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Motorola Charm review: 2010 landscape QWERTY.

Item: Motorola Charm
Rating: 52
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Aug 2010·$100

Overall

52/100

Class rank

#1 of 1

Tier

Budget

Buy?

Look elsewhere

The verdict, up front

Motorola Charm.

Charm had a landscape QWERTY below its touchscreen — Moto's 2010 T-Mobile Sidekick-style oddity.

01Display

56/100

56/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2010.

TypeTFT touch

Size2.8"

Resolution320 x 240

02Performance

50/100

50/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2010.

ChipsetMSM7227

RAM256 MB

Storage512 MB + microSD

03Camera

56/100

56/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2010.

Main3 MP

04Battery

64/100

64/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2010.

Capacity1,170 mAh (removable)

05Software

60/100

60/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2010.

What works

Landscape QWERTY below screen.
Backtrack touchpad.
107 g.
$100 T-Mobile.

What doesn't

MSM7227 weak.
256 MB RAM.
QVGA display.
MotoBlur slow.

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 1-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .