14 DAY TRIAL // T-Mobile revealed recently on its official Twitter account that it will start marketing the rugged smartphone Motorola DEFY on November 3rd. It seems that it has become usual for the carrier to make new launching announcements on its Twitter account.
Even though it was already known that the device will be available through the major carrier, there wasn't any information about its exact launching date or its price.
T-Mobile stated in a twitted post that it will start selling the product on November 3rd for about $99.99, but most likely with a 2-year contract.
Motorola DEFY is one of the first rugged smartphones to run Android 2.1 OS. The device is also powered by a TI OMAP3610 800MHz processor and is IP67 certified (dust and water submersible, up to 1m for 30 mins).
The DEFY comes with a 3.7-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16 Million colors support (480 x 854 pixels resolution), which is protected by the famous Gorilla Glass.
Other features include: touch sensitive controls, MOTOBLUR UI with Live Widgets, multi-touch input method, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, proximity sensor for auto turn-off.
The smartphone sports a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, image stabilization and video recording capabilities.
More interesting features that user can take advantage of, include: HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP support, Stereo FM radio with RDS, 3.5 mm audio jack, GPS with A-GPS support, Digital compass, 2 GB internal storage space, 512 MB RAM, as well as microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB, 2GB included).
The smartphone's 1540 mAh Li-Polymer battery is rated by the manufacturer for up to 6 hours and 40 minutes of talk time or 240 hours of standby.
This is the second smartphone launched by T-Mobile in the first week of November, after HTC HD7 was also announced earlier today.
