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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here at they for review for you of the recently unboxed motorola Bravo for AT&T Wireless let's go ahead and get started so before i get into the features of the phone let's talk first about call quality no matter what the phone can do or not do it's not going to make good phone call it's not going to be much used to you so generally when i test phones i will do a 20 call test from various regions where I am in Southern California of each call in two minutes in length the test signal strength call quality and any sort of dropped calls that we might have so in my 20 call test actually had to drop calls with this act on signal strength to be about medium to acceptable with other AT&T phones I've generally been able to pull in about three to four bars of 3g this was playing in just about two to three so bad a bar less and certainly the bars rely on proprietary algorithms that aren't necessarily the most accurate reflection of signal strength but those two drop calls are generally about two more than I usually had in other tests I didn't have any sort of death grip type issues didn't lose reception when being held call quality was very good i had no white noise in my and the color and no white noise on their end from a speakerphone standpoint was a little bit tinny and a tad bit quiet so if we rely on speaker phone to use while you're in a car or any sort of loud environment this may not be the phone for you alright so let's go ahead and talk about the phone itself let's run through a bit of the specs very quickly and then i will talk about what the phone can do to give you some perspective on the device so it is an AT&T phone it's going to set you back about one hundred and twenty nine dollars on a two-year contract it's got a 3.7 inch diagonal screen and LCD display with a resolution of 480 x 854 so relatively decent resolution it's gone over a fifteen hundred million powder our batteries you're going to get well over seven hours to talk to him and battery life is actually fantastic on this device i was easily able to get through a day and i'm a very heavy user i use email browsing and sort of everything else that smartphone can do and generally i push it very hard that i don't get through a full day not a problem with the bravo is running android 2.1 with Motorola's motoblur sitting on top of it it's an older version of motor motoblur that's for those colored icons will talk about motoblur a bit more in a minute it's got a TI OMAP 800 megahertz processor now in this world of fast processors and thinking of snapdragon the gigahertz you might think 800 is going to make this thing I've been anemic actually it's very very very quick and I'm going to show you that in just a few minutes it's being assisted by 512 megabytes of RAM it's got a two gig micro SD card included it's got a 3 megapixel camera on the back which can take standard definition video no HD recording here and this can do a flash content with a flash of light alright so let's go ahead and talk about the phone the first thing i noticed when i unbox this guy and picked it up was it's very thin form factor the thing is very very very us felt if you will and is very light has a really nice feel in the hand got that soft touch rubber in the back which makes it sort of a nice grip to it from a form factor standpoint I really lied to the phone it felt good it was light in the pocket wasn't taking up that much space in 3.7 inch screen really gave a lot of screen real estate generally of lamented about capacitive buttons on the bottom these were actually very responsive there the motoblur array of button so this is going to be your menu your home in your back there is not a search button though like we have on majority of other android devices and for join so I'm going to keep in mind if you use the search button I did use that quite a bit and I was certainly missing it so with motoblur gonna get a ton of widgets I am not the biggest fan of motoblur I tried to turn off a lot of the widgets but it can do a lot of things to cloud thinking service and I'm sort of bring in supposedly amalgamate all of your social media and all your contacts or put it all into one place and upload it to Motorola server so if you ever changed phones you log into your motoblur account everything will be there essentially it's a lot of sort of widget base you can see that familiar motoblur icon to the bottom to show you what screen you're on I'll show you what the widgets are here very quickly the motorola widgets I'm not the biggest fan but there are some of them are useful the calendar widgets are pretty nice the weather widgets other social networking and to serve Wi-Fi toggle switches nothing revolutionary here it serves standard android stuff we just get a bit more functionality I suppose with motoblur so one of the things that I really wanted to talk about and I mentioned this sort of earlier and touched on it was there's a lot of talk about processor speed and whether or not that's going to translate to a better experience and I found this faster processor it's not optimized for the software isn't going to result in a faster experience so let me show you what this TI OMAP 800 megahertz processor can do I'm actually going to start doing this all of my Android device give you a sense of its prowess so we're going to use something called a quadrant here essentially it's going to benchmark the phone now I'm