Motorola ROKR8 Coming to T-Mobile Soon

Although the Motorola ROKR 8 has been available internationally, it is only now that it will be finally coming to the US market, courtesy of T-Mobile. This black candybar offer a lot of decent goodies that just might convince you take on a T-Mobile subscription plan. It’s major features include a 2-megapixel camera, a whooping 2GB of internal storage plus a microSD slot that can store up to 8GB, a stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack, FM radio, and a morping keypad. For those looking for 3G connectivity, sadly the Motorola ROKR8 doesn’t come with the said feature. Other features of the Motorola ROKR8 include; a music player with external controls, video capture/playback, MegaTones, wallpaper, HiFi Ringers, Games, support for T-Mobile’s myFaves service, picture messaging, easy text input, voice-activated functions, alarm clock, calculator, calendar, T-Mobile Address Book. The Motorola ROKR8 gives out up to 7.5 hours of talk time and 12.5 hours of standby time. It works on 850 MHZ, 900 MHZ, 1800 MHz, and 1900 MHz frequency band. This baby will be available for $199.99 with service contract on July 7.

Introducing the MOTOZINE ZN5, by Motorola

Rumors about Motorola coming out with a new camera phone started circulating a couple of weeks ago. What made that rumor special was the fact that the camera phone that was mentioned, which was called the ZN5 back then, will have a KODAK’s imaging technology for its camera. But of course, like all mobile rumors, we wouldn’t report about it, until it gets officially announced by the manufacturers. Fortunately, it didn’t take Motorola that long to announce its new camera phone - the MOTOZINE ZN5. And just like the rumor said, the MOTOZINE ZN5 is indeed equipped with a Kodak camera, a 5-megapixel Kodak CCD. With combining KODAK imaging technology and Motorola ModeShift technology, the ZINE ZN5 has become one sleek, immersive mobile device. The ZINE ZN5’s Kodak camera is also equipped with auto-focus function and a Xenon flash and some nifty optimized settings for using the camera in a low-light environment. And since we are talking here about a Kodak camera, it goes without saying that the ZINE ZN5 would have a tie-up with Kodak’s popular online photo gallery, Kodak’s EasyShare software for managing photos on a PC,as well as Bluetooth connectivity to Kodak’s all-in-one printers and Kodak kiosks. The ZINE ZN5’s mobile features is not be neglected as well. The ZN5 features Motorola’s patented CrystalTalk technology to help callers hear and be heard, even in noisy environments. With dual compatibility for GSM and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), users can connect in more areas around the world and enjoy high-speed wireless connections to surf the Web via a full HTML browser. Completing users’ communications experience, the ZN5 also supports SMS, MMS, IM and personal e-mail. The ZN Z5 gives out up to 349 to 574 minutes of talk time and up to 310 to 579 hours of standby time. The ZN5’s other features include; 2.4″ TFT Display, full HTML open source browser, 3.5mm A/V jack, FM radio, MP3, WMA, WIFI, Windows Media Player 11, Video-C/P 15fps, MPEG4, H263, and TVout.

The Week in Mobile Phone Leaks

This week in the mobile phone scene we’ve encountered several high-profile leaks and rumors about soon-to-be released mobile phones. Either the manufacturers intentionally or unintentionally leak these photos is their prerogative and we as mobile phone consumers and bystanders could only welcome these as part of our daily lives.
Anyway, we’ve gathered some of these mobile phone leaks and what-have-yous for our weekly feature here in cellphonews.

Take a gander at some of this week’s rumoured incoming phones. Some may come out soon while some later. Incidentally for the Sony Ericsson phones that we featured here, it’s more likely to come out in the next couple of days as Sony Ericsson is up for some press announcements on the 17th.

