Motorola Milestone 2

By Author: Kieth Gauvreau
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Design
The Motorola MILESTONE 2's capacitive touch screen measures in at 3.7 inches with a resolution of 480x854 pixels. As expected, it's crisp, with a great level of detail, though is slightly dull when compared with both S-AMOLED and S-LCD displays such as that found on the HTC Desire Z (T-Mobile G2).The black and chrome model comes with an almost similar sleek appearance. The QWERTY keyboard is spacious and has raised keyboards. This makes typing an easy affair for users.

Interface and Functionality
The Motorola Milestone 2 will ship with the company's MotoBlur software. This integrates social-networking services such as Facebook and Twitter in the interface to make it easier for users to keep abreast of their friends' online activities and updates.When taking photos where lighting is good, there is a fair amount of detail with accurate looking colors, though a touch dark. Additionally, the handset handles macro shots well for the most part. In situations where lighting is scarce, there is a fair bit of noise and graininess in our shots, though the dual LED flash on the handset does a decent job of illuminating ...
... our shots, albeit making colours look washed out.Video playback on the MILESTONE 2 is great with MP4 support smooth up to 720p.The Motorola Milestone stock Android music player does provide basically everything you need, by listing your music by artists, albums, songs, and playlists though looks plain. If you happen to press on the album cover, it will change to a neat looking visualization to provide a hint of visual eye candy as a song is being played.

Memory Capabilities
The Motorola Milestone 2 mobile has a total 40 GB storage capacity. The internal memory is 8GB and you can extend it up to 32 GB with micro SD cards.

Softwares
The Google applications include softwares like Google Search by Voice, Google Maps Navigation, Google Maps with Latitude and Street View, Google Talk and Google Search. There is also a Quick Office Document Viewer and Enterprise Exchange support.

Internet
Motorola Milestone 2 gives users the ability to turn the smartphone in a 3G hotspot and when the Wi-Fi is turned on up to five devices can connect to it and access the web via the phone's 3G connection.Motorola Milestone is a quad band GSM dual band 3G handset, Bluetooth 2.1

Communication Facilities
The Motorola Milestone 2 has IMAP/POP support. There is provision for Gmail email exchange facility. There is support for social networking sites like Twitter, Myspace and Facebook. You can easily integrate and import contacts. The unique text to speech feature makes your networking more comfortable and attractive.Call quality on the Motorola MILESTONE 2 is good on both ends and the phone was able to retain a solid connection to the network.

Battery life
Battery life should be adequate for a good 8 hour work shift without requiring a charge. However, it'd be a wise decision to plug this up to a charger before going to bed at night if you want to make sure you'll have a healthy battery level in the morning. The unit is rated for a stable 9.5 hours of talk time and 13 days of standby on a single charge.The unit is rated for a stable 9.5 hours of talk time and 13 days of standby on a single charge. A feature that influences this hugely is how activated MOTOBLUR is, with all the syncing sucking power faster than you can say QWERTY keyboard. Read more Cellphone Review & Guide