The Motorola Dext is a decent looking handset in the standard format that most android phones seem to appear these days, oblong block with a black case and the face dominated by a large screen. (Although this screen is only 3.1″) The fully customisable home screen gives users a real feeling of ownership as they can amend it to really reflect who they are and what they are about.

A lot of the sales pitch behind the Dext focuses on the power of MOTOBLUR technology which is Motorolas application that allows users to update all of their favourite social networking sites in one swoop as well as see callers name, number, status and profile picture. (If social networking sites are synced) Only MOTOBLUR has Twitter, Facebook™ and synced together from the home screen of the users handset enabling status update’s with ease and with continuous back up’s you will never lose them.

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You can also use MOTORBLUR to open your e-mails and texts with the unique Messages widget and you will even be greeted with your contacts profile pictures if you have them synced with the social networking side of the application.

The slide out QWERTY keyboard is easily accessible, simple to use and well designed making typing messages, emails, status updates and geo tagging simple. The email browser is minimalist in design and has a useful “magnifier”  option allowing you a close up of those all important e-mails from business colleagues. Not quite as impressive as the i-phones pinch & zoom option but it is certainly a useful application.

However, Motorola have set their stall out with this one to go heavy on the social networking market and the fact that the keyboard is effective and the applications have some clever touches added are simply an added bonus to this handset. Making sure the social networking fans were satisfied with MOTOBLUR  was always going to be key in Motorolas thinking when designing this handset and we have to say they have got it right.

Dext at a glance;

Size: 114 x 58 x 15.6 mm

Screen: 320 x 480 pixels

Memory: MicroSD up to 32GB

Battery:

Standby time (maximum):

13.5 Days

Talktime (maximum):

6 Hours

Camera: 5 Megapixel