Motorola’s XT 720 Milestone is Launching in the UK

It has been recently confirmed that the Motorola Milestone XT720 handset is going to be in store shelves in the UK as of Monday this week. For those of you who passed up on the original launch of the Motorola Milestone because the slide out QWERTY keyboard is not that good for your usage patterns, then the XT 720 might just fit your needs.

The Android smart phone lets go of the signature keyboard that has made the Milestone a successful handset. Of course, the device gets a pretty nifty trade-off for such an important hardware feature; the new handset comes with a better 8 mega pixel camera and 720p HD video recording capabilities.

With regards to other specs, the XT 720 is pretty identical to the original Milestone handset. Even the form factor is also the same –which is a great thing as the original Milestone is a breathtakingly beautiful smart phone with its angled lines, matte coating and futuristic looking shape.

The screen is a 3.7 inch TFT capacitive touch screen display that provides users with 480 x 854 pixels of resolution, an accelerometer and a proximity sensor. The overall visual quality that the device provides is good, though we would have proffered an upgrade to an OLED screen for the HD output.

As one might expect, this phone sports all the basic features; WiFi, 3G, 2G, Bluetooth, GPS and the rest. The only thing users will need to be aware of is that the handset only comes with 150 MB of internal memory so having a micro SD card is important. The device will support up to 32 GB cards and the device comes packed with a 2 GB card.

As one might expect, the new handset is running the Android 2.1 Éclair though we can expect an upgrade for version 2.2 to be released soon.