In a nutshell: The Motorola RIZR Z10 is Motorola's flagship
3G smartphone. This is a phone that offers many good features, such
as a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, high quality video calling,
an excellent media player, high speed data access via HSDPA, and
third party Symbian applications. It's a slimline smartphone with
a good looking "kick" design slide. But it isn't the easiest
or most reliable phone available.
Review:
June 2008. Updated September 2008.
The Motorola RIZR Z10 is an updated version of
the RIZR Z8, making it Motorola's
flagship 3G smartphone. Like the Z8, the Z10 is a slide-design phone
that's very light for a 3G smartphone. It looks fantastic with its
"kick" design slide. The slide kicks out when opened,
giving the phone the appearance and ergonomic benefits of a clamshell
when opened. The screen is superb with 16 million colours and a
clear and bright display. The keypad is slightly cramped however,
and may be a problem to use if you have very large fingers.
Motorola's advertising guys are really pushing
the camera and video recording features of the Z10. This seems to
be overdone, and draws attention to the fact that Motorola actually
lags other manufacturers when it comes to imaging. This is certainly
Motorola's best imaging phone to date, with a 3.2 megapixel camera
with autofocus and a video camera capable of recording at 30 frames
per second. The camera takes good pictures, but it's not in the
same league as the top-end phones from other manufacturers, e.g.
the Sony Ericsson K850i, Nokia
N95, Samsung G800 or LG
Viewty. A second VGA camera enables high quality video calling
on a 3G network.
The Z10 is well equipped for music, with a media
player that supports MP3, AAC, AAC+ & AAC Enhanced formats in
high quality stereo. The music player handles playlists and shuffles,
and can synchronise with your PC via high-speed Bluetooth or USB
2.0. There is support for a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset (not
supplied) or a conventional stereo headset. The Z10 can store plenty
of songs too when fitted with a microSD memory card. The Z10 can
take the new 4 GB cards, which provides enough storage for 1,000
tracks.
Connectivity is via Bluetooth or USB. The Z10 can
handle fast downloads too. On a 2G network, the Z10 can connect
using EDGE at up to 236.8 kbps. On a 3G network, HSDPA enables downloads
of up to 3.6 Mbps - comparable with home broadband. An Opera web
browser is supplied, with full mobile HTML support and the phone
can handle email too. The phone is quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900)
so is usable worldwide.
The Z10 is a smartphone, so it supports third-party
Symbian applications. These can be used to customise your phone
and turn it into a mini-laptop. However,
Symbian systems lack the simplicity, speed and robustness of a simple
phone interface. The Z10 exhibits the usual Symbian problems, such
as slow menus, freezing or shutting down. It's also a harder user
interface to get to grips with.
In summary, the Z10 is a powerful device with a
lot of good features, but it isn't our first choice of smartphone,
and we don't expect it to be a massive seller.
Features
of the Motorola RIZR Z10 / MOTORIZR Z10 include:
3G Symbian smartphone
3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash
and 8x digital zoom
Video camera (30 frames/second)
3G video calling (using second VGA camera)
Display: TFT, 16 million colours, 320 x 240
pixels (2.2 inches)
Music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC Enhanced formats)
Hands-Free Speaker Phone
Speaker independent name dialling / voice commands
Speed dialling
Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email
Pre-loaded games
Caller ID with image
Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB 2.0
Memory: 45 Mbytes plus MicroSD card (expandable
to 4 Gbytes)
Opera HTML web browser
Data: GPRS Class 10, EDGE, HSPDA (3.6 Mbps)
Quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) plus 3G (WCDMA
2100)
Size: 51 x 109 x 16.5 mm
Weight: 115g
Talktime: up to 5 hours (3G)
Battery standby: up to 16 days
Motorola RIZR
Z10 Consumer Reviews
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Average
rating from 38 reviews:
Reviewed by DvBorr from UK on
12th Feb 2010
A very dissapointing phone, very clever and snazzy design, the scren
is excellent and film playback very good when it doesn't freeze
that is! Battery life very poor, and texting is awful, very stiff
keys when entering numbers or texting. This phone is very slow software
wise, and is nowhere near as easy to use as a Nokia or Samsung.
