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| View Larger Image | Motorola Renew W233 Prepaid Phone, Green (T-Mobile) | Wireless Phoneby Motorola
| List Price: | $59.99 | | Price: | $29.99 | | You Save: | $30.00 (50%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks |
| | Sales Rank: | 505th |
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FEATURES | - World's first mobile phone made using plastics comprised of recycled water bottles--case is 100 percent recyclable
- Pay for just the minutes you use with no annual contract--easy refill via Internet or prepaid cards
- Handsfree speakerphone; text and picture messaging; MP3 player; CrystalTalk technology reduces background noise
- Up to 9 hours of talk time, up to 432 hours (18 days) of standby time
- What's in the Box: handset, battery, charger, quick start guide, user manual
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Amazon.com Product Description
Stay in touch with all your contacts and keep your busy life organized with the Motorola Renew W233, and pay the way you want with prepaid and postpaid calling plans from T-Mobile Pay As You Go. You'll get all the communication features you expect from Motorola while reducing your carbon footprint. Not only is the plastic housing of Renew made from plastics comprised of recycled water bottles and 100 percent recyclable, but it is also the world's first carbon neutral phone. The Motorola Renew is the world's first mobile phone made using plastics comprised of recycled water bottles. A great phone for those just looking for the basics in mobile communication, the Renew will keep you connected to your closest friends and family members with T-Mobiles myFaves (offering unlimited calls to your five most-used phone numbers) as well as via SMS text and MMS multimedia messaging. The phone also features Motorola's CrystalTalk technology to helps reduce background noise, a speakerphone for handsfree conversations, digital audio player, MicroSD memory expansion (to 2 GB), and up to 9 hours of talk time T-Mobile Pay As You Go Prepaid Service T-Mobile prepaid plans give you wireless access with less commitment, so you can pay--and talk--as you go. With no annual contract, no credit check, and no monthly bill, prepaid plans are a simple, direct way to go mobile. There are many ways to conveniently refill your T-Mobile Prepaid Plan so that you can stay continually connected with the people who matter most, including using web2go directly from your phone, via the T-Mobile web site, or using refill cards available at over 90,000 locations nationwide. With Pay As You Go, you get wireless service exactly how you like it--there's no long-term contract, no credit checks, and no surprises. Add $100 in refills with Pay As You Go and you'll become a Gold Rewards customer, which gets you 15 percent more minutes on all refills and your minutes won't expire for a year after the time you refill. You can also pay only $1.00 per day for unlimited nights and unlimited nationwide calling to any T-Mobile number. All other domestic calls you make are just 10ยข per minute. T-Mobile includes the following services with this T-Mobile Pay As You Go phone: Nationwide long distance (including calls to Alaska and Hawaii) National roaming on the T-Mobile USA network T-Mobile web2go (free shopping for HiFi Ringers, MegaTones, wallpapers, and more; not available on all devices) VoiceMail, caller ID, call waiting, three-way calling Free e-mail address (10digitnumber@tmomail.net) Additional services available for additional fees: Text messaging ($0.20 to send, $0.20 to receive) Picture messaging ($0.20 to send or receive) Download ringtones and wallpaper (prices vary) Download games and applications (prices vary) 411 & More directory assistance ($1.49 per call plus airtime) International dialing to over 150 countries (international rates apply) Prepaid international roaming rates To keep your mobile number active, refill within 90 days after your minutes expire. After 90 days, your account will be canceled and you will lose your phone number. If you want to restart service after that time, you will need to activate new service. It's also compatible with T-Mobile's myFaves service, which allows you to call up to five of your most common contacts--on any network, even landlines--without using any of your minutes. Learn more about myFaves from T-Mobile. Phone Features If your eco-conscience has been nagging you lately, the environmentally responsible Motorola Renew was designed for you. The phone made from 25 percent post consumer recycled plastics, and its plastic case is 100 percent recyclable. It's also the world's first carbon neutral phone. Through an alliance with Carbonfund.org, Motorola offsets the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation. The phone has earned Carbonfund.org's CarbonFree Product Certification after an extensive product life-cycle assessment. A no-frills communicator, the Renew is a great mobile voice and text/picture messaging companion. The box packaging has been reduced by 22 percent in comparison with standard Motorola packaging. Additionally, the reduced package size and weight helps to reduce transportation emissions. Minimizing its carbon footprint through energy, transportation and material efficiencies this device does its part reduce its climate impact. A no-frills communication partner for your on-the-go lifestyle, the candybar-style Renew has a 1.6-inch LCD screen (128 x 128 pixels, 65K colors) and a standard alpha-numeric keypad. Sitting between the keypad and display are a four-way navigator, send/end keys, two soft navigation keys, and a dedicated digital audio player key. The phone has a small amount of internal memory--enough to store 500 contact entries as well as ringtones and other information--and it can be expanded via optional MicroSD memory cards (up to 2 GB in size). The phonebook can store multiple numbers per contact entry and is compatible with ringer groups as well as photo/ringer ID. Other features include the most recent 10 dialed/received/missed phone calls, a protected USB port on the right side, and a protected headphone jack (2.5mm) on the left side. Motorola's innovative CrystalTalk technology automatically accounts for background noise during a call and adjusts the audio quality based on ambient noise conditions to provide the optimal conversational experience. CrystalTalk also reduces the volume of the background noise picked up by the microphone during a call, making it possible to be more easily heard over the phone while in a noisy environment. If you need text messaging capabilities, the Renew has you covered as support is built-in for sending and receiving SMS and MMS messages. T9 predictive text entry, a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built-into the unit--a plus for text messaging users. Other features include: GPRS data connectivity Handsfree speakerphone Polyphonic and MP3 ringtones Vibrating alert Digital audio player compatible with MP3 files Tools: Alarm clock, calculator, calendar, voice memo Downloadable games (Java MIDP 2.0) Web browser (WAP 2.0/xHTML) Vital Statistics The Motorola Renew weighs 2.93 ounces and measures 4.37 x 1.77 x 0.58 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 9 hours of talk time, and up to 18 days of standby time. It runs on the 850/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS frequencies. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 15 reviews)
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Malfunctions all the time by Liv  1 Stars
November 22, 2009
From my experience over the last 4 four months this phone has not been reliable. If it is low on battery it the sound will often just stop working - meaning I can call someone, and they can hear me but I cannot hear them. This can happen mid call as well.
