Rating: 
Summary: This phone is near perfect
Review: I have been using this phone for several days now and I must say that its very light and sleek. Looking at the front, you will first you notice the motorola emblem, which lights up like a disco light when you assign musical ringtones to it. I would have preferred a status light instead. The front LCD display can be perfectly seen and isnt too small or too large. When you open the phone, you notice how much more sleeker it is than nextels last flagship phone, the i95. It weighs a mere few ounces and feels great to carry around. The 65k lcd display delivers crisp color and is very bright. I wish it was bigger though. The keypad is backlighted with a sensor and a very nice blue hue which is pleasant to view at night. The button arrangement is good, no problems here. The back of the phone has the speaker on it. People find it annoying that the speaker is located in the back but I understand why Motorola did it. Now I can finally hear my phone ring when it's on my clip! On the side of the phone you have the usual PTT buttons which are black and a black antenna. The phone can hold upto 600 contacts, which is more than enough for anyone. One touch PTT is a new feature which can help anyone. IT has an arsenal of java apps and many more that are available for purchase. The phones interface is quite easy and straight forward. I have yet to have any wrong buttons pressed, which is a good thing. The phone also has many color profiles which will fit any mood. What interested me the most was the GPS system on the phone, which will tell you where you are in the world, a very cool feature. All in all, this phone is wonderful and worth every penny. Nextel has done it again. I would recommend this phone to anyone 16 and up. Thanks for reading!
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Summary: Slim + Brilliant Color + Cool Features = Happy Customer
Review: I've been a Nextel customer for about a year, and the first thing I noticed about the new i730 is the size. It's thin! Much improved over my old phone. Looks good, and feels light. And improvements in size and weight haven't been made at the expense of features. The color display is jaw-dropping, very bright and clear. And I love the GPS. I know this has practical benefits, and I appreciate that, but right now I like this feature because it's cool and fun. Did I really need the GPS satellites to locate my position on Earth while I was at lunch today? No, but I did it anyway, and my lunch-mates were impressed. One of the features the Nextel sales guy pushed was the fact that this phone has the latest Java technology. I haven't fully explored, but look forward to checking it out on my next flight. There are all sorts of productivity helpers and games to check out. And, this phone has "airplane mode" like my Blackberry, which lets you turn off the wireless part, while still being able to play games or run other java tools -- perfect for killing time while in-flight. Also on my list to do when I have a minute is to assign unique rings to a few people in my phone book -- that way I don't have to look at the screen to know if it's someone I need to talk to or not. I've owned this phone for less than a month, and love it. I've been happy with Nextel, after having been with other carriers, none of them have the combination of service and features that Nextel offers. Nextel's walkie-talkie service is amazing -- fast, clear, and, again, very cool. Great service, and now a great phone -- I'm definitely a happy customer. 5 stars for this one.
Rating: 
Summary: Do not Waste Your Money
Review: This is my second Nextel phone. I upgraded for a smaller phone and this one seemed to have all the features I needed. This phone has a terrrible signal reception and drops calls / and or service 12 -15 times a day. I have already had the phone looked at by Nextel and Motorola and they say nothing is wrong with the phone.
Rating: 
Summary: i730 - nextel's flashy iDEN that will rape your wallet.
Review: GOOD:
-Attractive
-Durable
-Battery Life
-Great inovative 'Profiles'
BAD:
-Scratches Easily
-GPS Supported - However, does not work well at all
-Most Useful Java Apps require additional Nextel Net Access Plan (expect to pay 10+/mo at the LEAST) ontop of your monthly rate plan ok so you have nextel service, your new sex looking motorola i730 (specific to nextel only), & an affordable plan (well somewhat).... and like every person out there, you want your shiny new nextel phone to be customized with ringtones for each contact and wallpaper for each profile (standard, car, sleep, morning, office, etc) - "CHA-CHING!", shouts nextel. At 1.99 per ringtone or wallpaper, this phone is hardly worth the idea of customizing. For the price of monthly WAP Access, you'd think they would throw in unlimited ringtone and wallpaper downloads. I mean, come on, $10/mo ONTOP of your monthly plan of $49.99 of 500/minutes a month, is pretty steep already. Not only that, but just to afford the phone - you'll most likely be signing in for a year contract or two.
Rating: 
Summary: Nice features, bad design
Review: The features on this phone are awesome, but the design of the phone is terrible. The direct connect speaker is located on the back of the phone, so when you're using it, the sound goes directly into the palm of your hand. This wouldn't be bad, but he direct connect microphone is located on the opposite side of the phone. It just isn't near as loud as my I90C. If you're buying it to look good and put a trophy on your belt, this is your phone. If you're buying it for functionality and to actually use it in a real world environment, consider another nextel.
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Summary: Nextel is a mess
Review: I recently moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and thought it a good time to get a new mobile phone. A friend recommended Nextel, saying we'd use the direct connect function. Cool. So I ordered an i730 from Amazon. After charging and activating and waiting the required day, I called to get my phone number. It was a Palo Alto, CA, number!? That's over 700 miles away! An 11 hour drive to the next state. No way close to a local number. Nextel did not seem to understand or care. "It's the closest we have." "There are no 602 area code phone numbers left." I begged for maybe a 480 number or anything that is a local call from here in Phoenix. Nothing doing. After a few more days and a few more calls to Nextel that went nowhere, I called Sprint (who have not been customer service stars to me in the past) and within four minutes had a local 602 Phoenix number working on my current Sprint phone. I canceled the Nextel service. They are charging me $35 (expected) plus $11.53 in taxes, fees and assessments "we can't change" for a couple of days when all I called was customer service.