I would not get another one if it were free. Rating:
Reviewed by Taki from Algeria on
14th Dec 2009
i was going to buy this phone today (2nd hand)not anymore after
reading reviews ,the same negative reviews from this site and 4
others ! even at the shop this morning while trying it ,i witnessed
some:1-we tried a charged battery from a z3 and it saids low battery.2-keypad
.3-very slow.4-memory card issues(it detected it but can't find
the files in it) i miss my old n73 :( Rating:
Reviewed by jonesylar from UK on
3rd Oct 2009
Agree with all the negative reviews here! If you are even tempted
to buy this Z10 second hand, don't. You need fingertips like needles
(and the power of jackhammers) to text, the battery life is atrocious,
and the whole package is a sham. Motorola used to make such brilliant
phones, low-priced right through to expensive ones. What's gone
wrong?! Rating:
Reviewed by Uri from Spain on
30th Sep 2009
What a piece of... The sync soft keeps killing my PC and have to
restart it un safe mode. The phone keeps crashing or freezing evry
two weeks or so,I bearly use cam or anything special of it. Can't
wait to get another one!!! Rating:
Reviewed by Ellie from England on
28th Sep 2009
the phone is usless.. ive had it for two months and its suddenly
told me 'sms send failed' why .. i do not know.. ive tried everything,
tried sorting it by going through the pointless hard work menu but
thats not much help. and the motorola websites are pointless and
are no help. the keypad on this phone is stiff and awkward to, and
its very slow. if any1 else knows why it wnt let me send messages
all of a sudden then please HEELLPP! Ive got no luck trying there
website! Rating:
Reviewed by hassan from united kingdom
on 19th Sep 2009
this phone has really bad video and sound quality. buy an lg viewty,
much better Rating:
Reviewed by holly from england on
3rd Sep 2009
This is the worst phone i have ever had! battery life is no good,
have to charge it every night and it still doesnt last a full day.
Keeps cutting out when talking to people. Crashes quite often and
usually have to keep removing the battery in order to switch it
back on again. is very slow once you have took a few pictures and
have to keep deleting my inbox and transfering stuff to my pc in
order for it to run at a bareable rate. had it for nearly 18 months
now and still not entirely sure how most of the stuff on this phone
works. it is very confusing. was also very disappointed with the
editing software that is supposed to be on there, but wasnt really
expecting much from a phone anyway. in conclusion do not buy this
phone! it is a waste of time and money. Rating:
Reviewed by emma from england on
25th Aug 2009
This phone is quite good when you first look at it but then comes
the promblems like it is really hard to get a wallpaper and the
features are not very good. Also my phone has crashed lots of times
and it is not just my phone because a lot of my friends have this
phone and theres has crashed. I would not recomend this phone and
i am sending it back and getting a different phone Rating:
Reviewed by Matthew from UK on
16th Aug 2009
this phone is awful!!!! battery life is pathetic!!!! DON'T BUY IT!!!!!
and i hate the big lumps that they have at the bottom of most motorola
phones!!!!! terrible phone!!!!! terrible brand!!!!! don't buy the
phone!!!! Rating:
Reviewed by Stephen from UK on
3rd Jul 2009
Had 3 replacements now. Still a useless phone. Cant wait to get
rid. Motorola customer service is useless. Dont be fooled the phone
has never worked. I defy anyone to find it for sale at any shop.
No-one will sell it because they all know it will be returned within
the week. Rating:
Reviewed by taz from UK on 31st
May 2009
one of the greatest phones, it has it all and the screen is fantastic
and the camera is way better then my old samsung d900 Rating:
Reviewed by Stace from England on
23rd May 2009
The phone is a great phone!!! I am empressed wiv the features such
as the 3.2 mega pixals and camera flash. It's way better than any
other phone i've had lol I recommend it to any one to buy it cos
its 100% good for downloading music off the mobile internet. Its
a good phone. Rating:
Reviewed by trimtop from uk on
27th Feb 2009
great phone few months old no problems at all. Rating:
Reviewed by lezzer from uk on
10th Feb 2009
had this fone for about a month its brill got it on a payg upgrade
cost me £60 loads stuff on it.looks great,quality reception loads
of storage with 1gb sd card all in all excellent fone. not even
had a problem with battery life Rating:
Reviewed by Taz from UK on 8th
Feb 2009
It is one of the worst phone i ever uses. Camera say 3.2 MP but
quality is much inferior then Nokia N73 , sony K800i and even samsung
d900i (we cant even compare with 5 MP phones), Music Player doesnot
play most of MP3 (it only pley under 128bits), we cant even open/see
images which has been taken by 4 mp or above camera/phones on it.
