Motorola
V535
Discontinued 16th
October 2004
Motorola's recent
annoucement of six new handsets was accompanied
with scant details about specifications, even though
all the handsets are based on a similar platform. The
Motorola V535 is a typical phone in this lineup, but
unlike most of the other V5xx series, this isn't tied
to a particular carrier.
One odd thing about the V535 though
is that the only photographs available initially appeared
to be of the Motorola V300. In fact, the exterior of
the V535 is identical to the V300 in almost every details,
and the phone comes in two colours, blue and black,
so the blue V535 is indistinguishable from the outside
from the blue V300.
Inside, it's a different story. The
V535 is a dead ringer for the rest of the V500 series,
using the V5xx keypad instead of the V300 one. Although
this shows some consistency in design across the range,
it hardly marks the Motorola V535 out as an innovative
phone in design terms. You can see some promotional
pictures of the V535 below.

In technical terms the Motorola V535
is competent but pulls no surprises. The familiar 176x220
pixel 65,000 colour display is included, the standard
VGA resolution camera, Bluetooth, quad-band GSM, GPRS
and Java. The V500 series screen has a good reputation
for quality, and we like the fact that Motorola include
Bluetooth as standard on most of their phones.
Major
improvements on the V535 are in the multimedia area,
with the phone featuring video capture and playback,
plus MP3 and MIDI ringtones. Internal memory is limited
to 5Mb with no way to expand it. All the usual V5xx
series are included, such as a WAP 2.0 XHTML browser,
email client, MMS messaging and picture caller ID.
Physically, the V535 measures 89x49x25mm
and weighs 112 grams, making it a slightly thick and
heavy handset compared with some recent clamshells.
Talktime is between 3.5 and 7.5 hours depending
on settings, with up 10 days standby time.
Like the other new V5xx series phones,
the V500 is competent rather than exciting. Although
attractive in design terms, and with a good screen and
Bluetooth, there's still no megapixel camera in any
of these phones and no removable memory. However, Motorola
look likely to push sales of the V535 quite hard with
a fairly raunchy advertising campaign ("Motoflirt")
which is pictured to the right, so we could be seeing
quite a few V535s hitting the streets.
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Motorola
V535 at a glance
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Available:
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Q4
2004/Q1 2005
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Network:
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Quad-band
GSM
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Data:
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GPRS
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Screen:
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176x220
pixels, 65,000 colours
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Camera:
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640x480
pixels
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Size:
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Medium
clamshell 89x49x25mm
/ 112 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Infra-red:
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No
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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3.5 - 7.5 hours talk / 10 days standby
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