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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Motorola Z9 slider phone, based on Razr platform

Motorola is now selling a new mobile phone with a sliding cover based on its popular Razr 2 mobile phone.

The Moto Z9 is Motorola's new mobile phone available to just U.S. buyers exclusively through AT&T Inc., which includes its AT&T Navigator GPS feature.

Paul Nicholson director of feature phone products group, based in Libertyville said "This will have a new keyboard and the slider features instead of the clamshell form factor of the Razr,".

Motorola, along with other industry giants, is in Las Vegas for whole week to show off new products at the CTIA Wireless trade show.

The Z9 is a new step in mobile phone direction, but Motorola needs a best variety of handsets, said Rick Franklin, telecom analyst.

"I'm not certain that this is enough of a breakthrough product to reverse the negative trends Motorola has recently experienced," Franklin said. "Additional product introductions will likely be needed to do that. Additionally, Motorola needs to improve its cost structure. Even at the height of Razr's popularity, Motorola's profitability lagged Nokia's."

The Z9 is Motorola's first 3G phone with Navigator. It has the CrystalTalk for clearer voice sound quality. Other features include AT&T Mobile Music, stereo Bluetooth wireless technology, up to 8 gigabytes of memory, with an optional removable card and a 2.0-megapixel camera.

Moto Z9 is being sold exclusively at AT&T and the price is $249.99 after a two-year service agreement.

The Moto Z9 was developed under Motorola's Mobile Devices business, which is expected to be spun off into a publicly traded company by next year.

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