Motorola XPRT Review
By William Harvey on November 1st, 2011
The phone is 4.70 inches tall, 2.40 inches wide and 0.5 inch in depth. It weighs a total of 5.10 ounces, which is an improvement over the Droid Pro and previous phones. It has a capacitive multi-touch 3.1 inch screen that supports a resolution of 320x480. This phone also comes with a light sensor, proximity sensor and, more importantly, scratch-resistant glass.
The keyboard still shares the same common design as the Blackberry Bold series. There is however some slight differences between it and the one featured on the Droid Pro. The XPRT’s keyboard extends to the very edges of the phone. Whilst this is not necessarily an issue (outside of the fact that it gives the phone a squashed look), it does seem to have resulted in the bottom row of keys being smaller, presumably to accommodate for the change in space. Outside of this the keyboard has similar usability to that of the Droid Pro, it is nicely textured and each key feels distinguished.
The phone runs a version of Android 2.2 with Motorblur as the interface overlay. With Motorblur comes 7 selectable homescreens, all of which have custom Motorola widgets and support for contact, mail and social networking websites. For the most part, however, it offers the standard interface experience expected from Android. It is pleasant, easy to use and has an adult look to it which phones such as the Samsung TouchWiz miss out on.
Under the hood of the phone exists the single core 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. The performance of the phone is fairly consistent and responsive, but can often slow down when flicking between numerous screens or applications. The phone comes with a small amount of internal memory but this is upgradable with an additional 32GB through an SD card.
Featured on the phone is a 5-megapixel camera, capable of shooting video in 720p. The pictures produced are of a low to average quality. It does have an LED flash, but this doesn’t do enough to compensate in poor lighting conditions.
