Motorola RIZR Z8 - Highly Majestic

For living in a better way, we all need to communicate with each other. NO one can loose sight from the fact that communication has helped in the betterment and advancement of the society. It is the basic necessity of life which binds people, countries and the whole world, to let them share their views, thoughts and opinions with each other in an effective way. In this highly advance world communication has also undergone tremendous change to fulfil the requirements of present day people.
The rising communication demands have made mobile phones the best selling device in the world. In today's hi-tech world, where every one is busy, only mobile is the fastest medium of communication, which can be used anytime for interaction with outer world. No one can deny from the fact that communication is a basic need of life as no one can live in isolation. With the global advancement and enhancement of technology, mobiles have undergone a compete change. They have become more advance and modern according to present day demand and requirement. Mobile are also used nowadays for various other useful purposes like Internet browsing, playing games, photography, listening to music and many more. These majestic features of mobile devices have made hem popular among people and right now no one is left with the everlasting impact of phones.

Many leading mobile companies have evolved in market, which deals with many great varieties of handset. Motorola is one the famous mobile manufacturing company which serves people with its valuable and highly admirable services. Among various amazing mobile machines of Motorola, Motorola RIZR Z8 is the most stylish and bewitching handset. It is a fabulous phone with beautiful design and comes with several captivating features, which can surely make head turn. The handset looks appealing in a sharp razor shape design and is very user friendly. This amazing design of the device is highly comfortable to users. The mobile device comes with an attractive slide opening and possesses a better functionality. This wonderful handset is gifted with all those features one can expect in his phone. It is 12 grams in weight and comes with an alluring TFT monitor of 2.2 inches, which looks vibrant with 16M colours.

The phone comes with a 2 mega pixel digital camera that let users to capture splendid images and great quality video clips. This fantastic handset is also equipped with a secondary VGA video camera to let users to make 2 way video calls. One can get efficient connectivity features through class 10 GPRS and EDGE, along with well equipped v2.0 USB and Bluetooth. The Motorola RIZR Z8, gifted with a highly sophisticated media player, for a thrilling musical experience. Its comprehensive and effective messaging options are awesome and very fascinating. Besides this, it comes with a huge internal memory of 77MB which is practically unlimited to store as much data as one can. The memory option of the phone let one to store heavy amount of data also with a great ease.

Overall, the Motorola RIZR Z8 is a highly alluring and fabulous mobile phone which is a perfect phone in relation with present day requirement. All the characteristics of the mobile device are amazing a useful for customers. The handset is a perfect blend of high technology with great functioning. Moreover, the tempting design of the mobile adds value to its features and makes it extra appealing to users. Anyone can go for this handset without any worries as it is very innovative and furnished with charismatic features. Moreover, it proves to be an excellent style statement for fashion freaks.

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Motorola Z10 kick-slider UIQ3 mobile phone

Still waiting in the States for the Motorola Z10, so to appease their appetite for this Motorola kick-slider, AllAboutSymbian has come up with an abundance of good images of the Motorola Z10 in action. Just like the Motorola Z8, the Motorola Z10 features the trick kick-slider.

The Motorola Z10 comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera along with auto-focus and onboard video editing software, and higher quality materials. It’s the second lick-slider UIQ3 powered mobile phone and offers, GSM850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA, GPRS/EDGE, 3.6 Mbps HSDPA connectivity, Symbian 9.2 OS with UIQ 3.2 UI, Bluetooth A2DP, miniUSB, good old microSD memory card slot, and 2.2 inch QVGA display.

There seems to be a large lack of marketing with the Motorola Z10, Motorola seriously need to get off their rumps and push the Z10 as much as possible, if they don’t not many out in the big wide mobile world will know about its existence. Knowing what Motorola has been going through recently, one would expect them to be blitzing the net waves with as much information as possible. It will be the only way to regenerate sales, no promotion, no sales, don’t expect to slip out a mobile and expect the world to know about it if you aren’t prepared to put in the time to promote it yourself.

