Motorola MILESTONE 2 Review 2011

Latest Mobile Motorola MILESTONE 2

The Motorola Milestone has been a genuine success for the US Based manufacturer, and an important part of the new Android line up of devices Motorola has released recently. It is no exaggeration to state that not so long ago, Motorola were in real trouble, and close to going out of business. However, some inspired devices running on the Android OS has helped turn the fortunes around of the once number one handset manufacturer, and the Milestone was central to that change. And now we have the next Milestone handset, the imaginatively titled Motorola Milestone 2.
General
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 1900 / 2100
Announced 2010, September
Status
Available. Released 2010, October
Size Dimensions 116.3 x 60.5 x 13.7 mm
Weight 169 g
Display
Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 854 pixels, 3.7 inches
- Gorilla Glass display
- QWERTY keyboard
- MOTOBLUR UI with Live Widgets
- Multi-touch input method
- Touch sensitive controls
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Sound
Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack
Memory 
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photo call
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 8 GB system storage; 512MB RAM
Card slot microSD, up to 32GB, 8GB included, buy memory
Data
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA
Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera
Primary 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash, check quality
Features  Geo-tagging, face detection, touch focus
Video Yes, 720p@30fps, check quality
Secondary No
Features
OS Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU 1 GHz Cortex-A8 processor, PowerVR SGX530 GPU, TI OMAP3630 chipset
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM, Push Email
Browser HTML
Radio No
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Digital compass
- MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC+ player
- MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264/DivX/XviD player
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk
- Facebook, Twitter, MySpace integration
- Quickoffice document editor
- Photo viewer/editor
- Organizer
- Adobe Flash 10.1
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- Predictive text input
- SoundHound music recognition
Battery
Standard battery, Li-Po 1400 mAh (BP6X)
Stand-by Up to 350 h
Talk time Up to 6 h

Main disadvantages

* The internal 8GB of storage is for apps only
* Side sliding mechanism is not spring-assisted
* DivX and XviD playback has its issues
* Non hot-swappable microSD card slot
* No FM radio