Motorola Defy Mini, a Rugged Android Smartphone

Being rugged and at the same time bring smart performance, that is what Motorola Defy Mini offers. It is a rugged Android smartphone with 3.2 inches touchscreen display, Android Gingerbread OS, 600 MHz processor, front-facing camera, 3 megapixels camera, GPS and other smart features. In detail, let’s have a look at the review of Defy Mini below.

Motorola Defy Mini

Coming as a rugged phone with dustproof and water resistant chassis, Motorola Defy Mini measures at 109 x 58.5 x 12.6 mm and weighs at 107 grams. Mostly occupied the front side is 3.2 inches capacitive touchscreen with Corning Gorilla Glass protection. The screen is packed in 320 x 480 pixels resolution and 256K colors support. Below the screen, there are four typical touch-sensitive Android keys represent Menu, Home, Back and Search functions. Above the screen are earpiece and front facing camera. The back is resided by camera lens and speakerphone.

Although it is a rugged phone, Motorola Defy Mini comes with smart offerings. It is a rugged smartphone running on Android OS v2.3.6 (Gingerbread) with MotoSwitch 2.0 UI on top of it. Under the hood, it is powered by 600 MHz processor with 512 MB ROM and 512 MB RAM. With such a slow processor, you cannot expect too much but it decent enough to carry out smooth and responsive performance of most common uses applications.

Coming to connectivity, Defy Mini operates under GSM network up to 3G network and manages to get HSDPA and HSUPA data network. For experiencing internet, there is a stock Android web browser supports HTML and Adobe Flash. Aside those connectivity, it also features Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, DLNA, Bluetooth and microUSB v2.0 connection. In addition, there is GPS navigation system with A-GPS support. For messaging features, it offers SMS (threaded view), MMS, IM, Email, and Push Email. Email service manages to support IMAP, POP3 or SMTP accounts.

Motorola Defy Mini is also equipped by two cameras; a 0.3 megapixels (VGA) front facing camera and a 3 megapixels main camera on the backside. The camera comes with autofocus and LED supports as well as camera settings. It can also be functioned as a camcorder to record video. In multimedia features, Defy Mini provides music player and video player as well as Stereo FM radio with RDS. The music player manages to play music of MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC+ formats while the video player supports MP4/WMV/H.263/H.264 video formats. For storage, Defy Mini has 120 MB internal memory and additional external memory via miroSD card expandable up to 32 GB.

Other features includes pre-loaded Google service applications, SNS integration, Organizer, unlimited entries of Phonebook, Document viewer (Office 2007, Office 2003, PDF), Photo viewer and editor, Voice memo, Voice dial, Java MIDP emulator and Accelerometer. Also includes Android market access to download more than 300,000 Android applications and games. Lastly, Motorola Defy Mini comes with powerful battery of Li-Ion 1650 mAh. It is powerful enough as the battery is rated up to 10 hours of talk time or up to 21 days of standby time.