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Motorola Photon 4G MB855

Announced: June 2011.OS: Android 2.3 Gingerbread → 4.1 Jelly Bean. VDRD-summary: It is better not to buy!
Starting price of $270. Starting price of: 16 708 ₽. Starting price of: 9 963 ₴.
Status: Archived.
  • Screen 4.3" TFT
  • Rear сamera 8 MP
  • Selfie camera 0.3 MP
  • CPU 2 cores Nvidia Tegra 2 AP20H
  • Memory 1 GB RAM
  • Storage 16 GB ROM
  • Memory cards up to 32 GB microSD
  • Battery 1 700 mAh
  • Thickness 12.2 mm
  • Sim Cards 1 items
All characteristics

Short description Motorola Photon 4G MB855

This is a smartphone on Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a not very fast processor, with a handy touchscreen size, with  the usual main camera for photos and video, and the front camera here turned out to be absolutely ordinary.

Also known as: Motorola ELECTRIFY.

Disclaimer. The table shows the main technical characteristics of the device. For a full list of features and capabilities of this model, see the manufacturer’s website. We can not guarantee that the information on this page is 100% correct.

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Important update: this model is updated to Android version 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Check the availability of the update version in your region on the manufacturer’s website.

Android version and market relevance

The long-awaited announcement of a new smartphone from the manufacturer Motorola, which took place in June 2011 (in our catalog you can see all smarphones of 2011). This is a new model Motorola Photon 4G MB855 — smartphone works on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which can be updated to version 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Motorola Photon 4G MB855 does not support two SIM cards, but if it′s important and necessary for you, we advise you to look in the directory smartphones with 2 sim cards. On this page, you can definitely pick up a good current model, which will suit you perfectly.

Screen, body and battery

4.3 Inch TFT touchscreen occupies almost the entire area of the front panel of the smartphone Motorola Photon 4G MB855. Case thickness 12.2 mm puts the battery in it in capacity 1 700 mAh. As a result, these three important characteristics give us such an idea of the device — medium-sized smartphone with very thick case and weak battery.

Main camera and selfie camera

In front of the screen there is a selfie-camera on the 0.3 MP. Among all the cameras, this we attributed to the segment weak cameras. The main camera got 8 MP, located on the back of the body. We defined it in the segment very weak cameras at the moment. If you have a little more money, then we suggest adding and buying one of the camera phones, which we sorted separately in our catalog.

Processor and Internal Memory

A smartphone that always works fast, smoothly and does not overheat is a smartphone-dream! You can see how fast our Motorola Photon 4G MB855 works in video reviews, and now let′s talk briefly about the characteristics of the processor and memory. This model received 2-core processor on the chipset Nvidia Tegra 2 AP20H. The amount of RAM is 1 GB.

The built-in memory on which you will store photos, videos, music and all your data, has a volume of 16 GB. In addition, the smartphone supports memory cards microSD up to 32 GB.

Price for Motorola Photon 4G MB855: buy or not to buy?

The smartphone Motorola Photon 4G MB855 got into our price segment “Below average smartphones from $200 to $300” and began to be sold in August 2011 at a price of $270. Evaluation of the characteristics, probably, you have already folded, and if not, here is our result. Motorola Photon 4G MB855 is not a very fast smartphone with a convenient screen size and a conventional main camera, and the front camera did not turn out super cool. And to all this we add that the battery, unfortunately, is weak here.

Is it worth buying now this model of the smartphone, we are talking about our status “Droid-or-Junk”. Of course, at the beginning of sales, almost every smartphone becomes a Droid, and we advise buying such models. But over time, the situation is changing, no one updates the Android version in the smartphone, and in six months or a year this smartphone can already become a Junk. In this case, we advise you to go to the DROID smartphones page in our catalog, where we always show the most current models on sale for today. There are variants from different price segments, so you will have plenty to choose from.

We picked up these models at a similar price.

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