Review of Motorola Devour

Motorola has come up with a new smart phone in form of Devour. This new handset is an Android phone with MotoBlur. The phone has good features and a sturdy design. The phone is slightly heavy in comparison with the contemporary models.  The phone has metallic look due to the Aluminum case. This gives an extra cover to the phone and gives it a solid look. The phone has a 3.1 inch screen that is multicolored and bright. The screen is small in size yet the text can be easily read and images can be viewed easily. There is a touch control right below the display.

The right side of the phone has menu, back and home buttons. The user can find a thumb pad, which works as a navigator on the left corner of the bottom side of the phone. Touch controls of the phone respond quite well. The thumb pad works as an optical mouse as well as a physical control. This is of great use to the user as he or she can select a required option. The user can move from one application to other, change the home screens with help of the thumb pad. The phone has five home screens that can be changed. The menu of the phone is icon based and the application can be selected with one single touch.

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The phone has a physical keyboard and Android virtual keyboard. The keys are wide and large. The key spacing is good. This helps the user in typing with good speed. Te slider in this phone is well designed. The user can open and close the phone by one hand. It is user friendly. The user can find power button on the top side while the camera button, volume controller on the right side of the phone. The camera is seen on the left side. The battery and memory card can be accessed through a small opening on left side of the handset. There is a jack for headphone and a port for USB / charger in the phone.

The best thing about MotoBlur is that it makes a master list of your contacts from phone book, email accounts and face book account. This is of great help to the user. The phone is an Android device, so you can easily access all Google services like Google Talk, Gmail, Google search, Google Maps to name a few. MotoBlur helps you to sign in social networking sites like Face book, Picasa, Twitter, etc. The user can log into other email accounts apart from Gmail on this phone.

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This phone uses Android 1.5 as an operating system. Some of the functionality of the phone is lost as it goes for lesser version than Android 2.0 used in other smart phones. The phone has Wi-Fi., stereo Bluetooth, GPS, calculator, text and multimedia messaging, speed dialing, etc. as some of the features. This Motorola Devour has a three mega pixels camera that can shoot videos and click images. The image quality is good and images produced are clear and sharp with natural colors. The camera has fewer options for setting and editing.

The performance of the phone is good in terms of internet browsing, call quality, speaker phone and volume. The music quality is good and videos can be aired. The phone has no issue of lag and it performs well. The phone is priced at $149. The phone is great for the users who want a sturdy design and good options with great performance.