- 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
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 technolog… More >>
Motorola Renew W233 Prepaid Phone, Green
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.
Rating: 1 / 5
Not getting anywhere near 18days of standby time, maybe only 3days? Also, poor reception compared to other phones I’ve used. Only reason for a two star review is that the phone is cheap…
Rating: 2 / 5
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.
Rating: 1 / 5
This phone is not very well supported by Motorola. The latest Motorola Phone Tools does not even support it, so there is no way to upload your saved contacts from your old phone. You have to type in all your phone numbers manually, which really, really sucks.
Rating: 1 / 5
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
Rating: 1 / 5