Motorola QUENCH – New Tricks from an Old Dog

Motorola, the world’s third largest mobile phoneThere’s even FM stereo streaming. The Motorola
maker after Nokia and Samsung has unveiled itsQUENCH enhances its telephony experience with
latest Android smartphones at the recently concludednoise cancellation technology and dual microphones
2010 Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona.for crystal clear voice calls. You can also benefit from
The Motorola QUENCH with MOTOBLUR is its 8thits voice activated search facility that can launch
Android sporting the older 1.5 Cupcake version justGoogle Web search.
when many new unveiled Androids have startedApart form these, it’s your 3G phone with WiFi,
using the new 2.1 Éclair. But this just confirms ourHSDAP/HSUPA. You get a 3.1-inch QVGA capacitive
suspicion that because of its open source nature,touchscreen with 64k colors, accelerometer and
Android versions, unless severely handicapped, canproximity sensors. There’s a 5 megapixel
easily be tweaked to rival even the latest versionsautofocus camera with LED flash, geo tagging and
coming from Google.CIF video recording at 25fps.
It also further buttresses the observation that noOther features include stereo FM with RDS,
upgrade paths are necessary. Versions remain as OSBluetooth A2DP, 3.5m headphone jack and
variants with UIs like Sense form HTC and UX fromspeakerphones. There’s 512 MB ROM and 256
Sony Ericsson making an upgrade irrelevant. TheMB RAM with 32 GB of microSD expandability.
suspicion is finally confirmed when Acer came outConclusion
with the latest Liquid e showing nothing else but theTo a large extent, the various Android versions
new 2.1 Éclair OS when they could have justwhether old or new remind us of the many Linux
provided an OS upgrade to the older Liquid.flavours for the PC which created a fragmented
Apparently, no upgrade path exists from 1.6 to 2.1.market that essentially brought the Linux to fail in the
New Featureshome PC markets.
Despite an old OS, the QUENCH can carry itselfThe QUENCH clearly shows you don’t need a
proud among the new smartphones running the newnew OS to compete and even edge out the
2.1 Éclair, thanks to the Motorola innovations builtcompetition using the new Éclair. Thanks to the
into the 1.5 Cupcake. It starts with MOTOBLUR whichOpen Source nature of Android. But like Linux, it is
Motorola calls as its content delivery system thatcreating a fragment markets this early and could end
promises a unique Android experience.the same way.
It syncs your phonebook contacts, media contentFor the sake of Android markets, we hope Google
and communications trail in MySpace, Facebook,can get its act right and get a grip of its open source
Twitter, Gmail and email accounts automatically onOS. As it is, with all the many OS variants and UI
the home screen. Then there’s SWYPE, anported by different makers, a single upgrade to the
entirely new method for text input form the samelatest 2.1 Éclair from Google, if and when that
people who invented T9 predictive text. You onlyhappens, would simply wipe out all the cool UIs
need a finger to swipe or trace the letters across aported into various smartphones. So you can kiss
QWERTY keyboard on the touchscreen and theyour HTC Sense or Sony Ericsson UX goodbye in
word gets spelled.one upgrade.
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boost in media players that allow you to play whilecan visit best-mobile-contracts.co.uk. They have many
getting connected online to download new mediareviews and compare deals for the Motorola Quench.
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