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Monday, 1 February 2010

Motorola Crush W835 – A Mid-tier Touchscreen Phone

Available via U.S. Cellular, the Motorola Crush W835 has arrived as a basic but sleek and attractive handset with a touchscreen display. Offering functional features like tap-to-silence, stereo Bluetooth support, a pedometer and a 3.5mm audio jack, the Crush satisfies your everyday needs while keeping things simple and easy to use.

Considering the price tag of the Crush, its touch ability is certainly a welcomed feature. The screen measures 2.8 inches while showing 262,000 colors and 400x240-pixel resolution. The user-friendly interface gives users one-touch access to popular functions like texting and Bluetooth. Besides, the display offers haptic feedback and works with a built-in accelerometer. The latter turns the virtual touch dialer into a full QWERTY keyboard when you hold the phone in landscape view, so that you can type text and multimedia messages at ease.

Based on Motorola’s proprietary operating system, the Crush offers a handful of standard multimedia elements. Users can play multiple formats, including AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA and AAC+, on the music/video player. There is a 2-megapixel fixed-focus camera with digital zoom for snapping pictures and recording videos. A full HTML browser is also onboard.

Furthermore, the Crush comes loaded with some extra applications. Other than a built-in pedometer for counting your steps, you will find Your Navigator that provides turn-by-turn navigation, local search, traffic updates and more. A mobile caller ID feature, City ID, is preloaded as well to help you identifying incoming calls.

Other indispensable features include a 1,000-contact phone book, speaker-independent voice commands, USB mass storage, PC syncing, 150MB internal memory and a microSD card slot that supports up to 16GB memory expansion. The candy-bar handset measures 4.17" by 2" by 0.57" and weighs surprisingly light at 3.6 ounces.

The Motorola Crush combines a decent array of mid-range features into its simplicity while keeping the price affordable. If you are interested in a touch-based device yet want to start with something easy-to-use and budget-friendly, you may consider the Crush.

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