Mobile Phone :Motorola Quench Review

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:43:20 +0000

Motorola didn’t have much to show at the Mobile World Congress, showcasing just one handset at the event. In keeping with the recent tie in Motorola have had with Android, bringing us handsets like MILESTONE, DEXT and BACKFLIP, the QUENCH also runs Android OS, in this case version

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Motorola didn’t have much to show at the Mobile World Congress, showcasing just one handset at the event. In keeping with the recent tie in Motorola have had with Android, bringing us handsets like MILESTONE, DEXT and BACKFLIP, the QUENCH also runs Android OS, in this case version 1.5.

Unlike the aforementioned Motorola devices, the QUENCH is purely touchscreen, there is no hard QWERTY keyboard included here. Now generally typing on a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard can be a bit difficult to get used to, but with the QUENCH text entry is *completely* different. The QUENCH offers Swype, a completely new way of entering text on a touchscreen phone, where words are entered by swiping your way across the screen, instead of individually touching each letter. You simply press on the letter that starts the word you wish to enter, and then trace your finger across the screen to each letter in the word, without moving your finger from the screen, until you come to the last letter in the word. You then take your finger from the screen, press on the letter of the next word, and repeat. There’s no need to use the space key, as a space is automatically entered after each word. Swype needs to be seen in action to be fully appreciated, you can view Swype in the video clips below:

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The display itself is a large 3.1 inch capacitive touchscreen, with a pixel resolution of 320 x 480. The screen has an auto rotate facility, and there is a proximity sensor which disables the screen when you are on a call. The device is pretty much a standard size for a high end touchscreen smartphone, measuring in at 117 x 60 x 12.5mm and weighing 130g. On the QUENCH, Motorola have included the MotoBLUR UI, and there is support for live widgets, which allow you to be constantly updated with friends’ updates from your favourite social networks, and this is all powered by a Qualcomm MSM7201A 528 MHz processor.

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Available in three colour options, Black, Liquorice and Purple, the QUENCH measures up pretty well against other Motorola and other manufacturer Android handsets. The handset includes 512 MB ROM and 256 MB RAM, with memory expansion via MicroSD memory cards, supporting up to 32GB. The media player supports MP3, AAC and eAAC+ audio files along with MP3, H.263 and H.264 video files. A 3.5mm audio output jack is included, and there is also a stereo FM radio option, with RDS support. There is a 5.0 Megapixel camera onboard, with autofocus and an LED flash for low level light conditions, and images can be geotagged too. Video recording is enabled, CIF resolution at 25fps, but there is no front facing camera.

Web browsing on the QUENCH comes over well; with all the usual data connections you’d expect on a smartphone, HSPA Mobile Broadband at up to 7.2Mbps and WiFi for high speed browsing, backed up by Class 12 GPRS and EDGE, the web browser on the phone will allow you to zoom in and out using pinching movements on the display. All the usual Google services are accessible, Gmail, YouTube, Google Search and Maps, and the QUENCH also covers push email and instant messaging.

All round then, the Motorola QUENCH is a solid device, offering everything you would expect from a modern smartphone, and should help further re-establish Motorola once again as a manufacturer of desirable mobile phones. You should expect the QUENCH to be available sometime during late March/early April.

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Mobile Phone :Motorola Quench Review