{"id":551632,"date":"2007-02-23T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551632-sliding-in.html"},"modified":"2007-02-23T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T07:26:00","slug":"sliding-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551632-sliding-in.html","title":{"rendered":"SLIDING IN"},"content":{"rendered":"

However, there are a few issues with the phone that are hard to escape. <\/font><\/p>\n

The first is the size of the keypad. Due to its slim profile anyone with larger fingers is sure to struggle a bit with typing both numbers and SMSs. Also, because the phone has a shiny metallic keyboard – something that’s become a trademark of recent phones from Motorola – it’s easy to press the wrong buttons at times. <\/font><\/p>\n

The phone doesn’t have 3G, rather incorporating EDGE – which means that using the phone for surfing the Internet may not be the most pleasurable experience. <\/font><\/p>\n

However, voice quality is excellent and it’s hard to stress enough how smooth the slider is, snapping open and shut with a satisfying smack. The screen is nice and bright and battery life is more than adequate. <\/font><\/p>\n

Just for its all-round performance this phone is a definite winner; and while those looking for more features may want to wait for its big brother, the Z8 – which has just been announced – for the average cellphone user it’s sure to hit the sweet spot.<\/font><\/p>\n

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IF YOU’RE A FAN of slider phones, such as the Nokia N80 or the Samsung D900, then the Motorola Motorizr Z3 is a hot contender for your affection. With a slim profile and a snappy slider function, first impressions are favourable. And with a decent camera all the bases seem to be covered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}