After the announcement of the Motorola ROKR E7, the telecommunications company also revealed pictures of their new Motorola ROKR E8. It is part of the ROKR series and under the model E8 but brings its own unique design which makes it stand out of the crowd.

When looked by the side it resembles the Q9h by the slim profile but the front side is something totally new thanks to the strange keyboard. Instead of actual keys it has just “buds” over the flat surface and the characters must be illuminated to show. The even stranger fact is shown in the dark images – in standby mode there are the standard navigation keys and the numeric buttons but when the multimedia player is opened they hide and music-dedicated shortcuts are illuminated to attract the attention.

Although there is not much information on the E8, it seems the new Motorola phone will use Linux-Java OS (as the RAZR2 V8) optimized for the QVGA landscape display. The internal memory is 2GB (expandable via microSD card), the camera is 2-megapixels and it most probably supports Stereo Bluetooth. E8 has 3.5mm jack for stereo headphones and microUSB for charging and synchronization which in other Moto phones is also used for connecting the headphones.

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Check out this new Motorola ROKR E7 equipped with a 2.8-inch touch-screen with VGA resolution, according to the TFT technology, which can show up to 16 million colours. Communicator supports Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, GPS, EDGE, WLAN, USB-host.

The communicator also has 5.0- mega pixel camera with CCD matrix of Kodak, an active motor, makrosemkoy, xenon flash, FM radio with RDS and a slot for memory cards format SD / SDHC. It runs on Linux Operating System.

General
Model : 2008
GSM 850/900/1800/1900, 850/1900/2100 UMTS, HSDPA
TFT display (VGA) with the support of 16 million colors, has a 640×480 pixels
The weight of 112 g.
Dimensions 101 x 47 x 14 mm
Colours : Black Chrome
Body material : extra light and air coated Aluminium

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The Motorola Z6tv has already been mentioned back in May, and to this day there aren’t many exact specifications on the cellphone. Besides the usual MicroSD card slot, a 2 megapixel camera, and bluetooth, much of the rest is unknown.

The updated “news” are related to fresh images of the Motorola Z6tv, the sliding feature is still there but more details on its rounded shapes can be seen on the gallery at PhoneArena.

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Boost Mobile has made it official. This mobile company is now serious with their new, slim, and stylish candybar - the Motorola i425t handset for the Boost Mobile iDEN network. The phone however exchanged a lot of features to accomodate that cool design and the legendary PTT functionality. For starters, it doesn’t have a camera and bluetooth connectivity.

But there is an integrated GPS and instant messaging packaged into one of the best iDEN phones seen to date. Well, wwe do have to admit that the titanium gray/black slate color combo just oozes sexiness.

Pick up your own Motorola i425t for the Boost Mobile network next month - for $59.99 (which includes a $5 call credit).

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Verizon announced the exclusive availability of the new Moto Q music 9m mobile phone from Motorola, featuring an updated design and multimedia interface that lets consumers access Verizon’s V CAST Music capabilities. For the business user, it is still the trusty old Motorola Q. Available in a sleek, black-and-red-combo body, the Moto Q music 9m has an ergonomically optimized keyboard for faster typing and side-scroll thumbwheel for operating the menus in one hand (great for all those that use your phone while driving - which doesn’t change the fact that it is downright foolish)

Boasting Windows Mobile 6 as the operating system, the Moto Q music 9m offers Bluetooth for, as Verizon puts it, certain profiles. It supports EV-DO for high speed data, a web browser, 1.3 megapixel camera with integrated flash and it can take in up to 4GB capacity microSD memory cards.

The device offers a 2.5mm headset jack, and Motorola claims a talktime of 215 minutes, with 310 hours standby. Available online through Verizon, the Moto Q music 9m carries a price tag of US $299.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year service agreement. A 2GB microsd memory card will be included in the package. Sweeten it up with a 4GB card for an additional $149.99, and a stereo headset for US $49.99.

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Check out this new phone from Motorola. This is the MOTO PHS PG2000 Phone which features a transparent flip cover that hides a 2.2 inch QVGA 260k color touchscreen. As the name suggest, it supports PHS in addition to triband GSM.

Furthermore, the PG2000 also features a 2 mega pixel camera with flash and is available in red or black. Very ugly and very thick but filled with features that would really be an asset in today’s fast-pace generation.

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USA’s largest leading wireless company, Verizon Wireless, and Motorola Inc. announced today the arrival of the MOTORAZR(2) V9m. The sleek multimedia phone will be available to Verizon Wireless customers in September. This new unit offers a combination of style and first class features that is only available from Verizon.

The phone sports an external touch-sensitive keys that allows quick access to music, built-in 2.0 megapixel camera with 4x zoom and picture, speech recognition, video, text and instant messaging. The phone is also equipped with Bluetooth(R) stereo support for listening to music.

Customers can enjoy over-the-air full-track music downloads from V CAST Music, Verizon Wireless‘ exclusive catalog of over two million songs. With these set of features, the V9m is definitely perfect for customers seeking a sleek, music-centric multimedia mobile phone.

