The Motorola XPRT (Sprint) is the best of any other.

Motorola XPRT (Sprint)

The Motorola XPRT has both a touch screen and a keyboard in an attractive and usable form factor. Features include enterprise-level security, mobile hot-spot capability, 3G speeds, and a dual-mode CDMA/GSM chipset for world roaming.

Months after it was announced for Verizon Wireless, Sprint has finally gotten its own version of the Motorola Droid Pro. Dubbed the Motorola XPRT, this candy bar handset houses the same enterprise-class security as the Droid Pro, and it also boasts international roaming. Other features include a 3.1-inch HVGA screen, a 1GHz processor, plus it ships with Android 2.2 with Adobe Flash 10 browser support.

Sprint unveiled another Android candy bar smartphone as well: the Motorola Titanium. The Titanium is a successor to the Motorola i1 from last year, except the Titanium now has a full physical QWERTY keyboard. It's an iDEN device that ships with Nextel Direct Connect, and it promises to be just as rugged with resistance against dust, shock, vibration, solar radiation, and more. As intriguing as that might seem, however, the Titanium only ships with Android 2.1. The Motorola XPRT is available for $129.99 starting June 5; the Titanium's pricing and availability are yet to be announced.

 

the new Motorola XPRT on the Sprint network may look familiar and that’s because Verizon gained this Android device back in December 2010 with the handle the Motorola Droid Pro, and has only just come to Sprint, so we have a video review of the Sprint Motorola XPRT for your viewing consideration below.

The Motorola XPRT for Sprint video review comes our way courtesy of the guys over at Daily Mobile and by way of the Mobile Techreview YouTube page, and delivers just over eleven minutes of reacquainting us with the Android 2.2 Froyo handset.

The Motorola XPRT is a candy-bar handset with a portrait QWERTY keyboard, 3.1-inch capacitive touch screen, 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with flash, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, 1GHz processor, MotoBlur, and SIM card holder for GSM roaming overseas.

So I’ll leave it right there so you can head on down to hit that play button and check out the review of the Motorola XPRT for Sprint, and see if you feel the Android smartphone is worth snapping up from Sprint or not in your opinion…enjoy.

Sprint has announced a pair of Android smartphones that mean business only as the Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium are packed with more productivity and security tools rather than social networking apps.

Starting with the Motorola XPRT (pictured above), this Android 2.2-based handheld would be ideal for anyone requiring enterprise-class security and 256-bit AES data encryption. So that would include professionals in healthcare, retail, field sales and similar industries. An additional helpful security feature is that IT departments can remotely lock the device, recover the password and even wipe the data clear if the device or the included 2GB microSD card (or expandable up to 32GB) is lost and/or stolen.

The XPRT also an option for businesspeople who travel internationally often as this handheld supports both CDMA (EVDO Rev. A) and GSM/UMTS (HSPA). Additional nitty gritty details include the 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen, 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera/camcorder with dual LED flash, Adobe Flash 10 support, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi, and corporate/personal email. The XPRT also doubles as a 3G mobile hotspot that can provide connectivity for up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.

Moving on to the Motorola Titanium (pictured right), this is a rugged smartphone in case you couldn’t tell by the name. The Titanium shares quite a few of the same specs as the XPRT, including corporate/personal email support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, an included 2GB microSD card, a 5-megapixel camera/camcorder, and a full QWERTY keyboard.

However, the Titanium runs on Android 2.1 (although Sprint boasts that this device is the company’s first Nextel Direct Connect smartphone with Eclair). To make up for this, the Titanium is ready for nearly any situation with Military Specification 810G for dust, shock, vibration, low pressure, solar radiation, high temperature and low temperature.

The Motorola XPRT will be available first when it is launched on Sunday, June 5 for $129.99 with the signing of a two-year service agreement. However, Sprint won’t be announcing pricing and availability details for Motorola Titanium until “a later date.”

 

The HP Pavilion dv6t-6000 is the best of any other.

HP Pavilion dv6t-6000

The HP Pavilion dv6t is a solid improvement on HP’s previous 15-inch mainstream consumer laptop with numerous tweaks, bells, and whistles, but the wide variety of options means you’ll get wildly different systems based on what you can afford. Big midrange laptops are like standard-size cars: most of the time, they’re just not going to be very exciting. The HP Pavilion dv6t-6000 falls right into this category like a square peg into its inevitable hole; this 15.6-incher is a highly configurable model at the heart of HP’s mainstream laptop line, much like the Dell Inspiron 15R.

The Pavilion dv6t is considered a “hig- performance” laptop on HP’s Web site, but its configurations throttle more into the mainstream: a processor ranging from second-gen Core i3 up to dual-core Core i7; midrange AMD graphics options; and an optional 1080p display and Blu-ray. The highest-end elements of the dv6t are its trimmings: a built-in fingerprint reader that can launch apps and Web pages; a Beats audio-powered above/below-keyboard speaker array; USB 3.0; and an HD Webcam.

The dv6t starts at a reasonable $599 for a second-gen Core i3 CPU, Intel integrated graphics, and a 500GB hard drive; our $849 version had a 2.3GHz Core i5-2410M CPU, 1GB AMD Radeon 6490M graphics, a 640GB hard drive, and 6GB of RAM.  Though that may sound like a good package to some, this bulky laptop still lacked some high-end media laptop features at our $849 price, and it wasn’t excellent at playing games. If you’re interested in spending up to add better AMD graphics, 1080p resolution, and Blu-ray, the dv6t can become the dream machine you’re looking for, but at a higher price. Some might consider picking up the low-end config along with its more upscale bell-and-whistle trimmings, making the dv6t a more sensible buy.

As far as audio’s concerned, the Pavilion dv6t has gotten a little overhaul. The much-talked-about (mostly by HP) Beats Audio technology built into HP Envy laptops a few years ago has since spread across much of HP’s laptop line. Its inclusion in the dv6t amounts to circuitry and software (for sound amplification and equalizing), not the speaker hardware. The speakers aren’t bad; a top sound bar above the keyboard accompanies two stereo speakers situated under the laptop, toward the front and below the keyboard. There are quad speakers but no subwoofer. We pumped up movies, music, and some Beastie Boys music videos, and got output that was much better than average. However, it wasn’t what we’d call spectacular. Laptops like the Dell XPS 15 and Toshiba’s Harman Kardon-equipped Satellites had even better-sounding bass and treble clarity to our ears.

With its included six-cell battery, the Pavilion dv6t ran for 4 hours and 49 minutes using our video playback battery drain test. A hair under 5 hours for a 15.6-inch laptop is very good, but we’ve seen better out of products like the Apple MacBook Pro. For a Windows laptop in 2011, it’s better than average.

HP offers a standard one-year warranty with the Pavilion dv6t. A variety of other warranty and service options can be added point-of-sale on HP’s site, starting at $99 extra for a two-year Care Pack pick-up-and-return service to $199 extra for a three-year Care Pack House Call service with accidental damage protection. HP’s Web site and phone service are easy enough to navigate, although with all the variations in configurations, matching your specific laptop can be a bit of a challenge.