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Motorola Razr V3i Cell Phone and iTunes
MOTOROLA RAZR V3i:
Some products are destined to create a trend and the Motorola Razr Cingular Cell Phones certainly will have an important mention in telecom history as the phones which set the trend in slim-form phones and made great looks as an important part of mobile handset design. The Motorola Razr V3i is a big leap ahead of its predecessor the Razr V3 and enhances performance in almost all areas where the former required improvement. The main attraction of this phone is of course, the unbeatable combination of a sturdy mobile phone with the compatibility of iTunes, which makes good sense for users who are hooked on to Apple’s most famous contribution to music player industry yet.
Most of the form features like the weight and dimensions (except for a negligible increase), the dark grey coloring, the external display on the flap, the camera at the top of the hinge and all hot buttons like volume control, camera have been retained from the V3m model. The external display is great at 262,00 colors, the upgrade in color technology and the sharper graphic interface all add up to an improved visual experience for users of this phone.
The phonebook holds a mammoth 1000 numbers including 6 numbers and an email id against each name. Advanced email features like POP3 and IMAP4 supporting Bluetooth makes this phone high on connectivity features too.
Though some issues like the 100-song storage limit and the inability to use iTune tracks as ringtones mars this stylish phone’s advanced feature-list, its microSD memory storage up to 1GB and an extremely simple music transfer functions more than make up for the minor glitches. Overall, this phone scores on an unbeatable combination of form design and functional features.
iTunes Digital Jukebox
The Motorola Razr offers a whole range of applications in addition to making and receiving calls which are the main attractions of this sleek mobile phone. The iTunes application that is installed on the computer can be used to buy and download music from the internet. It can also be used to import content from audio CD’s and these songs can be transferred from the computer to the mobile phone and played using the iTunes Digital Jukebox application. This application can support MP3 and AAC format of songs.
How to install iTunes on the computer?
It is essential that the desktop application of iTunes be installed on the computer before download and transfer of songs can be carried out. To install this application, the computer should be running on Windows 2000 / XP with the latest service pack or on MAC OS v10.3.6.
iTunes can be downloaded to the computer from the CD-ROM that was enclosed with the mobile phone package or it can downloaded for free from itunes web site.
Once downloaded, the installer should be double-clicked from the iTunes application
The iTunes software will be installed on the computer with a quick access icon on the desktop of the computer
Once the installation of the software is complete, double-click the icon to enter into iTunes application
How to use the iTunes Music store?
The iTunes music store is a part of the iTunes desktop application and is used to preview, buy and even download music from the internet. The common Apple account is sufficient for a user to buy songs from the iTunes music store.
To preview, buy and browse music:
Click open the iTunes application on the computer and select the iTunes music store source list
Follow the instructions to enter the Apple account username and password or enter details to sing up for a new account
Once logged in using the account information, a user can preview, browse and purchase music
Once a song is bought, it shows up under purchased music playlist and these songs can be later transferred directly to a phone or to another playlist created in the iTunes application
Playlists can be created in the iTunes application on the computer and later transferred to the mobile phone.
To create a playlist:
The iTunes desktop application should be open
The Add Playlist on the left lower corner of the application should be selected
Create a name for the new playlist
Now songs can be transferred from the library of iTunes to the newly created playlist
How to transfer music to the phone?
The Motorola razr v3i supports two kinds of music file formats: MP3 formats with bitrates of 192 Kbps and AAC formats with bitrates of 128 Kbps. Songs with lower bitrates are converted into appropriate bit rate songs before playing on the phone.
- The iTunes application should be open on the computer
- The phone should be connected to the computer using the USB cable such that the phone icon pops up in the iTunes application in the computer
- Select PREFERENCES from the EDIT menu in the application
- IN the PREFERENCE window, choose the PHONE option
- Before transferring the songs, choose the option which allows for conversion of all higher bitrate songs into bitrates of 192 Kbps
- Finally click OK to convert all songs into compatible formats ready for transfer
- Now the songs are ready to be transferred from the desktop to the mobile phone
- The songs can be transferred on to an external storage device like a memory card
- First the card should be installed on the phone
- Now the card should be set as the default USB connection on the phone. This can be done by going into the DEFAULT CONNECTION menu of USB settings in the CONNECTIONS menu
- The phone should be connected to the computer using the USB cable and the iTunes application should be open on the computer
- The application will show the phone icon on the left side of the screen
- Now drag and drop an entire playlist or specific songs from the playlist onto the phone. The average transfer time for a song is 45 seconds
- After all song transfers are done, the phone can be ejected by selecting the EJECT icon in the application
- The phone should be ejected only after the DO NOT DISCONNECT message disappears from the screen of the phone
- Now the songs appear in the iTunes digital jukebox on the phone where songs are stored under SONGS menu and playlists under the PLAYLIST menu
- Please note that the Bluetooth connection cannot be used to transfer music between the phone and the computer
How to play iTunes Digital jukebox on the phone?
Songs can be transferred from the computer to the memory card in the phone, from which songs can be played.
Choose the hot key on the phone with the ‘music note’ symbol to enter the iTunes Digital jukebox
To play a specific song, the central navigation button can be used to browse through the entire collection of songs and once a song is selected, it can played by selecting the PLAY soft key
To play all songs in a particular playlist, the PLAYLISTS menu in the phone should be selected and a specific playlist can be chosen and the PLAY selected for all songs in that playlist to be played. There is also an option of PLAY ALL which allows the phone to play all the songs across ALBUMS, GENRES, ARTISTS and PLAYLISTS
Songs on the iTunes application cannot be played or listened to on a Bluetooth headset
CONTROLS OF THE iTUNES DIGITAL JUKEBOX:
The central navigation button with all four controls – up, down, left and right, helps a user to browse through the menus of the application. The central part of the navigation button doubles up as the selection key
The right key of the central navigation button is pressed once to go to the next song on the list
Similarly, the left key on the same button can be pressed twice used to go to the previous song on the list
Pressing the left key once will start the currently playing song from the beginning
Pressing and holding the right key will fast forward the song currently playing on the mobile phone
Pressing and holding the corresponding left key will rewind the song
To shuffle songs, the SHUFFLE option from the main screen of the iTunes application can be chosen
To adjust the volume of the songs currently playing on the phone, the up and down keys of the central navigation button or the volume keys of the phone can be used.
The iTunes Digital Jukebox can be hidden from the main display screen and the user can work on other functions of the phone while songs are played on the phone. To do this, iTunes application can be hidden using the HIDE option in the main menu button
The iTunes application can be exited by pressing the EXIT soft key from the main screen of the iTunes Digital jukebox
An existing artwork or corresponding pictures for a song can be viewed or modified using the desktop iTunes application. Opening the artwork option will show existing artwork for a song. This artwork can be changed by dragging and dropping a different picture to the artwork menu.
Similarly, to view the artwork of the song on the phone, the middle key of the central navigation button should be selected.
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