Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #265818 in Cell Phone Accessories
- Color: Black
- Brand: Motorola
- Model: XT701EUBK
- Dimensions: .0 pounds
Features
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 850/1900/2100
- Display: TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 480 x 854 pixels, 3.7 inches, Touch-sensitive navigation controls, Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, Handwriting recognition
- Camera: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, xenon flash; Video: D1(720x480)@24fps; Photo viewer/editor
- Platform: Android OS, v2 (Eclair), TI OMAP3430 600 MHz processor, HTML Browser, Bluetooth with A-GPS support, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- MP3/eAAC+/WAV player, MP4/H.263/H.264 player, HD video(720p) playback over built-in HDMI slot, Document viewer, Organizer
Motorola XT701 Unlocked GSM Smartphone with 5 MP Camera, Android OS, Wi-Fi, gps navigation, Bluetooth and Touchscreen--International Version with No Warranty (Black)
Product Description
The new Motorola XT701 Touchscreen bar phone packs a 5 Megapixel autofocus camera wth Xenon flash and a 3.7 inches capacitive Touchscreen with 480×854 pixels resolution & 16M colors. It features the latest networking technology like 3G, Wi-Fi, EDGE & GPRS for your internet browsing needs, runs under the Android OS v2 (Eclair) and includes a microSD cardslot that allows for additional storage up to 32 GB.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Great phone? Yes! Have you been duped? Maybe!
By texaopian
The Purchase:After alot of research, I decided to purchase this Motorola XT701 from Amazon last year (Amazon has a great return policy). Phone looked good when it arrived. There are different versions of this phone, the one I received was the Chinese/HK version. Unlike other 'new' phones as told in other Chinese Motorola forums, the menus didn't start in Chinese (like other Chinese/HK XT701s) - More on this later. After a quick charge, I popped the AT&T SIM card in and poof it worked. It'll work on AT&T & Tmobile. It'll work on AT&T's 3G network. It won't work on Tmobile's 3G/4G network. I did have some problems sending MMS. After re-entering the AT&T settings a couple of times it finally started to work.Suggestions:Add $100+ for a SquareTrade ADH Warranty. YOU WILL NEED IT. You'll need to update the phone (to Android 2.1) as soon as you get it. The built in keyboard is $&^+ (it's a English/Chinese style keyboard) - you'll want to download another one from the Android store. I'd suggest tossing the supplied MicroSD card. It's slow. Buy another one thats at least a Class 6 or better.What's great:1. Cool design.2. 3G speed3. Thin & lite4. Apps5. Camera + a REAL flash6. Easy to rootWhat isn't great:1. Keyboard2. Screen - taps are unresponsive at times2. Internal memory / App storage limit3. Physical camera button - hard to get to4. Phone freezes / lags - it can't keep up with ALL the bells and whistles (live wallpaper, etc)5. No custom ROMs (its not a popular phone)6. Getting lied to - first by Motorola, then (possibly) by the seller.Lie #1 - When I bought the phone, Motorola stated it planned on updating the phone to Android 2.2. After saying yes then no then maybe then yes to Europe, but not China, and now no to all xt701s. If I knew this before I bought it, I wouldn't have made the purchase. Android 2.2 would solve ALOT of nagging issues with the phone. First, Android 2.2 is faster than Android 2.1. Much faster. An update would get rid of some of the lag (due to the slower the slower processor) when taking pictures, videos, running live wallpaper, etc. Second, the ability to store Apps onto the SD card. With Android 2.1, I hit the App memory limit within 2 weeks of owning the phone. Third, better keyboard and multi-touch responses. The list goes on.Don't buy this phone if you're a power user. It will disappoint you.Lie #2 - I treat my phones very good. For this phone, I bought an SGP XT720 case for it (one of the very best phone cases). About a month ago, the phone started to go crazy acting like someone/something was tapping the screen, making selections, dialing numbers etc. For awhile, I thought someone hacked the phone. Factory resets didn't solve the problem. This craziness evolved into a part of the screen being dead to touch. A vertical strip about 3/8" (1cm) wide located on the right side of the screen was dead. The phone was barley usable. I know its not covered in the US, but I took chance and brought it a certified Motorola repair center who told me - yes, the screen was dead, no its not covered by Motorola US and by the way, the phone looks like its been opened before (tool marks) and the screen in there doesn't have a Motorola P/N on it - hinting that it was some generic screen replacement. Which means, I didn't get the "gorilla glass" screen that Motorola had advertised. It was made known to me that this "new" phone could be a Chinese/HK refurbished phone being sold as "new" to unsuspecting US customers. It apparently happens all the time with International "No Warranty" phones. Going back to my first paragraph about the language being switched from Chinese to English when I purchased it doesn't help me believe that the phone was new and untouched between the factory and my door. Alas, I can't "prove" that it's a refurb except from what the tech told me (and the gut reaction to how greedy people can be). I really hope its a refurb because I would hope (as a