Motorola Smartphones

Motorola Smartphone: Buyers' Review

A Motorola smartphone offers a good alternative to traditional smartphone choices like Apple's iPhone and HTC touch screen mobile phones. The company already has some very impressive phones in the market and plans to launch many more ambitious smartphones in the near future. Like some of its competitor, Motorola is going the Android way, with almost all of its latest and upcoming phones being powered by the Android operating system. With a bigger smartphone product range, Motorola is aiming at improving its global smartphone market share, which is small compared to the likes of Nokia and RIM.

If you are planning to buy a new smartphone, compare Motorola's products with touch screen phones from other manufactures and settle on one that meets your requirements but comes at cheap prices because smartphones can become outdated very quickly and you could be looking for a new phone soon.

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Exterior design

Motorola 3G phones come in a number of different shapes and sizes. You can choose from sharp-angled phones, flip phones, slide out phones and some uniquely shaped ones, including rotator phones and large-width smartphones where the QWERTY makes up half the front face. If style is one of your top priorities, then Motorola has given you a number of options to choose from.

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Android OS

One of the major benefits of Android on Motorola mobile phones is a faster web browsing experience. You can load your favourite sites within a few seconds. Big touch screens and high-resolution displays add to the browsing experience. You can also visit Flash websites without any hassles. Voice-activated search with 2.0 is a key highlight. You can use voice-activated searches on Google and dial your contacts in the same manner.

Email functionality is impressive with IMAP, POP3 and Gmail, all supported. Messages from different accounts can be displayed in a single, unified inbox, aiding in better email management. There are several preloaded widgets, including Facebook, Twitter, Picassa and MySpace. You can download various Android applications depending on your needs.

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Multimedia and storage

Motorola 3G smartphones come with built-in music and video players. Multimedia playback is decent with good quality speakers. Picture quality is also good and the camera comes with AutoFocus and flash in most models. With microSD cards offering 16GB to 32GB, you can conveniently store all your downloaded applications, audio clips and videos.

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User interface

While you cannot get a thumbnail view of each open page, as offered by some of HTC's phones, you can swipe through the different screens by pressing the corresponding button on a small toolbar at the bottom of the screen. As with all Android phones, the user interface on a Motorola smartphone is flexible and customisable, so you can tweak it any way you want, depending on your comfort.

If you are looking for an Android based phone, then Motorola's smartphones are a good option. Carry out a comparison of different touch screen mobile phones before deciding on one that's best for you. Go through detailed smartphone reviews and look for the cheapest deals and flexible offers from leading UK operators - 3 Mobile, Vodafone, T-Mobile, O2, and Orange.

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