Phone Test: Motorola Dext, the first 'social phone'?

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For handset manufacturers, the huge pull that online social networking sites have on users has at least one undeniable advantage: they have a reliable way of encouraging more and more users to move over to new smartphones.

Better still, it's given Motorola a chance to get back in the game with an Android-based smartphone that's specially designed to put communications and messaging at the heart of the user experience.  The Dext, a touchscreen phone with a full slide-out keyboard has its own Motorola-designed interface that allows you to keep in constant contact with your favourite social networking services.  Is that enough to make it the first 'social phone?'  Let's take a look …

The Dext is available on Orange for £299 with pay-as-you-go, or free with certain contracts.

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