What You Need To Know About The Motorola Milestone XT720

The Motorola Milestone XT720 is actually the newer version of the modified Motorola Milestone, which whilst an impressive feature-packed smartphone, wasn’t as well-received as hoped because of the slide out keyboard. Relaunched as the same feature-packed smartphone, but this time with more market-friendly touchscreen, and a few millimeters thinner, can the Milestone XT720 do better second time around?

The new Milestone was always going to look different to the original version, ditching the slide out keyboard has meant the new touchscreen version is slightly thinner and a little lighter – all of which counts in this market. Motorola also took the opportunity to make some other design tweaks, without straying too far from the original look, and the result is a phone that can look different depending on which side you view it from. But the end result is appealing if not stunning.

While the design of the new Milestone won’t win everyone over, you can’t help but be impressed with its 8 megapixel camera – much bigger than any of the other Android smartphones available. But the Milestone XT720 isn’t just about sheer megapixel power, additional features like HD video recording, as well as image stabilization, multi shot and face detection, mean the new Milestone is one of the best smartphone cameras on the market.

The Motorola Milestone XT720 runs the 2.1 version of the Android operating system, which helps make the most of the phones features, as well as giving you access to the Android market and as many apps as you could want. Like most other smartphones on the market, this release has 3G, Bluetooth and also WiFi connectivity. For navigation and geo-location GPS is included, and you also get an FM radio. In fact, there are so many powerful features that the performance can occasionally suffer under all the demand, and whilst a faster processor would have been a useful edition, it is unlikely to be anything that will put users off.

The feature that dominates the Motorola Milestone XT720 is the excellent 8 megapixel camera and its associated features. Everything else is as you would expect for a smartphone from one of the leading manufacturers, so all in all the revamped Milestone is a serious contender in the market. It might not have the processing power to challenge the heavy weights like Apple, Google and HTC, but Motorola fans will be more than happy to overlook this tiny misgiving in favor of a combined smartphone package that is one of the best on the market.

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