Motorola VE440

Not everyone needs the whizzbang flashiness of a high-end feature phone, and this is the crowd that Motorola is catering to with its VE440 candy bar phone. Sure, it has almost everything most callers need to do the all-important tasks of placing and...

A standard 3.5mm headset jack and convenient music player controls on the phone's body make it easy to use the Motorola VE440's built-in music player. A bubbly, roomy keypad also makes the phone easy to handle.

Inconsistent sound quality turns this simple candy bar phone into a middling choice.

Motorola may be pandering to the punk rock crowd with the Limited Edition of its stylized VE440 candy bar phone, but behind the edgy cover, rock ringtones, and conveniently controlled music player lies basic features and questionable sound quality.