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Motorola Cellphone With Built-in Projector is Under Development

I don`t want to talk about the partnership between Motorola and Microvision in order to combine the PicoP projector with the next Motorola Cellphones. What i want to post here are the impacts of those amazing works if successfully conquered this year. I just want to imagine. Next time, we can point, shoot, record, and then show it to the public instantly through the wall. What a beautiful moment. And Imagine we can show him her lovely SMS instantly through his wall, oh never happen.

[via yahoo tech - Gina Hughes]

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MOTO Z8 Released in Spain First

Coming as kick-slider phone, the new MOTO Z8 released in Spain through Telefónica via Movistar as reported by AVING.net. This multimedia phone offers mobile TV, video viewing, and music download. Other main features include QVGA TFT display screen, 2.0MP camera with 8x digital zoom, and 80MB internal memory (but forget it as it allows you to adopt 4GB MicroSD memory card). If you are not living in Spain, you should wait for a while as the MOTO Z8 will hit the rest of Europe and Asi soon.

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Motorola Deluxe ic902 Cell Phone

Motorola has just unleashed its “Deluxe ic902″ cell phone to Sprint. The handset biggest selling points are the built-in EvDO support (CDMA’s high-speed internet access) and walkie-talkie capabilities via iDEN network. It also offers an integrated 2.0 megapixel camera module, MP3 player, Bluetooth connectivity, and a microSD card slot (128MB card included). It does sound like a boring device, but wait, there’s a GPS satellite navigation function (through TeleNav) as well, making the phone worth-buying.
Motorola - Sprint Deluxe ic902 cell phone is currently available for $300 for a 2-year contract.

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Motorola’s Upcoming Phone is Called… Nelson?

Your name is Nelson? Okay, sorry guys, no offense, but using “Nelson” as a name of a PDA phone is strange. No official statement yet, but looks like Motorola’s next handset will have that name attached. The good thing, this thin mobile device is said to be loaded with a bunch of wonderful features, including a Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system, a miniSD card slot, Bluetooth connectivity, an integrated 2.0 megapixel camera module, and EvDO support. Not bad.. uh.. Nelson..

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Motorola SOLR (?): The Solar Powered Cellphone

Motorola has filed patent for a chargerless mobile phone that gets its juice from the LED screen absorbing the sun’s rays.

Motorola believes it can get 75% or more of the light entering through the front of an LCD to the solar cell by using a different type of liquid crystal. By switching from nematic crystals to cholesteric or polymer disbursed, Motorola says it can eliminate the use of a metallic reflector that’s used in LCDs to illuminate the screen. [source]

A lot of questions here of course. It would sorta change the way we carry around our mobile phones. When we’re low on battery, rather than look for a charger, we’d carry the mobile on our hands and not in our pocket so that the sun can do its job. When we’re home, we’d prolly leave the phone below a lamp or beside the small potted plant on the window sill.

And you know what? They’re probably going to call it, The SOLR. I just know it.

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Motorola V9m: The RAZR’s Second Coming

I really like it how pre-press photos work. I’m almost sure there phone company’s PR agency out there that takes blurred cameraphone shots of new “seen in the wild” products like the Motorola V9m for viral marketing campaigns. “Make sure its just a tad more blurry, but enough to still see the logo.” Heh. Kidding.

Coming out by late this year, the V9m is an all chrome CDMA device that has an incorporated touch screen. Not too many details are known just yet, except that reports do confirm that it will not run on Linux, as products like the MotoMing confirm. Hmm, this is weird. I’d say that the V9m was the more user friendly version of the Motorola Ming.

[photo and info sources]

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Pink Motorola KRZR K1 Is Coming

(Image: Pink Motorola KRZR K1; Credit: justamp.blogspot.com)

Yes the phone will be available next month in UK. As we know Pink is always related to y world, and that why the company plan to release the phone in May (for the mother’s day exactly). The Pink KRZR K1 has the same technical specification with the original one, such as 2MP camera. [via crunchgear]

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ARGH! Why is it so hard for me to turn them on?!

Sexual connotations aside, this really pisses me off.

I don’t know if it’s just me, or phone manufacturers are giving incentives to people who read the manuals before trying to operate a phone. Sadly, I never had the luxury of opening up a phone from the box as units were more often than not handed to me in a paper bag for purposes of review.

