Motorola DEXT review

As expected, once you’ve taken a picture, you can delete it, set it as wall paper or share it with others. When we’d taken a few pictures, we skipped back to explore our album, finding our finger naturally swiping across to view. Alas, this feature isn’t supported and you’ll instead have to use the arrows. While this is a minor niggle, it’s less intuitive than other handset UIs on the market offer up.

Video recording at 24fps is also on offer, which we found to be of average to good quality depending on filming conditions.

There’s also a 3.5mm jack so you can use the headphones of your choice, in addition to micro-USB for charging. You’ll also find onboard A-GPS, a digital compass and support for the major multimedia file formats (audio: AAC, AAC+, AAC+ Enhanced, AMR NB, MIDI, MP3, WAV and video: H.264, H.263, MPEG).

We found battery life to be neither abysmal nor anything to write home about (quoted figures are six hours of talk time and 13.5 days of standby).

How much mileage you’ll get out of a full charge does depend on just how much you’ve got going on on the handset and what sort of user you are, but we’d carry around the charger or micro-USB cable just in case.