Motorola's Milestone 2 with MotoBLUR is a "fully-loaded" Android-powered, full QWERTY smartphone suitable for business power users and multimedia-hungry consumers alike.

Highlights

• More Speed - 1GHz OMAP processor, Android 2.2
• More Connectivity - personal hotspot for up to 5 devices
• More Messaging - MotoBLUR 1.5, improved keyboard design
• More Storage - up to 40GB of storage
• More Web - Adobe Flash 10
• More Multimedia - HD video, DLNA, Connected Media Player
• More Personalisation - 7 screen access to over 100,000 apps from Android Market

The below video provides an overview of the features available:

Home Screen

Running Android, the Milestone 2 has the usual multiple home screens that the platform offers, with a wide range of widgets allowing you to stay up to date with all aspects of your connected life at a glance, including email, text messages and social networking accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. MotoBLUR's exclusive Happenings widget automatically delivers every friend-feed, status update, wall post, bulletin and photo upload to you at lightning-fast speed, ready for your immediate reply. No apps to open and no menus to dig through, so less drain on your battery.

You can control your media player and turn hardware features off and on (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc) at the touch of a button

As well as access weather reports, or add any widget of your choosing ranging from sports scores to custom home screens.

Applications

The Milestone 2 incorporates a Mobile WiFi Hotspot, enabling you to share your 3G Internet connection with up to 5 other devices via WiFi, meaning that your phone can immediately become a portable wireless router for an impromptu meeting or allowing to connect your laptop to the Internet in an area where there is no public WiFi service

Security can be applied to the hotspot so that only authorised devices can be granted access.

Boasting DLNA certification, the Milestone 2 allows you to share pictures, music and video with other DLNA-capable devices such as televisions, computers and other phones via WiFi with no other configuration required

The File Manager application allows you to browse the contents of your phone and memory card memory, but also allows you to browse file shares on the wireless network, enabling you to map drives to corporate file servers or personal NAS storage devices

The Connected Music Player connects you to your music with a new style of media player that lets you buy and instantly download music from Amazon's MP3 store while integrating third party apps such as Shoutcast, Midomi, GoTV, Last.fm, TuneWiki and YouTube. Share your favourite tracks and discover new ones with tools like song ID, find lyrics, watch videos, and stream FM radio. You can even share what you're listening to with others nearby and vice versa

Email

The Milestone 2 includes built-in support for Exchange ActiveSync, allowing you to receive push-based bi-directional updates to your corporate email, contacts and calendar folders as well as access the company address book.
Setup is quick and painless, the wizard being able to determine the correct server settings to use automatically, provided that you know your email address, username and password:

You can set and edit your out of office status and message, even entering different messages for internal and external recipients:

The Smart Forwarding feature allows you to forward large email attachments to others without needing to download that attachment first, saving your data allowance and preserving your battery:

Full mailbox access is provided, including support for subfolders:

The Exchange synchronisation and security features can be summarised as follows:

As well as support corporate Exchange servers, the Milestone also supports the ubiquitous POP and IMAP email protocols as well as featuring a dedicated client for GMail and Yahoo Mail. MotoBLUR also streams all of your emails, social site messages and texts straight to a universal inbox. No more opening and closing different accounts. catch a glimpse of every communication meant for you, right from one spot. Prefer viewing it the old school way? Sure, you can do that too.

Miscellaneous

The Battery Saver utility on the Milestone 2 allows you to turn off data synchronisation overnight when you're asleep, saving both your battery and your data allowance

The Data Manager utility further allows you to specify that even though your cellular 3G data connection is active, social networking applications can only use WiFi connections: meaning that you can restrict your cellular data allowance to just receiving important work emails

Contact Brightpoint today for more information on +44 (0) 870 849 0225 or visit the Motorola web site - http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/XW-EN/Consumer-Products-and-Services/M...