8. Motorola DEXT
Once a giant in the world of mobile phones, Motorola went quiet for quite a while. It made almost 10,000 people redundant in 2008 and the end looked in sight. However, the end has not arrived, and Moto has come back with a vengeance in 2009 with the much-mooted Motorola DEXT phone.
Free on contracts from around £30 a month, the DEXT is a Google Android-powered handset with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
What's more, Motorola has supercharged Android with its own customised overlay, called MotoBlur. It's similar in function to HTC's Sense UI although maybe not quite as likeable.
The trump card is that the DEXT is one of the best media phone available at the moment – which says a lot.
Read: Motorola DEXT review
Browse the best Motorola DEXT deals in the UK
See also: Nokia N97, HTC Touch Pro 2, Sony Ericsson Xperia X2
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dsj
November 17th
14. nitebot - 'The UK didn't have a national or even regional radio mobile phone network.'
I don't know how old 'nitebot' is but we had an automatic Radiophone System 4 network operational in London, in the summer of 1981. The coverage was extended to major population areas by 1983. We had a manual Radiophone System 1 in 1959 in South Lancashire and was later extended to cover London. Later there was System 2 which used 9 channels. System 3 used auto scanning 55 channel mobile but call were still connected by the operator. Automatic Radiophone system 4 ran till 1989 as celluar system took over with its base station handover capabilty. The rest is history as they say...
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zmcguiness
November 12th
13. You guys did really well, clearing that thing up about cell vs. mobile.
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bullitinn56
November 8th
12. moving, or capable of moving or being moved, from place to place, definition of Mobile, but a laptop is still a laptop and a caravan will never be a trailer or mobile home......
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nitebot
November 2nd
11. @rsmits
In America, you had the radio mobile phone before the cellular mobile phone, and handsets were known as 'mobile phones.' The UK didn't have a national or even regional radio mobile phone network.
When cellular mobile phone networks were created in America, it was decided to use the shorthand term 'cell phone' to distinguish handsets from the radio 'mobile phones.' But in the UK, the cell phone network was the first mobile network and so we just started calling handsets mobile phones.
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lovlid
November 2nd
10. @ rsmits.
And by the by, cell phone is short for cellular mobile. Check your Websters.
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lovlid
November 2nd
9. @ rsmits.
And how do the 'planes fly in your part of the world, because there is no such thing as "aluminum". And did you read Harry potter and the philosopher's stone, or Harry Potter and the Magic Boulder or whatever words you used to dumb it down.
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