An overview of the new Motorola Milestone 2
The Motorola Milestone (aka Droid in the US) was a huge success for Android and Motorola. It is still one of the bestselling Android smartphones on the market, even though there are better and faster alternatives. But of course, time doesn’t stay still, and the successor to the Milestone is already here. The Milestone 2 is a direct evolution of its predecessor, and it features only minor changes in the hardware and the exterior.
The front part that contains the screen now has the “lip” integrated into it, instead of the back piece, as in the first Milestone. But the best exterior change is the keyboard, which has been refined and made better for typing. It is not flat anymore, but features bumps that make it easier to type, and with the dreaded gold navigation key gone, it’s one of the best keyboards on the market.
Internally, the Motorola Milestone 2 has been upgraded with a 1GHz TI OMAP SOC (which has a pretty good video chip that should be better than the one in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon solution), 512 MB of RAM (which is really needed, 256 just wasn’t enough anymore), 720p video capabilities on the 5 megapixels camera, Wifi N support and 8 GB of internal memory + a micro SD card slot that supports cards of up to 32 GB capacity (64 and maybe more in the future), so you can have a lot more storage space for your data.
All of this is great and makes the phone a worthy competitor, but despite running Android 2.2, Motorola has decided to lose some customers with their custom Motoblur skin for the OS, which a lot of people hate and is impossible to uninstall.
If you like or don’t care about that, the Milestone 2 is definitely a great phone, but if you want to have a more pure Android and smartphone experience, you’d be better off with a HTC Desire Z, which has the same specs, same great keyboard and comes with a default Android 2.2 installation that can be easily customized to your liking.
