Motorola Milestone Touchscreen 3G mobile phone reviews

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Score 7.9/10 Read 39
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+ This mobile phone scores high on features. - It scores poorly on battery life.

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Motorola Milestone:Smartphone Quad Band Touchscreen See full product description

Ease of use	8.2
Features	8.9
Battery life	5.8
Design	8.6
Value for money	7.8
Overall rating	7.9

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ankush, wolverhampton Business or web user

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: I've been using motorola manufactured devices since I started using mobil phones. Good features are:

Superfast text entery
android operating system that supports tonnes of applications
bigger display than I phone and htc desire
sensitive screen
qwerty key board
voice prompts
Powerful processor
automatically updates itself

That's motorola engineering.
Bad points:: Alarm does not ring when office
some tasks run in the background amd use battery: they need to be closed in setting menu to save battery.

One feature that I didn't like is - milestones in some nations don't support voice text entry. Still I recommend this mobile for a nice experience.

Ease of use	10.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	8.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 24 Nov 2010

Rick, Wolverhampton Basic text and chat user

Score 3.0/10

Good points:: The best part I found about the Motorola Milestone was the slide out keyboard which was very handy for writing texts and emails.The keyboard was easy to use with persons with large fingers as the qwerty keys were reasonably large and well spaced out.
Bad points:: The phone I found was rather bulky in size as far as mobile phones go. The touch screen was more sutibile for the younger generation as I found the touch screen much to sensitive.I found if you received an email and turned the phone around to pull the keyboard out to reply if you accidently touched the screen in doing so one can loose the complete email sent to you. The worst thing I found is that when not using it, it locks the phone so on an incomming call one has to unlock it pretty quick by using your finger to slide the unlock app to the right, which I found awkward and one could miss your incoming call. Also I found on first setting up the phone you had no option but to set up a Google email address.This I found a really bad point if you had an alternate email address as now a big problem arises as I found I spent nearly an hour contacting my service provider to set my own email address out.

Ease of use	3.0
Features	4.0
Battery life	1.0
Design	1.0
Value for money	2.0
Overall rating	3.0

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Confirmed purchase: 24 Aug 2010

Confirmed purchaser Business or web user

Score 8.0/10

Good points:: Good camera,
motonav app
,qwerty keyboard
,voice quality
,android 2.1 already updated
Bad points:: battery life
,uk charger (because i live in finland)
,not have finnish operators apn (3g data setting)

Ease of use	8.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	5.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	6.0
Overall rating	8.0

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Confirmed purchase: 23 Oct 2010

Confirmed purchaser Business or web user

Score 10.0/10

Good points:: The best phone I've ever had...
Bad points:: none really, if you know what you want...

Ease of use	10.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	6.0
Design	10.0
Value for money	10.0
Overall rating	10.0

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Confirmed purchase: 18 Dec 2010

timo, Oulu FINLAND Style and looks come first

Score 1.0/10

Good points:: Reviewer left no comment
Bad points:: The product is a chinese software version and does not working correctly in EU.

Ease of use	1.0
Features	1.0
Battery life	5.0
Design	7.0
Value for money	1.0
Overall rating	1.0

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Confirmed purchase: 14 Oct 2010

Olli, Finland Business or web user

Score 9.0/10

Good points:: Android-platform seems to be quite good and there is a lot of software available (for free!). Built in GPS has been in use daily and it finds the satellites quickly. Display is what I expected, but "the bigger the better" is in place here, too. Main reason however to byu Milestone instead of some other brand or model is the built in hardware-keyboard. It is way better than the onscreen keyboard, and if I could get skandinavian keys in place (ä, ö) it would be perfect.
Bad points:: Battery life is not like I am used with Nokia phones, and some things are done in annoying way.

Ease of use	8.0
Features	10.0
Battery life	2.0
Design	9.0
Value for money	9.0
Overall rating	9.0

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Confirmed purchase: 06 Aug 2010

michael,

Score 1.0/10

Good points:: Reviewer left no comment
Bad points:: would not work after day one

Overall rating	1.0

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Confirmed purchase: 05 Sep 2010

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Product Features

Operating system	Android
Software on which the device runs
Type of phone	Smartphone
Smartphones are phones with mobile computing systems and the ability to perform complex processes such as image and video capture and app downloads.
Shape of phone	Slider
Mobile phones come in a variety of shapes: the most common is the bar (or ‘candy bar’) a rectangular block shape. Other common forms are the ‘slider’, which elongates when one section is slid out from the other and ‘flip’, where the two sections of the phone are hinged.
3G	Yes
3G allows mobile phones and mobile dongles to achieve broadband speeds similar to that of home broadband. This allows users to browse the internet, email and download files and video whilst on the move.
Touchscreen or keypad	Touchscreen
Touchscreen phones do not have physical buttons, instead you can dial numbers and type texts using equivalent numeric and QWERTY keypads on the screen. Numeric and QWERTY keypad phones have buttons to allow you to dial number and write texts.
Connections	Bluetooth

Connections	WiFi

Connections	USB

Extra functions	Satellite navigation

Extra functions	Email

Extra functions	Camera

Extra functions	Flash

Extra functions	Instant messaging

Band	Quad
Different frequency bands are used in different countries. Most phones can be used across Europe as they are Tri Band. You will need a quad band phone if you plan to travel to the USA.
Horizontal resolution (Pixels)	1944

Vertical resolution (Pixels)	2592

Camera resolution (MegaPixels)	5
The amount of data that can be captured when taking a photograph or video. A larger number represents a higher quality image, though this is also affected by other factors such as the lens size and quality.
Talk time (Hours)	9.17
Talk time dictates how long your phone’s battery will last if you were to talk continuously on it from a full charge.
Stand-by time (Days)	8.33

Depth in cm	1.37

Height in cm	11.58
The distance from the very top of the product to the very bottom.
Width in cm	6

Memory card slot	Yes
Having a memory card slot allows you to save data to a memory card and then transfer it to another device. For example you may put a photo from your camera or mobile phone onto a memory card and then plug it into your printer to print directly. Memory card slots come in many formats: Compact Flash Card Memory Stick Duo Micro SD Card MMC SD Card SDHC Card
Autofocus	Yes
Weight (g)	165
The weight of the product in grams.
EDGE	Yes
A precursor to 3G, this technolgy allows improved data transfer rates allowing features such as video streaming. Read more about EDGE on Wikipedia
FM tuner	No
An FM Tuner allows you to listen to FM radio stations on the move. You can see a list of FM radio stations at Ofcom.
MP3 playback capable	Yes

HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access)	Yes
Java	Yes
A software platform allowing 3rd party applications such as games to be loaded. Read more about Java on Wikipedia
Release date	2010-03-09
The date the product was originally made available for purchase.

Mobile Phone Buyers Guide

Manufacturer's Description

The web is richer. Photos are sharper. Videos pop. It has the most advanced Google browser and the very latest software with an advanced processor and 3G speed for faster search. It can help you navigate turn-by-turn. It even has a 5MP camera with a flash, image stabilisation, and a DVD-quality recorder. It’s the phone without compromise.

World Wider Web
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