The Motorola Renew W233 is claimed to be the first carbon neutral mobile phone in the world: its packaging is produced from recycled plastic. The Renew has a minimal set of necessary features, but its quality is decent. You get the Renew for a low price of $9.99 including service.
The Renew offers an unusual color scheme that underlines its environment-friendly qualities: a black rear cover, cream keypad, lime green trim and green highlights around the navigation array. The Renew’s size is 4.4 inches tall by 1.8 inche wide by 0.6 inch thick. The phone is compact and lightweight. The display is too small and measures 1.44 inches and its resolution is too low, i.e. 128×128 pixels. Supporting 65,000 hues, images are not sharp and vibrant. Some colors get muted.
The navigation controls are from plastic, but they are felt well, not flimsy and not flat. The keypad functions well.
The features of Renew are not numerous, only the necessary points such as a phone book for 500 contacts, text and multimedia messaging, speakerphone, alarm, stopwatch, vibrate mode, calculator, USB syncing, support for T-Mobile’s My Faves service. The Renew provides us with a standard music player.
There are 2 games in the Renew: Tetris and Sudoku. You will not find Bluetooth or camera. The quality of sound is fine and that is enough. The Renew’s battery life is 9 hours of talk time and 18 days of standby time.
The Renew is made as an environment-friendly mobile phone. The call quality of the Motorola Renew W233 is just good and the design is simple and nice.
The display of Motorola Renew W233 features a low resolution and its size is not amazing. Besides, the handset lacks Bluetooth as well as a camera.
The Motorola Renew W233 is a good and solid mobile phone for people who do not need a lot and who want to protect environment.
