Home

Review: Motorola Devour Android Smartphone on Verizon Wireless

26.03.10

The Motorola Devour is now in Verizon Wireless stores for $149.99 on a 2 year contract. We received our unit last week and have had a chance to give it some attention, with a 3.1-inch touchscreen, 8GB microSD card, Bluetooth, and Android 1.6, it’s not a bad little unit to keep you socially connected.

Featuring MotoBlur the Devour is intended for the younger twittering generation, it basically streamlines your texts, feeds, emails and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace allowing them to be synched in real-time on your Devour’s homescreen.

The actual phone is akin to a block of metal. It’s got a hefty solid feel to it, like the old RAZRs did when Motorola was making them out of aluminum. You know its in your pocket, and wont forget about it that’s for sure. The screen is bright and vivid, but disappointingly smaller than I would have liked to see. Touchscreen accuracy was quite good, although the on display keyboard is rarely used due to the larger slide-out keyboard, regardless, I found it quite responsive and accurate. The touchscreen navigation pad (a small square in the bottom left corner when held in portrait) is quite finicky and just a strange thing to use. I guess Motorola was making a navigation option for those who do not like to muck up their screens, but it just doesn’t work the way it should. It’s jumpy, slow, and unresponsive. Something that wasted space and could have made for extra screen real estate.

Source: Mobile Magazine