Motorola Milestone mobile phone
Features:
- 3.7 in touch screen (480 x 854 pixels)
- 32 GB storage
- 5 MP camera with flash
- Slide out QWERTY keyboard
- DVD video recording
- SD card support
- Android 2.0 OS
- Price starting from £449.99 without sim, £35 month contract
Expert Review:
- Motorola Milestone mobile phone
The Motorola Milestone is the latest mobile phone from Motorola and the first to run on Android 2.0 OS, the Google’s operating system for mobile devices. It has been released for sale in U.K. just this week and is already receiving rave reviews. It directly competes with Apple’s iPhone in many respects.
Called Droid in U.S. and Milestone in U.K., the device has been designed to bring desktop computing experience for mobile phone users. One can perform tasks like web browsing, emailing, instant messaging etc. using Motorola Milestone. It has already sold 800,000 handsets in U.S. since its release in November.
One of the important features of Motorola Milestone which an iPhone does not possess is the ability to multitask – just like a PC; you can run several applications in the background like listening to music, receiving IM alerts, write an email, etc all simultaneously in a single place. Like other Android devices, users can download games, apps and other software from the Android Marketplace.
Another interesting feature of Android version 2.0 software is the ability for satellite navigation. One can receive traffic alerts, detailed directions, images of routes etc. all on the mobile phone! Motonav, the mapping software similar to TomTom and Garmin is available for a 60 day free trial with Motorola Milestone.
All in all Android 2.0 seems to be the best thing that has happened to the mobile phone marketplace in a long time and Motorola Milestone exploits it fully to give its users a completely new experience. No wonder more manufacturers like Lenova are planning to bring out new devices based on Android soon.
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