A candy-bar Android phone with a touchscreen as well as a physical QWERTY keyboard
without the 'flip'. It rather has a candy-bar profile with the same 2.8-inch of capacitive nature. But it also retains that lower QVGA resolution which we're definitely not fans of, as it tends to make some fonts of the Android apps blurry, along with the obvious loss in crispness. Size-wise, the Flipout may look compact, but has a bulging 17mm thickness owing to the sliding keyboard design, while the Charm is much thinner at 11.5mm. It also has the Motorola "BackTrack" which the Flipout lacks, this is basically a touch-pad at the back of the device. How useful will it be is a question left to be answered once we try it out ourselves. The keyboard design is similar to the Flipout, and that's good news (we're playing with the Flipout as we write this). A 600 MHz processor seems standard-fare but is well complimented with a generous 512MB RAM
Connectivity options are pretty much set with 3.5G, Wi-Fi and GPS. We've generally identified Motorola phones with great call clarity and good background noise cancellation, that they dub as "CrystalTalk". Thus, it is also good to know that the Charm has a dedicated mic for active noise cancellation; yet another trump card over the Flipout. The 3.2 mega-pixel non-autofocus camera without an LED flash seemingly is no match for competitor Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro's if you care for a good camera on your phone.
The Motorola Charm will be priced the same as the Flipout at Rs. 15,990. Off the two, if you're really not into that Flippin' design, then the Charm rather seems to have a couple of things going for it when compared to its twin.
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