Motorola Unleashes New High-End Phones
Jul 27, 2004, 12:00 AM by (staff)
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Motorola today announced a slew of new phones with advanced features.
- RAZR V3: One of the world's thinnest clamshell phones. Using unique metal materials and extreme miniaturization, the V3 measures just 0.54" thin. Includes a large TFT main display, color external display, internal antenna, VGA camera, long-range Bluetooth, and quad-band GSM. Available worldwide Fall 2004.
- A780: Linux-based smartphone with unique flip-up keypad. Includes EDGE high-speed data, quad-band GSM, Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, large QVGA touch-screen, TransFlash memory card slot, and wireless sync of email, contacts and calendar. Available worldwide Q4 2004.
- V551: Update to V500, adding EDGE high-speed data and video clip recording. Other features include quad-band GSM and Bluetooth. Available in North America Q4 2004. A V555 variant is also planned for Europe and Asia.
- V620: Update to V600, with new black design and video clip recording. Available Q4 2004.
- CN620: Motorola's first Wi-Fi phone. Operates seamlessly between Wi-Fi and GSM networks. Based on Windows CE technology. (not pictured)
Comments
Quadband
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Even if we are homebodies, most people eventually go somewhere where they need to call home, and if that's out of the U....
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1. The first reason is antennas. Practically all modern GSM phones - especially tri-band ones - technically have quad-band radios, it's just the antenna that's not quad, and the firmware is set to match the antenna.
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You needed at least two power amplifiers and some pretty complex front end circuitry. I don't know of any vendors of RF integrated circuits ...
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Bluetooth
I'm a big bluetooth fan, I love the convenience and universality of it and would absolutely LOVE for it to become as standard as a color screen has become.
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motorola new phones are all GSM!
gsm is the bigger market. you spend tens of millions developing and marketing a phone for the ...
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linkfeeney said:
I think motorola and all other companies are like giving up on verizon and sprint cdma cause it's not worth it!
Not at all. This batch of announcements all happen to be GSM or WCDMA, but that's only...
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all this wait for the v600 then comes the 620 hahah
MrFisch13 said:
after all the commotion and arguing and whining now a better replacement is here ahahah the 620 improve every flaw in the 600
Not to mention the RAZR V3. And T-Mo will have them - some time in 2005, ...
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MrFisch13 said:Now we'll have to wait while Moto fixes all the new flaws in the 620, eh?
after all the commotion and arguing and whining now a better replacement is here ahahah the 620 improve every flaw in the 600
first post!!!
Remember the a840, v710, a630, v180, Mpx220....oh wait...they haven't been released yet. How CAN we remember them if we haven't gotten our hands on them?
That these phones have not been released yet is no surprise. 3-6 months lead time between announcement and r...
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Other Big Motos Announced
You're missing the new 3G Motos (C975 and V975)...
http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,,4 ... »
Pictures can be found here...
http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo »