Innovating An Old Android With The Motorola Quench

In the Android world, we often wonder why new smartphones still come in the older versions like the 1.5 Cupcake and the 1.5 Donut when you already have the latest 2.1 Éclair.  It seems the open source nature of the Android platform grants mobile phone makers to tweak what is acquirable to give it a one-of-a-kind flavour.

You can port a proprietary UI to differentiate one that in many cases can trump new smartphone sporting the new versions.  Thus, you have the Sense from HTC and the Rachel/UX from Sony Ericsson, to mention some.  It becomes clearer now that no upgrade paths are forthcoming for these older versions.  Upgrade them and you lose all the UI tweaking done to make them stand out in the crowd.

One of them is the Motorola QUENCH with MOTOBLUR unveiled at the current 2010 Mobile World Congress. It runs the older Android 1.5 Cupcake when most of its competitors are running the new version.  But no matter, a easy look at its demo should convince anyone that new Android OS versions are not the only ones that can define an exciting new Android experience.  As Sanjay Jha, CEO of the Motorola Mobile Devices and Home Business stated in its press release:

“As we continue to expand Motorola’s portfolio of Android-powered devices, we remain committed to delivering more of what people want from their handheld devices in easier ways. QUENCH with MOTOBLUR showcases Motorola’s design heritage by offering a compelling differentiation from the traditional Android experience, giving people an easier way to have more messaging, more Web and more music.”

Innovating on the Old

What defines this new Android experience is its MOTOBLUR content delivery service in the QUENCH.  Among other things, it synchronizes your contacts, media content and communications trail with your social networking activities a single home screen location.  It also comes with SWYPE text input feather from the same guys who invented T9 predictive text that you find in all mobile phones.

You just swipe or trace with a finger the letters crossways a virtual QWERTY keyboard on its touchscreen, and the word gets spelled for you.  Multimedia also comes with a new features where  media players can connect online to download new media content while playing them with other 3rd celebration apps like Tune Wiki, SoundHound, GoTV and YouTube.

There’s also FM stereo streaming.  The QUENCH improves its telephony experience with dual microphones and noise cancellation technology for crystal clear voice calls. Finding information on the phone or online is supported with voice-activated search that launches Google Web search.

Apart from these innovative features, the Motorola QUENCH sports the same upscale features you can find the smartphones with the latest Android versions.  It’s a 3G phone on the triple band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA and also a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G.  It comes with WiFi, A-GPS and the usual Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP for local data transfers.    You get a  3.1-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen with accelerometer and closeness sensors that also grant pinch-zoom function. Its GPS navigation system is supported by a touch pad for easier controls while imaging gets a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash and CIF video recording at 25fps.

Your media stereo listening offers a choice of going wireless with its A2DP support or wired using its 3.5mm headphone jack.  A phone memory of 512 MB ROM and 256 MB RAM gets microSD expandability for up to 32 GB.

Innovating An Old Android With The Motorola Quench

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