get the defy, leave the plus By Junkie on 22 Nov, 2011
I haven't bought this product,but i do own the defy (without the plus)nnso what are the major differences between the defy and the defy plus ?nn1. the defy plus certainly has a bigger battery and it is slightly heavier...1700 mAh beats 1540 mAhnn2. n... the defy plus processor TI OAMP 3620nthe defy processor TI OAMP 3610nboth these processor are practically the same(check that on wiki)n3610 is an underclocked version of the same processor...nwhen defy was launched last year, motorola was probably hoping to avoid defy vs 'other high end moto phones' competition...nit was meant to be in a different price range, different segment....nnno worries, the defy can be overclocked, quite safelyni am running mine at 1.5 gHz... way better than defy nnn3. the rom ram etc are exactly identical to defy (if you dont believe, check gsm arena and other phone database websites)nn4. the operating system... some ppl might tell you to go for plus because it has 2.3 whereas defy has 2.2nwell this is not a problem anymore, the defy can be rooted(if you don't know what that is , google it) and it can run custom ROMS/OSs i.e. different android versions....n(NOTE: Rooting voids you warranty,but no worry defy can be unrooted and the stock/default rom can be reinstalled, unlike htc samsung etc)ni am running cyanogen Mod 7 (CM7) it is a custom verion of android 2.3.7 gingerbread (better than the plus's 2.3.3)nwhats even better, in a 2-3 months i will be running CM9 which is android 4.0 ice cream sandwich (android 3.x range is for tablets only)nbut the minor problem is that plus is just released, so these custom rom developers have to buy it, and work on it, and by the time you guys get the next custom android version it will be nearly a year or more... which i assure you will be much earlier than motorola's official update release...nnDEFY users : dont be afraid to go rooting,if you knew the power of a 1.5 ghz gingerbread defy, you'd not even think once...nway way faster than defy and the defy plusnn5. apart from the above the above theres absolutely no difference between the two except the 4k price diff...(oh yeah ! i got my defy in bangalore for just 14k)nnnone imp warning to both defy and the PLUS users... your phone is not all that scratch proof.... sure it can handle everyday casual rough use... but don't try testing it or showing off... its not the same everytime...ni did show off initially, didnt have any problems there... but 1 day i accidentally dropped it in a rocky stream of fast flowing water... luckily not fast enough, my phone wasn't swept away, landed on some rocks... knee deep murky water, search took about half an hour.... the phone survived without any damage,but i did get a few scratches on the screen...nmoral of the story: perfectly water proof, awesome shock resistance ( must have dropped it a million times apart from that once), scratch resistance way better than any other phones in any price range, but not perfect...nnnI say Go For the DEFYnIf you're too scared to play/experiment with your phone , only then go defy plus...
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