If you’re looking for a smartphone for both work and home use, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro and Motorola Pro Plus are two likely contenders. Let’s see how they compare.
The Motorola Pro Plus is a candybar design Android business phone that will appeal to those who like sending texts and emails.
The Pro Plus comes with a portrait set of qwerty keys on the front of the handset. It’s a system first popularised by BlackBerry and it works perfectly with the Android operating system.
The Motorola Pro Plus features the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, giving access to a wide range of Android apps.
The phone is protected by scratch proof Corning Gorilla Glass and has a capacitive touchscreen measuring 3.1 inches. There’s 4GB of built in memory, which is expandable to 32GB via a MicroSD slot.
There’s a 5 megapixel camera which can record video at DVD quality 480p. The camera also comes with an LED flash. To make sure everything runs smoothly, there’s a 1GHz processor under the bonnet.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro also comes with a physical keyboard for quick and easy texts, emails and social media updates. The ergonomically designed keyboard has smart functionality, which predicts your next action. For example, if you are reading an email you will automatically be presented with with Reply, Reply All and Forward options.
It has a very powerful camera, at 8.1 megapixels, able to capture high quality photographs and videos.
It benefits from the inclusion of a Sony Exmor R for mobile CMOS sensor which enhances images so you can even capture photos and videos in poor light conditions.
The screen is 3.7 inches and it features the Sony BRAVIA engine, improving sharpness and making colours more vivid.
Type & Send brings all of your Facebook updates, emails and text messages together and makes them available in one convenient place, which is accessible from your home screen.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro is £306 including VAT from Clove Technology, while the Motorola Pro Plus is £322.80 including VAT.
