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Motorola Renew W233 Prepaid Phone, Green (T-Mobile)

Motorola Renew W233 Prepaid Phone, Green (T-Mobile)

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Brand: Motorola
Category: Wireless

List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $29.99
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Color: green
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Display Size: 10
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Model: W233 Renew
UPC: 610214617934
ASIN: B0026IC8JU

Release Date: November 10, 2008
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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 10¢ 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.


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1 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money!   November 13, 2009
Favored1 (Toledo, Ohio United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

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.







3 out of 5 stars It works...   October 17, 2009
K. Harman
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

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.








5 out of 5 stars Greatest deal in the WORLD   October 14, 2009
E. Anne Fischer (Flint, Michigan)
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.



5 out of 5 stars Cheap price but work like $100+ phone.   October 14, 2009
Thinh Dang (Dallas, TX)
Cheap but good,... I like everything cheap and good.

My broke now,..that why I'm using this phone.



1 out of 5 stars NOT Mac/Linux/Win7 Compatible   October 13, 2009
Sergio R Schubert
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Won't charge with a standard cigarette lighter adapter (12v to mini usb) It sees that it is plugged in but will not charge - I suspect it requires a Motorola specific charger, FAIL

Cannot use Motorola Phone Tools ($50 - Seriously? $50!?) to back up data to/from SIM card - don't have lots of friends.

When mounted as a USB drive on the computer - cannot make or receive calls other than 911 unless you unplug it from the computer.
Speaker is REALLY REALLY tinny

Plastic feels like a cheap Revel snap together model from 1967

IMPORTANT!!! ---> Because Motorola in their infinite "we're totally failing" wisdom implemented a proprietary USB format - this phone CANNOT be CHARGED! from a Mac or Linux or (currently) Windows7 computer. It requires specific drivers from Motorola to charge - TOTALLY STUPID - total dealbreaker for me (can force install .sys driver in Win7 if you know what you are doing)

Cannot mount the phone as a flash drive to load music - CANNOT BE DONE - again requires specific drivers from Moto which will not recognize Windows7 and therefore will not install, and are not available for Mac or Linux (can force install .sys driver in Win7 if you know what you are doing)

if Motorola had just followed standard USB implementation (USB Storage Class built in OS Driver) - this would not be an issue. STUPID STUPID STUPID

Update: Finally got it working on Win7 BUT found out the phone is only USB 1.0 speed 356k per second transfer speed, so a 2GB SDMicro card takes 1 1/2 hours to fill!!

No call answer button on headset - you can set phone to auto answer but that is very inconvenient.

On the plus side - the headphones aren't bad - about par with the ones that Apple includes with iPods Does allow you to set MP3 files as alarmclock and ringtone

Music player quits when you go back to the home screen - so no playing games or texting or choosing next song while you listen to music

Best bet would be to use a USB2.0 card reader and not change your music often but the SD Micro card is under the battery so you have to shut down - open the case - take out the battery - slip out the card - and reverse. Kind of a total pain.

No playlists - you can navigate to a sub folder and play all music in it - so you could do a crude workaround.

If your kids are pestering you for an iPhone - and you don't have that budget - this is still not the phone for you, they will most likely be very unhappy. If you are a casual phone user and want something that will allow you to listen to some music on a morning commute or gardening this might work

This "eco friendly green phone" came in a large plastic blister pack with lots and lots of T-Mobile manuals and prepay upsell propaganda inside (they appear to be printed with soy ink on recycled paper - but the packaging isn't nearly as eco friendly as it could be. )

This is just a HORRIBLE phone!!!

Thank you for taking it back without a restocking fee Amazon, you are the BEST


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