Motorola Milestone XT720 review

Motorola has resurfaced again in the Indian market with the launch of two new handsets recently - Motorola Backflip and Motorola Milestone XT720. The company has bolstered its presence in the high-end mobile phone segment with the success of its Android toting Milestone and Dext handsets. Now there's another new entrant, the Milestone XT720. Is this another upward step for Motorola to revive its presence is in this overly crowded mobile market?

The Motorola Milestone XT720 certainly has the specifications side of things nailed down nicely - Android 2.1, an 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash and 720p video recording, 3.7 inch 480x854 pixel capacitive touchscreen, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS.

And it even sports the latest must-have to complement its 720p video recording – a miniature HDMI port and the cable for sending your photos, video and other content to a larger screen. It seems like the important bases are all covered, then.

But this isn't what grabs the attention when the Milestone XT720 first comes out of its box. No, that is the overall size and weight of this smartphone. And its odd shape. Overall the Milestone XT720 measures 116x61x11mm and it weighs 160g. It has a very odd curve on the bottom right of the shell whose reason for existence we can't fathom.

OK, the curve houses three lights that illuminate when you are in gallery, stills camera or video camera modes. But seriously, Moto, we could have lived without the lights if they are the only reason for the curve.

Some will say this protuberance makes the Milestone XT720 easier to hold, some will say it adds a flash of difference to the usual rectangular design of smartphones. For our money it is just a bit of a pain, though one that doesn’t affect usability one way or the other. So, moving on.

Motorola has decided not to skin Android 2.1 this time around, and social media fans will perhaps be disappointed to learn that the Motoblur is not here either. For our money that omission is odd. We’d like to see Moto put Motoblur on all its handsets, and let you, the user, decide whether to turn it on or off.

Still, you can download Twitter and Facebook apps from the Android market, and you get five home screens which you can cram with Android widgets.

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