Sony Ericsson F305
This new mobile beauty from Sony Ericsson is the cell phone maker’s first motion gaming-enabled cell phone so to speak. As a gaming mobile phone, the F305 definitely features some cool gaming features and some pre-loaded games such as bowling, bass fishing and jockey. Aside from its gaming features, the F305 is also a music player with support for various music formats. It’s got a 2-inch large TFT display with 176×220 pixel resolution (262,114). Since, the F305 is not the best of all mobile phones in terms of features and functionality, we expect this to be priced in the mid-range level.

Sony Ericsson S302
The S302 is the first of Sony Ericsson’s new Snapshot series of mobile phones. This mobile phone is said to be a dirt cheap camera enabled quad band GSM phone with support for EDGE. Being a Snapshot mobile phone, we expect that S302 to have a powerful camera. Unfortunately it could only muster a 2.0 megapixel camera with fixed focus. But it does have photo light and features PhotoFix. The S302 also features a video recording function although we don’t promise that the quality will be that great.

Sony Ericsson C905
Among the phones to be announced by Sony Ericsson on the 17th, we are most excited about the C905. Not so much because of its mobile phone features but more so because of its camera features. The C905 was said to have a whooping 5 megapixel camera. In camera phone standards, 5 megapixels is definitely big and already measures up with the entry-level point-and-shoot cameras. Hopefully, the image quality of the C905 will not suffer in favour of a higher resolution.

Sony Ericsson Alicia
Little is known about this new phone except for a video that leaked out on the internet a couple of days ago. From what we can deduce from the video, the Sony Ericsson Alicia has two screens in front. And features a widget for weather monitoring of some sort. But from the looks of it, the Sony Ericsson Alicia would seem to be a very special SE phone, being in the SE Walkman series. We certainly hope so.

Nokia E66 and E71
This new Nokia phone was not accidentally leak out. It was officially demoed in the Nokia website recently confirming that it is definitely slated for release some time this year. Unfortunately after the links were leaked out, Nokia quickly removed the demo from their site. So, we are left with second guessing the being in Nokia E-Series phones, these two mobile phones would have that much multimedia features since the E-Series is geared for mobile professionals. Expect faster data connectivity and mobile connectivity to be good at best though.

Nokia N78
The Nokia N78 is not really a “rumoured phone” since it already got the FCC approval not so long ago. But Nokia has not really any official information about this phone since then. Nonetheless what has been floating around the web is the fact that this phone will have a built-in FM transmitter. But rumors are starting to spread around that some countries may not have this function when the N78 comes out. Thanks to some law prohibiting the operation of FM transmitter without license in those areas.

Nokia N79
Like the Sony Ericsson C905, the Nokia N79 was said to have a 5 megapixel camera. But aside from this it will also be GPS capable and will come in white and brown combination color. The leaked photos don’t seem promising for the N79 though. We’re guessing that this would be a not so good follow-up to the N70 and N71.

Motorola ZN200
Our knowledge of the Motorola ZN200 came by way of an FCC approval. No official information yet coming from Motorola. But we do know that the ZN200 will feature a 2-megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, video recording, Bluetooth, FM radio, Windows Media Player 11, supports dual-band GSM.

Motorola W755 goes to Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless is releasing the entry-level Motorola W755 available for purchase through Verizon’s website and retail outlets. And being an entry-level mobile phone, the W755 doesn’t promise too much in terms of features and capabilities. Motorola however promises not only great call sounds but also when listening to music on the Motorola W755. Yes, it is an entry-level phone that also features a music player. In addition, the Motorola W755 also boast of touch-sensitive controls that lets you access music, activate Bluetooth and adjust ring volumes or mute calls without even opening the phone. Ok, I know we shouldn’t expect a lot from an entry-level phone, right? But what can we do, though it would seem that the W755 is a simple clamshell phone, but actually it is more than just your simple basic phone. In fact, it boasts of other features that you wouldn’t expect from a phone that is being marketed as a basic mobile phone. And these features include; 1.3 mp camera without flash, microUSB port, dual color displays, 83mb internal memory, microSD memory card slot, 5 theme choices, downloadable games, mp3 playback, MMS and SMS, Bluetooth, speakerphone, voice recognition. The W755 gives out 390 hours of standby time and 220 minutes of talk time. The W755 will be available starting today for $119 with a 2-year Verizon Wireless contract.