going to do this live you can see what the full benchmark is going to be on the phone well it's running I'll talk about some other features here so go ahead and run the full benchmark let's go to test for CPU memory it's going to test 2d graphics and 3d graphics let's see what I can do so if you want to play 3d games or two key games you want a phone it's going to be able to handle this as well as handling a pretty decent amount of multitasking so let's guy will run the background I'll talk a bit more about the phone so I'm a big fan of the Android stock keyboard clock better than all my android reviews the keyboard that comes just with Android I haven't enjoyed this really that much the motoblur keyboard that sort of sitting on top of this so I've actually transitioned back to using the standard android keyboard this is not have a slide-out qwerty keyboards are gonna relying solely on the screen for txt enter something to keep in mind effing Utley recommend trying to keep work first you can see it now sir running through some cool looking 3d benchmarks and it's doing a very nice job it's pretty smooth here I've seen this on other devices so I'm going to even a faster processors I can't quite handle this 3d graphics test with this much alacrity so it's doing a bit more here we got some globe spinning I didn't want to do this sort of live on camera as you guys can see if the results weren't fidgeted with and and mess with it all so it's one sort of a DNA sequence here and we are just about done so it's going to send the results here and I'll see how it stacks up against some other Android devices and this I found very very telling so it was a clothes at all right so unfortunately it did not show with this view today we're going to go ahead and run this test one more time and I'll cut back to the results you don't have to watch it again all right so here is the final benchmark score of the motorola Bravo and the results might surprise you I'm gonna go ahead and zoom in a little bit more so you can sort of see where we stand certainly once this is updated to android 2.2 we should see some even increased feeds motorola has set a 2.2 update will be coming so let's look at the bottom here and see where we stand so if you look we've got the original motorola droid sony xperia x10 working our way up from the bottom HTC Desire there's the nexus one samsung galaxy s moto droid x there's the bravo evo with 2.2 which is pretty impressive motorola droid x with 2.2 and then the motorola droid to sort of leading this charge we can see that of all these phones here we're looking at the fourth-best so these phones are being test and those are a lot of android devices which is pretty impressive score there of just over 1100 i'm going to be doing this test on again on all android phones i think it's very telling to see how well the processor and the software work together alright so let's go ahead and check out the browser this is of course multi-touch as i mentioned that it can do flash will go ahead and of course got an accelerometer will jump into technobuffalo here and show you what that looks like so we'll do a quick search you can see that keyboard i was mentioning earlier of course it rotates as well but not the biggest fan of the motoblur keyboard just something to keep in mind so go ahead and do a quick search here technobuffalo and i will let this load there's have been a flash content here so you can see the speed of flash using a flashlight not like you want to light up a room but it's actually called flashlight it's not flash 10.1 we can get on android 2.2 it doesn't work pretty well it's going to be a bit of a battery draining your pinch and zooming isn't going to be as you can turn it off if you want to not have the Flash content have improved battery life and have a bit smoother pinch-to-zoom on other android 2.1 devices that are tested especially on the TechnoBuffalo website the pinch to zoom with the flash turned on has not been very smooth however I was very impressed with it here on the motorola Bravo this phone is much faster than I expected to be when i first tested this i thought it was going to be mostly a a mid-range device with moderate performance turns out and offers performance comparable of the flagship devices with the one exception being it's very anemic 3 megapixel camera so something to keep in mind here let's go ahead and jump out so in conclusion the motorola Bravo really did surprise me from a feature and performance standpoint I was really blown away by what the device can do I think it represents a really nice sort of mid to high range a smartphone for 418 team now you saw this got a higher ranking than the galaxy s phone if you're sort of looking at this versus the galaxy s2 galaxy s is going to offer probably a bitter better package of features with that super amoled screen however if you don't want the galaxy FC looking for something a bit different perhaps different for a fact or maybe a bit smaller screen here with the 3.7 inch green the rubble is going to be a really fantastic phone on a one-to-five scale I give it a very strong for loosing Alan at one point four dimensions it's a very camera and that dropped call and speakerphone quality that I experienced earlier I mentioned in the beginning part of this video hope you guys enjoyed this review of the motorola Bravo for all your smartphone news be sure to check out TechnoBuffalo calm and for inclusive contents check 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