This afternoon, Motorola and Sprint revealed the Photon 4G, the first of many Motorola Android phones headed to the carrier. The Photon 4G boasts a qHD display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor and 4G speeds. Pricing hasn’t been announced, but the Photon 4G is due to Sprint sometime this summer.
Look and Feel
The Photon feels great in hand, though, to be fair, I’ve got fairly big hands. It felt light, but sturdy,
Software
Speed
With a dual-core 1GHz processor and 1GB or RAM, this baby hums in most places. The one place I noticed some lag? The desktop. Why? Motoblur. Seriously, please just give us vanilla Android on these guys. In all the other apps I used, this phone was fast, fast, fast, and very slick. Played full HD video very nicely (even when mirroring it on an HD set). Sprint’s 4G was looking good, and webpages loaded quickly. The camera was very responsive, too.
Accessories
Video: Sprint, Motorola Launch Photon 4G Phone
Bottom Line
This is a very nice piece of hardware. It’s very similar to the Atrix on AT&T. The main difference is that the Photon’s screen is a little bigger (4.3 inches vs. 4 inches), and the Photon will be running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) out of the box. I could really do without Motoblur, but if you install a 3rd party launcher (like Launcher Pro) most of those woes may go away. It definitely competes with Sprint’s other high-end devices, and I declare it to be covetable. Now, where’s Verizon’s answer to this one?
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