Mobile Phones Review

Looking for a new way to experience music in a fashionable way? Here comes the latest edition of mobile phone from Motorola. Moto U9 comes in stylish pink, purple and black color in an open-and-shut clamshell features with glossy front and external music player touch controls. It has that rubber feel on the back of the phone with front mirrored in metallic paint-job-on-plastic look. There’s a hidden external display that glows out of the casing when it is active. It gives a spectacular way to show messages and calls, it also serves as viewfinder for camera and even displays music player with sensitive touch controls for easy access. It aims at mass-market-pick-up despite the fact that it faces stiff price competition. 

Specs from Motorola website:

Motoyuva 396 has been released in India. You already must be familiar with this Moto as this was talked about back in August when initially announced.

The Clamshell model sure seems to have more to its kitty than what was written about back then. The 1.8 inch 128×160, 65k color screen ensures clarity and good readability feature, the MP3 player which comes integrated together with a VGA camera, and FM radio with RDS has an additional feature to record FM radio and later use it as ringtone.

Then you have the music player which is an upgraded version of the Music ID application. You also have the MOTOMUSIC coming as an integral part of the phone. The Flight mode feature follows suit which enables usage of handset without the SIM. Interestingly this was available only in certain high-end segment handsets. 

Motoyuva W396 is available for Rs 4,199 - Rs.4,424.

MOTO VE66 is Motorola’s CrystalTalk audio technology enhanced handset. The slider with its appealing looks boasts of its widgets integration which offers smooth access to favorite sports scores, stock tickers, RSS feeds.

It offers crisp images from its 5mp camera and an amazing audio experience through its MP3 player. The CrystalTalk technology enables MOTO VE66 to amplify conversations and minimizes background noise.

A second microphone to enhance audio quality, a dedicated camera key, auto focus,LED flash, image stabilization feature, automatic color saturation, integrated FM radio with RDS, Wi-Fi connectivity and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks support all go in the making of this 5mp camera phone - MOTO VE66.

Easy navigation using the FastScroll one-touch navigation wheel is another feature to be noted. The MP3 player with USB 2.0 ensures high-speed access to data as well as downloads. MOTO VE66 is going to be available in Q4 2008.

VE538 is not official yet but quite evident on their website.

The handset is very cute and has a colorful outlook. It’s 3G enabled with support for GPRS/EDGE. The handset also features a 2 megapixel camera with a Shozu client pre-installed for blogging or uploading images.

The handset comes with 10MB of internal memory that’s expandable with microSD cards up to 4GB. Other features include a media player that reads AMR, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3 ,WMA, WAV, XMF, SP-MIDI and MIDI file formats, a video player that is compatible with MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, Windows Media, 3GP playback MPEG-4n and H.263 recording (.3gp file format).

Since there is no official launch the pricing hasn’t been revealed yet.

Motorola the mobile phone leader has always been known for its appeal among the youth. To cash on its appeal, some time back, the company launched a Yuva series. This series of mobile phones was designed with youth in the mind. Recently Motorola has announced the addition of three new mobile phones in this range.

The three phones that have been added by the company are the MOTOYUVA W388, A810 and ZN200.

Out of the three, the YUVA W388 is a multimedia candy bar phone with an amazingly efficient MP3 player. The phone can also recognize songs with its MusicID application. It also has a FM radio which can show the name of the song and the artist. It also lets the user record songs being played on the FM radio.

The YUVA A810, on the other hand is a touch screen phone. The phone has features like an easy menu navigation facility, personalized shortcuts, handwriting recognition etc. the phone also has an inbuilt MP3 player that gives a choice to choose from multiple visualizers.

The YUVA ZN200 is a slider handset that has a wonderful 2 mega pixel camera which displays the results on its 1.9″ display. The phone also has Motorola’s Crystal Talk technology which makes talking on the phone more convenient and easy.

Motorola Motozine ZN5 a combined effort of many, comes up with a high quality mobile phone to give you the camera experience to explore and share your creative side with others. Motorola and Kodak have come out with this world class innovation - MOTOROLA MOTOZINE ZN5, combining Motorola’s ModeShift Technology and KODAK Imaging Technology.

The Kodak lens cover slides across to open and reveal a 5mp  2560×1920 pixels ultra fast camera with autofocus, a Xenon flash, video recording at 15fps, 4GB of optional external memory and optimized settings for low-light environments. Read the rest of this entry »