Motorola Renegade V950 - Features
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Similar to its appearance, Motorola’s new Renegade has features that are an interesting mix of the conventional and unconventional. The V950 has a phone book capable of holding 600 contacts with room in each entry for what amounts to a person’s entire personal history; there is space for seven phone numbers, an e-mail address, a web address, a job title and company, a street address and notes. Other conventional features include the ability to put contacts into groups and/or pair them with a photo or one of the Renegade’s 34 polyphonic ringtones. You can also pair contacts with a video ringtone or a voice recording.
The V950 also comes equipped with some run-of-the-mill yet essential features, including vibrate mode, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calculator, a calendar, a notepad, a world clock, a voice memo recorder, unit currency converters, a tip calculator and a stopwatch. Besides Direct Connect, the Renegade has another cool feature that is specific to Sprint phones; it’s the Group Connect feature, which allows you to make PTT calls to up to 20 people at once and TeamDC, which lets you contact up to 35 people at one time.
Motorola’s Renegade has many features that go above and beyond the average basics. For example, V950 has massive USB storage, instant messaging and chat, a file manager, a speakerphone, stereo Bluetooth, phone-as-modem capability, voice dialing and remote backup for contacts. The Renegade enables you to connect to Yahoo, Hotmail and AOL accounts, and you can even access your work e-mail if your company uses Outlook Web Access. It should be pointed out, though, that the e-mail tasks you can perform are pretty basic, as the phone only enables you to access your inbox. It’ll do in a pinch, but the service isn’t anything like the e-mail capabilities you’d have on something like aBlackberry.
Another way in which the Renegade is anything but conventional pertains to its exhaustive program selection that will prove to be endlessly entertaining for anyone with the time to go through all of it. As an EV-Do phone, the V950 has full support for all of Sprint’s 3G services, which means you can connect to Sprint’sPower Visionfor Sprint TV. This service allows you to access both live and on-demand programming from a wide variety of sports, entertainment and other channels. The entertainment options on Motorola’s Renegade are seemingly limitless. Aside from countless channels, you can also watch movie previews and stream more than 150 channels from Sprint Radio.
The V950’s GPS is yet another thing of beauty and only furthers the notion that this cell phone is a jack of all trades. You can use the V950 as a directional tool in conjunction withSprint Navigationand you’ll never get lost again. The feature provides spoken-driving and turn-by-turn directions, as well as integration withMicrosoft Live Search. The Renegade can also use your location for Sprint’s On Demand service, which offers you a range of information depending on your location; news, headlines, sports scores and weather updates can all be personalized depending on your ZIP code.
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