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The Indian market is going to be flooded with new devices this year. 2008 saw the iPhone, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 of course the onslaught of BlackBerrys.
2009 is set to welcome the HTC G1 in Q2. It is sure to create waves with all the hype from the west pouring in. BlackBerry Storm touch screen phone with its built-in accelerometer to change it from portrait mode to landscape mode and vice versa will also come to India.
Motorola Aura, a designer luxury phone, is expected to launch this year as well and will satisfy the palate of the rich and influential. The mirror polish on the screen gives a shiny finish along with the aluminum keypad. The Aura has a swivel mechanism with 130 Swiss precision ball bearings, it seems.
Palm Treo Pro, Nokia Corolla, LG Renoir, ASUS P565, and Pearl Flip are the other much awaited phones, some of which have reached western shores already.
3G will launch the next generation of mobile services in India, say analysts. 3G auctions will be completed this year, the government promises.
With 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity on mobile handsets, mobile subscribers too can make IP calls. WiMAX has also made inroads here. Hopes are high for better bandwidth for accessing the net on mobiles and also for education, e-governance, healthcare etc. WiMAX device manufacturers are ready with their devices.
To sum up… very exciting and interesting phase in the Indian Mobile Phone Industry. | |
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Motorola announced its new handsets today beforethe big CES event. These new phones will be launched early this year sometime in the first quarter.
First we have Motorolas new rugged phone, the Motorola Tundra launching on AT&T. This phone has a 2 megapixel camera, push to talk and supports AT&T Navigator. It will be available January 13 for $199 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a 2 year contract.
The Motorola Renew looks a bit more stylish and out for the younger crowd. The cool thing about this phone is that it is totally green, and no Im not talking about the color. The Motorola Renew is made up entirely of recycled plastic water bottles! it is predicted to be available on T-Mobile in the first quarter of this year but there is still no pricing details available.
Last, but certainly not least, and my favorite out of the three, is the Motorola Surf A3100. It is a GSM phone that runs on WindowsMobile 6.1 and has 3G support. It comes with 3 megapixel camera, WiFi Google maps, messaging and e-mail support. This phone also has three ways for you to interact with the device. You can either use a stylus, a trackball, or your fingers on the touchscreen. There are no details on wether it will come to a US carrier but we do knoww that this phone will be available in China 1Q of 2009.
Source: fiercewireless.com | |
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Motorola does it again, this time with another smart and savvy Bluetooth earpiece, branded the Motopure H15. With a modest style, clever flip design and a seemingly effective noise-cancellation performance, the H15 is pure brilliance.
Oval in shape with a glossy black finish, the H15 measures in at 1.5 x 0.9 x 0.5 inches. The circular answer/end button blends in with the front of the earpiece; youll know its there once you click on it. A silver Motorola logo lies just beneath the answer/end button. To the right side is your shiny silver volume controls, in the middle of this is your LED indicator light and to the top is your charging port. Located to the bottom of the earpiece is your flip boom mic, silver as well and U-shaped. One clear ear hook is included while 3 different sizes of ear buds help to give you the perfect fit.
The answer/end button does not act as the power button. Powered by Motorolas RapidConnect technology, you instead, flip the boom mic to turn on/off and answer/end calls. Which I noticed allows for speedy phone call retrieval. No need to fumble around the earpiece looking for the answer or on button. The headset instantly goes into pairing mode when you flip the mic out, another convenient and intelligent feature. By the way, with the H15 you can pair up to two devices.
The H15 comes complete with a black satin docking station. It sits upside down on the station, looking quite at home. The two pieces complement each other, with their curved and minimal edges. Looks great on your desk at the office or anywhere in your home. You can of course plug the wall charger directly into the H15, if you choose not to use the charging dock. But I must warn you, the dock delivers an impressive one hour of talk time in less than 15 minutes.
The Motopure also features CrystalTalk, cancelling echo and background noise using dual microphones. So all of your important conversations will be heard loud and clear. Which stands up nicely to its rival the Aliph Jawbone.
With a wireless range of up to 33 feet and standby time of 5-7 days, its definitely a Bluetooth you can rely on. A fully charged battery gives you up to 4.5 hours of talk time. You also get Power To Talk, a convenient three color display allowing for instant battery level check. The LED indicator light shines green when you have 3+ hours of talk time, shines yellow if talk time is between 1-3 hours and shines red if youve less than an hour of talk time.
