The Motorola Photon 4G Android smartphone has been out a couple of months now, and has all things Android go, updates have been flying about here and there hitting many Android smartphones. One software upgrade that the Motorola Photon 4G recently received that was absent until now is the Video Chat feature of the popular Google Talk software application. A couple of minor software bugs also appear in the over the air update. An international roaming software addition for the Sprint Wi-Fi hotspot capability has also been added. The Motorola Photon 4G is available exclusively on the Sprint 4G WiMAX mobile broadband network at a retail cost of $.01 with a new two-year activation.
The Motorola Photon 4G was one of the first dual core Tegra 2 handsets to land on the Sprint 4G wireless platform. Also truly qualifying as a global or world phone, the Motorola Photon 4G is able to access CDMA, 3G UMTS and GSM networks as well as the Sprint WiMAX 4G network. The Photon 4G also has the ability through Sprint’s more powerful and technically advanced 4G network to allow for simultaneous voice and data connectivity. What that means is never having to terminate a phone call to surf the web, download apps, or access other data from your handset.
Buy the Motorola Photon 4G for only $.01 for new customers and $179 for existing customers with new two year contracts.
The Motorola Photon 4G is also backwards compatible to all 3G networks, when a 4G tower cannot be found. Many Android handsets recently have had an over the air upgrade to the Gingerbread 2.3 operating system, and all future upgrades will be available to this handset. However, the Motorola Photon 4G is already Gingerbread capable out-of-the-box. The Gingerbread 2.3 OS joins a 1.0 GHz dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 processing chip and 1.0 GB of PC quality RAM memory, as well as a 3-D graphics hardware accelerator in the software set.
Fixes to the laptop dock accessibility of the Photon 4G were also sent over the air with this recent update, and the Motorola Photon 4G is able to access Motorola’s Lapdock, Vehicle Navigation GPS dock and HD Multimedia Station. These three optional accessories were introduced when Motorola rolled out the Atrix 4G earlier this year, and the Motorola Photon 4G provides access as well.
