Motorola E815
Motorola phone
The Motorola E815 is a CDMA clamshell mobile phone made by Motorola that is the successor to the V710. It was Motorola's first EV-DO phone and was released in July 2005. The Motorola E815 was a good seller in the US (carried by Verizon Wireless) and it was as of 2006 one of the most popular 3G cell phones in use in the US along with Motorola Razr V3c. The phone was also carried by Alltel. A variant named Motorola E816 was also made.
Features
It includes the following features:
1.3-megapixel camera with LED flash, 4x digital zoom, and self-portrait capability, video clips up to 3 minutes
Video capture and playback (3GP)
TFT LCD with 176x220 pixels supporting 262,000 colors.
Integrated stereo MP3 player
40 MB of internal flash memory
Expandability via TransFlash/microSD memory cards (up to 1 GB in capacity)
Full-duplex speakerphone
Speaker independent speech recognition with voice digit dialing
High-Speed Data Technology: cdma2000 1xRTT, EVDO
GPS Localization
Bluetooth 1.1: HSP, HFP, DUN, OPP, OBEX (Alltel) and FTP profiles
USB to PC Sync
The E815 also supports picture and ringer ID's, up to 6 numbers per contact, using MP3's and MIDI files as ringtones, Openwave WAP 2.0, EMS/MMS/SMS picture messaging, voice memos, alarms, calculator and calendars.
Criticism
Unlike the V710, which inherently had no Bluetooth OBEX profile, the E815 includes OBEX compatibility. However, this feature was disabled by Verizon, as were (like the V710) the options to copy and move files between the TransFlash memory card and the phone's internal memory. However, several enthusiast groups dedicated to hacking Motorola phones exist, and despite Verizon's attempts to limit the phone's native features, several tutorials have surfaced providing detailed instructions on how to re-enable crippled features.
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