Thumbs Up - Music & Ringtones Blog - Thumbplay.com

We're not kidding about the headline. Motorola's new W755 flip phone comes in charcoal gray or purple and is compatible with Verizon's Rhapsody music service. Hence, literally, you get Rhapsody in purple. Somewhere, George Gershwin is grimmacing.

Even if you don't opt to subscribe to Rhapsody and load in your own songs (maybe "Rhapsody in Blue" to make up for my pun?), the W755 is a cute little music phone compatible with Windows Media Player 11, with touch-sensitive backlit music control icons on the front flap, along with a touch-sensitive blue Bluetooth icon to turn the wireless headphone function on or off without burrowing through the menus. If you don't like stereo Bluetooth, unfortunately your alternative is a 2.5mm headphone jack. Worse, you'll have to buy your own earphones – Verizon has stopped including them with phones.

Otherwise, the W755 is an EV-DO Rev. A phone, so Web pages load in a jiffy, is rubberized front and back for a sure grip, has a 1.3 MP camera and a microSD card slot awkwardly placed underneath the battery.

Labels: cellphones