Wake up Motorola, and get your marketing bods moving before it’s too late. Oh, by the way, apparently there aren’t any indications that Motorola is planning to launch the desirable Motorola Z10 in its largest market in the States!

source : http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/

T-Mobile Officially Launches Motorola ROKR E8

One of the coolest phones from this January's Consumer Electronics Show, the Motorola ROKR E8 is a bar-style phone with a twist: The phone's keypad changes depending on whether it's in phone, music, or camera mode, displaying appropriate keys for the application in use. It's not an LCD touch screen like the iPhone's; rather, it's a less-expensive, more durable technology that lights up different layers under the phone's glass surface.

The E8 is Motorola 's most buzzed-about release in months, a flagship device that's supposed to raise the profile of the world's number-three cell phone maker. Like most recent, prominent Motorola phones, it's more about design than about features. The E8 is a 4.5-by-2.1-by-0.4-inch black slab, topped by a sharp 2-inch, 320-by-240 screen. Stand it on its end, and it may remind you of the monolith from the classic sci-fi movie "2001."

The keypad is dominated by a touch-sensitive scroll 'arc' that works like a jog dial on an old VCR—the farther you drag your finger along it, the faster you scroll. Below it, the keys use haptic force-feedback technology to convince you that you're actually pressing keys when you're just touching images on glass.

The E8 offers a strong, midrange feature set. It has 2GB of internal memory and a microSD memory card slot that carries up to 8GB cards; the phone comes with a 1GB card to get you started. It syncs via a standard microUSB cable with Windows Media Player 11 on PCs, playing protected or unprotected WMA, but also AAC, AAC+, MP3, WAV, and RealAudio files. You can listen to your music through the single speaker on the back, or through wired or Bluetooth headphones. The phone also has a 2-megapixel camera, an FM radio, a Web browser, and CrystalTalk, Motorola's noise-reduction technology. The phone creates virtual surround-sound effects with most headphones, Motorola said.

However, the E8 is missing one key feature for a new, flagship phone: 3G. The E8 only supports EDGE, which transfers data at around 100-120 kbps. The 3G networks run by Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, and now T-Mobile are much faster. T-Mobile doesn't have media services that take advantage of 3G, but that's not a big minus for T-Mobile subscribers right now; it may be in the future.

The ROKR E8 music phone is going on sale with T-Mobile on July 7 for $199.99 with a two-year service plan.

source : http://www.pcmag.com/

Motorola Sheds Light on MOTOZINE ZN5

Today, Motorola officially unveiled the MOTOZINE ZN5. The ZN5 is a bar-style phone similar in shape and appearance to the ROKR E8. The phone's stand-out feature is its Kodak-branded 5 megapixel camera. The camera has autofocus, and can focus on images in less than a second, allowing you to take your picture quicker. It has a full flash, as well as Kodak-approved optics. It carries Kodak's Easy Share software, and the user interface for the camera was jointly developed with Motorola and Kodak to ease operation. The software supports a lot of editing features, panorama shooting mode, and easy sharing with social networking sites. All functions related to the camera are color-coded purple, and the keypad morphs when in camera mode to show camera-specific buttons. The ZN5 carries quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, as well as stereo Bluetooth, FM radio and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. The phone has a slot for a microSD card (supporting cards up to 4GB), 3.5mm headset jack (supporting TV out), a full HTML browser and runs the MOTOMAGX platform. It will be launched in China first, and will be available in the U.S. by the end of 2008. Motorola did not announce its carrier partner for the phone yet.

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Motorola Z10 hitting UK exclusively through O2

We saw the Motorola Z10 hitting O2 UK's "Coming soon" pages back in September of last year. Back then we thought MOTO will have the device ready within a month, but as you know, we were so wrong. The Z10 was officially announced during this year's CTIA and is just starting to become available.

