Motorola Photon 4G Phone Reviews

The Motorola Photon 4G is Sprint’s latest specimen; it’s a right super phone with a dual-core processor, large qHD display, and WiMAX with a gimmicky 3D camera. Motorola further flavored things up with a dash of WebTop functionality.

 Display and Hardware:

• 158g (5.57oz) and 12.2mm (0.48 inches)
• Cut-off corners, subtly curved top and bottom edges.
• Sheet of Gorilla glass that protects the 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen
• It’s reddish black over the display and blueish grey around it
• Sensors, earpiece, front-facing camera and notification light above the screen, plus the space housing the primary microphone and four capacitive buttons (menu, home, back, search) below the display. Hard plastic coated in a glossy gunmetal-colored lacquer that wraps around the left and right sides.
• A pair of secondary microphones.
• Widget Clock and the home-screen.
• 1,650mAh battery, a SIM slot for the GSM / HSPA radio and a microSD card reader and 16GB built-in storage.
• Volume rocker and camera button (both ridged for grip) are located on the right side, power / lock key, headphone jack on the top edge, and a pair of micro-HDMI and micro-USB connectors
• NVIDIA’s snappy 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 SoC, a 1GB of RAM, eight (!) radios: WiMAX, CDMA / EV-DO, GSM / EDGE (quadband), UMTS / HSPA (tri-band 850/1,900/2,100MHz), WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, GPS / AGPS and… FM (phew).
• 4.3-inch qHD (960×540 pixels) TFT panel the screen is bright even in direct sunlight, with beautiful colors, ink-like blacks and wide viewing angles.
• Call and reception typically high standards Audio playback sounded with the loudness and clarity of the built-in speaker.
• Battery lasted 5 hr and 54 min and a full day on a single charge.

Camera:

• 8 megapixel auto-focus cameras takes lovely pictures and a dual-LED flash ,glass pod with the same two-tone coating
• The mechanical shutter on the original Droid X and Milestone XT720, three microphones (one on the front, two in the back).
• No night mode and pictures shot in low light just end up looking dim even when adjusting exposure offers a rather limited number of settings.
• The digital zoom can be controlled by pressing the volume rocker, touch-to-focus, flash mode (auto, on, off), scenes (like sport), effects (sepia, etc…), picture modes (including panorama) and a few additional options in the menus (such as resolution and exposure).
• For video, the scenes setting change which of the three microphones are active
• Photon captures video in HD (720p) at a smooth 30fps
•  No auto-focus of any kind when recording videos, making close-ups nigh impossible.

Softwares:

• Latest version of Gingerbread (Android 2.3.4)
• Motorola-specific widgets and apps (such as Gallery, Messaging and Music) with variety popular social networks.
• In addition to seven home screens, the UI features four dock icons customized like in TouchWiz.
• The leftmost icon brings up the app tray, which can be organized in groups (defaults are All apps, Recent, Downloaded and Sprint).
• Gingerbread, 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor and 1GB of RAM
• Needing improvement is WebTop, which remains sluggish.
• News, Social Networking, Rich Location, and Tasks, file manager, Quickoffice (with support for editing documents), Skype, a task manager and TeleNav.
• Car Dock app different from Google’s
• Including NASCAR, Sprint ID, Sprint Mobile Wallet, Sprint Music Plus, Sprint Radio, Sprint TV & Movies, Sprint Worldwide and Sprint Zone (useful for managing your account).