Motorola MILESTONE is one of two cell phones made by this manufacturer to run the Android 2.0 OS. The Milestone has a bright and large screen and it is one of the thinnest full QWERTY sliders on the market at the moment.
Motorola MILESTONE pros:
Pleasant design and good build quality
+ Superb touchscreen display
+ 3.7” TFT touchscreen showing 480 x 854 pixels
+ Good 5 megapixel camera and video recording
+ Browser supports multitouch
+ Built-in accelerometer
+ Standard 3.5mm audio jack
+ Reasonable price
Motorola MILESTONE cons:
- Poor battery performance
- Small keys on the QWERTY keyboard
The design:
Motorola MILESTONE measures 4.56 x 2.36 x 0.54 inches and weighs 165 grams. The phone is made of very high quality materials which shows at the first sight. The Motorola MILESTONE looks as if it was built for use on wars. It seems so durable and solid. Thanks to its matte finish the phone does not attract fingerprints or smudges. The front of the cell phone houses the 3.7-inch display below which there are four touch-sensitive buttons. The left side of the Motorola MILESTONE features the microUSB port, whereas the right side houses the camera button and the volume controls. The top of the phone houses the standard 3.5mm audio jack. Sliding the phone open reveals the full QWERTY keyboard which is well built and responsive, yet its smallish keys may be difficult to use for people with bigger fingers. The back of the Motorola MILESTONE hosts the 5 megapixel camera lens together with the dual-LED flash, but no lens cover.
Performance:
The signal reception in the Motorola MILESTONE is superb as is the in-call sound quality. The display is also outstanding and it seems that it is one of the best screens among all Android mobile phones. The contrast is very good and the sunlight legibility is excellent. The few fingerprints that may remain on the screen usually do no disturb so much as to make it more difficult to use.
The Motorola MILESTONE runs on the latest version of Android and so the entire user interface is quite customizable and very user-friendly. Thanks to the fast processor in the phone all transitions and animations are smooth and the phone is responsive.
The phonebook in the Motorola MILESTONE is very well though out. You can import contacts from a few accounts. You can add plenty of information to each contact and subsequent search of information (or contacts) is done via the built in Google search function. The organizer in the Motorola MILESTONE has all the basic functionality you can expect.
If you’re a keen SMS writer you will be glad to read that the phone has a virtual QWERTY keyboard to supplement the hard buttons. This makes messaging fun and fast. The message editors are simple and you get the default GMail right out of the box.
Multimedia:
The 5 megapixel camera in the Motorola MILESTONE does a really good job. The photos are full of detail, sharp and with accurate colors. The dual-LED flash helps you to take photos in darker light. Also the video recording functionality in the Motorola MILESTONE does not disappoint. You can record 720×480 videos at 24fps. The video quality is really good for a cell phone.
The music player in the Motorola MILESTONE allows you to sort your music library by artist, albums, songs, or custom made playlists, it has some equalizer presets and album art. And as the phone has a powerful speaker and generally good audio quality there is little more you could want.
Selected Motorola MILESTONE (aka Motorola Droid) features and specifications:
- Talk and Standby Time for GSM
Standby: Up to 350 hours
Talk Time: Up to 390 minutes
- Form Factor
Multi-touch, world’s thinnest QWERTY slider
- Band/Modes1
WCDMA 900/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 10.2 Mbps (Category 9/10), GPRS Class 12, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
- OS
Android 2.0 / Eclair
- Browser
Webkit HTML5 browser, Flash 10 ready
- Email Support
IMAP/POP3/Google Mail and Exchange
- Battery
1400 mAh
- Connectivity
Bluetooth® v2.1 + EDR2, 3.5mm Headset jack, USB 2.0 HS,
- Display
3.7”, 480×854 WVGA
- Display Resolution
265 DPI and more than 400,000 pixels
- Messaging
SMS/MMS
- Audio
AMR-NB/WB, MP3, WAV, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA
- Video
Capture/Playback/Streaming D1 / DVD quality at 24 FPS, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, WMV
- Camera
5.0 megapixel, auto focus, dual LED Flash
- Memory
8GB microSD card included in phone, Up to 32GB microSD expandable
- Location Services
GPS
- Extras
802.11b/g, 3-axis accelerometer
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