The Motorola Defy features a 5 megapixel camera as does the HTC Desire providing video recording and photo capture capabilities. The compact touch tablet handset provides onscreen virtual QWERTY keyboard along with dedicated physical keys also.

The handset offers the Android 2.1 Eclair operating system which is enhanced by the Motoblur user interface which includes impressive features including unified contacts with information automatically provided from social networking services including Facebook and MySpace, along with GMail and other email providers. The phone has an impressive full HTML web browser which also includes full Flash Lite 3 allowing it to support Flash web applications and videos for you to watch on your phone, as other handsets do, such as the HTC Desire respectively. The simple touch parameters make it easy for you to browse web pages and gain information, and Google Search is also integrated into the handset for fast searching capabilities.

The Defy has a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and an LED flash for enhancing poorly lit areas when capturing photos or recording a video clip. Multimedia captured on your foreign can the be instantly sent to friends via the integrated social networking on the handset enhanced by the Motoblur user interface also. It makes photo sharing instant through a number of popular social networking services including Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa and MySpace respectively. Meanwhile videos can also be played back on the handset with the large 3.7 inch display and video streaming capabilities are also present, similar to other handsets such as the HTC Desire.

The phone offers 2 gigabytes of internal shared memory alongside 2 gigabytes on microSD card for storage included, while it is capable of up to 32 gigabytes at any time as removable memory. The phone is also supported by 512 megabytes of random access memory enabling it to seamlessly power the Android operating system and run multiple applications at once. Other features also include impressive messaging functionality including SMS, MMS, instant messaging and email which are all available on handsets such as the HTC Desire also, while this handset provides iTap advanced predictive text input.

The Motorola Defy is a compact touch tablet handset featuring a powerful 5 megapixel camera for photo and video capture and offers a great range of phone and entertainment features. The operating system also makes it highly desirable as users may easily move over form another device to this one, knowing generally how to use it.