The Motorola Photon 4G at rest |
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| Manufacturer | Motorola |
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| Carriers | Sprint Nextel |
| Compatible networks | WiMAX 2.5 GHz, CDMA 800/1900 MHz (EV-DO Rev. A), GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS/WCDMA 850/1900/2100 MHz (HSPA+ at 14.4 Mbit/s) |
| First released | US: July 31, 2011 |
| Introductory price | $199.99 US 2 year contract $549.99 with no contract |
| Availability by country | US: Q3-2011 |
| Related | Motorola Atrix 4G |
| Form factor | Touchscreen smartphone |
| Dimensions | 126.9 mm (5.00 in) H 66.9 mm (2.63 in) W 12.2 mm (0.48 in) D |
| Weight | 158 grams (5.6 oz) |
| Operating system | Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread |
| CPU |
NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core 1 GHz |
| GPU | GeForce ULP |
| Memory | 1 GB LP DDR2 RAM |
| Storage | 16 GB on board, supports up to 32 GB microSDHC, total 48 GB |
| Battery |
1650 mAh Standby time
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| Data inputs | Multi-touch capacitive touchscreen display, accelerometer, magnetometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, fingerprint reader |
| Display | 4.3-inch 960×540 px qHD TFT LCD at 275 ppi, 16 M colors, Gorilla Glass |
| Rear camera | 8 MP AF, digital zoom with LED Flash Capture – 720p MPEG4 and H.264 at 30 frame/s (full 1080p may be supported via software upgrade post-launch) |
| Front camera | VGA imager for video chat, self image capture |
| Compatible media formats | AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, WMA v10, eAAC+, AMR WB, WMA v10, AMR-NB, AAC+, WMA v9, MIDI |
| Connectivity | audio jack 3.5 mm, Micro USB 2.0 HS, corporate sync, BOTA, Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, Micro-HDMI |
| Other | Android WebKit with Adobe Flash Player, Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1 in Motorola Webtop mode, eCompass, aGPS with Google Maps, Google Street View, Google Latitude, Android Market |
| Hearing aid compatibility | M4/T4[2] |
The Motorola Photon 4G[3] is a high end Android-based mobile smartphone that is distributed exclusively by Sprint Nextel. A very similar model based on the same hardware is available as the Motorola Electrify from U.S. Cellular. [4]
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The Photon runs a customized interface similar to the standard Android interface (different from Motoblur) with several additions. Motorola provides custom widgets to toggle settings for airplane mode, bluetooth, wireless 4G access (WiMAX 2.5 GHz), and WiFi access as well as resizable widgets for functions such as the calendar, social networking, a world clock and more. The Photon's customized interface has seven home screens and four main onscreen buttons at the bottom of the screen. Of the bottom buttons the left three buttons may be customized to run a program of the user's choosing, while the right-most button opens the app drawer.
Capacitive touch buttons at the bottom of the screen are Menu, Home, Back and Search. Pressing and holding on the Home button brings up a "Recent Apps" view, while double tapping the Home button will either show a thumbnailed view of all seven home screens (default) or, at the user's preference, quick launch a specific function.
The Photon is an international capable phone ("world phone"), meaning that besides using Sprint's CDMA/EV-DO network and other CDMA networks accessible internationally and through domestic roaming, it accepts a GSM SIM card with quadband GSM and triband UMTS/WCDMA/HSPA+ capabilties. The phone also, like most Android phones, features WiFi access, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, and a micro-USB port for charging and data sync with a PC. An HDMI port allows for access to HDMI-mirroring and separate functions.
The Photon supports several important business features. It supports access to Microsoft Exchange Server mail servers, including the support of several Exchange ActiveSync profiles. Second, full encryption of the internal and external storage is supported. This last feature requires the creation of a password that is required when booting the phone.
Motorola provides several additional software packages for PCs and Mac, such as Motorola Media Link (to manage photos, music and video) and the Motorola Phone Portal (manage phone and contents from a web browser over a network link).
Similarly to the Motorola Atrix 4G, it has the integrated Ubuntu-based 'Webtop' application from Motorola. The Webtop application is launched when the phone is connnected to the external display through Laptop dock or HD multimedia dock. In Webtop mode, offering similar user interface of typical Ubuntu desktop, the phone can run several applications on external display such as Firefox web browser, SNS clients and 'mobile view' application enabling total access of the Photon and its screen. In September 2009, Motorola released the source code of Webtop application at SourceForge.[5]
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