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great phone with android 2.1.can watch live freeview channels whilst out. great video quality. had a few offers already to buy off me. cant go wrong with this phone
Motorola Milestone is a great little helper for people who want to have a flexible PDA with a not-too-bulky phone. Firstly, the size is not too big to carry around. It is larger and heavier than a regular mobile phone but not as large as a regular PDA. It's 11.5cm x 6cm at 170g, battery included, of course. Tip: there are lovely leather cases for it out there, wallet-style or flip-style, that allow you to access all the functions without taking the phone out. With such a case, it looks and feels just like a small notebook! :-) The Milestone has got a QWERTY keyboard that is not too small so you actually manage to press just one button at a time. ;-) It is otherwise operated through its touch-screen with a finger rather than a stylus. Now, the functions. The phone comes pre-loaded with a bunch of useful applications such as a browser and a mailer, which is good but not enough. No problem there, as this is an Android phone, you have access to an ever growing number of free and almost free programs (typical prices ranging from 30p to £2) through the Android Market. The Milestone comes pre-loaded with a market browser, very useful. At the moment, there are over 30,000 programs to choose from, and this number is growing every day. This many programs means that you can configure your Milestone exactly the way you like it, to do things you want to do with it as a PDA. For myself, I downloaded a document editing suite "Documents To Go", a very pricey application at $14.49! ;-) I can view and edit Microsoft Word (.doc), Excel (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt) documents, as well as view PDF files. There are limitations to the document complexity of course, but then again -- this is just a phone! I find it fully sufficient though. It allows me to prepare the most of the text and calculations on my Milestone, transfer it to the PC and then add the more complex things there. Transferring to the PC is easy as the Milestone has got a USB port! The Milestone also has a very decent 5 megapixel camera with a flash. It hasn't got any zooming options but has several settings for the size and dimensions of the pictures. The colours and lighting is excellent, I can use these photos straight away without further editing. I tried both close-ups and landscape pictures -- it works fine. Oh, and you can also make calls and send texts with it if you want to. :-) Overall, it works for me beautifully.Read full review
Wow. Picked up this phone second hand for £200, and what a bargain. I never thought I'd say that when spending that amount of money on a phone, but it is so much more than just that. First of all, the display. It's incredibly crisp, bright and has an impressive pixel density level - individual pixels are indistinguishable from one another. That said, the display does use quite a bit of battery. I'd personally recommend turning off automatic brightness and just leaving the phone on a lower brightness setting - even in high light levels it's still crystal clear. The slide-out keyboard on the phone looks and feels nice and is easy to use. At first, the keys feel too close together and it feels like mistakes when typing on it are inevitable. However, after just a short amount of time using the phone, it is easy to become accustomed to it and you will begin to realise that you are, in fact, making very few typing mistakes. The phone's operating system also adds in things such as capitalisation and punctuation to further improve the experience. Next up, more about the operating system. This phone runs (as of me writing this) version 2.1 of Google's Android OS. The interface, animations and menus are all smooth and easy to use, and the operating system loads and switches between programs smoothly and quickly. The speed would be improved by updating the OS version to the available 2.2, which rumour has it Motorola is planning to do over the coming months - not that the phone really needs it that much at all. The features bundled with the operating system all work well; I was especially impressed with the voice to text and other voice recognition features - which all seem to work perfectly. The hardware on the phone is also impressive; the 5mp camera copes well in many different lighting conditions and the flash on it works perfectly. The camera also has HQ video recording capabilities (720 x 480, 30fps) which also work quite well - though there is a degree of noise in some videos - depending on lighting conditions. The noise cancelling dual microphones work perfectly and the two speakers (one for making calls, the other on the back for music, video etc) are satisfactory. All in all, this is a phone that is packed full of features, all of which work fantastically well. Given the inevitable price drop now that there is a newer model of the phone available, this phone may quickly become the bargain phone of 2010. In a word; fantastic.Read full review
It would be worth knowing that my previous phone was the Nokia E65 so getting the Milestone was a step up the smart phone category. The Milestone has a great screen and getting used to the android way of doing things took a weekend. That included getting a Gmail account and working out how to transfer my contacts etc. I also found it hard to put my new toy away and even slept with it. There are loads of free apps and also ones to pay for on the android market. I have had the phone for just over two months now and have always found an app that satisfies my needs for free. The keyboard is handy as I prefer it to the onscreen version, or in the case of my Nokia the keypad. The battery goes quickly and I have had to purchase another one. Just so I can have the phone charged throughout a normal day. If you don't get a spare battery then take the charger with you. I think if I go abroad I’ll take the E65 as back up. I had a problem hooking up the Wi-Fi and this bemused me because all my other gadgets had no problems with my router. A quick look at some forums has proved to me that this must be a design fault. I did get in touch with Motorola and was given some instructions that included something about a MAC code. I did get the Wi-Fi working without the MAC code but it is intermittent and cuts out every now and again. Apart from this I have found it overall good phone and a nice entry, for me, into the upper tier of the smart phone market. I do hope Motorola supply the froyo update (android 2.2) at some point before the year runs out. All things being equal I will consider purchasing the Milestone 2 this time next year, via eBay of course.Read full review
First, a few words about the phone which the Milestone will replace: For more than a year I have been using the HTC G1 Android phone. As someone who travels frequently between US and UK, this device has changed my life: I just pop in a local sim card, it automatically loads the local access point names and voila! I'm instantly in business with phone, SMS, local MMS, and of course Google. Unfortunately, the G1 has several drawbacks: (1) the slide-out keyboard is too fiddly for my thick fingers and the markings seem to disappear when the keyboard lights up; (2) the battery is quite small, and runs out after half a day of heavy use; (3) it is stuck on an early version of Android, due to (4) its limited memory, which (5) also limits the number and type of applications available on the phone at any one time. The Motorola Milestone (I believe it is known as a Droid in the US) has a much bigger battery, a slightly larger display, a better keyboard, the latest version of Android, and more memory. There are only two drawbacks that I can see with this phone: (1) it seems to get warmer than I would expect when in use, which is probably why (2) the battery life appears to be no better than the G1. For people who do not travel, the phone is otherwise excellent. However, if you travel frequently across the Atlantic as I do, there is an issue with this phone which, until it is resolved, makes me prefer the G1: the phone seems to be stuck on UK G3 and APN settings. Manually entering the settings does not seem to work, and the technical support people in the US have yet to come up with a fix. Worse, setting the phone to 'Allow G2 only" does not fix messaging. In short, SMS and MMS messaging and G3 internet cannot as yet be configured for the US. You can still use it as a phone, and if you are close to a wifi router you can synchronize with Google contacts and mail, and use Internet. I do hope this problem can be fixed. If not, the phone is so good that frankly I may buy its US counterpart, and keep one sim in each phone. Slao, I wish t-mobile UK and US could have compatible sims, too, because their phones tock out each other's sims at the moment.Read full review