Singtel brings the Motorola Dext to Singapore

Singtel is bringing the Motorola Dext to Singapore. The Motorola Dext is the GSM version of the Motorola CLIQ. Don’t confuse this with the Motorola Droid/Milestone. They are 2 different phone. I would say the Dext is more like a mid-range Android phone. Like the CLIQ, the Dext is running Android 1.5. The Motorola Dext will be exclusive to Singtel in Singapore.

I got the review unit since last week from Singtel but was on embargo until now. Managed to try the social media widgets by Motorola which they call the MOTOBLUR. The social media widgets are pretty nifty, although personally I wish they could add more functions so that I don’t need to download another Twitter/Facebook apps from the Android marketplace. Been updating some of my twitter/facebook status using the widgets. There are other interesting services on the MOTOBLUR platform, I’ll talk more about them on my full review.

I think @GrowlyBear is the only person who notice that some of my tweet updates are from MOTOBLUR.

The keyboard is quite comfortable to type with, although I wish the SPACEBAR could be bigger. There aren’t many Android phones with physical keyboard out there, so this is a good addition to the Android eco-system.

The Motorola Dext is available from 23 Jan 2010 (Saturday) at S$0 – S$248 (on any 3G Flexi Plans) or S$0 – S$348 (on SingTel’s free incoming call plans). SingTel will offer a newly created value-added service, mSocial, priced at S$5.35 per month for consumers to enjoy unlimited local mobile data using the MOTOBLUR platform. These include photo uploads, postings received and status updates on popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter within the MOTOBLUR service platform. mSocial includes 100MB of local data for all other internet surfing and email access. Personally, I think the 100mb is not enough. I can finish it within a day. Excess usage beyond 100MB is capped at S$30 per month.