Motorola Charm is a new Smartphone which features a dedicated QWERTY keyboard, Android 2.1 OS, MOTO Blur UI v1.5 , 600MHz TI OMAP3410 processor. With a candybar shape, Motorola Charm really lives up to its name. Let’s begin to review it.
Motorola Charm
Motorola Charm Apparence
At the first sight, Motorola Charm is neither commercial nor stylish with a square and compact cute candybar appearance, which is no doubt that it will be the youth’s first choice, and social young people is also Motorola Charm market orientation.
Motorola Charm dimension is around 99×68.6×12.7mm，and weights110.6g，a bit bigger than Motorola Flipout 67×67×17mm size. But Charm is much smaller than the extension Flipout.
Motorola Charm feels light in your hand and can easily slip into a pocket or purse. As same as Flipout, Motorola Charm screen is 2.8 inches, which is a big screen in those QWERTY straight cell phones compared with Blackberry Torch 9800. However, Charm resolution stays at 320×240 pixels，which is a bit low and affect the display definition to a certain degree.
Motorola Charm QWERTY Keyboard
Like Flipout, Motorola Charm also has optical sensing buttons, including function, home and back. The Motorola Charm we review today matches with black and purple. The netty receiver and speaker are also light purple, even around the camera is full of purple stripe decoration. Such tiny and simple design makes Motorola Charm look more vigorous.
Motorola Charm adopts four-row 42 keys keyboard. The key number is much less than Flipout. Limited by the body size and keyboard area, Motorola Charm key area is a bit smaller while the key regulation is longer. However, it’s not too small for your fingers if you used to have a BlackBerry cell phones. Regarding to key layout, the direction keys have been removed to the right side from the left side. Motorola Charm keys use softer material than Flipout’s, which are very comfortable and easy to type on.
Motorola Charm receiver
Motorola Charm micro USB jack
Motorola Charm 3.5 mm earphone jack
Motorola Charm speaker
Motorola Flipout has more metal texture design, and that is also why Motorola Charm is lighter than Flipout and feels much more portable no matter in pocket or hand. Motorola Charm has the necessary micro USB, volume adjustment button, 3.5mm earphone jack in each side. What’s the small pad near the 3MP camera in the rear of Motorola Charm usage? Keep reading.
Motorola Charm mysterious small pad
The Motorola Charm comes with 2GB Memory which is expandable up to 32GB. With the same 600MHz TI OMAP 3410 processor，3MP camera, Motorola Charm nearly is designed from the same model as Flipout. But the MOTO UI v1.5 is updated from Flipout.
Motorola Charm MOTO BLUR Interface
Beginning from CLIQ, MOTO BLUR runs in a special way of sending message. Motorola Charm also features the combination of Android and MOTO BLUR as well as Flipout.
Motorola Charm feature introduction in T-Mobile website
In order to avoid misoperation, the dial, menu and contactor controls have been set in the right side of Motorola Charm UI. Like Flipout, Motorola Charm is powered by Android 2.1 OS with 7 different homescreens to rotate through that enables you to add widgets and shortcuts especially made for the MOTO BLUR interface. MOTO BLUR interface is easy to use and lets you easily access text messages, social network updates via convenient homescreen widgets.The whole MOTO BLUR UI v1.5 can be separated to fresh news, status bar, information bar and weather widgets.
Motorola Charm firmware parameters
Motorola Charm customized desktop
Motorola Charm customized desktop
Motorola Charm live wallpaper
Motorola Charm adding widgets interface
Motorola Charm live wallpaper setting interface
Beside live wallpapers, users can also add widgets freely and conveniently. The contactor shortcuts can also be added in the desktop directly if you like, which can simplify the process of seeking frequent contactors.
Motorola Charm Multi-touch Optical Touchpad
Motorola CHARM is able to run on all networks via “WCDMA 1700/2100, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps (Category 5/6), EDGE Class 12”. Motorola Charm not only supports Wi-Fi network，but Bluetooth and GPS navigation as well. Due to Motorola Charm 2.8 inches screen, its navigation performance is not outstanding but average in satellite positioning and setting route.
Motorola Charm Wi-Fi settings
Motorola Charm Wi-Fi and GPS settings
2.8-inch capacitance screen also becomes the bottleneck in surfing the internet. Although soft handle, multi-touch screen, 600MHz processor enable Charm to load the website rapidly, but the small screen and low resolution still lag behind.
Do you still remember the pad in the rear of Motorola Charm? It works the same principle as Motorola Backflip touchpad. Nomatter reading e-books, dragging website, inputting word, browsing menu or scrolling the desktop, this touchpad is very helpful for single hand operation. The cross gun sight would appear after double clicking the touchpad to work the same function as the Enter button.
Motorola Charm touchpad
Motorola Charm touchpad applicating interface
Email and Information Handling Expert
Motorola Charm is good at handling social messages and emails. Meanwhile, Charm has been installed QuickOffice software in advance, which makes treating official documents become really easy.
Motorola Charm Quickoffice interface
Motorola Charm myspace interface
Motorola Charm Android Market software
The Talk tool in Motorola Charm, which features voice search and speech recognition, is very convenient. But the effect is poor compared with Google Voice Action. Motorola Charm also installs YouTube for users to watch the funny videos anytime.
Motorola Charm Multi-media Playing and Photographing
Motorola CHARM can play back video and capture video at 24FPS and it supports a wide variety of files including MPEG-4, MP3, and WMV with good performance. Although 3MP camera is a bit outdated, the photos are also satisfying.
Motorola Charm photos
Motorola Charm Battery Life
Motorola CHARM comes packing heat with a 1170 mAh battery that has been rated for 334 standby hours on the WCDMA network and 267 of the same standby hours on a GSM network.
Motorola Charm Battery
Motorola Charm Summary
Motorola Charm offers a great QWERTY keyboard, decent battery life, a 3MP camera, fun widgets for Social Media networking. Motorola Charm loads websites quickly, and is adorable in appearance. The Charm could have actually been a great phone for those BlackBerry users trying to wean themselves off to an Android phone. It’s a pity that Charm doesn’t have higher screen resolution. Motorola Charm sells at the price of $269.99 Without a contract, and is available in the colors Golden Bronze (brown) and Cabernet (purple) with a two-year contract price of $74.98 after a $120.00 instant rebate and a $75.00 mail-in rebate.
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