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Music lovers, photography savants and cellular phone enthusiasts, unite! Motorola’s offering, the ROKR E8, has ultimately merged the power of phone, camera and music player all in one package and no single feature has compromised for the benefit of the other. ROKR E8 has seen the fad coming, incorporating 2GB of internal memory plus a 4GB card support for everyone’s multimedia needs. Cherish such big space and put as much photos and music as you want, and bring them all together, anywhere!

Released in April 2008, the ROKR E8 has a dimension of 115 x 53 x 10.6 mm and has a weight of 100 grams. Its large 2 inch (320 x 240 pixels) QVGA 262k color TFT display has 256K colors and incorporates a navigation scroll wheel (also known as the “Omega Wheel”) that allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library via the slide of a thumb and a touch-sensitive keypad. The big thing with the keypad is that is the most innovative feature in the package, with its controls changing in every mode. In the phone mode, the digits would remain as a number, in camera mode, it would change to zoom in and zoom out and in music, it will become play/pause, shuffle and repeat.

Ring tones come in polyphonic, MP3 or AAC formats and the phones, includes a 3.5 mm headset jack for those who feels more convenience in using a headset in accepting calls. Going back to its memory, it can allot call records to 50 dialed, 50 received and 50 missed calls.

ROKR E8 is Bluetooth-enabled and supports A2DP, HSP, HFP, FTP, DUN, OPP and other profiles. It can be synched in a PC and is armed with a version 2.0 USB. Messaging with ROKR E8 can be done via MMS, 2-way text messaging and E-mail, with PoP3, IMAP 4 and SMTP protocols support. It also includes an iTAP-technology predictive text entry feature. You can connect to the Internet via WAP. It lacks Infrared and 3G features.

Among its stunning feature is the 2.0 mega pixel camera which can accommodate pictures with 1500 x 1200 pixel-dimensions as well as video. The maximum video length is dependent on the remaining memory. Also, add up the 8x zoom, multi-shot, and video capture and playback features. The music feature, on the other hand, includes stereo FM radio with 30 presets and music player that supports any of the following formats: AAC, AAC+, MP3, WAV, WMA and Real Audio. Airplane mode is also added to play uninterrupted music in the air, even with the lack of a SIM card. Another outstanding feature is the presence of the talk feature that offers a voice readout of text messages while dialing number or when receiving a call.

One of the biggest criticisms of the ROKR E8 is its supposed more focus on the music feature than on the phone features, nevertheless the phone deserves an applause for jumping into a different terrain still considered as one of the best emerging phones to watch for.

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The reinvented sliding design that Motorola RIZR Z8 possesses is what it boasts for. This smart phone model, pronounced as “riser,” also goes by the much simpler name, MOTO Z8, has its sliding design feature a combination of aesthetic and great function, allowing the phone to curve on itself to conform to the user’s face when he/she talks on it. Definitely, the availability of the clamshell design of previous RAZR models are always in the run for comparison, but MOTO Z8 deservingly rise itself as a hipper, more stylish way to communicate. Before RIZR Z10 was released, Z9 has been Motorola’s flagship phone.

Owning a dimension of 109 x 50 x 15 mm and weighing 112 grams, the MOTO Z8 boasts its 2.2 inch, TFT-type 16 million-color QVGA display (240 x 320 pixels). It also includes a 2.0 mega-pixel camera, screensavers and wallpapers, although users can also download new ones. Just like other smart phones, it also features ring tones, both polyphonic and mp3 formats. It also includes a card slot for microSD although it already has a 77MB internal memory. Its battery life is impressive as well, with five hours (talk time) and 380 hours (standby time).

Its phonebook is practically unlimited, as well as its call records, so storing your friends’ contacts, definitely if you have lots of them, will never be an issue anymore.

And just like other recent phones, it features photo caller ID, ringer ID, ringer profiles and voice dialing. Other add-on features are alarm, calculator, calendar, to-do-list and voice recorder.Messaging capabilities of MOTO Z8 includes SMS (text messaging) MMS, and E-mail clients, as well as the predictive text entry feature and text messaging template. It also features 3.6Mbps HSDPA providing mobile broadband and Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, AVRCP, DUN, HFP and SPP, and fax capability. The phone’s software is being run by the Symbian UIQ operating system and can be connected to the Internet via the WAP 2.0 web browser. As it was designed in the newest 3G GSM network, MOTO Z8 is very much commendable in all types of data and voice transmission.

As like other seemingly perfect phones, the MOTO Z8 wouldn’t pass the perfect remark. One of the greatest issues the it is facing is the lack of protective casing that shall cover the display of the buttons, making it prone to scratches that may damage the phone. The other big problem lies on its choice of backend operating system. Although the Symbian could be a promising choice, a question in stability has always been brought up and it could affect the speed and usability of the phone. Nonetheless, the MOTO Z8 is a beautiful catch, especially if you are looking for a phone that you think will give you the edge in the world of fashion and convenient living in the now-growing sophisticated communication world.