can not view any pdf or word file/docs, most of the games are not
supported. Will have to spend 20 to 30 pounds to load any good Media
Player so can watch movies/vedieo . As in rthis phone we got Mobiclip
pl;ayer download which can only play Brownie collection movie given
in memorycard, aslo can see any youtube vedio. In short it is good
phone if you dont want to use any application and just want phone
to receive call, Rating:
Reviewed by Dr. Phone from United Kingdom
on 5th Feb 2009
This phone is average... i was looking for a new phone on eBay as
you do, this one "looked like" it had it all. however looks can
be deciving. the Kick slide makes the phone look great but the performance
is shocking. it freezes all the time and turns itself off. however
the screeen quality and onboard movie maker is great if yoou ski/snowboard/skate
or blade, cause you can uplaod your movies/pics straight to facebook/myspace. Rating:
Reviewed by Richard Brook from Wales
on 3rd Feb 2009
I think its really good. Very well made, though the keys are a bit
fiddly and you need to have small fingers for texting! Not keen
on the symbian operating sytstem as i find you think you've exited
applications but they are still running. It doesnt seem clear how
to exit them. You find later on that you havent got any memory to
take a picture and you have to free it up by switching it on and
off. I have tried Nokias before which had the same operating system.
I just dont think its very friendly. It takes a bit of getting used
to but I think its great! Rating:
Reviewed by Iky from UK on 25th
Jan 2009
I wasn't to keen when i first saw the Z10, it is quite wide comapred
to the previous k1 i had. it has some cool applications but the
phone is a lil slow when it comes to accessing the applications,
camera quality is good, but not as good if comapred with sony's.
The design is appealing, love the big screen. texting is quite difficult
at first. one down side is, i cnt seem to change my soft keys. i
gt the phone from o2, that is dissapointing!! overall good phone,
i wouldnt reccomend it for those who want something simple, phone
will take time to get used to!! Rating:
Reviewed by michaelfaescotland from
uk on 12th Jan 2009
i bought this fone a week ago. its gr8 except 4 the music player.
wen i used my other headfones with an adaptor, the sound was terrible
and grainy (the 1s u get with the fone r gud tho, i jst prefer earbud
headfones) and these were ipod headfone, so it wasnt them. thts
the only othr bad fing except the fone rebootin and constantly bein
slow. its a gr8 lukin fone with a fantastic video player and it
cam support 32gb mem cards. i dont kno if il hav this fone 4 long
as music is wat i luk 4 in fones. hope this helps x x x Rating:
Reviewed by Andy from England on
4th Jan 2009
Battery length is shocking had it for 6 months now and doesn;t last
a day. Had it sent back to o2 because wouldn't allow me to write
a text message keeps exiting the program. It constantly restarts
or freezers i would say at least once a week now. Rating:
Reviewed by david from england on
28th Dec 2008
i bought this phone recently from o2 at the bargain price of £70.00
reduced from £146.48. what can i say..at the end of the day anybody
who has ever owned a motorola phone knows they are intially not
the simplest or easiest of phones to get to grips with, and this
is no different.the menu system first seems very complicated but
after a while it becomes second nature.it night not have a lot of
internal memory but the fact you can increase with micro sd card
is more than enough for me. the camera whilst not matching some
of sony ericcsons efforts is still rather good and the speaker quality
is also excellent. build quality is quite robust and it feels it
weighing more than some other phones on the market. i have had no
issues with freezing screens etc and battery life is excellent.
plus it kinda looks good with the shape contoured to your face when
u receive or make calls. all in all few little niggles but an excellent
effort. Rating:
Reviewed by Jim from jamica on
29th Nov 2008
it is great. it is great. why don't yous lot like it. looks well
buff. gooooooooooood phone Rating:
Reviewed by Heather from NorthernIreland
on 22nd Nov 2008
This is the worst phone I have ever had! From day 1 the phone has
given trouble. It "crashes" with no warning, unable to transfer
contacts to Garmin Sat nav for hands free calling. The phone has
been sent back several times to get fixed. My Network provider O2
offers no solutions and refuses to change phone which is most annoying
when I have been customer for 6 years. So basically this phone is
riddled with "gremlins" DO NOT BUY Rating:
Reviewed by Matt from england on
15th Aug 2008
I would consider avoiding this phone as it is a poor excuse for
a phone. i got this phone on a two year contract which i expected
it to last, unfortunatly i am on my second broken phone after just
two weeks. Rating:
Reviewed by jacki from england on
3rd Aug 2008
Being a long time Motorola user -upgraded to this phone - after
two faulty hand sets I have given up. The phone itself looks great
but the key pad is too small to text and became a pain.( Where the
bottom of phone curves the bottom keys are too close - im a female
with quite small fingers so any one with larger hands - dont even
go there!) The menus are far too complicted, just to get to the
simplest of operations there were too many sub menus to go through.