The Motorola MotoPure H15 offers some really intelligent and useful features, currently not offered by some competitors, which in my opinion make it a rare find. | |
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Motorola Hint a.k.a. QA30 will be available at Alltel on November 28th for $99 with a new contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate. When I first looked at this phone it reminded me a little of the LG Lotus in size. The Motorola Hint has a 2.5 inch, 320x 240 pixel display and measures about 3.23" in height closed, 2.43" wide and .67" thin. The Lotus is just about the same size too. The Hint is a sliding phone, when you slide upwards it reveals a full QWERTY keyboard, which makes this phone ideal for messaging. Your text messages and IM conversations are threaded and you also have the option to have Google SMS messaging service. You can also have access to multiple e-mail accounts. Other good features include, up to 4.5 hrs. of talk time, 700 phonebook entries, micro-usb connection, memory supporting up to 8GB. The Hint also comes with a 2 megapixel camera with video capture It has dedicated music controls and plays MP3 and MPEG4 media files. This CDMA phone is GPS enabled and has XM satellilte radio streaming. So far this phone is only available in black with a red rim around the phone. Overall the phone looks great and it comes at a reasonable price too. | |
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I recently came across the Dolce & Gabbana Razrcellphone and decided to scope it out a bit, after all the Motorola Razr, was the top leading cellphone in the US. Well to say the least this phone is definitely for the fashion driven and fashion label slaves. This phone is definitely eye-catching with its Liquid Gold color housing, and even the box it came in was gold-colored and opening is quite neat too.
The box is split into two halves, a bottom and top half. The bottom half houses your phone, and the top half stores all you cables and users manual. To open it, you have to push the bottom half to the left and at the same time the top half to the right. This way your phone remains in place and separate from the other stuff it comes with. The package also included a nice gold D&G dangle that attached to the phone. With that being said, I think that the phone might have been generally intended for the feminine population.
There wasnt much of a difference compared to a regular non designer Razr V3i, except for the obvious Dolce & Gabbana label on the back. Basically, the only distinctions between a Dolce & Gabbana Razr and a regular razr is the Gold color, D&G wallpaper and 3 D&G ringtones. Other than those features, the razr has a 1.23 megapixel camera eh. bluetooth v1.2, memory card slot, world phone support, and pretty much all the other knick knacks of the regular Razr. However this phone, is lacks iTunes support, which might be a big no-no for some. The phone also seemed to get dirty pretty quick and left sort of a scuffed look when I tried to wipe it clean. When this phone first came out back in 2006 it ranged from 500 to 600 bucks.
Overall, in my opinion, with this phone youre practically buying the label. The phone unlocked is now priced at between $150 -$330. So maybe this phone can be a good Christmas gift for that fashion fiend friend of yours. Sure its a "soo two years ago" phone, but how many people are walking around out there, with a gold D&G razr cell phone? | |
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As T-Mobile continues to step up their game, comes the release of the Motorola Zine ZN5. With a 5.0 megapixel camera, this device is more like a camera with the ability to make phone calls rather than a phone that can snap pics. Available at only $100, this is sure to be a crowd pleaser.
The Motorola Zine ZN5 is built to shoot: its the only phone to use KODAK Imaging Technology and KODAK PERFECT TOUCH Technology, which together create brighter, more vivid pictures that youll want to show off. The MOTOZINE™ ZN5 is built to share too: you can upload your photos to the web the instant you take them, or save them to share later on up to 4GB of optional expandable memory. | |
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Motorola has been struggling for two years, and it the bad news keeps piling up. Motorola reported a net loss of $397 million since a year ago. Co-chief executive, Sanjay Jha, plans to save $800 million by cutting 3,000 jobs and focusing mainly on its strongest regions such as North America, Latin America, and parts of Asia i.e. China. Motorola lost its third place in the market to Sony Ericcson, and still has other major competitors to look out for, Apple, Nokia and Samsung. Yikes!
Motorola will also start to focus on three major operating systems, including Googles android platform, and windows mobile. Although Motorolas first android based phone will not be available until the 2009 holiday season. Jha says that they are no longer targeting the third quarter of 2009 for spinning off its mobile devices division,but it would instead take place after 2009.
Source:reuters via yahoonews | |
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Mike Dano- RCR Wireless Oct 23, 2008
BOSTON — A day after the release of the first cellphone powered by Google Inc.’s Android software, the founder of the startup that initially developed the software took the Mobile Internet World keynote stage to explain the reasons behind the search giant’s much-hyped effort.
“It’s been quite a busy week for us,” said Rich Miner, general manager of Google’s Mobile Platforms business and the founder of Android, the startup that Google acquired three years ago to form the base of its cellphone-software strategy.
