Motorola launch Q11, has no 3G

Motorola has launched a new Winodws Mobile Smartphone today. It's running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard & is the successor of the Motorola Q9. The Q11 has Wi-fi, GPS & the 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera as it's main attraction. However it also suffers in some respect due to only 64 MB RAM & a slow ARM 7 LTE CPU from Freescale. The Q11 also has USB v1.1 and Bluetooth v 2.1 on board and also contains a microSD card slot for expanding the built-in memory. The lack of 3G & HSDPA support however will force users to use EDGE for on-the-go wireless data or Wi-fi when they can find a hotspot.

Also the battery is on the slim side with capacity of just 1170 mAH. The Q11 has a 2.4 Inch QVGA Screen which is not aligned to the center of the phone but is shifted to right. In it's place there are notification LED's. Motorola Q 11 measures the pretty slim 117 x 6 4x 11.7 mm, totaling a volume of 85cc. Its weight is passable 115 g. Motorola Q 11 is expected to be available in December 2008 but there is no information regarding its pricing yet.


Detailed Specs of Motorola Q11 :

• 3.2 Mega Pixel Fixed Focus Camera with LED Flash
• 2.4 inch QVGA Screen with resolution of 320 x 240 pixels
• Full Qwerty Heypad
• Push E-mail & IM
• Freescale ARM 7 LTE processor
• LTE + Intel Bulverde Chipset
• 64 MB Ram
• EDGE, Wi-fi & GPS
• Quad Band GSM
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Video player MPEG4/3gp/WMV/H.264
• Media player MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA
• Micro SD card slot
• Pocket Internet Explorer 6
• microUSB Slot, USB 1.1
• Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard
• 117 x 64 x 11.7 mm dimensions & 115 gm weight

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Moto Rokr EM30 & Sony Ericcson W302 compared by Smape

Smape has compared the Motorola Rokr EM30 & Sony Ericcson W302 in a detailed article.

An important point is that Motorola and Sony Ericsson took different paths on their chase of Nokia 5310. W890 was simplified to a huge extent, dropping its A200 platform in favor of a Sagem ODM-developed platform which is now used in W302. The materials, assembly, audio and misc things – everything was curbed and is distinctly different from the senior model. The continuity is just nominal, which is a very ambiguous step, given that the predecessor model was far from perfection itself, though much better than W880, which didn't even have a FM tuner.

The Americans took a smarter step by keeping EM30 pretty close to E8, which actually is little than a new version of the older handset, coming in different colors. The functional simplifications (memory, navigation wheel) help to drop down the price, so by the beginning of the sales the solutions will sell for roughly the same money. It's extremely important that Motorola preserved the fashion impact and even kept the same materials. This makes the solution the best offer in its class in that aspect.

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Moto Rokr EM30 reviewed by Smape

Smape has reviewed the Motorola Rokr EM30 in a detailed review.

RORK EM30 is quite a different story. That’s the top model in the line, but its actual positioning is that of a mid-end phone. In fact, it’s a simplified version of Motorola ROKR E8 with almost no differences between the two other than a few costly features taken out from the former. These points of difference are to be thoroughly described in the later sections of the article, and now let’s have a general view on the phone’s market positioning.


The luring combination of a relatively low price ($250 in September) and the expensive materials and design which were inherited from the E8 model, an unmatched audio quality, touch buttons serving as player controls – here are the principal selling points of this handset. The E8 model remains a rather expensive offer, that’s a fashion phone which will never be subject to serious price reduction, so the price gap between it and EM30 is going to always keep above $100. On the other hand, by paying an extra $100 the user gets a lot of extra memory, a FastScroll wheel and a more pronounced fashion impact. At that point, the principal differences between the two models come to an end.

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Motorola launches 5 Mega Pixel Phone ZN5

Motorola has finally launched a 5 Mega Pixel Camera Phone after Nokia, Samsung, LG & Sony Ericsson. The phone is named ZN5 and contains a CMOS sensor developed with the help of Kodak. It's a candybar and has a morph keypad like the Moto Rokr E8.

It also has Xenon Flash, Auto Focus and a 3.5 mm jack. The icing on the cake is the presence of Wi-fi. The only noteworthy omission is 3G and GPS. It is the first camera phone to have RAW support and also can save image files in TIFF format. Video Recording however is disappointing at QCIF.

The audio quality of ZN5 is excellent and is considered on par of other music phones like Moto Rokr E8 & Samsung i450.

It is a very good camera phone, it's relatively cheap and the image quality is also good. Now let's wait when it finally hits stores.

Specs in detail :

• Quad Band GSM
• 2.4 inch TFT QVGA Display
• Touch Sensitive Keypad
• Wi-fi
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• 5 Mega Pixel Kodak CMOS Camera with Auto Focus
• Xenon Flash
• Crystel Talk Technology
• 3.5 mm jack
• FM Radio

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