It frequently drops calls even when fully charged. I will dial with the phone displaying four reception bars, I'll remain in exactly the same place and still, about two minutes into a phone call, I will stop being able to hear the person at the other end, then it will take a few seconds for the phone to actually end the call and display "Call Ended," then the phone will display no bars. However, when I try to redial, from exactly the same spot, it will successfully connect and the whole process will start over again. It is very frustrating and unprofessional.
It also seems to take an abnormally long time to load contacts/receive service signal upon being turned on.
Pro: Very affordable.
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Don't Waste Your Money! by Favored1 (Toledo, Ohio United States) 1 Stars
November 13, 2009
For the first time I am disappointed with Motorola because this phone is just no good and that's the bottom line. Disregard all the eco-friendly hype this phone is absolute trash and I mean that literally. The materials and make of the phone is extremely and horrendously cheap, I am shocked that Motorola has compromised it's standards with such a terribly designed phone made from such cheap materials I know it's recycled but gosh this is ridiculous. I couldn't even get the back to close properly and on several occasions when I turned it off it refused to come on when I tried to turn it back on even though it was fully charged. It actually died I couldn't even get it to charge it was just dead nothing was working I tried everything and I need not mention I just had it for one month and I rarely use it; just a couple times a week so it was not because I threw it around.
I have owned two Motorola phones the RZR and I still own the Slide phone both of which I really liked. That is the only reason why I chose a Motorola designed phone for my pre-paid account. This whole pre-paid phone thing is just a waste of money I have discovered that my SIM card worked just as well in another T Mobile phone that I had a regular month to month plan with as it does with the so called "pre-paid" phone. So don't waste your money just try out the SIM card with your regular T Mobile phone and you just may get to use it for your pre-paid account instead of wasting money on a trashy "pre-paid" phone. This is so ridiculous, now I can't even return it because its over a month.
Take my advice save your $29.99 I wouldn't even pay $5.00 for this fancy green piece of trash if I had to do it all over again. It's simply a waste of money.
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It works... by K. Harman  3 Stars
October 17, 2009
I needed a replacement phone immediately. Because I *completely* resent the $18 'upgrade' fee T-Mobile charges on top of the cost of a new phone, I've decided to buy unlocked or non contracted phones from now on. I didn't know what kind of 'good' phone I wanted, so I bought this as a stand in... I just slid my regular sim card in when it arrived and I was good to go (i.e. I did not use any sort of pay as you go, pre-paid service with it).
The good:
It works. It makes calls. Calls are clear. It was a cheap filler phone and I'll hang on to it for that purpose again. There's a music player which works well.
There are two fun games included with it--sodoku and tetris--which work well and don't seem to be 'demos'.
The not great but dealable:
No bluetooth, no email client. It's a cheap phone, so not having those things wasn't unexpected but I realized how much I'd grown to like both of those things.
The memory expansion card is underneath the battery--not very convenient.
The battery itself is a REALLY tight fit...I've never had one which is so hard to remove (which makes dealing with the memory card more of a pain than I'm used to.
The not so great stuff that I didn't like about the design which goes beyond the it's 'it's a basic phone' explanation:
The headphone jack isn't a 'standard' one...and the included earbuds are utter crap so I've really missed my stereo bluetooth ones. It's a shame because the music player itself isn't bad.
The photo viewer is a disappointment. Pictures don't fill the screen well and take forever to load. Waste of time.
Perhaps the most significant is that I've had a LOT of phones and this has the tightest, most uncomfortable key configuration. The buttons seem hard to press and my hand cramps up. I'm not a texting maniac but I REALLY hate texting on this phone (and I've never thought about it before).
I can't figure out how to turn off the annoying little jangley chirpy sound when I plug or unplug it in to charge. Annoying when that wakes up my husband late or in the morning.
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Greatest deal in the WORLD by E. Anne Fischer (Flint, Michigan)  5 Stars
October 14, 2009
Thisis a great phone with terrific reception!
I like that you can check your voicemail using a landline....easy, convenient,and no paying for minutes.
I like that you can add contacts to the phone using My Tmobile online: Add Contacts. Very easy to do,
and fun.
I like that you can check your minutes using your landline or the computer.
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The 1000 minutes for 100 bucks is great and look forward to not getting a 40 buck bill from sprint each month.
I got a gel skin for the phone which gives it some heft and protects it....covers most of the green...which I do like, but like the blackbetter with the green showing just a wee bit.
It's a fun phone. I don't use it for music...have an ipod. I just can't get over what a great deall lthe whole thing is.
Perfect.
The only bad thing is tmobilel's cust. service....it sucks....bad. Hopefully I willnever have to call lthem.
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Cheap price but work like $100+ phone. by Thinh Dang (Dallas, TX) 5 Stars
October 14, 2009
Cheap but good,... I like everything cheap and good.
My broke now,..that why I'm using this phone.
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