Motorola is really going all out in producing more Android devices around the world. At the ongoing Mobile Web Congress, Motorola has just announced it latest Android-powered device called the Motorola QUENCH with MOTOBLUR. MOTOBLUR is Motorola’s Android-powered content delivery service created to make phones more personal and socially smart. Social media was a hot item at the Mobile World Congress, and we are curious to see how this will influence Facebook, etc. in the coming season. It is the first solution to sync contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more — from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter®, Gmail™, work and personal e-mail and Last.FM — and automatically deliver them to the home screen. Content is fed into easy-to-manage streams allowing you to spend less time managing your life and more time living it. “As we continue to expand Motorola’s portfolio of Android-powered devices, we remain committed to delivering more of what people want from their handheld devices in easier ways,” said Sanjay Jha, co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices and Home business. “QUENCH with MOTOBLUR showcases Motorola’s design heritage by offering a compelling differentiation from the traditional Android experience, giving people an easier way to have more messaging, more Web and more music.”
The Quench also features a music player. The innovative new connected media player on QUENCH is not only connected to the Internet but your social networks as well. QUENCH connects you to your music with a new style of media player that lets you buy and instantly download music from an MP3 store while integrating third-party apps such as TuneWiki, SoundHound, GoTV, and YouTube™. The music search feature makes finding your songs easy while synchronized lyrics in any language you choose make learning songs easier than before. Share your favorite tracks, discover new ones2, find lyrics, watch videos, and stream FM radio.
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. The Motorola Quench also features pinch and zoom capabilities, and a front-facing centrally-located touch pad.
Where Adobe flash causes problem for the well-known smartphone, we see that the Motorola Quench mobile phone is equipped with Adobe Flash Lite. YouTube video content was played without a problem during the short demo at the Motorola stand. Of course you can also create content yourself, for example via the built-in digital camera.
The Motorola Quench Smartphone is equipped with a digital camera with 5 Megapixels and a LED flash to provide necessary extra light in dark light conditions. Remarkable is that the Megapixel-race has been put to an end since last year. For a minute it looked like cell phones would follow the compact and Digital SLR cameras, but now it appears that 12 Megapixels are truly an exception, and that 5 Megapixels are rather the rule rather than the exception. We consider this to be an excellent choice, as the road to success can be found in terms of quality and not quantity. And thereby, sharing digital content in the social network environment is not benefitted by high-resolution recordings. The Motorola Quench thus has five megapixels!
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.
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