Review Motorola XPRT

Posted by newbie Monday, July 25, 2011 0 comments

What's hot: Higher-end QWERTY bar Android phone, world roaming capability.
What's not: Tiny keyboard, display not among the best.

Reviewed June 18, 2011 by Lisa Gade, Editor in Chief
The Motorola XPRT is Sprint's high end QWERTY phone for business folks and world travelers. It features high quality materials, solid CPU and performance specs and a GSM SIM card slot for world roaming. The XPRT is Sprint's vowel-challenged counterpart to theMotorola Droid Pro that was released on Verizon Wireless in December of 2010. The XPTRT is identical to the Droid Pro other than carrier app bundles. You get the usual wide assortment of Sprint services including Sprint Music Plus, Sprint TV & Movies, NASCAR Mobile, Sprint Football Live and Sprint Zone.

Tthe Motorola XPRT has a 1GHz TI OMAP ARM Cortex-A8 family CPU with PowerVR SGX graphics, 512 megs of RAM and Android OS 2.2 Froyo. All of that power packed into a business phone with a middling HVGA display-- this phone is a bit of a contradiction. Not that business users want to wait while their slow phone processes email and MS Office documents, but there's certainly eough speed here for business tasks as well as streaming video playback and 3D gaming. But the relatively small 3.1" display and lower resolution dictated by the QWERTYbar form factor don't lend themselves to multimedia and serious 3D gaming.

Motoblur software is here, with it's usual UI customizations and social networking integration, making the phone quick to set up for online social addicts as well as business types. There's MS Exchange support and threaded messaging too. Reception is solid, and call quality on both ends is quite good, though somewhat digitized as we noted with the Droid Pro on Verizon. Data speeds on Sprint's 3G EV-DO Rev. A network were a bit better than average in our area, and the phone got 550k down and 400k up.