Full Review - Performance
Performance
KZRZ operates almost as good as it looks. Voice quality is near land-like with Verizon's usual network reliability. With plenty of volume -- you and your co-conversationalist will hardly know you're on a cell phone.
As noted, the stereo speakerphone on the phone's chin provides plenty of volume for both music, video sound and voice. Cupping your hand behind the speakers provides even better sound.
KRZR's smaller screen is an issue only when compared with RAZR's larger screen. V CAST video can be viewed in landscape mode, which compensates for any size deficiencies, and KRZR's screen, like the RAZR's, is amongst the best and brightest available.
Unfortunately, KRZR's data side isn't as proficient. Video clips and music tracks took more than a minute to download, twice as long as with the RAZR, which means you're paying for twice as many data minutes as you would with the RAZR. WAP Web pages -- news, sports and other text-based information -- appear just as quickly as on other broadband phones.
KRZR's 1.3 megapixel cell phone isn't any great shakes. Pictures taken in bright sunlight result in adequate small souvenirs, but any other indoor conditions result in fuzzy and dark images -- not unlike any other 1.3 MP camera phone. For the price, however, we would have expected a 2.0-plus imager.
KRZR's best feature may be its battery life. We got more than 4.5 hours of "usage" time (in this age of multimedia cell phones, "usage" has replaced "talk" as a description of battery life measurement), slightly more than KRZR's rated battery life and 20 percent more than the RAZR. KRZR's 18-day standby time is nearly 30 percent more than RAZR's as well. 
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by Charles on October 9, 2008:
“My motorola k1m doesnt get a good signal any more and battery life isnt that good I have had a problem with every motorola phone I have had. It looks like the razr motorola e815 was probally the best ” More...