O2 scored the exclusive launch agreement for Motorola's video recording/editing slider smartphone. Other specs (aside from video capabilities) of the "banana smartphone" include such things as 3.2 megapixel camera, UIQ 3.2 running on top of Symbian OS, HSDPA support, Bluetooth, and of course the microSD memory slot. All users that buy the Z10, also get the Bourne Trilogy film collection on a 1GB microSD card to watch on their new mobile phone.

Finally, if you're not on O2, you should know the device will also hit other networks in the UK after the limited exclusive launch period.

source : http://www.intomobile.com/

Motorola Posts Wider Loss as Phone Shipments Decline

Motorola Inc. posted a wider loss and may lose more money this quarter than analysts estimated, hurt by a lack of new mobile phones to compete with Apple Inc. and Nokia Oyj.

The stock declined 3.1 percent after Motorola, the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, said its first-quarter net loss expanded to $194 million, or 9 cents a share. Revenue fell to the lowest level in four years, trailing estimates.

Phone shipments plunged 40 percent as Motorola's Razr 2 and Z8 failed to keep buyers away from Apple's iPhone and a Nokia handset that has satellite-navigation. Chief Executive Officer Greg Brown, bowing to pressure from investor Carl Icahn, decided last month to spin off the handset unit to focus on TV set-top boxes, two-way radios and wireless-networking equipment.

``There's no part of this company that's really doing very well,'' Joan Lappin, president of Gramercy Capital Management in New York, said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. ``This was a company with one of the great American brand names. There's just nothing special going on there any more.'' Lappin sold Motorola shares in 2006.

Sales growth in the non-phone businesses shrank in the quarter, showing that splitting off the phone unit may not help Motorola as much as Brown expects. Nomura International analyst Richard Windsor in London said those businesses may suffer this year amid a U.S. economic slump.

Motorola dropped 30 cents to $9.25 at 4:01 p.m. on the New York Stock Exchange. The Schaumburg, Illinois-based company has declined 42 percent this year.

Loss Forecast

The company forecast a second-quarter loss, excluding costs for job cuts, of 2 cents to 4 cents a share, falling short of analysts' projections for a break-even quarter.

First-quarter revenue declined 21 percent to $7.45 billion, trailing the $7.79 billion average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Shipments fell to 27.4 million units, compared with the 34 million estimate of Morgan Keegan & Co. analyst Tavis McCourt in Nashville, Tennessee.

``We knew it would be weak, but the degree of weakness in mobile phones was surprising,'' McCourt said. He advises investors to hang on to the shares.

Profit at the division that sells wireless-network equipment and set-top boxes also slumped, dropping 8.4 percent in the first quarter to $153 million. Sales advanced 2 percent to $2.4 billion, slower than the previous quarter's 11 percent pace.

Growth

Revenue growth at the unit selling two-way radios for police departments and emergency personnel, scanners for retailers, and network gear for businesses also slowed, to 5 percent from 35 percent in the previous quarter.

The mobile-phone division's loss widened to $418 million from $233 million a year earlier. The unit has lost more than $1.5 billion since the start of 2007 as consumers snapped up rival devices that play music, surf the Web and capture video. That prompted former chief Ed Zander to announce his resignation in November, leaving the company in Brown's hands.

Sales at the mobile-phone unit will be little changed or ``slightly up'' this quarter from the previous period, helped by new devices, Brown said on a conference call today. The loss at the unit will be similar to that of the first quarter. Sales at the other businesses will increase, he predicted.

``The overall trends for those businesses and their respective performances are pretty good,'' Brown said in an interview today. ``They are getting more and more of their growth internationally.''

Expenses

Excluding costs for 2,600 job cuts, the first-quarter loss was 5 cents a share, Motorola said. Analysts on average projected a loss of 6 cents, according to a Bloomberg survey. A year ago, the net loss was $181 million, or 8 cents, the company said today in a statement.

Zander revived Motorola with the Razr, only to see its cachet fade amid gains by Nokia, Apple and Samsung Electronics Co. The Razr 2, introduced last year, has failed to match the success of its predecessor, which sold more than 110 million units since its introduction in 2004.

