). The candy bar's low-resolution display is just shy of two inches, but comes saddled with a noticeable screen-door effect. However, our biggest complaint with the L6's design is the lack of dedicated volume keys. We tried to adjust the volume by going through the phone's audio menu but only found ringtone settings. After searching in the manual we discovered that the left and right arrow keys adjust the volume, but when the phone's Web ticker is running (a nice feature that displays news, weather and sports headlines on the standby screen) the arrow keys control the ticker. The L6 also features a VGA camera, which is the key difference between this handset and Motorola's L2.

Calling - Good

Call quality was average on the L6; during our tests in Manhattan, we heard static and our calls sounded muffled and distant despite solid reception. The phone does offer the standard array of calling features including Bluetooth, a speakerphone and voice tagging, as well as conference calling for up to five people. The L6 also allows you to navigate between calls by separating them from the conference; this required a bit of menu drilling, however. Also, the candy bar's phonebook doesn't support while-you-type searching, meaning you better get acquainted with the arrow keys, or you can use the menu's search tool. The phone does score a few points with its solid battery life; we got about four hours of talk time, which is a little short of Cingular's specs.

Part2

View images >
---

Motorola V365 push-to-talk clamshell
Motorola Q gets a costume change

Motorola Phones News
News