motorola defy

Motorola Defy ships with Android 2.1. Though it’s not the latest 2.2 update, version 2.1 is still quite good. You get up to seven home screens, live wallpaper, speech-to-text abilities, voice control, the ability to use more than one Gmail account, and more.Motorola Defy comes with the enhanced version of Motoblur, which lets you move and resize widgets on the home screen. The widgets let you keep track of social network updates, incoming messages, and the latest news feeds. You get up to seven different home screens, with shortcuts to the phone dialer, the main menu, and the contacts list on the bottom row. For text input, you can choose from either the standard Android multitouch keyboard or the special Swype keyboard that lets you spell out words by dragging your finger across the keys.

Underneath the display Motorola Devy are four touch-sensitive Android hot keys for the pop-up menu, the home screen, Back, and Search. On the left spine of Motorola Devy is the Micro-USB charging port, on the top are a 3.5-millimeter headset jack and the screen lock/power key, and on the right is the volume rocker. The camera lens and LED flash are on the back. The battery cover Motorola Devy has a lock to protect the phone’s internal area from water damage.

Motorola Devi include voice dialing, a speakerphone, text and multimedia messaging, conference calling, visual voice mail, and a vibrate mode. The phone book on Motorola Devy is limited only by the available memory, and each entry has room for multiple numbers, e-mail addresses, and so forth. For connectivity, you have Bluetooth with A2DP support, Wi-Fi, 3G, and GPS with TeleNav support. The Motorola Defy is also only one of a few Android smartphones to have Wi-Fi calling. Just as it sounds, this feature lets you make calls over Wi-Fi, thus bypassing cellular airwaves so calls won’t eat up your minutes. You can easily add your own POP3/IMAP server, and the Motorola Defy is compatible with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync as well.

Other apps that come with the Motorola Devy are Quickoffice, Social Networking, YouTube, a Motorola Phone Portal, Media Share, Family Room, Blockbuster, Audio Postcard, and DLNA. That last app lets you share media files with any other DLNA-compatible device in the house, which includes many television sets. The Motorola Defy has a decent 5-megapixel camera. Indoor shots looked rather muted, though the LED flash improved them a little. There’s also a video recorder and a music player. A maximum video capture resolution of 640 x 480 in Motorola devy. It would’ve been extremely wonderful to see a handset like this to sport 720p video recording, but you’ll have to settle with what’s on board. Even though videos manage to chug along at a fluid motion, it’s partly due to its fast capture rate of 29 frames per second.