Motorola xt800 review

Here is another communicator from Motorola. This model carries an Android 2.1 operating system, so it’ll run smooth and fast, without any lags. That’s the trademark of Android.
What initially pleases the eye is the producers’ desire to stick to the typical candy bar with a classical design, slightly rounded corners and a built-in antenna.
The device’s control is accomplished with the aid of customary stylus, multi touch and hard button. Since the screen is sensitive enough, you can manage it without the stylus, using just your fingers.

The model is equipped with a fairly decent display that has a 480x854 pixels resolution and a 3.7 inches diagonal. There is nothing to add here, the screen is fairly good. Of course the display is touch-type (TFT) and supports 16777216 colors. The picture it reproduces is bright and colorful and viewing angles are just excellent.
Motorola XT800 has a 5 MP camera that produces excellent, bright and high quality photos. This is definitely a strong quality of the XT800 models. It is worth noting that the camera has a LED flash and auto focus. It allows the owner to record videos in mp4 and 3gp formats. Besides, the main camera, the device is equipped with a small 0.3 MP camera which also records videos, but its photo quality is feasible only from MMS messages.
For a valuable reception and the sending of the data, Motorola XT800 manufacturers have provided all the necessary features such as: built-in Wi-Fi module, USB interface and Bluetooth. There are also present the usual SMS and MMS messages that serve for communicational and informational purposes. The model has WAP, HSPA, EDGE and GPRS support for working with data transmission on the internet. It has also a HTML browser and an E-mail client.
 

Users will appreciate the support of Java as well as the presence of FM-Radio, video player and music player. All these features were introduced by the company for entertainment purposes. By the way, you can listen to the music with the standard headphones because the phone has a 3.5 mm connector. It is worth noting that the device supports and reproduces all the modern audio file formats: WMA, WAV, eAAC, MP3, and the video player works in the following formats WMV, H.264, H.263 and already mentioned earlier MP4.
Motorola XT800 works in 3G and GSM networks. It’s worth noting that in addition, manufacturers have equipped the touch screen phone with an accelerometer- a small but useful surprise for the future owners.
As always Motorola manufacturers have worked hard to provide comfortable, well-sized, high functional models with an excellent assembly due to the absence of backlash and visible gaps. The consumers can only hope that the price quality will be as good as the quality of the phone models produced by the company.
Highlight The Motorola XT800 is the new device in Milestone family. The unique feature of the handset is the Dual SIM feature. But before you get too excited it does not support 2 GSM SIM cards. It supports one GSM and one CDMA SIM card . It comes with a decent capacitive touchscreen, a 5MP camera with dual LED flash , HDMI and runs on Android 2.1
Hardware / Design :
Motorola XT800 comes with a plastic body and a silver chrome running all over the sides of the phone. The phone comes with a reasonably large 3.7 inch screen with 480 x 854 pixels resolution.
There are 3 touch sensitive buttons below the screen- menu , home and back.
The volume controls and micro USB port are on the left side and HDMI port and camera button on the right.
The XT800 sports a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera with dual LEDs.
The battery cover has a nice pattern and makes gripping the handset very comfortable.
After removing the battery cover we can see the slots for two SIMs and a slot for memory card. The XT800 runs on Android 2.1 powered by 550Mhz TI OMAP3430 processor and 256MB RAM. The phone is powered by 1390 mAh Li-Ion battery.
User Interface / OS :
Motorola XT800 runs on Android 2.1 aka Eclair. The Android UI is mostly unaltered and there is no fancy skin except for the SIM selection overlay.
The settings app in Android comes with special settings for dual sim support where you can select the default data network. The Motorola XT800 comes with preinstalled apps such as QuickOffice, Firewall, Audio effects and Mysign.
The XT800 also comes with a special APN control widget with which you can toggle data transfer and also toggle between both CDMA and GSM data networks.
Firewall app:
The firewall app in XT800 serves as a spam filter for both calls and messages. The incoming call/sms filter monitors for spam calls and it ignores/rejects the call/sms as defined as the user. And when the outgoing call filter is enabled you can block all outgoing calls or allow calls to only certain numbers.
Camera :
XT800 comes with a 5MP auto focus cam with dualLED flash. The camera is quite ok and it comes with many predefined modes such as auto,portrait,landscape,sport,night portrait,sunset,macro and steady.
The video camera records videos at 720P with 25fps . The quality is pretty decent too .
One place where the UI is different is the music player. As you can see , the music controls are different.
It also comes with audio effects app with which you can change the audio output.
Conclusion :
Pros :
* Dual SIM with CDMA and GSM support
* Android 2.1
* HDMI out
* Firewall app
* Loud audio output
Cons :
* Slow Processor
* Below par Battery Life
* Expensive
The XT800 serves good as a Dual SIM Android phone but considering its expensive price tag we should have seen a bigger battery or a more powerful CPU. XT800 still runs on Android 2.1 still there is no news regarding its update. Full marks to Motorola for the attempt to bring a Smartphone with multiple SIM support but the price needs to be more attractive if it wants innovation to translate to sales.