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MOTOROLA is aiming to be Android top dog and to achieve that takes not only awesome high-end smart phones like the Atrixes, but also phones that take potential buyers’ wallets into consideration. This resulted in the MOTOROLA QUENCH XT5, a phone that takes on the LG Optimus One P500 and the Samsung Galaxy 3. We clearly liked both of the aforementioned devices, so the XT5 has quite the task ahead of it. The MOTOROLA QUENCH XT5 is powered by a Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, which is clocked at 600MHz, and comes with stock Android 2.1 Eclair. Eclair’s a bit of a bummer, not by itself, but simply because the Optimus One ships with FroYo out of the box, and even the perennially slow Samsung have announced a FroYo update for the Galaxy 3. Motorola on the other hand, are being rather defiant about updating their phones, and there’s no news on if/when the XT will get an OS update. One might expect the 600MHz processor to cause a performance bottleneck, but contrary to expectations, the UNLOCKED MOTOROLA QUENCH XT5 performs admirably.