The Motorola Milestone with lots of great messaging features

May 17
08:43

2010

Dominic Burn

Dominic Burn

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The Motorola Milestone is a sleekly designed Android mobile phone with push Microsoft Exchange server, and push Google mail among its other full range of messaging and email capabilities.

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The Motorola Milestone is yet another sleek design Android mobile phone which comes with push Microsoft Exchange server,The Motorola Milestone with lots of great messaging features Articles and push Google mail among its other full range of messaging and email capabilities. This slider handset with 3.7 inch TFT touchscreen display and virtual keyboard are accompanied by a full QWERTY keyboard also.The phone is 3G and provides emails straight to the home screen automatically on receiving them through the push functionality. In addition to Google Mail, other Google services offered by this handset include Google Talk for instant messaging and unsurprisingly, Google Search engine. The rest of the Web can be accessed easily through the location enabled, HTML5 (the latest version of HTML) web browser, with multi-window capability.The Milestone runs Android (version 2.1) operating system which provides the user with a phone which can be constantly upgraded with not just new apps, but improved applications too, particularly as Android Market is also present on the handset for great plugins to enhance it.The handset offers a 5 megapixel camera through a dedicated key, with image stabilisation and auto focus, 4 times digital zoom and a dual LED flash. Image editing tools are also available, along with the common pinch and zoom feature. Video capture is at 24 frames per second (fps) which is equal to DVD quality, and the D1 high-quality video playback supports 25fps (PAL), supporting all major video file formats. As well as this the Milestone offers a full Music Player. The phone includes 8 gigabytes of microSD, and supports up to 32GB expandable storage  also. The processor meanwhile is an effective 550MHz. As well as an Accelerometer the handset also features both proximity and ambient light sensors. These are alongside the GPS and Motonav trial versions of Lane Guidance, Maps Points of Interest and Easy Search offered with 3D Landmarks. All of these allow the user to easy find their way around with their phone.The Motorola Milestone provides fast and anywhere push email for the majority of users, who are likely to have either Exchange or Google Mail, or both. As well as this, the phone features stunning video capture and playback as well as a music player, making it a great entertainment device too. The Android operating system provides the user with a phone that can be constantly updated with innovative new plugins and applications embodied within an accessible slider phone with a large display as well as a full QWERTY keyboard.