Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 91 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 83,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NASDAQ and LSE: VOD).
A special phone we had the chance to review is the Motorola Devour, a cell phone that has been created to rival the mobile phone market. Measuring only 116 x 61 x 15 mm and having a weight of only 180 g, this item’s size will satisfy its most skeptic users. This phone arrives with a 1400 mAh Li-Ion battery, enough to talk for about 6.48 hours and provides in standby mode 443 hours. Its creators incorporated a 8.0 GB memory, just enough for your daily tasks! A cool thing of the Motorola Devour is the speaker phone, which is useful in the car for example! The screen on this cell phone is capable of setting wallpapers of 320 x 480 px.
If you like phones that uses skins you will appreciate to know that the Devour supports custom themes. The gaming engine Motorola Devour is running on Android Market, which supports many fun games! Not surprisingly, as it is available in all cell phones nowadays, the Devour enables both SMS and EMS. Adding to that it supports MMS messaging to send all multimedia files! The prediction text tool is using the Handwriting Recognition technology, being very easy to use. The Devour does support streaming media based on the VCAST Video / YouTube technology.
Key features: • Touch-sensitive navigation pad • 3.1” capacitive touch screen • Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk™, YouTube™, Google Search™ and Google Maps™ with Google Maps Navigation. • Android Market™ gives users access to more than 20,000 applications. • Happenings Widget – MOTOBLUR automatically pushes status updates, wall posts and photo updates from popular social networking sites to the Happenings Widget on the home screen. Customers can flick through the latest updates and fire back responses using the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. • Universal Inbox – MOTOBLUR gathers texts, social network messages and e-mails into one home screen widget for quick response. • Back-Up and Security – Contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, e-mail and social network messages are backed up automatically on the secure MOTOBLUR portal. The portal also allows customers to use the phone’s fully integrated aGPS to help locate the phone if misplaced. Remote wipe easily clears information from a lost device. • 8 GB microSD™ card pre-installed • Bluetooth® profiles supported: A2DP, HID, HSP, HFP, AVRCP and GAP
The good: The Motorola Devour has a sturdy design with a functional feature set and a spacious keyboard. It’s a good performer, too.
The bad: The Motorola Devour runs on Android 1.6, and its display is small for the phone’s size. The placement of some controls could be improved, and its camera has few features.
The bottom line: The Motorola Devour is built to last and it delivers on features and performance. We’d make a few usability changes, and we were hoping for more than Android 1.6, but Motorola makes another good Android move.
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