Motorola v266 Our rating:

We were quite unimpressed with the v266, on several different platforms.

We evaluated this phone through both MetroPCS and Verizon service. However, most of the problems we found were physical problems with the phone’s quality.

For example, the phones quickly became cosmetically beaten up, and the paint began flaking off. One phone’s antenna came right out of the phone!

We weren’t impressed with the battery life on either phone from very beginning, and both batteries experienced a serious decline in charge time after not even that much use. One phone would actually begin sounding the low battery alarm only a few hours after being taking off the charger, with very minimal use.

And, on the topic of low batteries, we were very unimpressed with the low battery alert on this phone. Even when on silent or vibrate, this phone makes sound to notify the user of a low battery, very irritating when the battery goes low in the middle of church or a meeting.

So, we give the v266 only two stars and wouldn’t encourage you to buy this phone. It certainly isn’t worth the value, especially considering its fairly high price tag. In fact, we’d talk on most other phones before reaching for this one.