If you look for the mid-range Android smartphone with the good-looking look, then you will need to check out the Motorola Motoluxe. This smartphone was initially introduced in CES 2012 and it gained a great first impression from the audiences particularly for its attractive design, big display and good construction. Therefore, let’s take a closer look at the rest of the phone’s specs in order to simply figure out whether it’s worth for you to obtain or not.
At the first glance, Motorola Motoluxe comes with the typical touchscreen bar style with the soft metallic elements and soft touch finish. The device measures 117.7 mm in height, 60.5 mm in width, 9.9 mm in depth and about 123.6 grams in body-weight. With this dimension and heaviness, the device is obviously sleeker and lighter than the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx and it comes with the almost same size of Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. As one of the phone’s benefit, you will get huge 4 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen with 854x480 pixels of resolution and the decent 254 ppi of pixel density. Below the display, there are four standard touch-sensitive controls which consist of Menu, Home, Back and Search buttons.
As the performance booster, this phone has been packed with the single-core 800 Mhz Qualcomm processor along with the 512 MB of RAM and 1 GB of ROM (microSD and microSDHC support). For playing 3D games, the phone has been added with Adreno 200 GPU. For the operating system and user interface, the phone has been pre-loaded with the Android 2.3.7 (gingerbread) combined with the custom Moto Switch UI. The standard battery of lithium-ion 1400 mAh will provide the talk-time of up to 6.5 hours (2G)/4.5 hours (3G) and standby time of up to 450 hours (2G)/400 hours (3G). Unfortunately, this battery life is below the average of other smartphone in the market.
In terms of camera specs, this smartphone sports the 8 megapixels camera with auto focus, single-LED flash, exposure control, white balance, geo-tagging, scenes and effects. The phone also supports for video calling with its 0.3 MP front-camera and video recording with the VGA quality (640x480p). There is also the dedicated camera shutter for quick capturing need.
To access the internet, the phone runs on GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA (7.2 Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76 Mbps). The default browser supports for HTML web browsing and Adobe flash for a better viewing of web-pages. There will be also the built-in online support including YouTube and Picasa apps. The phone also has the microUSB 2.0, Bluetooth 3.0, 3.5 mm audio jack, DLNA and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n.
The price level of Motorola MOTOLUXE is about $380 without carrier’s agreement. The advantages of this device are the solid construction, slim design, big display and decent camera specs. On the other hand, the phone uses the low screen resolution and it does not come equipped with the latest platform of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). [IS]
