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What It Has

The Motorola Flip Out is one of the more interesting looking Motorola mobile phones on the market.  Its unique design lets it fold up into a perfect square when the QWERTY keypad is clicked shut.  Somewhere between a flip phone and a slider, this mobile offers consumers a lot of the great features that are the standard bells and whistles that Android phone users are looking for.  Among those are a 3-megapixel camera, the slide-out QWERTY keypad, an on-screen keyboard that automatically comes up when the QWERTY keypad is tucked away, an easy-to-read screen and music player capabilities.  Plug in your earbuds and engage the TuneWiki plug-in to read karaoke lyrics for the song you’re singing along with scrolling on the screen.  This Motorola mobile phone is easy to use and offers many perks.

What It Lacks

The Motorola Flip Out has good call quality—but this could be better.  It has two noise-cancelling microphones but still it failed to impress in traffic and high-noise situations.  The screen has a lower resolution than other Motorola models, and the flashless-camera is a bit of a disappointment.  It’s also easy to cover up the lens with your finger due to its positioning.  The combination of a lack of a flash camera mixed with the disappointing low-resolution of the screen also means that you can’t accurately determine the quality of a picture you’ve snapped until it’s been uploaded.

Conclusion

All in all a decent camera with a stylish, square design that is pleasing to the eye.  It gives you everything you need when you compare mobile phones to this one, but it does fall short in a couple of key areas like the screen resolution and the camera.

What It Has

The Motorola Defy mobile phone is described by its manufacturer as one tough little phone that is built to withstand whatever life has to throw at it. This is a particularly powerful selling point to anyone who can’t baby his or her handset.  It’s a rugged little phone with rubber coating and a 3.7-inch display screen that is constructed of scratch-proof Gorilla Glass, and with a sliding catch on the back that protects the phone battery cover from falling off along with the battery, should you drop it; it lives up to expectations in this regard.  Better yet, if you’re out at the pub with mates and someone spills their drink on it, the protective rubber seals over the jack and the micro-USA keeps liquid and dust out. The screen is high resolution, which makes it easy to navigate and a pleasure to look at, and the camera effects are basic but allow for easy customisation.  The screen also has some useful widgets to help you navigate contacts and most-called numbers.

What It Lacks

The design of the Defy isn’t really all that pleasing to the eye.  It may be ‘life-proof’ but it’s not getting any bonus points for its beauty.  The Defy is also a bit on the slow side when it comes to downloading apps and swiping screens from left-to-right.  Navigation can sometimes be a little annoying.  It’s an Android mobile phone, which is good, but it’s a bit bulky and doesn’t have either the call quality or the browsing and social media sharpness that we’d like to see.

Conclusion

The mobile phone news on this model is that it’s great in terms of its toughness and if you need a phone that can be dropped or otherwise abused and keep going strong, this is the phone for you.  It will suit all of your needs even though some of the features may not be as sharp as we’d like.

The Motorola Quench is a 3G Smartphone featuring a MOTOBLUR user interface with live widgets. The Motorola Quench is an Android phone, jointly brought to market by Android Inc. and Google. Android mobile phone technology allows users to freely share and create their own applications through open source software. The Android operating system used by the Motorola Quench is 1.5, also known as Cupcake.

The Motorola Quench measures 4.59 by 2.34 by 0.48 inches. It weighs 4.36 ounces. Its battery life is a relatively unremarkable 4.5 hours of talk time, with an unusually long standby battery life of 21 days (500 hours).

The Motorola Quench’s main display screen measures 3.10 inches and has a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. The inbuilt camera has a 5 megapixels resolution, featuring LED flash, autofocus and digital zoom.

Multimedia specifications include a video player supporting files in H.263 and H.264 format and a music player supporting files in a MP3, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR and MIDI format. Memory space is 256 MB RAM/512 MB ROM.

The internet connection is in HTML or Flash Lite format. The Motorola Quench has microUSB, Wi-Fi, 2.0 stereo Bluetooth and A-GPS.

The best features of the Motorola Quench are its great look and feel, and the ease with which users can share photos, videos and sound and text files through the inbuilt MMS service.

There are currently no specific Motorola Quench deals on offer.

The Motorola Milestone was a long awaited addition to the range of Motorola mobile phones that are on the market and it has features that will suit both those who are new to smartphones and those who have tried several other models.  The screen measures 3.7 inches and has a sharp clear display. 

The milestone has an Android 2.0 operating system and users can customise their home screens and there is a substantial range of apps available for the phone.  The screen makes it easier to view web pages, and also to type and send emails or text messages.  The slide out QWERTY keypad could be considered to be hard to use but just takes a little getting used to. 

Multi-tasking is easy and the phone loses very little speed when moving from one application to another.  The Moto Phone Portal is the equivalent of iTunes and appears automatically when the phone is connected to a computer.  The phone has a still camera which is a fairly basic but functional model, but this is enhanced by the video functions.  Videos are easy to shoot and the phone will prompt you to upload and share images. 