Miner, a 15-year veteran of the wireless industry, said Android rose from the ashes of his tenure at European operator Orange, which was the first carrier in the world to launch a cellphone running Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile software. Although the launch propelled Orange onto the international scene as a maverick in the mobile space, Miner said the lessons he learned from the event pushed him to found Android.
“It became clear to me that there were fundamental things that needed fixing in the mobile industry,” he said.
Orange launched its Windows Mobile powered smartphone, the Orange SPV for sound, pictures and video, in 2002. Miner helped oversee the launch, and said it didn’t necessarily go as expected.
Despite being Microsoft’s only Windows Mobile customer, “we were still dictated terms as to what we could and couldn’t do” with the software. Miner indicated that Microsoft made it clear that Windows Mobile was a Microsoft product and not an Orange product.
Further, after the launch, Miner said Orange wanted to add push-to-talk capabilities to the phone, but discovered a glitch in Microsoft’s platform that wouldn’t allow the carrier to add the service. Microsoft agreed to rectify the issue, Miner said, but advised it would take 18 months to do so. And since the platform was not open to others, neither Orange nor the manufacturer HTC Corp. could modify it.
Miner said Google’s Android promises a different approach. Google helped develop the platform using “best-in-class solutions,” and, as of yesterday, made it free and open to anyone. This, Miner said, will allows anyone — individuals, businesses, handset makers and carriers — to develop Android services and applications via full access to the platform, from the bottom on up.
“No one party completely controls that platform and that software stack,” Miner said. “Each component can be mashed up with other components.”
Indeed, Kyocera Wireless Corp. has promised to join HTC in building Android phones, and Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sprint Nextel Corp. and others are members of Android’s Open Handset Alliance development organization.
Interestingly, Miner set forth the case that Android is an attempt by Google to harmonize the fractured mobile landscape. He said the range of software platforms in the wireless industry — from Java to BREW to Symbian — makes it difficult for developers to cover the entire industry.
“Google faced this very same problem,” Miner said, explaining that the company had to tweak its Java-based Maps service for every handset running the application in order to ensure it worked properly on different phones running different versions of the Java virtual machine.
“It was hard for Google to realize how hard it was to develop for the mobile space,” he said.
Despite such comments, Miner continued to press the case for Android, which is essentially another platform for developers to target, on top of Apple Inc.’s iPhone OS, Symbian, the OS for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerrys, Windows Mobile, Linux and others.
Miner explained that it was “fundamentally important” for Google — an Internet company — to develop a “suitable mobile experience” based on the number of mobile-phone users more than 3 billion versus the number of desktop Internet users around 1 billion.
Miner said that Android, along with the iPhone, stands as an example of “software being developed by people who know software,” rather than companies set on selling wireless service or building wireless hardware. | |
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Today Motorola introduced a luxurious high-end fashion phone named AURA™ . Wait- "high-end fashion", does that mean expensive? Well lets take a look at what the phone consists of, and then we can play a guessing game in our heads.
The Aura is a motorola exclusive phone, $, made of stainless steel and tungsten $$. The main bearings on the swivel are Swiss- made $$$, and this phone has the first circular display on a mobile phone, in the world $$$$. On the back you have a window exposing its mechanical insides and a 2 megapixel camera eh with video capabilities. Not to mention, the circular display is covered by a scratch resistant 62 carat sapphire crystal, one of the most scratch resistant materials in the world$!. Notice how Im saying "in the world" alot? This phone can easily be branded unique and...expensive? Well depends how much money you have, this phone is retailed at a whopping $1,999.99! Thats as good as a down payment on a car. Anyway, aside from it being way out of my range, in my opinion, this phone is elegantly gorgeous.
So if you have 2Gs lying around go ahead and get this super luxurious phone, or buy a bottom line Rolex watch. Pre-ordering of this phone is now available at Motorola.com, and it starts shipping December 4, 2008, just in time for the holidays. Seriously though, how many of us are willing to buy this pricy phone for ourselves, let alone for someone else?
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The new Motorola KRAVE ZN4 that we reported to you about earlier this month is out and Verizon Wireless customers can now buy it at the stores for $150 with rebate. The one nice feature about this phone isnt the actual touch screen feature since that is becoming oh, so common among devices now. The great feature is the clear flip cover that allows for touch through access to your phones screen. How great is that?
In fact, this feature actually prevents from accidentally hitting keys on your touch screen keypad - and even accidentally dialing phone numbers. Come on - you know youve done it before...or actually your phone has done it before. Accidentally hitting that talk/send button to someone while the phone is in your pocket.
Kudos to Motorola for thinking of this great feature - its kind of like a built-in NuTouch Case thats available through our website for iPhone, Instinct, and other touch screen phones. | |
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