If you buy the phone, I hope Nextel has a local area code for you, because if they don't you are stuck for $46.53 and an Amazon return. It was a pretty color screen though . . .
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Summary: Great phone
Review: I've read some of the reviews on this phone and I am laughing. These people have lemon phones or something. I've had my phone for over a year. It's been dropped, talked on, and toyed with by my 2 year old and it has always and still works perfectly! Nextel itself has kinks in their services, but that is not the phone's fault. I love my phone and I would highly reccomend it again and again!!!
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Summary: Good little phone
Review: The i730 boasts features that are in demand in today's high-tech world. This flip phone
boasts a color screen, Speakerphone, One Touch Direct
Connect, Voice Recorder, and Voice Activated Dialing.
Additionally, you can customize this phone with
downloadable wallpapers and ring tones.But had ordered it off of Nextels site. They even gave me a code that saved me $50.00. Here it is for you all to share (CL897L) case sensitive. On the shopping cart page in the promo box. It is like an invoice thing. But I think it is a very good phone. You will enjoy the phone. Happy shopping.
Rating: 
Summary: Decent phone considering the lack of reason to be better
Review: I switched to Nextel from Sprint about a year ago and purchased this phone as it was the best one offered. The phone for Nextel is nice, however the newer phones seem better, however if this phone was on any other service it would be very sub-par and would never sell. It is because Motorola has a monopoly on Nextel phones that they are not pushed to do any better.
Pros:
-Good java execution.
-Good screen brightness and color.
-I enjoy the way the contacts allow you to easily flip between multiple numbers for one person
-Nice flexibility for the shortcuts
-Nice speaker phone
-can place calls without even opening the phone
Cons:
-Huge phone by todays standards. No real need in the phone being that large
-Small screen compared with most of todays phones
-Must go online for text messaging
-Metal piece covering ear speaker falls off constantly
-Poor reception inside any building and around tall structures
-From time to time the phone will randomly shut itself off. It goes through stages though, for a week or so it will shut itself off almost every hour, then it will not do it again for several months.
Overall not so great of a phone, however it is not like Motorola really has any push to make phones much better. Now that Nextel has merged with Sprint I'll be back on Sprint again and I will just go back to Samsung phones which I love this summer when the deal is complete.
Rating:
Summary: This Makes The New Rating Of 0 Star
Review: This is truly a terrible phone, don't let the new, long overdue features fool ya! Sure its about time they make a phone with a color screen to keep up with everyone else, and the new features are handy. But tell me.... What use are they if you cannot use the phone???? Every other call is a dropped call. And its annoying and embarrassing especially if you take business calls on them. Within about 8 months I went through about 9 phones. Their service department is pretty cool and is aware of the issue so they gave me no problems switching out the phone, they just never had any in stock! For those out there that are experiencing dropped calls, take it into a service center and let them put in a internal antenna they had to make for these units. It does help a little, any less dropped calls is an improvement.
The Worst parts are of the phone:
Is never having a signal, I can't even use the phone in my house anymore! Not at work and I am on the 15th floor, I have to stand on 1 baby toe to get 3 bars.
The speaker phone blows out. When you download ring tones, they are too loud even on the lowest volume level. And when you use the speaker, it cuts in and out.
Each time you download something, since the phones are so crappie, you have to keep getting replacements. They don't save your ring tones or anything you downloaded from IDEN. SO now I am just out of luck on the money I have spent on the past. Although they don't use IDEN anymore, I still was cheated!!
The screen gets jammed sometimes. Very rare but true. I have to close the flip and re-open it.
How about the phone just cuts itself off. Power Zero! Battery fully charged. Do warning or nothing.
It ruins the Jarba earbuds. I have had to buy 2 of them because whatever is the problem, when you plug in the ear piece, it zaps it and the earpiece will no longer work. And you can't return those! So you are just our of $40+
They refuse to recall the phone. The customer service reps, the service centers,managers, you name it from Nextel themselves has said they phone is "No Good" that "Everyone is having the same problem" and there is nothing they can do. When I disconnected my service the department that handles that offered to take $150 off the price for the i830 but I heard the reception on those were worse.
Customer service doesn't know what the error codes are. If you call and report back to back dropped calls and tell them the code... They don't even have the reference guides to tell you what the code means.
Oh and be careful when you change your package!! If you Upgrade or Downgrade it signs you up for another year to your contract. Don't do it. Stay where you are so you can get out.
One positive thing I will say is that the rate plans are good depending on how much you use your phone and even though customer service is terrible, they don't say no. You just have to be patient over and over again until they fix it. Also be prepared to call at least 3 times back to back to make sure they handle the issue, that they did make the adjustment/credit. Each representative will tell you something different I promise you. They don't know the system, they don't notate accounts properly, and their knowledge is very minimal. I want a Pro on the phone I can look in the users guide myself. So get yourself a good book and prepare to wait.
Myself, I have left Nextel for good. I was looking into Sprint but now since they merged.... I am sticking to plan A to the Verizon Wireless. So all of those people out there that are saying the phone is great, don't leave that area, and give it a few months. You will be changing you review. Because I too at first loved the phone.
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