Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Video
Once again, we tip our hats to the FCC, which today made public Motorola’s new and unannounced MOTORIZR Z6tv slider handset. Equipped with EV-DO, a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, 2.5mm jack, and delicious MediaFLO V CAST Mobile TV, if you’re Motosexual this might be one to keep an eye out for. More info as we get it.
[Via Phone Scoop]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Cellphones
There are carrier exclusivity agreements, and there are carrier exclusivity agreements — and Apple’s iPhone deal must have been pretty sweet for Cupertino to guarantee their new hotness to AT&T and AT&T alone for five friggin years. USA Today reports the supposed half-decade deal precludes Apple from developing a CDMA handset in that time (duh), meaning that if you live in the US and don’t want to move to AT&T, it’s going to be 2012 before you even have a chance at an iPhone. Better still, Today reports that Cingular’s arch-nemesis Verizon is claiming to have an iPhone-killer in the wings. According to Denny Strigl, Verizon CEO, “We do have a very good response in the mill. You’ll see that from us in the late summer.” It’s war, people, make no mistake about it.
Filed under: Cellphones
He did it, British climber Rod Baber made a cell mobile phone (apparently using a MOTORIZR Z8, not a satellite phone) call from the top of Mount Everest. In fact, he made the record breaking call twice: the first to a voice mail account, the other to his wife and children. He even sent a text message to Moto which read, “One small text for man, one giant leap for mobilekind – thanks Motorola.” Real cute, Rod. The Motorola sponsored “world record” was made possible by a Chinese mobile base station installed with a line of sight to the north ridge. Officially, the calls were made at 29,035 feet (about 8,848 meters) in temperatures of -22 degress fahrenheit (-30 degrees centigrade) — so cold that Rod had to tape the batteries to his body just to keep them active. We’re not sure where he stored the banana-shaped Z8. Of course, anyone who has ever made a call from a commercial aircraft (hey, it happens) knows that it’s really not a record, but who are we to argue with Guinness?
Filed under: Cellphones, Features, Handhelds
The T-Mobile Wing is a Windows Mobile 6 phone, alright — and the specs aren’t anything to write home about, especially not for $400. 200MHz CPU, EDGE data, QVGA display. And yet we find ourselves mysteriously attracted to the T-Mobile Wing. It’s nigh-sticky soft-touch finish, it’s thin profile (for a WM QWERTY slider, anyway), it’s divinely clicky d-pad and keys, it’s rubbery keyboard that we just didn’t think HTC could make any better. Check out the pictures, decide for yourself; but if you’re a T-Mobile customer, if you’re willing to plunk down this thing is kind of a no-brainer.
Filed under: Cellphones
Well, it’s finally done: T-Mobile Wing née HTC’s Atlas / Herald has lifted off. Obviously there are absolutely no surprises here for anyone who’s been following this launch, but the thinner- hotter successor to the MDA comes out swinging with Windows Mobile 6 (Professional), quad-band EDGE data, Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel camera, WiFi, myFaves, a 2.8-inch QVGA display, microSD slot, soft-touch finish, and new and improved QWERTY keyboard. It’ll be available tomorrow for $300 (with service agreement); stick around for some high res photography sure to tide you over until then. Early review roundup posted after the break.
Continue reading T-Mobile Wing takes flight
Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras
During the same 24 hours that BenQ called it quits on the digital camera market, Kodak has reportedly had similar thoughts when eying its low-end camera lineup. According to CNET, Kodak President Antonio Perez shared that the firm would be “abandoning the low-end of the digital camera business” at the JPMorgan Technology Conference in Boston. He also added that while the company “wasn’t making much money” in that segment, it was developing its own five-megapixel CMOS sensor to be used in a (presumably mid-range) Kodak-branded digicam. More interesting, however, was the addition that this very sensor would also make its way into “several Motorola cell phones by the end of the year.” Unsurprisingly, Mr. Perez was fairly tight-lipped about any further details on the deal, but it’s about time we saw something more advanced than a grainy 1.3-megapixel shooter built into mainstream handsets.
