To say that we were surprised is an understatement. The Motorola Defy looks more than presentable. At 13.4 mm, it is not pencil thin, but neither is it bulky — in fact, it is less wide and shorter than the iPhone 3GS and the HTC Mozart, even though it packs in a 3.7-inch display. The front has a Gorilla Glass scratch-proof screen and four soft touch keys (menu, home, back, search) below it.
It is only when you turn the device over and inspect its sides that the ‘tough’ element comes to the fore with the tightly covered mini-USB port, the metallic screws that hold the two sides of the phone together as well as the airtight backcover lock. All in all, it is very comfortable to hold and at around 117 grams, not too heavy either.
It packs in some very good specs too. At 800 MHz, it has the fastest processor on a Motorola phone in India, and its display has the same resolution as the famous Milestone — 480 x 854. It has 512 MB RAM, a 5.0-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash and comes with a 2GB memory card. The one sour note is that in spite of these impressive innards, it runs Android 2.1 rather than 2.2. Motorola has attempted to redeem things to an extent by providing a software to create a 3G hotspot. However, those accustomed to Android 2.2's zippy interface and the option to save applications to expansion cards will be disappointed.
That apart, there is little to fault in the Defy. It works very briskly and features Android's typical icon and widget driven interface with excellent web browsing and social networking connectivity, with Motorola adding some resizable widgets for calendars, contacts and messaging for good measure. The battery was a pleasant surprise, lasting comfortably for a day, even with push mail and Facebook updates turned on.
We were not too impressed with the camera which threw up relatively dull images, but the presence of Kodak Perfect Touch allowed us to improve pictures with just a touch. And of course, there is the famous toughness — our favourite trick over the past few days has been to walk over to a friend, and casually drop the Defy into their glass of water with an ‘oops!’, wait for them to stop shrieking, fish it out and start using it calmly.
Beauty, brains, brawn — this is one phone that has it all. And at Rs 18,990 we think it is a terrific deal not just for those who are not known to be gentle with their devices, but for anyone looking for a smartphone with very good build quality.
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