Motorola RAZR2 Pink Silver Edition released for Korean girls

Motorola is treating our friends from Korea, specifically female mobile users with the release of a pink colored Razr2 clamshell baby. The new Motorola RAZR2 pink silver edition sports a subdued pink casing and espresso colored keypad that gives it an elegant style. It’s metallic silver front has been tinted in pink for an added classic look and lightness to the already chic RAZR2. None other than Motorola Korea’s Marketing Director Lim Joung, was so pleased with the release of the pink silver RAZR2 and said that “With its luxurious yet tranquil look and carefully-selected features, the RAZR2 Pink Silver was designed to appeal to the confident young generation.” Indeed, the RAZR2 would answer young Korean girls’ demand for an innovatively powerful and yet stylish Motorola mobile phone handset. The Motorola RAZR2 features an innovative Tandem Display technology with two displays, one embedded on either side of the flip which allows for effortless message sending and lets users enjoy other functions even when the RAZR2 is shut down. Other features of the Motorola RAZR2 include; Bluetooth, camera, VOD, MOD, MP3, high-speed USB 2.0 and phone navigation. The RAZR2 Pink Silver is now available in Korean mobile stores. Pricing details are not available though. Likewise, there is not information also as to whether the RAZR2 would hit US stores sometime soon.
Via Telekoms Korea

MOTO Q 9c now available in Verizon

Verizon Wireless has added a new Windows Mobile powered smarthphone in its line up witht he MOTO Q 9c. Although the MOTO Q 9c has already been available in other carriers, Verizon still wants to add it up to beef its smarthphone line up. An to entice its customers, Verizon is offering the MOTO Q 9c at a reduced price of $199.99 under two-year contract with Verizon. That’s pretty cheap for a smarthphone, right? So, here’s the skinny on what you’re going to get for $199.99 as the features of MOTO Q 9c is definitely a winner for its Verizon price. These features include; 11.9 mm ultra thin body, 64MB end user memory, 2.4” 240×320 internal TFT display with up to 65k colors, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 OS, Documents to Go applications such as World, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF, VZ Navigator GPS function with turn-by-turn directions, Internet Explorer Mobile, ActiveSync and WirelessSync capability, broadband access connect, Bluetooth stereo wireless technology, 1.3 mp camera with flash and video capture, MMS, SMS, optional miniSD up to 8GB capacity, dual stero quality speackers, and polyphonic and MP3 ringtones. The MOTO Q 9c also boasts of 5-way navigation key, thumbwheel and enhanced QWERTY keyboard, media center key to access music, pictures and videos, bilingual interface. This smartphone also boasts of up to 273 minutes usage time and 212 hours of standby time.

The MOTO Z10 will make us all mobile filmmakers

Motorola has released the MOTO Z10, a 3G mobile phone that runs on Symbian OS and UIQ platform. The slim and pocket sized MOTO Z10 boasts not only of advanced mobile phone functionality but most importantly of a selection of software, content and applications that includes full feature film capturing, editing and sharing. This software and applications include; the ArcSoftMedia Editor Mobile Edition for editing photos and producing videos directly from the MOTO Z10, ShoZu for sending photos and video clips captured on MOTO Z10 to various social networks and web-based uploading sites including Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger and more, Muvee for transforming videos and pictures in the MOTO Z10 into great looking home movies, music videos and photo slideshows. Aside from making users budding film makers, the MOTO Z10 is also a full-featured entertainment device on the go. It features “ready to play” EA Mobile Games that include – Burnout, The Sims, Bowling, SKATE, Tetris and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07. It also comes preloaded with Gameloft games sucha s Asphalt 3, Street Rules and Juke Box combo. The MOTO Z10 also comes equipped with Mobiclip that helps deliver a unique and exciting mobile video experience to Z10 users. It is also preloaded with Roxio software for mobile for letting users drag and drop photos, videos and music between their PC and mobile devices for home entertainment on the go. And finally the MOTO Z10 also has Veveo vTap which helps users to quickly and easily search, browse, discover, keep and share web videos from the Internet. In addition to all this multimedia features, the MOTO Z10 also touts of better mobile web browsing experience with applications such as Google Maps, Google Mail, Opera Mobile, and Yahoo! Go 2.0 The MOTO Z10 is now available in the UK’s O@ retail shops while full European release will follow middle of May.

