Motorola Defy Android smartphone

Sonic boon

Call quality – a feature often overlooked in modern do-it-all smartphones – is excellent. The Defy uses Motorola's CrystalTalk Plus system with two microphones for active noise cancellation, which is a combination that results in the best call quality I have encountered on an Android or iPhone handset.

Neat, nifty and takes the knocks

Verdict

Despite the bargain basement contract price and dinky size the Defy delivers a big screen, tough as old boots build quality, good battery life, excellent voice call characteristics and the largest applications storage space of any Android phone this side of a Nexus S. The only slight disappointment is the absence of Froyo but I'm prepared to take Motorola at its word that an update will arrive before June 30th. It better had do, in a rare putting-money-where-mouth-is moment, I've just bought one. ®

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