MOTORAZR(2) V9m will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, including those in Circuit City, and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $299.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement.

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Motorola has a new website for your on-the-road travels. The Motorola Road Trips site allows you to get more out of your Motorola mobile phones. The site provides an interactive map of road trip destinations and the ability to comment on specific places.

Some of the Moto phones you can use on this website include MOTOKRZR K1m, MOTOKRZR K1 and the Moto Q. You can do things like creating a trip itinerary using MOTOQ’s Microsoft Office CAlendar, Contacts and Outlook, and program your phone with handy numbers for hotels, car rentals and restaurants. Umm, wait, haven’t we been doing that already?

Anyway, the site offers tips on combining the features on your phone to plan and stick to your itinerary. It also provides you a list of compatible accessories you may want to have for your trip.

Moto Road Trips

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Sure, Motorola may be taking a beating from the likes of Samsung and LG when it comes to mobile sales, but that doesn’t stop the big M from dropping news about its new MOTOMAGX Mobile Linux Platform. Calling it a significant step in its commitment to the mobile Linux platform, the MOTOMAGX is slated to be a next-gen platform that delivers a new level of openness and more importantly, support for 3rd party applications. Having sold more than 9 million Linux-based handsets, you have to admit they’ve been there and done that before.

Motorola even seeks to up its Linux-based handset portfolio to around 60% in the next few years - which is a big commitment indeed. The first products based on the platform include the now-available MOTOROKR Z6 and the RAZR2 V8 handsets. The MOTOMAGX platform will support content created by 3rd party developers - including applications developed in J2ME and, in upcoming releases, native Linux applications. Nokia/Symbian has taken a step forward in this direction with the introduction of the Open C SDK that allows easy porting of POSIX applications onto the Symbian platform, so it’ll be good to see what Moto has up its sleeve.

If you are a developer waiting to get your hands dirty with Java ME development, get the MOTODEV Studio for Java ME form http://www.motorola.com/developer. At the end of Q4 2007, you will also get Linux and WebUI plugins for the Studio.

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Motorola is poised to redefine its stand on mobile phone “greatness” again. The MOTORAZR2 V8 brings the revolutionary RAZR form to a new level of sophistication. It takes the impossibly sleek RAZR profile and makes it even slimmer. It packs a powerhouse of features into a strong stainless steel structure. All told, the phone that has forever captivated is now about to mesmerize.

The unmistakable RAZR profile is now even sharper, with stunning finishes in metal and glass. It’s also unbelievably slimmer, which makes the incredible amount of music, pictures and video that fit inside even more amazing.

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Ever wondered how many units Nokia has sold? Well, today, Nokia confirmed that it has sold over 100 million cellphones this spring, solidifying its dominance of the global cellphone business. The results for this year is significantly higher than the result of last year by 29 percent. This growth was attributed to its dominance in smartphone sales. Over 9 million N-series and 2 million E-series were sold. Their front line phone is the Nokia N95 smartphone.

This result placed Nokia ahead of Samsung, Motorola, Sony-Ericsson and LG. Apple on the other hand, with its iPhone, needs to catch up with this mobile phone giants. Apple chief Steve Jobs projected that the company will sell about 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, or about 1 percent of the market as it was in 2006.

But experts predict that Apple will play a major role in the market with their iPhone. “The iPhone is likely to have a disproportionately large impact on the industry,” IDC mobile director Shiv Bakhshi said. “It could forever alter the structural relationship between device vendors and mobile operators who have traditionally controlled the mobile environment, especially in the US.”

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Woof! Woof! The Motorola KRZR K1 product (RED) version has finally been picked up by Fido, and is now available in Canada at both Fido and Rogers Wireless. Fido’s KRZR K1 doesn’t have anything that any of the other carriers worldwide don’t already have, so really it’s just a matter of choosing what carrier you want to use the phone with.

You can pick up your very own KRZR K1 Red phone at Fido for $150 with a three-year contract (yikes! 3 years?), or $350 without a contract. Pick it up at Fido stores nationwide in Canada, or online at Fido.ca.

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The folks over at Phonescoop got tipped off about a new Motorola PEBL-style clamshell phone for music, in the ROKR lineup of music phones. Called the ROKR U9, it is much on the lines of the Z6, featuring an external display with music controls.

The phone offers a mini-USB interface for headphones (are we making non-standard headphone interface again?!), so you can leave your collection of spunky headphones in your drawer.

No more details are available at this time, including when it will hit the streets or what it will be retailing at.

Via Phonescoop

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According to rumor rounds currently doing the net, Motorola’s new Z9 slider will have a 2 megapixel camera and boast 3G functionality. Along with Motorola Synergy DC, it will provide a microSD memory card slot for expanding on the available memory.

More details are not available at this point, however, check back with us soon.

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We first reported the Motorola W385 a few months ago when it popped up during CTIA, but the current news is that the cellphone is finally available for purchase at Verizon.