Motorola fan) this isn't the way Motorola puts an expensive phone like the XT701 together. Apparently, there are many many instances of this screen issue happening to the Milestone/Droid community. As the Moto tech described, the Droid and the xt701 screen use the same technology. So this could be a defect (or the result of a bad batch of screens, or a real design flaw). It doesn't help that Motorola dropped support for this line like a hot potato late last year. When I bought it in September, the phone wasn't out in the market for that long. Two months later and Motorola started to drop planned upgrades, accessories, patches, etc.Don't buy this phone if you're looking for a sturdy product. Do buy this phone if you'll plan on spending another $200-300 on extended warranties, cases, and a backup phone for when it randomly dies.Conclusion:While when I bought this phone, I considered it a 5 star product. Looking back, I see that I put up with the little issues knowing that they were going to be fixed in the next software & firmware updates. Now that I know these things won't be fixed (no updates whatsoever), it's not worth the money. Seriously. If you're going to drop $350 ~ 400 for a phone, you'd expect for it to be refined OR at least have a way to get issues resolved. No support from Motorola for software/ firmware/ warranty makes this a bad gamble. There isn't a third party community for it. So there isn't much indirect, community support either. The warning from the tech about the International refurb phones sold to North Americans as "new" isn't surprising. It's happened to me with "new" Motorola phones from eBay in the past, but I really wasn't expecting it from Amazon.Good luck with whatever you decide to do. If I were in your shoes, I'd look elsewhere.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
XT701/720 experience
By Foxuniform
I am pretty much a die-hard HTC fan, and I have been buying strictly Android phones since the T-Mobile G1 was released two years ago. I had a lovely HTC Desire and left it to try an XT701. I am extremely satisfied with the XT701. There are some noticeable advantages of this phone over the HTC Desire, and they are...1) BATTERY PERFORMANCE - my HTC Desire battery (as well as my G1 and other HTC Android phones) used to run down to around 20% to 30% at the end of day one. This would mean I had to charge up overnight on a nightly basis. BTW, I usually take my phones off charge around 7am. Yes the Desire has a 1Ghz processor and over twice the RAM of the XT701 but you don't really see any lag on the Motorola. Android is a very smooth-running OS.2) SPEAKER SOUND - I paid $650 for my HTC Desire and $400 for my XT701. The HTC has a very 'tinny' speaker sound and the Motorola has a more full range, AND plays louder than the HTC. Same applies for the in-call internal and external speakers. Ringtones are easier and more qualitative on the Moto. Even the built-in notification sounds are easily audible on the Motorola while I have missed many of same while using my Desire. Additionally, the HTC produces a harsh sound, especially at higher volume levels.3) SOFTWARE - Yes I heard the XT701 may never get Froyo, but my XT701 has something HTC never put on their phones - sound settings (similar to an EQ)for both internal and external speakers. Also, there is a setting for optimum battery performance, or for optimum processor performance. I have my XT701 set for the former and have no lag issues worthy of reporting. Very commendable. I have yet to see either of these features on an HTC Android phone.4) FREQUENCY BANDS - XT701 can run on AT&T's (and other traditional North and South American) 3G networks. In fact it is tri-band 3G and the XT720 is dual-band 3G.5) CAMERA - I don't know how good the XT720's photos are, but the XT701 takes really great photos and I would not ask for more. They are really outstanding shots. I am fully satisfied with this aspect of the phone as well. To me the XT701 and subsequently the XT720 are great overall phones with no major weak points.I buy a lot of phones and this has to be among the best phone I have had in a long time. XT701 and XT720 - VERY GOOD all-rounders!!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great phone!
By Adam
Wow, this phone is great. I purchased it from another site for a similar price. I was thinking about returning it to get an Evo 4g, however, I opened it up and although AT&T is more expensive than Sprint I'll stick it out for a little while longer because of this phone. This phone will work with AT&T's 3g network and I had no problems downloading from the Android Market. One bad thing is I can't send a MMS. I don't send that many video or picture messages but it would be nice to be able to. I think it's a compatibility issue since I took the sim card out of my iphone and stuck it in this bad boy. The camera takes nice pictures and it has a xenon flash and auto focus as well. The OS is as expected, great ( I see Android taking over in the years to come). I'm still new to Android but I'm already used to it. Like I mentioned before I have an iphone and I prefer to use this phone instead. The screen seems sharper than my 3gs and is highly responsive like the iphone. I would give it 4.5 stars if it were possible and 5 stars if the MMS worked. This is a great phone but quite expensive. If you have the cash and want a good Android phone without a contract this is the one to get.
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