Motorola Titanium

“Motorola and Sprint need to cut it out. Stop giving the remaining Nextel users, who do real work, inadequate, crippled, embarrassing phones. The Motorola Titanium may become required for the truck drivers, first responders, and other workers who make up Sprint's remaining iDen subscribers. But while it combines Nextel's push-to-talk (PTT) service with the Android smartphone OS, it uses an obsolete version of the OS, and it's one of the slowest Android phones I've ever seen.”

“The Titanium is not intended as a smartphone for the everyday consumer. The target audiences for this phone are industry workers who need to use the push-to-talk iDEN network, but also want an Android handset. The other iDEN smartphones out there on the market--the Motorola i1, a few BlackBerry models--are quite out-of-date. Even though the Titanium has the older Android 2.1 OS on it, it's actually the most advanced iDEN smartphone available from Nextel. That, combined with its military-certified durability, its corporate e-mail support, and the great keyboard, and the Titanium is a pretty robust handset for those who need a push-to-talk Android phone. If you don't need push-to-talk iDEN services however, then the Titanium is definitely not the phone for you.”

“The lack of selection in the Nextel lineup makes the Motorola TITANIUM your default choice if you want a smartphone, but it is not without its shortcomings. The 504MHz processor and 512MB of memory simply aren’t enough to run Android smoothly. The keyboard is soft and inaccurate and the navigation keys are tiny. While the Motorola TITANIUM may resemble the XPRT on the outside, is it very different on the inside and with the user experience. Unless you really need a smartphone and Nextel Direct Connect we’d recommend the XPRT if you’re looking for some portrait QWERTY Android action.”

“With few Android options on the Sprint Nextel iDEN network, the Titanium offers a well-rounded set of features and solid performance for most tasks.The hardware is well designed and works as it should, though perhaps it isn't as rugged as some may like. The keyboard is a welcome addition, and even more so since Motorola did such a good job with it.The Android 2.1 system software is a bit limiting, and system performance was a bit slow, but the Titanium shines when it comes to calling, signal, and battery performance. Even the extras, such as the camera, perform well.As with all iDEN-based phones, data performance is abysmal. A significant number of smartphone buyers do so for the mobile data capabilities. The Titanium doesn't deliver speedy mobile data. You'll have to seek out Wi-Fi for that. If you don't mind waiting a bit, though, the stock Android browser and Opera Mini browser are capable tools.In the end, the combination of PTT powers, Android software, and the full QWERTY keyboard may be all that you need to convince you that the Titanium is worth the upgrade. As long as you don't mind slow data performance, it is a solid phone from Motorola.”