Recently we celebrated the 40th anniversary for the world’s first mobile phone communication. Predictably, it is a Motorola engineer who made the historic call and, even more inevitable, the phone call was made on a Motorola phone (or, in this instance, prototype telephone). If you’re taking one thing from this introductory section, it ought to be this: Motorola are superior, and when it pertains to communications.

With that in mind, I reviewed the GP340 Portable Walkie talkie, the prevalent in a lingering string of excellent Motorola radio devices. The following is what I thought about it.