Motorola EM326g Review – Wrapping Up
I’m doing something a little different here, and I’m not quite sure how it’s going to work. There are nearly 500 comments on the various posts and pages of this blog related to the w376g. While those comments are often very helpful, the shear volume of them makes it difficult for new readers to get any value out of them.
In hopes of achieving better organization for the EM326, I’ve set up a separate wordpress blog specifically for questions and comments on the Motorola EM326g. The first post to that blog is my summary of the review I’ve written for that phone. In the near future, I will be locking the EM326g posts for comments, and moving those comments over to MotorolaEM326g.wordpress.com. All future comments on this phone should also posted there.
This site, pbush14.wordpress.com, will still remain the “hub” of my info distribution. I’ll continue to publish here once or twice a week, and if you get updates by email or rss, you’ll continue to get them. But I hope that this new site will help keep things organized so that user contributions will be more helpful and easy to read.
As I said, the review summary is posted at the new site. I won’t repeat too much of it here, but I will say that during the time I spent playing with the EM326g for my review, I really grew to like it. I have a couple nit-picky complaints, but I stand by my earlier claim that it’s “The funnest Net10 phone ever.”
Here’s the link to the Motorola EM326g Review Summary.
The connectivity sounds great and, if it ever shows up on Tracfone as a double minutes phone, I’ll strongly consider switching to it. But, as usual, I don’t find any mention of accessing the phonebook in the connectivity description. Can the user copy the phonebook to their computer, edit it, and transfer it back?
—–Paul—–
Hi Paul –
I don’t see a way to do this using bluetooth or USB, but you can use a sim card reader/editor as I’ve previously described on this blog. The EM326g does allow for the option of batch copying all, some, or just one of the contacts from SIM to phone memory or phone to SIM.
Thanks to your review, I got one for my daughter. She is thrilled with it. I appreciate the info on locking the browser. I hadn’t at first and she did burn through her first 300 minutes. I was able to use the bluetooth to download mp3 files for better ringtones. She also appreciates the radio.
Once again, thank you for your in depth review of the phone.
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Just curious. I got an LG600G phone from Net10 a couple of months ago to replace my long used Motorola V171. The V171 was very basic — it was only a phone — but it did what phones are supposed to do. It placed and received calls without dropping them and it sounded great. Not so with my 600G. It drops calls every day. The sound is okay, but that’s worth very little if the caller isn’t there anymore.
Can you touch on the reliability of the phone part of the EM326G now that you’ve used it a bit more?
Thanks,
Rich
Rich – have you read my recent posts regarding AT&T vs. T-Mobile SIM cards? I suspect that’s the root of your problem with the new 600g. In my experience, I’ve found the EM326g to be about the same as the 600g in terms of signal reception and ability to maintain a call. However, that assumes that both are using the most appropriate SIM card for the area in which they are used. If you happen to be using a t-mobile SIM card in an area where AT&T provides the stronger coverage, that definitely could be causing the problem. Check out these recent posts for more info about TraCFone and Net10 SIM Cards:
http://pbush14.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/tracfone-and-net10-sim-card-info/
http://pbush14.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/more-tracfone-and-net10-sim-card-info/