Motoblur blacklists blurriness from your social network status

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 30 March 2010 18:31

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Aiming to create a universal inbox experience for all your messages, be they textual, MMS, your Facebook inbox and other social networking sites, Motorola's Motoblur experience wants to deliver the perfect, instant update, info-centric interface for your digital life from your Motorola Motoblur-enabled mobile phone.

Motorola's Android handsets, imbued with their impressive social network unifying Motoblur interface, are finally coming to Australia in exclusive partnership with Optus from April 9. 

As Motorola explains, Motoblur is 'MOTOBLUR is the first and only mobile experience to deliver your social life straight to your mobile phone, in the one handy stream. MOTOBLUR syncs your contacts, emails, posts, messages, photos and more from sources such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail and LastFM', with content automatically 'pushed straight to the home screen, in easy-to-manage streams allowing users to spend less time managing their life and more time living it.'

Of course, Nokia would say that it tried doing something similar with its N97 screen, HTC would say its HTC Desire handset does something similar (but perhaps not as smoothly or in a manner that is as complete as Motoblur delivers), and Microsoft showed something similar with its as-yet unavailable Windows Phone 7 Series platform.

Thus it would seem that Motorola's claims of being the first to truly unify all of this information together, something that doesn't happen on the current range of Apple iPhones, for example, holds true, especially as this phone came out in September 2009 overseas - and would be exceedingly handy for those who live a very socially networked lifestyle, which many young people today are definitely doing.

When looking at your universal inbox, you can easily see where each message comes from thanks to a little icon beside each message, but you're definitely not forced to use the universal inbox view at all times - it's easy to separate messages by different messaging service so you only see Facebook messages, or only emails, for example, making the messaging process simple and easy.

While the phone is no match in terms of processor speed, screen size or screen quality when compared with the new HTC Desire, the Motorola Dext isn't aimed at that market, a market that can afford a much more expensive mobile phone in terms of actual cost, data charges and more.

The Dext - and the upcoming Backflip - are much more aimed at a mainstream market, for whom price is a consideration, for whom the ability to get unmetered access to social networking sites and for whom a physical keyboard is important.

That's not to say the HTC Desire isn't aimed at a mainstream market, it's just that it's a much more expensive phone and price proposition. If you want the very best Android handset on the market, then the HTC Desire or Google Nexus One is for you.

If you're interested in keeping your social networking life organised and are a massive social networking addict, and don't want to spend top dollar, then the Motorola Dext and Backflip will be attractive options to the competition out there, from Nokia's devices to the iPhone itself.

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