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Motorola devour1/16/2024 A small track/optical pad at the lower left works like a mouse for point-navigation. It has touchscreen keyboard feature and touch sensitive buttons. Aside from its full-on 79mm (3.1-inch) screen size, the interface offers vivid colors and bright backlights. A tad heavier than slim phones, this smartphone is solid to touch with curved edges and has strategically located rubber grips at the back. If you’re hankering for a slab of smartphone that is more advanced, though, chances are you’ll find the Droid more satisfying.The Motorola Devour comes in a clean, silver, curvilinear package. The Devour is proficient at standard smartphone tasks, and can certainly handle basics like surfing the Web, checking e-mail and updating Facebook and Twitter. I wasn’t as thrilled with the dedicated volume buttons on the side of the phone, though: They’re located right next to a button that activates voice commands, and I kept hitting that when I tried to lower the volume. I was surprised by the Devour’s external speaker, which was quite clear for listening to music or watching videos aloud. Calls often sounded kind of muffled and choppy to me my conversation partners told me the connection didn’t sound good to them, either. The Devour can make phone calls, too - but sadly I felt like I was channeling Verizon’s “Can you hear me now?” commercials. At least there is a good amount of space to store your photos and other media, because the handset comes with an 8-gigabyte microSD memory card. And though it has a number of simple photo-editing options, such as the ability to adjust the color of your images, I was miffed to see it doesn’t include a flash or zoom. I was also unimpressed with the Devour’s 3-megapixel camera. And a separate key that lets you access symbols and other special characters is awkwardly placed on the bottom far right of the keyboard. Instead of using the area on either side of the space bar for character keys, the Devour breaks up the standard QWERTY format and devotes this real estate to letter and character keys. Sadly, its layout made it hard to type e-mails and insert common characters such as commas and the “at” symbol. Like the Droid, the Devour is a husky hunk of a handset - it weighs 5.9 ounces, making Apple’s 4.8-ounce iPhone look like a flyweight. In addition to running the Android software the Devour comes with Motorola’s super-social Motoblur software, which displays content such as e-mails, Twitter tweets, Facebook updates and news in little on-screen “widgets.” The phone’s face has just one mechanical button - a nifty touch-sensitive square that sits on the bottom left hand side and can be used for scrolling down lists and Web pages and selecting things. A seemingly cramped touch screen, unimpressive camera and weird keyboard layout made me prefer its more full-featured, pricier cousin, the Motorola Droid ($200, after a rebate, with a two-year contract), which is available from the same wireless carrier.Īt first glance, the Devour’s solid-feeling, brushed aluminum body and slide-out keyboard radiate user-friendly vibes. Unfortunately, the phone’s features are less aggressive than its name. The phone ($100, after a rebate, with a two-year contract) is available through Best Buy and will start selling from Verizon sometime this month. With the user-friendly Android operating software, the Devour lets you surf the Web, check e-mail and update your Facebook status with relative ease over Verizon Wireless’ network. SAN FRANCISCO - It has a name that suggests it will eat the competition for breakfast, but despite a sprinkling of positives Motorola’s new Devour smartphone left me hungry for something more.
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