Motorola MT710 bringing its Droid-ish good looks to China this month
By Vlad Savov 
posted December 8th 2009 9:38AM
posted December 8th 2009 9:38AM
China Mobile is about to spoil its half billion subscribers with yet another Android smartphone in the 3.something-inch category. The Droid's keyboard-deprived younger sibling, the MT710 is about to hit Chinese stores this month, with TD-SCDMA 3G capabilities and OPhone OS 1.5 giving it a distinctly local flavor. WiFi connectivity will also be available, thanks to Moto playing nice with China's new security protocol, and the CPU has also changed to a 624MHz Marvel PXA310 chip, which is growing a bit long in the tooth now. Still, with that dashing red stripe on its side and a presumably thinner chassis, the MT710 just might be somebody's idea of a Droid perfected. You'll find the full specs of the new handset at the Moto Developers links below.
Hmm.. resistive touch screen for Android? Odd. Would it be any good? Possibly.. possibly. I don't have a problem with it for WinMo, I wonder how well it fairs in Android?
@Level 5
Resistive touch screen because the Chinese are using Handwriting
@Vitala aww that would make sense
Whatever would we do without Android? Think about how much its existence has done for mobile OS's.
and suddenly the tumor dissappeared. may we assume the former shots showed a kirf-device?
@hq: stupid me just realized the tumor was another device. duuuuh
I saw a review the phone looks great
Great, now we're going to see 20+ of devices looking just like this from Motorola, because we know once they get a design that sells they just keep pumping very similar units out..
I agree with Xudd, now all Moto phones are gonna look like the Droid, come on, get some creativity Moto, don't do the same thing that you did with the Razr.
stupid red edge.....the same kind of idiotic design cues that make american cars a joke
I've gotta say, I was pumped to check out the Droid, but the first store I went into had a unit that wasn't charged as the usb cable wouldn't seat properly. I went to a completely different store in another city, and saw the same exact thing... and no one seemed to care at either store when I told them.
Luckily they had two units on display at the second store. I absolutely love the resolution (can fit an entire Engadget home page width and it's totally readable!), but it blew my mind that you can only view the web in widescreen. I was seriously considering ditching my 2g iPhone and T-Mobile and getting a Droid, but I read the news every day one handed with my iphone in portrait orientation.. I don't want to have to deal with hanging onto the phone whilst trying to hang on to a bar/handle or whatever on the T.
It has a lot of awesome features, and Android is exciting to be sure, but I really just didn't like the feeling of the flip out keyboard either.. it just seems awkward and kinda flimsy. But then I'm not used to one. Maybe this summer/fall Droid 2 will rock face. Maybe i'll finally be able to afford a 3gs xP
@The Dead Marxist Trio
I use my droid in portrait all the time, so I don't know where you get the idea you can only use it in landscape. And you get used to the keyboard after a bit; it's not perfect, but nothing ever is.
@The Dead Marxist Trio
Agreed completely w/ Sanskrit. You just hold it in portrait and double-tap on the story you want to read and it adjusts the size perfectly. You can even zoom in further while zoomed in and it'll keep adjusting it to all the text fits within the window you've set but with a larger font size if you're not comfortable at the default levels (which usually are pretty much perfect).
Keyboard is very solid. It does take some getting used to as far as typing on it, but it certainly doesn't feel "flimsy" to slide it in/out or type on it.
camera?
@pankomputerek
CAMERA RESOLUTION 5 megapixels
IMAGE CAPTURE RESOLUTION (MAX) 2560 x 1920
CAMERA FEATURES Autofocus
Color effects
Flash (dual LED)
Scenes
White balance
CAMERA DIGITAL ZOOM (MAX) 2x
IMAGE CAPTURE FORMATS JPEG w/EXIF 2.2
IMAGE VIEWING FORMATS BMP
GIF
JPEG
PNG
VIDEO RECORDING FORMATS File format: .3gp
H.263 Baseline Profile 0, Level 10/45
H.264 Baseline Profile
MPEG-4 Simple Profile, Level 0/0b
VIDEO RECORDING RESOLUTION (MAX) 320 x 240 (QVGA)
VIDEO RECORDING FRAME RATE (MAX) 25 fps
This phone has TV too wow