The Motorola Milestone is one of a number of handsets that can be obtained free of charge when you opt for one of the many mobile phone deals that are on offer.  The tariffs connected to these vary in monthly fees depending upon the length of contract that you are prepared to commit to.  To compare mobile phones a quick search of the internet should tell you everything that you need to know.

The Motorola Flipout is a small phone that folds into a square shape when the keypad is not in use.  This Android phone is one of the latest in the range of Motorola mobile phones and comes complete with a three megapixel camera.  The camera is equipped with Kodak ‘Perfect Touch’ which acts as an auto focus and adjusts brightness.  This can be done before or after taking the photo.  Photos can be cropped to size and added to contacts or used as a wallpaper on the phone. 

The handset itself has a strong feel to it and when it clicks shut you can be sure that it won’t just spring open again.  Typing is easy on the QWERTY keypad, but if you prefer there is a touch screen which also offers a keyboard.  The onscreen keypad can be fairly small, but the choice is yours and you can use whichever you prefer. 

The accelerometer allows easy switching from landscape to portrait modes.  The music player has great sound quality and there is a 3.5mm headphone jack for those who like to listen to music on the move.  The music player can search the web for song lyrics so you can sing along. 

For the latest mobile phone news you can check out a number of websites which should also be able to keep you up to date with the latest mobile phone deals.  Finding a deal that is right for you should be easy as there are hundreds to choose from that suit all budgets and all contract commitment levels.

The MOTOKZR K3 is a clam shell type phone that just flips open. It looks good and is of solid construction, made with high quality materials. It boasts a phone book which will hold 2000 contact names and a 2 megapixel camera. It supports video calls and HSDPA and offers an internal memory of 50 MB; it has an SD memory slot so the memory capacity can be expanded as required. It has external music controls and is Bluetooth compatible.

Overall, this a perfectly serviceable mobile phone available at a great price if a little time is taken to check out mobile phone deals. It does have some drawbacks though. The front plate seems to pick up finger marks very easily (even if your hands are clean) and the keypad is very difficult to use by touch because it just doesn’t feel right. The absence of a flash unit and the lack of auto focus make the camera difficult to use effectively. There is no facility to set up weekly alarms on the clock, only daily times and there is no way to set up SMS proof of delivery on a permanent basis. You have to do it before sending each text.  The MOTOKZR K3 does not have an FM radio and is sadly without call filtering facilities, or a voice recorder which will record calls.

This particular Motorola model seems to concentrate on design and looks but it does not put the same importance on functionality. It is a fairly decent quality phone for basic use and the design is excellent, but it seems to be all looks and little substance.

Motorola claims that the MOTO W233 Renew mobile phone is the world’s first carbon neutral mobile phone. The outside casing of the phone is made by using recycled plastic from bottles and the instruction manual is even printed on recycled paper. The packaging is minimal and designed to make use of as few natural resources as possible.

Apart from these ways of reducing this mobile phone’s carbon footprint, Motorola has invested money in renewable resources and in planting trees to offset any carbon emissions which may be released during the manufacture of this phone. These efforts to help the environment have won this particular phone an award as a carbon free product. It has been given a carbon-free product certificate award from Carbonfund.org.

All these things make this the most environmentally friendly of Motorola phones and it is a phone which will appeal to those who are concerned about the impact that a mobile phone has on the environment.

Users who just want to be able to make calls and send texts will find this model to be one of the best mobile phone deals around. There are no frills and it has no GPS and no built in camera, but it does offer the user nine hours of talk time between charges and has very good, clear sound quality produced by its Crystal-Talk noise reduction system. This is a straightforward carbon neutral mobile phone which will appeal to those who want the basics and to do their bit for the environment.  

Motorola joined forces with camera-giants Kodak to deliver a serious 5-megapixel shooter, to go head to head with Sony Ericsson and its Cyber-shot range.  The result was the Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5.

The ZN5 looks like any other average handset from the front but check around the back and the bulge tells you that this phone means business.  Underneath the lens is a 5-megapixel sensor, and although other phones have higher megapixel counts, this camera guarantees to produce better quality pictures because of Kodak’s secret clever processing.

When you open the lens, the menus are laid out in an organised manner making it easy to set up options like low light mode, white setting and flash settings.  The handset has a dedicated camera button and when you press it, you’ll notice very little shutter lag.

The camera comes with an inbuilt Xenon flash but because of the Kodak technology it takes great pictures in poor lighting even without the use of the flash.  The pictures look great on the ZN5’s screen but when you upload them to your computer, they don’t compare with a dedicated digital camera.  But compared to other phones, this handset is a cut above and easily rivals Sony Ericsson’s Cyber-shot range.

The ZN5’s menus make it easy to use other functions; the call quality is excellent and the battery life is good at over nine hours of talk time.  Another plus is that it has a 3.5mm headphone jack.

The let down of this phone is that although the camera is great, Motorola left off 3G support.