Motorola Bravo Evaluate

The Motorola Bravo joins the growing ranks of cheap Android devices, these times for AT&T's network. It provides Motorola's Motoblur social networking features, as well as the Android 2.1 operating-system. Its compact form factor will unquestionably interest those seeking their first smartphone. Does offering you?

Design
The Motorola Bravo is the identical in design to the Citrus, featuring its curvy candy style. At 4.29 inches long by 2.48 inches wide by 0.52 inch thick, the Bravo feels pretty compact, and it cradles comfortably within the hand, as a result of its soft-touch back. It's a serious good heft to it at the same time at 4.59 ounces. The Bravo doesn't quite possess the eye-catching impact of the company's Droid X cousin, however some people might feel drawn toward its minimalist look.

Keyboard
The heavier Flipside drops to some slower processor and lower-resolution screen, nonetheless it adds a great QWERTY keyboard that some might find well worth the attendant sacrifices (we wouldn't).

Display
These.7-inch, 480-by-854-pixel, glass capacitive display is one of the best things about the telephone. Exactly the same size and resolution because the Motorola Droid's screen, it's sharp, bright, and vibrant. The resolution will come in particularly handy for viewing Web pages in landscape mode; it's as an actual desktop browser.

Camera
The Bravo only has a 3-megapixel shooter, which can be fairly low as far as modern smartphones go. Still, for quick candid shots, it performs well. Photo quality was decent--images looked sharp, but colors were somewhat muted and not as vibrant as we would love. After using photo, you are able to crop, rotate, or geotag it. Gleam camcorder that can record 30fps video.

Call Quality
Quality of voice calls about the Bravo were so-so. The earpiece had suitable volume that hearing calls in a crowded mall or coffee shop won't be a difficulty, but voices were choppy; there is a great deal of garbling and noise, along with other digital garbage. Those that have whom I became speaking tended to reduce out and in quite frequently, and it was all to easy to miss elements of the conversation. I also noted a lot of static. Ringers were nice loud, though incompetent at rock concert volumes. They're plenty loud being heard at home, though. The vibrate alert was acceptably strong. The speakerphone also offers good volume, though not likely enough to get a busy office setting. It had been loud enough in a fast-moving car, however. Quality of speakerphone calls were the same as from the earpiece.

Battery
Motorola has created strides in optimizing its Blur software for better battery, nevertheless the Bravo still is suffering from apps that constantly ping AT&T's network. You start with an entire charge at 7AM, the Bravo would have to be plugged last by 8 or 9PM. Fine-tuning many of the settings -- for instance email retrieval, social networking, etc. -- might help extend battery somewhat, but you're still going to have to charge the Bravo every single day.