Motorola Milestone

By now you've probably seen my Motorola Milestone unboxing video and Milestone demonstration video (if not why not?!) so you will perhaps know that I have been using it quite a lot over the past week or so and many of you have already been asking me questions on the Milestone Forum pages.


The Motorola Milestone was launched in the USA as the Motorola Droid back in October of this year and has been hugely popular. According to some sources we've read, Verizon have sold over one million Droid handsets since launch which really isn't too shabby. So the Milestone (I don't know why it's called that in Europe and not Droid) launched here in the UK officially on the 7th December but it was a few days later that the handset started shipping. At the moment eXpansys have the UK exclusive on the Milestone but we've also heard that this might be temporary and that it is likely that other retailers will have the Milestone in the new year.

Also, according to eXpansys and Engadget the milestone became the UK's fastest selling gadget apparently selling out within three hours of going on sale on the 10th December. With statistics like that it's hard to argue the popularity of the Motorola Milestone BUT what did I think of it? Read on to find out!


Motorola Milestone specification:

• Dimensions: 115.8 x 60 x 13.7mm
• Weight: 165g
• Battery: - Talk Time: 6.5 hrs, Standby Time: 380 hrs, Capacity: 1400 mAh
• Display: 480 x 854 pixels/3.7" /  Touch Sensitive(Capacitive) / MultiTouch
• Network: 2G: 850/900/1800/1900 (Quad-Band) / 3G: 900/2100 (Dual-Band)
• Camera: 5 mega-pixels (auto-focus)
• Dual LED Flash
• GeoTagging
• Video: DVD Quality Video Recording 24fps Video Recording (720 x 480)
• Music: Supported formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+, OGG & WMA
• 550MHz TI OMAP 3430 CPU
• Memory: RAM 256MB, FLASH ROM 512MB, USER STORAGE 256MB
• microSDHC (external)
• microUSB
• Accelerometer/G-meter
• 3.5mm Audio Connector
• Bluetooth (2.1)
• Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g)
• Navigation: AGPS / Digital Compass