1 of the best Android phones available in the US
Form Factor: thick heavy dense feeling giving it a high quality look and feel. Mostly plastic it's built of high quality shiny and soft touch rubbery matte plastic as well. Full QWERTY makes the phone thicker than most but having both is like having your cake and eating it too. Is it the most beatiful cell phone in America? Probably not. Is is one of the best built and most solid high quality feeling phones you can pretty much count on to stick around for your 2 year contract? Absolutely. When it comes to cellphones Samsung Nokia LG and HTC are hands down the best there is at what they do: make solid long lasting phones.
Touch screen: brilliant AMOLED screen displays brilliant colors doesn't need much battery life and just produces eye popping visuals. Many reviews are constantly talking up how amazing the screen is on the new Moto Droid on VZW but this screen is as good with color and touch response as the Droid's and iPhone's if not better. The touch sensitive home back and menu keys could be more sensitive but with the nature of Android that could be addressed.
QWERTY: one of the best out there. Reviewers on line complain about its "odd button locations" but listen to them carefully and then listen to their other reviews on other fully QWERTY keyboard having cell phones... they'll say the exact same thing about them. That's because they got it in the mail that day from the carrier for a quick review they've got a day or two to spend with it and then they have to ship it back so it can go to another reviewer. And most video reviews are like 10 minutes long tops so NO REVIEWER would really ever get to spend time using the keyboard long enough to get a feel for any full QWERTY let alone the Moment's. Its keys are spaced a little differently than a lot of other ones but if you'll be owning the phone or any other full QWERTY keyboarded phone you'll get the hang of it. The keys to me while different are pretty logically spaced. Also you'll have full access to a full virtual QWERTY both in landscape and in portrait modes as the phone has an accelerometer which means that even with the keyboard closed you'll be able to flip the phone on its side in landscape and type on the screen instead. Very very very convient for having to type out a long email or fill in lots of fields if you're filling out a form on line or something.
PROCESSOR: it's faster than an iPhone 3GS in my opinion which is one of the fastest responding cellphones ever available in America. If you've had any other Android phone running on the classic Android phone having 528MHz processors in the Hero G1 (Dream) MyTouch 3G (Magic) Droid Eris (pretty much just a different bodied CDMA Hero for VZW) you'll notice a significant difference when it comes to response time web page rendering texting screen response app downloads up loads... you name it. It's really fast like crazy fast.
OS: great! Android is easy to use very logically programmed and very powerful with its open source platform. Eventually it will be the #1 smartphone OS. Although it doesn't have as many apps as iPhone it didn't have the luxury of coming out almost 2 & 1/2 years ago either. Plus being open sourced the apps available actually do things and can be run at the same time. For instance you can be streaming a song in Pandora while surfing the web; all of a sudden your IM app which is running in the background alerts you you switch to it without losing your space on line on the webpage to respond; suddenly a song you've never heard of comes on in Pandora; you can immediately switch to Shazaam or Midomi and identify it get info on it and download it within seconds. Although all that is possible on an iPhone as well as other phones already on the market the way the Android OS handles it can't be matched. On the iPhone you'd never be able to Shazaam or Midomi any track streaming from Pandora or your iTunes playlists. While IM apps on iPhone can now just recently alert you you have to close whatever you're doing if you're in another app to answer close the IM app after responding and re-open whatever you're doing before you got the IM all while not being able to stream any music streaming app because it can't be open while using any other app. That gets old and while the iPhone is the most popular phone in the world people who have it either have another real smartphone with multitasking capabilities or don't know what a real smartphone is and should do. Period.
Battery life: average.
Bottom Line: Sprint/Nextel has the most dependable 3G EV-DO network in the country. Speeds are awesome and you're rarely gonna drop a call within the network. Getting the Simply Everything plan for $99.99 a month is a steal; you can do everything the phone can do unlimited and know that at the end of the month when you get your bill you'll only pay $100 plus taxes and other fees. More detail ...
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