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Motorola A455 (Rush 2) for Verizon press pics surface. Interesting QWERTY slider
Author: +866.com6 Mar
Mobile-review continue their raids on some secret vault with press pics of upcoming Motorola phone models.
This time it’s turn for Motorola A455 (Rush2) QWERTY slider that is headed for Verizon network.
As usual, not much info on the actual specs of Motorola Rush 2 A455. But available press pics show an interesting device, which, with current popularity of messaging phones, can actually do quite well.
If it is released within reasonable timeframe, not in 2010.
From the available pictures we can see that Motorola Rush 2 A455 will be a CDMA/EV-DO phone with navigation services, Bluetooth and built-in camera of some sort. The dialer app also indicates that MOTO Rush 2 will have a touchscreen.
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More Motorola Ruby VE1 and ZN300 pictures – how about something official?
Author: +866.com26 Feb
Motorola Ruby VE1 and Motorola ZN300 are two phones that have not been officially announced by Moto, and yet they appeared several times on the Web, in various leaked shots.
Now, even more pictures with the handsets have popped up, which could mean Motorola will finally announce them in the near future.
Of course, the VE1 (aka RAZR3) may not be announced at all, since it’s apparently cancelled, but the ZN300 is almost surely going to be released, sooner or later.
The new Ruby VE1 pictures show it closed, flaunting its large external display (that’s probably touch-sensitive) and its 5MP camera.
The ZN300 music oriented slider appears closed as well:
Both handsets look really good, so let’s hope that at least the ZN300 gets to hit the market.
Via Mobile-review
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Motorola i465 press photo leaked
Author: +866.com26 Feb
Remember that Motorola i465 iDEN phone, which showed off its full QWERTY keyboard in a blurry picture about a month ago?
Well, it turns out that Moto has revamped it and probably wants to officially release it any time soon.
The i465 didn’t look too attractive last time we saw it, but now we have a press photo of it – and I must say the handset is really interesting, having a fairly nice design for an iDEN device.
Feature-wise, the phone is said to have Bluetooth 2.0, a photo camera (VGA, apparently) and Web browser (with a dedicated key). Plus, of course, Push to Talk capabilities.
No word yet on when Motorola will actually launch the i465, but this should happen via Sprint Nextel in the US.
Via Mobile-review
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Motorola high-res touchscreen phone to come soon?
Author: +866.com23 Feb
For unknown reasons, Motorola hasn’t released any touchscreen phones with a display resolution larger than QVGA.
Even the 2.8 inch display of the brand new MotoSurf A3100 comes with only 240 x 320 pixels. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but you can’t say more pixels aren’t cool.
Fortunately, it looks like Moto’s first high-resolution touchscreen phone is in the making, and we might see it soon in an official announcement.
Some images with said phone have appeared over at Engadget, and, if they indeed represent a real device, then Motorola could have a winner on this one.
The handset’s rumored specs include a 5MP autofocus camera with Kodak lens and Xenon flash, TV-out and (obviously) a large touchscreen.
Now let’s wait for further details to emerge, while hoping that the device is not just a photoshop-made one.
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Motorola Ruby VE1 RAZR3 appears in press shots. Back from the dead?
Author: +866.com23 Feb
Last time we heard about Motorola Ruby (or RAZR3), the phone was said to be cancelled.
Now we’ve got some press shots with it, and we also know that its official name is (or it should have been) Motorola VE1.
Moto Ruby VE1 was rumored to run on Symbian UIQ 3, and the interface we can see in these new pics surely looks like it’s a UIQ one.
The thing is that, with the establishment of Nokia’s Symbian Foundation, UIQ is no longer under development, this being one of the reasons why Motorola cancelled the RAZR3 in the first place.
So what’s the deal with these Ruby VE1 press photos? Could it be that the phone will be launched after all? Or perhaps Motorola wants to keep Ruby’s hardware and try to put an OS developed by the Symbian Foundation on it?
Well, if it will do it, you should know that Ruby has a 5 Megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity – which, obviously, are nice features for a clamshell.
Anyway, until something official about this comes out, the phone remains as it was – cancelled.