The user guide didnt match up to the actual phone menus which was
bizarre. AVOID Rating:
Reviewed by Stephen Mc from England
on 17th Jul 2008
Realy want to like it but it's less than a month old and has an
annoying memory card error if you set the camera to the best photo
level. Some minor problems with menu items not working and now the
battery looks like it may be knackered and not charging. Was this
tested before it was released? Very disappointed. Rating:
Reviewed by Ian Mcginnigle from England
on 13th Jul 2008
Just got the z10. In a few words, NOT VERY GOOD ! Cramped keypad,
freezes when it feels like, no selection of ringtones or message
alert tones. No repeat message alert, beeps only once. I had a rzr
flip phone before and it has been so user friendly and a great phone.
Sending it back to O2. Motorola Z10 ???? Naaaaaah! Disappointing,
look elsewhere ! Rating:
Reviewed by ed from england on
11th Jul 2008
good Rating:
Reviewed by Craig C from U.K on
9th Jul 2008
Classy finish and an excellent camera.. Texting can be tricky as
the keys are not very raised. The menu is so diffent to any other
phone i have used and took me a long time to change ringtones ect..
I think this is going to be a love/hate relationship with the Z10..
Rating:
Reviewed by Linda Still from Scotland
on 22nd Jun 2008
I always buy Motorola as I love the suggestive texting which remembers
the whole sentence which I got with my Z3 so when Z10 came on the
go I couldn't wait to get it. Wish I didn't bother now, the phone
has such a long list of bad points I hate it. 1. I can't set my
texts to vibrate only. 2. Predictive and suggestive text rarely
works. 3. Battery life, pants! 4. I hate the way it leaves a list
of your last contacts on texting. 5. 2 second delay for each menu.
6. Doesn't return to home page after a function, you have to press
back sometimes as much as five times. 7. Buttons are hard to press
making texting difficult. I am sure the phone has some goods points
but with as many bad points as these it certainly wasn't worth the
money I paid for it. Also the issue of battery life keeps coming
up again and again so why does Motorola not listen? :( Rating:
Reviewed by chris from england on
21st Jun 2008
im really annoyed with my z1o!!! only had it 5 mins and it keeps
freezing... not opening applications.. randomly exiting applications!!
awful phone i am so dissapointed!! Rating:
Reviewed by Felicity Daly from England
on 10th Jun 2008
I work in the Carphone Warehouse and I have only experienced 1 person
wanting this phone. I think the design's funky but apart from that,
it's like any other Motorola phone... rubbish! Rating:
Reviewed by Matt Chang from China on
5th Jun 2008
Hello, this phone looks ok, but same old reliability issues as with
many motorola phones. Rating:
Reviewed by Lee Fry from UK on
4th Jun 2008
Lovely phone, had a few issues with it on first day getting a wallpaper
to stay etc, but since after the 2nd reboot all is good. Camera
is brilliant as is the flash! Good sound quality, and not one crash
yet! Just wish the reminder alter for unread txt messages worked...
:( Rating:
Reviewed by Andy from England on
4th Jun 2008
I loved the design of this phone but was extremely disappointed
with the software.Here is my list of bad points: 1. The phone doesn't
lock when you shut the slider 2. The phone says 'unlocked' when
you try and lock it with the slider closed 3. I have to keep putting
predictive texting on all my messages as it always reverts back
to the original settings 4. It doesn't automatically put a capital
letter after a full stop when messaging. Again this has to be done
manually 5. It takes at least 2 seconds for the screen to appear
when the slider is opened There are some good points but the bad
ones far outweigh them. Sorry - sent back after 2 hours. Going to
wait for the new Sony Ericsson C902 Rating:
Reviewed by dominic from england on
30th May 2008
This is fantastic. Camera is ammence,music player is good quality
and so is everything else. RECOMMEND THIS PHONE. Mine is pay as
you go!!! Rating:
Reviewed by joe bayer from england on
29th May 2008
its a grate phone aND IT BENDS Rating:
Reviewed by rob from uk on 27th
May 2008
In a nutshell: To complicated and reliability i poor. I warn you
away. Rating:
