Motorola v557 Yay for Phone nay for Service (B.A.R. Rating 2 out of 5)
In my perspective, cell phones have become the cigarettes of the 21st century. What? Huh? Are you high? Well…yes, but let me explain. During the heyday of cigarettes all of the big movie stars smoked and looked super-cool doing it. Yet, we soon found out that smoking was not the best for the health (doh!) and after years of puffing, the audiences were left with a fat, leathery man who claimed to be Marlon Brando at one time. THUS, we have witnessed the switch from the unhealthy cigarette to the super-sleek cell phone. Don’t tell me you haven’t whipped out that stylish cellie of yours to impress a lady or shoot a technological wink to that cute guy across the room. Yeah, I saw you and damnit, it was cool.
The Motorola V557 (Cingular) is most definitely a cool phone. Equipped with video capture/playback, EDGE technology, Bluetooth, Internet and a very respectable battery life, the V557 should supply all of the needed features for the cell phone user who isn’t quite ready to have a Blackberry surgically attached to his hand. That’s all good and nice, but like a gnat in the summer heat, I was attracted to the trippy blue light on the front of the phone.
