The Motorola Charm has a squarish design bar shape with a capacitive touch screen phone that runs on the Android 2.1operating system. It is a better version of the Motorola Droid with an enhanced version of the Motoblur interface, Backtrack navigation pad behind the screen and CrystalTalk Plus technology. The inclusion of FM radio is the biggest advantage of this phone; something which is generally not available on other Android phones. The 3G phone comprises of all the latest wireless connections and entertainment gadgets. The phone has built-in 3Mp camera with Kodak perfect touch technology, world class web browsing, strong battery and 32 GB expandable memory and much more.
The Charm has an amazing display with a bright and clear capacitive TFT QVGA touch screen of 2.8 inches. It shows 256k colors and resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. Charm is the first Android phone having full QWERTY keyboard in a candy bar design form. It looks elegant, measures 67.2 x 98.4 x 11.4mm, and weighs 110 gms.
The cell phone has built-in 3MP high resolution camera with zoom and Kodak perfect touch technology which allows for nice shots and pictures. The Geo-tagging feature allows users to record when and where the photo was taken. Users can upload images and videos to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks through wireless connections. The voice quality of Motorola Charm is excellent with noise reduction CrystalTalk technology and 3.5mm audio jack. The MP3 polyphonic ringtones are downloadable.
The cell phone has a strong 512MB RAM and 512MB ROM internal memory and 2 GB external memory which is expandable up to 32 GB with the use of microSD slot cards.
The cell phone offers all the latest wireless technology, which one can expect from an Android phone: stereo Bluetooth, WI-Fi and much more. CrystalTalk technology improves the audio quality of the phone. The 600 MHz processor along with GPRS, EDGE and 3G transfer files at great speed. The backtrack pad at the back of the phone works like a Laptop touch panel and gives easy access to web, texts, emails and news feeds.
The phone has a strong 1170 mAh Li Ion battery; with MOTOBLUR Battery Manager. It lasts up to a maximum of 267 h (2G) / Up to 334 h (3G) standby and up to 6 h 45 min (2G) / up to 5 h (3G) in talk time mode.
The Motorola Charm features multitasking messaging capabilities and one-touch access to Google services including Google Search by voice, Google Maps with Street View, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. It can Sync and merge emails, texts, social networking messages, posts, feeds and status updates in two widgets aptly called Messages and Happenings. Enjoy the ability to filter the content your Messages and Happenings widgets receive. It provides easy access to both personal and corporate e-mail, including support for Exchange, Gmail and most other POP3 and IMAP. It also combines instant messaging support for Google Talk AOL, Yahoo! Messenger, IM, and MSN. HTML supports web browsing.
To sum up the Motorola Charm is a smart Android phone which is well equipped with all the latest widgets and features. It is a user friendly device with enhanced multimedia, Motoblur, excellent display and all the frills of a smart phone such as built-in alarm clock, A-GPS Telenav navigator, and calendar, Caller ID, FM radio etc. The cell phone with multi tasking and multi features is capable of competing with other phones of same style and design and making it a great buy!