Motorola Milestone XT720 review: screen

Beyond its stellar imaging skills, the Motorola Milestone XT720’s really big draw is its panel. A 3.7-inch high-res effort, its aim is to compliment the snapper round the back, as well as make on board apps sing with its capacitive touchscreen nous. Can it succeed and out do rivals such as the HTC Desire? Read our Motorola Milestone XT720 review: screen and all will be revealed.

Read the rest of our Motorola Milestone XT720 review:
Motorola Milestone XT720 review: Overall verdict
Motorola Milestone XT720 review: Camera
Motorola Milestone XT720 review: Design and build

Perhaps the most important feature of the Motorola Milestone XT720, the touchscreen is well up there with the very best offerings on the market. Being capacitive, support for multi-touch is assured, meaning you can slip and slide through menu systems, zoom in on photos and blow up text on the web with no trouble whatsoever. Prods are always registered and assured, but the only complaint we really have in this area is the fact the panel can occasionally feel overly responsive to the touch. One slip and you can easily be on the wrong web page or into an app you had no interest in opening.

The inclusion of haptics is also interesting. While the does provide a certain reassurance, haptic feedback remains a Marmite feature on smartphones. Here it can feel great while scooching through homescreens, but utterly infuriating when tapping out messages. It can be turned off, but not turned down, meaning you’re either stuck with Moto’s haptic set up or left without. After extensive use, we switched it right off and didn’t look back.

Watching back movies on the 3.7-inch screen is great, with plenty of detail and very little judder to report. At 480 x 854 pixels, it’s ample for all but the most demanding of movie buffs. The only real issue we did have with watching back clips was the glare in bright light. The Motorola Milestone XT720’s screen almost becomes a mirror when you’re out and about. something which is great if you like checking your face out, not so good when you want to watch old episodes of The Thick Of It in the park.

Size-wise, the Motorola Milestone XT720’s screen is at the limit of what can be considered comfortable on a phone. Any bigger and your pockets need to be monsters, any smaller and squinting can become an issue. 3.7-inches seem to be the industry standard these days and it does make for a much more pleasant mobile browsing experience, even if it some pics do render poorly while using sites such as the BBC and The Guardian.

The niggles here, however, are minor. Only the Desire and iPhone can best the Motorola Milestone XT720 in the screen stakes, although you will need to make sure you keep out of the light when chowing down on classic YouTube clips.

Read the rest of our Motorola Milestone XT720 review:
Motorola Milestone XT720 review: Overall verdict
Motorola Milestone XT720 review: Camera
Motorola Milestone XT720 review: Design and build

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