Yesterday, Cupertino, California-based Apple reiterated plans to sell 10 million iPhones this year after selling almost 4 million last year. The device, which combines a Web-browsing mobile-phone with the iPod media player, went on sale in June.

Market Share

Motorola's handset market share shrank to 9.5 percent last quarter, with the biggest decline in North America, Brown said today. Motorola's share of global phone sales fell to 11.9 percent in the fourth quarter from 21.5 percent a year earlier, according to Stamford, Connecticut-based researcher Gartner Inc. Nokia boosted its share to 40.4 percent, and Samsung lifted its share to 13.4 percent.

To prevent Motorola from slipping further, Brown, 47, this month began selling the Z9 with satellite navigation. The company also started shipping the Rokr E8, which holds about 5,000 songs and includes a camera, Brown said today.

source : http://www.bloomberg.com/

Motorola Hopes to Jumpstart Phone Sales With Cylindrical Bratr Phone

Motorola hopes to jumpstart its flagging handset division with the release of the highly anticipated Bratr phone. The Bratr boasts a cylindrical, vibrate-only design which Motorola expects to be popular with females.

Linda Lacey, corporate vice president, Mobile Devices, Motorola, said, "The phone has all the features consumers expect in a mobile phone, but what's most exciting is the physical design. Women will find the cylindrical shape a pleasure to use."

The Bratr is the first phone to feature Motorola's "vibrate only" setting. Lacey explained, "Our survey of most women found that ringtones didn't do much for them, it was vibrations that excited them. That's why we've fitted this phone with the most powerful vibration motor ever found in a mobile phone."

Motorola designed the phone for females, but some males might also find the phone attractive.

"I know it's pink, but when I keep this thing in my pocket I get a lot of stares," said Phil Derbin of Peoria. "I'm happy to see women now, and they can tell."

Other features of the phone include a keyboard for texting which remains hidden until the phone slides apart to its full seven inch length. The Bratr also includes a "test vibration" button. "We found many of our test users kept checking to see if the vibrating function worked by calling themselves, so we just added the button to the final version," said Lacey.
Other accessories for the phone should prove popular as well, including the Nubr and Rubr phone cases.

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Motorola DH02– A Mobile Phone or a Compact TV?

Motorola is all set to proudly unveil its Motorola DH02. However, this phone with its widescreen and mobile TV features, looks more or less similar to a compact Television screen!

The Motorola DH02 mobile phone will soon flash off its 4.3-inch display screen with a 480×272 resolution pictures and supports up to twenty-five frames per second. This Mobile TV phone has a five minute frame buffering capability and also allows the convenience of live pause and time shifting of TV channels.

The sleek touchscreen phone boasts a GPS system which provides voice assistance in navigating through various roads and locations and provides real-time traffic updates, and speed alerts as well.

The Mobile TV phone provides ease of use by providing easy drag and drop of icons on screen and its slim body accept micro SD card for that extra storage space in a smaller form.

The price or the launch date of the Motorola DH02 is not yet available, but it definitely attracts a lot of attention and adulation already.

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Motorola to break up firm in 2009

Motorola says it will split into two companies next year, as it attempts to revive its flagging mobile phone unit.

One business will concentrate on making mobile phones, while the second will make television set-top boxes and other communications equipment.

Investors have been demanding action as Motorola has been losing market share to Nokia and Samsung and shares have fallen 40% over the last year.

But some analysts were disappointed the split would not come until 2009.

"It could be 18 months before it happens, by which time the outlook for either of the businesses could be completely different," said Nomura analyst Richard Windsor.

Motorola's phone unit lost $1.2bn (£0.6bn) in 2007 and sales plummeted 33%.

The company has struggled to find a successor to the successful "Razr" phone.

Analysts say that once divided the mobile phone business might merge, or partner, with a Chinese or Japanese rival.

"I suspect it's a prelude for a joint venture for the mobile devices business," said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst at Avian Securities.

source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/