The clamshell type of phone is on the budget phone category, only costing $70. For the cheap price, the result is normal features, more specifically: a TFT display that measures 1.8-inches and offers a 128×160 resolution with 65k colors. It features the normal functions of SMS, MMS and EMS, plus it has a 0.3 megapixels VGA Resolution camera for the photos.

In the battery life department, it can hold 4.15 hours in talking-mode, or 450 in stand-by.

via PhoneArena

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It is a happy day for Motorola and Microsoft Office fans, the announcement made today says that QuickOffice which is the smaller version of the normal Office suppose to be used in mobile phones and alike gadgets, is now available to work in coordination with the newest Symbian operative system that can be seen on the MOTORIZR Z8 cellphone.

This latest version of QuickOffice to the Motorola phone has some pretty good features, but the one with most impact is that all the Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents can be seen in the original format - with the original fonts, layout, colors, lists, headers, footers, etc.

The software is available online at quickoffice.com and has a first price of $20, later on it will probably cost more.

Paul Moreton, VP Product Management of Quickoffice:

We believe the demand to access important office content extends beyond core business users to anyone who has an email account and / or accesses the web via their smartphone.

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Motorola has revealed more photos and details of the upcoming Q900 cellphone, also known as Zante, which is actually the name of a Greek island. The Zante name is good for a cellphone because it doesn’t have an actual meaning, it is like what Microsoft did to the their player called Zune.

Anyhow, the good looking Motorola cellphone features the classic sliding keyboard which gives it plenty of style. The keyboard itself seems to be big enough so you don’t press other keys by accident, it has 5 rows and the mighty QWERTY style. The screen is on the QVGA TFT category with the usual 65 thousand colors and measuring 2.4-inches.

On the technical specifications it has: 128MB of internal RAM memory; support of different audio files such as MP3, WAV, MIDI, AAC, ACC+, and WMA.2.5mm; game controllers; and Java. The connectivity options are bluetooth, or for the internet related tasks ? EDGE. And if storage capacity is one of your needs, there is one expansion slot to increase the memory to 2GB, thanks to a miniSD card.

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The MOTORAZR2 V9 (or MOTORAZR² V9 as Motorola would like us to call it), a 3G phone for AT&T customers, got the green signal from the FCC, allowing it to enter the US markets. The RAZR2 V9 is equipped with a 2 megapixel camera and support for microSD memory cards.

Thanks to the 3G support, you can experience broadband-like speeds on your cell phone. Available in a flip-design, it supports themes for personalization. Thanks to AT&T Music portfolio, customers can get an integrated on-the-go music experience on the MOTORAZR2 V9. You can download ringtones, Answer Tones and even watch the latest music videos.

The bundled music player can play MP3 and AAC files. Bluetooth is available as well - with support for A2DP (advanced audio distribution profile).

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With almost all the cellphone lovers dedicating their attention to the new iPhone, it is obvious that other companies must do something in order to get some attention as well. And that is why Motorola decided to announce that their new bomb ? MOTO Z8 ? is available to purchase (on Spain) at the same day the iPhone was launched.

The new kick-slider cellphone is a ?Media Monster?, at least that is what Motorola likes to call it and they have a reason for that - it comes with a full-length film named ?The Bourne Identity? made by Universal Studios. Besides this small media detail, there are other factors that make the media word stand out: mobile TV, video + music available thanks to Telefonica and Movistar, and content delivered from CNN among others.

On the technical specifications, the Z8 offers the opportunity to use MicroSD memory cards with the current capacity of 4GB, and it can be expanded do 32GB when the new cards become available in the near future. There is also 80MB of internal memory, and an 8x zoom camera that features 2.0 megapixels. As for the internet connection, it uses HSDPA.

For now the MOTO Z8 is only available in Spain, but it will become accessible in other parts of the world.

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Motorola today extended its leadership in the Mobile Office with the announcement of Good Mobile Messaging 5 that helps make mobile email more personalized and productive. Features include Mobile RSS, Customizable Email Management, Advanced Security and much much more. The new release will incorporate all of the handheld security capabilities previously available separately though the company’s Good Mobile Defense product. Get Things Done More Easily. Mobile professionals receive so much email that it’s often difficult to find the information they’re looking for on their smartphone and complete tasks from start to finish. Good 5 has innovative email and PIM capabilties so mobile users can easily find what they want.

Group and find by conversation and sender: sorts and groups emails by
conversation thread and/or sender.

Complete calendaring: helps invite participants to a meeting, provide
real-time visibility into their free/busy status.

Edit and send documents: securely accesses corporate intranets using Good
Mobile Intranet; enables downloads of Microsoft Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF documents directly to the smartphon.

Dial without password: dials a contact from a password-protected phone.

Third-party access to contacts: option to provide third-party
applications, such as voice dialing and SMS, with access to Good
contacts, helping to enhance device usability.

Good 5 is expected to be available in September through cellular operators worldwide, certified value-added resellers, and directly through Motorola Good Technology Group.

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