The Motorola DEXT isn’t just a fancy new Android phone stuffed with serious smartphone hardware. Like the Palm Pre, it’s a blower with the entire fate of a company bearing down on its shoulders. Can it handle the weight? Read on to find out with all the info.
The Motorola DEXT is the company’s first Android phone, just unveiled in San Francisco, and it looks a lot slicker than when we last peeped it in a blurry spyshot. As well as toting that slide out QWERTY pad, there’s a touchscreem, 3.5mm headjack, Wi-Fi, 3G and GPS. If you think it looks like a Google flavoured Nokia N97 without the hinge, well so do we.
But the Motorola DEXT isn’t just sporting vanilla Android though. Like HTC, it’s draped it in its own pimped out skin, dubbed Motoblur. As you’d expect, it’s all about feeding in all your social network communication into one homescreen stream, but it’s even more powerful. Called Happenings, the view shows all your friends’ updates from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo, Last.FM and MySpace, lets you reply and even upload photos.
The similarities with its rivals don’t end there: like the Palm Pre, the Motorola DEXT comes with cloud backup of all your contacts, settings and messages, and if you lose it, you can track it down online with its GPS, akin to Find My iPhone.
The Motorola DEXT is out on Orange next month, but is it enough to put Moto back on track? We’ll be back with more once we’ve had a first play.
Out October | £TBC | Motorola