It’s the Nokias ladies and gents. The Nokias get me all the time. I felt so useless trying to open up that — that lipstick phone of theirs because it needed a special pin that released a mechanism within the phone to open it up. And then there were those other phones that - for the love of all things tech - hid the SIM slot underneath the miniSD slot. Of course, I’m a master of this treacherous form of deceit now, but back then it was just so pitiful how I tried to insert the SIM card into the miniSD carriage, forcing it to be THE CORRECT ONE.

Thankfully, I’m not the only one at a loss for learning how to turn on a device. The Washinton Post’s tech guy was also confounded about how to turn on a Nokia N93, as the standard way of turning it on didn’t work.

Wait I’m not done yet! And every time Nokia decides to release a new, upgraded line of phones, why does the charger ends always have to change? Can’t they do a Motorola instead and ust use mini USBs?

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Don't look now, but that Nokia in your pocket means you're over the hill

A survey of cellphone users in Australia, conducted by Panorama and released by Nielsen Media Research, has proved what pretty much everyone already knew: people are likely to base broad, stereotypical assumptions about you on your cellphone, just like they do with everything else you use and wear. We're guessing this breaks down a bit differently in Aussieland, but here's how mobile users tend to associate down under:

Nokia: Family-minded, middle aged managers, balance seekers, health conscious
Motorola: Fashion conscious, under 24, fun seekers, individualistic
Sony Ericsson: Ambitious young men, professionals, success driven, individualistic
LG: Favorite of mums, stay-at-home parents, success driven, harmony seekers
Samsung: Young women, career focused, success driven, fun seekers

The upshot of this research is that since most phone service providers rate the same, people are for the most part picking a carrier based on phone selection -- again, we're not exactly floored by the analysis here. Now all that's left is how to pigeon hole HTC and Palm users. We're thinking "good looking, fun loving, Engadget reader" would be a nice start.

Labels: LG, Motorola, Nokia, pocket, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Tip

Multimedia Phone MOTORAZR maxx Ve

MOTORAZR maxx Ve Image

(credit: newlaunches)

As a multimedia cellphone, the MOTORAZR maxx Ve comes with music/video downloads and stereo bluetooth for your convenient in listening favorite music without the cable hassle. This slim and excellent phone design equipped with extra features such as GPS/LBS connection and EV-DO. It also utilizes integrated 2MP camera for instant shooting. Just wait until July if you want it, I mean “if you want to buy it”, there is no princing info yet. [via newlaunches]

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Motorola LAZR: Pewpewpew!

Sporting a huge screen and running open source (Motorola did turn a smash hit of the Linux-powered Ming), the LAZR is a huge clamshell phone that may only appeal to those with deep pockets - figuratively and literally. Other rumors say that this phone has no Transflash expansion but comes with 512MB of internal memory. I’m trying to understand the whole concept behind the LAZR as it appeals to the male market. Case in point would be the bimbo video that sorts comes to market the phone. Oh, and since she’s using it in the bath, I’m assuming its waterproof — not!

Kudos to Motorola! In a time where its so hard to think of desirable product names, you guys still have it in you to invent words that work with “ZR” buzz.

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If Motorola Buys Palm

This makes perfect sense to me for the following reasons:
1. Palm has been developing on an open platform with Access and so has Motorola with their latest line of open sourced smartphones such as the Motorola Ming A1200.

2. Palm’s success has been mostly due to the Treo handheld, a platinum award winning phone. They’ve canned their other devices such as the Lifedrive in Asia. They need a refocus in terms of manufacturing strategy and it takes a fierce competitor like Motorola to give them back this break. Motorola has been rather fierce in several world markets with campaigns stretching out to the really creative.

3. Motorola makes sleek handhelds with crappy operating systems. And yet they still end up becoming a market leader in the consumer division. Think of the benefits if they are able to integrate the Palm OS on a KRZR-like device for instance? You will have a good mesh between style and function, something that Palm was known to capitalize on in the past but couldn’t do so now due to the many times they have refocused and rebranded.

So all’s well that ends well. I just have one request if the buyout pushes through. Please, don’t change Palm’s name again. Please?

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