Motorola Brings the MOTO Z6x to Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless officially brought the MOTO Z6 slide phone to its customers but with a minor downgrade. Instead of bringing the MOTO Zc World Edition, Verizon decided to have their own version of the mobile phone instead. Hence the name MOTO Z6x, with the x to distinguish it with the MOTO Z6c World Edition. And the X stands for camera which was taken out from the Verizon Wireless version of the MOTO Z6. The MOTO Z6x is now available for $179.00 inclusive of a two-year contract with Verizon. If you still want to get this new Motorola mobile phone, you might as well know about its features first. The MOTO Z6x has a dual network capability for international travel – CDMA/1XRTT/EV-DO (domestic) and GSM (International). It supports Verizon’s V Cast Music and Video and VZ Navigator services and is mobile web 2.0 capable. With the MOTO Z6x, users can do email, mobile IM, chat and SMS and video messaging. The phone can send and receive picture/video message even without a camera. Reading long text messages becomes an easy task with the MOTO Z6x’s 2” screen that can display up to 12 lines of text message. Other features of the MOTO Z6x includes; speakerphone, advanced speech recognition, Bluetooth, microSD memory port of up to 4GB capacity, bilingual interface (English/Spanish), and hearing aid compatibility. Responding to the signs of the time, the MOTO Z6x is also GPS capable with access to E911 emergency location/sGPS. The MOTO Z6x is definitely a good cell phone to have. It would have been better if the camera was retained in the Verizon release. But then, there must be a reason for not bringing the camera.

Europe’s UK3 Reintroduces Motorola Handset to the UK Market

Europe’s UK 3 is reintroducing the Motorola RAZR2 V9 to the European market after 18 months. Adding another major brand to its line-up of mobile phones, UK 3 is putting in more publicity blitz to the release of Motorola’s successor to its successful RAZR V9 mobile handset.17 MOTOAGENTS are gearing up for a tour of 3Stores from March to April to promote the Motorola brand to 3 UK’s staff and customers. These MOTOAGENTS will train 3 staff in the ins and outs of the powerful MOTORAZR V9 to prepare them in selling the products on various 3stores. 3 is banking on the MOTORAZR V9’s 3G capability which is one of the most demanded features on mobile phones by 3 customers. In fact, it was the MOTORAZR V9’s 3G feature plus its other advanced features that made 3 to welcome back Motorola into its fold. If sales of the MOTORAZR V9 to the UK succeed, 3 is planning to bring in more Motorola handsets in the future.
The RAZR2 V9 is the next trend in 3G mobile phones. With its stainless steel frame, the RAZR2 V9 is a durable and resilient mobile phone that is pleasing to the eyes as well with its overall svelte look. It boost of the largest external screen in its class and can play music via touch-sensitive music keys without the user having to open the phone. Other features of the RAZR2 V9 are 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, micro USB, USB 2.0 full speed, USB mass storage and version 2.0 Bluetooth with enhanced data rate, 3G HDSPA with 3.5 mbps broadband connection and EDGE/GPRS class 10&12, 45MB of end user memory with expanded memory slot for microSD card, video and audio streaming, video telephony and other standard mobile phone features. via [3G UK]

Motorola Q9H Spotted at Rogers Wireless Website

Spotted on the Rogers Wireless website is a placeholder for the Motorola Q9H, with the words “coming soon.” There were speculations about this early on, but as it turns out, the Q9H will truly be available via the said network, in a couple of weeks or so.

Motorola Q9H specs after the jump.

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