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Motorola Quench XT5 review: 2010 budget MotoBlur.

Item: Motorola Quench XT5
Rating: 54
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Sep 2010·$150

Overall

54/100

Class rank

#1 of 1

Tier

Budget

Buy?

Look elsewhere

The verdict, up front

Motorola Quench XT5.

Quench XT5 brought MotoBlur Android to a $150 budget — Moto's 2010 entry social phone.

01Display

60/100

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

TypeTFT touch

Size3.5"

Resolution480 x 320

02Performance

50/100

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

ChipsetMSM7227

RAM256 MB

Storage150 MB + microSD

03Camera

56/100

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

Main3 MP

04Battery

70/100

70/100 — right at the average for budget phones of 2010.

Capacity1,420 mAh (removable)

05Software

60/100

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

What works

3.5" touch at $150.
MotoBlur social.
4G ready hardware.
Removable battery.

What doesn't

MSM7227 weak.
256 MB RAM.
3 MP cam.
MotoBlur bloat.

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? .