Via Mobile-review
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Moto Shows its Green Side with Renew
Author: +866.com13 Jan
One of the underlying themes that kept popping up at CES 2009 was environmental technology. What was each company doing to help the environment? Motorola was no exception, showing off a rather large display featuring the Renew, a simple candybar made entirely of recycled products.
The Renew is expected to hit T-Mobile stores sometime this quarter, presumably next month. From what I could see, the Renew is a basic phone without too much pomp and circumstance. The OS is reminiscent of what we would see on Motorolas about 3 years ago, but the point of this phone wasn’t to be state of the art; rather, the point was to make a statement that we can have a green lifestyle even with our phones.
Personally, this is a great beginning for the Green Phone movement. Let’s make sure that the trend continues and will work into getting better and better specs. We applaud Motorola’s effort, and hope it’s successful enough to translate into green smartphones in the next couple years.
I asked the Motorola representative how robust a recycled phone could be, and he was quite confident in its ability to hold itself together well over the two years of the contract.
Here, have some pictures to look at. Pretty nice fit in the hands, but it was difficult finding nice things to say when the previous phone I had handled was the $2,000 Aura.
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Official pics of Motorola EM326g and the MOTOROKR S7-HD Bluetooth headset emerge
Author: +866.com13 Jan
Totally unrelated to the unnamed CDMA Motorola clamshell that was just approved by the FCC, we’ve got word about two other unannounced Moto products: Motorola EM326g and MOTOROKR S7-HD.
Motorola EM326g is a slider phone that looks almost similar to the EM25, a handset which was announced back in the summer of 2008.
There are only few details about the features of EM326g (we can see a 1.3MP camera), but it’s highly probable that they’re like the ones of EM25: stereo Bluetooth, dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm headset jack, microSD card support and so on.
MOTOROKR S7-HD is not a phone, but a Bluetooth headset, and that’s all we know about it.
Motorola might announce the two products at the same time (since they’re both music-oriented), but we can’t say when exactly this will happen.
Via Mobile-review
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Motorola might say goodbye to Windows Mobile and 50% of its handset division
Author: +866.com12 Jan
Motorola’s long affair with Windows Mobile could be ended this year, and that’s because of Google’s Android platform.
According to PhoneScoop, Moto intends to release fewer handsets per year from now on, and none of them will run on Windows Mobile. Instead, the future Motorola smartphones will be based on Android.
This means that MOTOSURF A3100 is, most probably, the company’s last device to come with Microsoft’s mobile OS. And I’m not sure if this is good or bad news.
What’s certainly bad news is that, besides planning to ditch Windows Mobile, Motorola also intends to layoff about 50% of the employees from its handset division – meaning thousands of people.
The first series of layoffs could begin this week. Only the handset division will be affected, so it’s once again clear that this is Moto’s weakest branch.
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Motorola W165, another low-end Moto phone
Author: +866.com7 Jan
There will always be customers who want cheap, basic mobile phones, thus there must always be manufacturers to produce them.
Motorola isn’t ashamed of being one of these manufacturers (why would it?), and the new Motorola W165 phone comes to say I’m right.
The handset is a candybar that will probably be targeted to emerging markets. Even so, the US might get it too, since it’s Motorola’s home country.
Design-wise, the W165 is as simple as it gets, looking like a phone from circa 2004. Here it is:
The known specs and features of Motorola W165 include:
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Dual band GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 or 850 / 1900 MHz)
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1.44 inch CSTN display with 65K colors and 128 x 128 pixels
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A 2.5mm headset jack
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A 780 mAh battery of unknown performance
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108 x 46 x 12.5 millimeters
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77 grams
No details yet about the release date of W165 or about its retail price.
Via Mobile-review
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Motorola Renew
Author: +866.com3 Jan
Minor details regarding Motorola’s upcoming “Renew” phone have surfaced. The phone tries to show that Motorola is going green, as it uses sustainable materials in its design and packaging, and the phone itself is pictured with a green and white body. Aside from that, there isn’t much more information regarding the MOTO W233 Renew, but we’re certain that you aren’t going to lose any sleep waiting for the additional information.