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Celebrating the likes of the Motorola’s Q series (e.g. Q9h and Q9c), the Q9m is a refreshing smart phone that offers a QWERTY keyboard (a newly-designed ones) and also runs in the Windows Mobile 6 Operating System. Q9m boasts a lot of improvements as compared to earlier mobile phones. Basically, it is the first Smart Phone to have to separate home screens for standard and multimedia, whereas the multimedia screen which allows easy access to music, videos, camera, pictures and others. Easily put, the Motorola Q9m is the perfect mobile phones for the young professionals, those who want to look for a way to detoxify with multimedia havens.

Weighing at 135 grams, with dimensions 4.64 x 2.63″ x 0.47 inches, the Q9m is slightly slimmer yet heavier than the Black Berry, the unit where the Motorola Q series is much compared to. The Q9m’s design has been judged as more professional-looking as compared to earlier Q models. It is constructed with a combination of metal, glass and plastic materials with red striping traveling around the perimeters and the sides of the keyboard of the phone. The lithium ion battery of Q9m can stand the test of time 212 hours untouched, while 4.55 hours in talk time.

Q9m has a standard 65K Color 320×240 Pixel QVGA Display. Just like Q9h, it also features a landscape display for better viewing of websites.

The screen is 2.4 inches, quite larger than the displays of normal cell phones. It’s quite problematic to use it in direct sunlight and there is no setting to adjust its contrast and brightness levels. The camera, although, was quite downgraded from the 2.0 mega pixel of the Q9h, to 1.3 mega pixel. It also includes a large-sized 5-way navigation D-Pod for answering. And although the keypads are smaller than earlier models, it is rounder and much easier pressed.

The phonebook is also an impressive feature, giving its users the chance to store a number of information for a contact. With this, you can input as much data to a single person (First Name, Last Name, Work Phone, Mobile Phone, Home Phone, Custom Ringtone, Picture, E-Mail, IM, Work 2, Home 2, Company Phone, Categories, Pager, Car Phone, Work Fax, Home Fax, Assistant Phone, Radio Phone, E-Mail 2, E-Mail 3, IM2, IM3, Web Page, File As, Company Name, Department, Job Title, Office Address, Home Address, Notes, Nickname, Birthday, Anniversary, Manager, Government ID, Account Name, Customer ID, Spouse, Children, and Assistant). Aside from the phonebook, it also includes the following features: alarm, calculator, calendar (Organizer), To-do list and voice recorder.

Q9m also features Bluetooth 2.0 and supports hands Free, personal network, stereo headset and keyboard input. An Internet Explorer program is preloaded in the program and it’s the only way of accessing the Internet. It also includes the Windows Media Player that can play MP3 and WMA audio files, as well as videos and the quality of music is impressive.

As a general conclusion, the Q9m is definitely one of the best smart phones available and its probably one of the most innovative ones, especially with the availability of the Multimedia Home Screen. Definitely, this is a must-have for multimedia lovers.

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The ever-growing and evolving mobile technology has been trying to surpass every mobile unit out in the market and offer something new, with the goal of advancing each new product release an innovative functionality and slowly stuffing out all the features of the bulky personal computer into one small mobile phone. With this emerge the popularity of such mobile havens like the Blackberry which gave rise to the popularity of pocket e-mail. Recently, Motorola has introduced what others have been declaring as Blackberry’s competitor, the Motorola Q9h. Just like other Motorola phones, the Q9h is well-known for its style and design, sporting a slick slim look. It was formerly known as Q Q9, a 3G HSDPA GSM phone but with a few change and improvement in specifications, it was then renamed into what it is more popular name.

With dimensions 4.64″ x 2.63 x 0.46 inches, Q9h is slightly slimmer than the Black Berry, but is heavier at 134 grams. Equipped with a spacious QWERTY keyboard, the Q9h is one great text messaging device. The keyboard of the Q9h has been hailed as one of the market’s best as typing has been a very convenient task to do with it. It can send text messages and MMS as well, and it also includes the predictive text entry feature. Its lithium ion battery is impressive for standing the test of time at 480 hours or 20 days (standby time) and 6.5 hours (talk time).

This slim Windows Mobile smart phone is very distinguishable with its landscape-oriented display, the larger width making it a more convenient tool for texting and Internet browsing. The colored LCD display has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and has 65, 536 colors. Q9h’s 2.0 mega pixel camera features fixed focusing and an LED flash. You can also capture video clips at a resolution of QVGA (320×240 pixels. The phone also includes a music player that supports MP3, AAC, WMA and MPEG4 and video streaming as well. It also includes GPS navigation. And just like other smart phones, the Q9h also offers the following tools: alarm, calculator, calendar, To-Do list and voice recorder.

Q9h is a quad-band GSM that makes it work in networks on any continent. It 3G support on the other hand is limited depending on the version. It’s just a shame that Q9h doesn’t have WiFi or wireless LAN. The phone has Bluetooth and can support HFP, A2DP, AVRC and other list of profiles. It can also play Java applications. One can visit the Internet via Opera 8.6 web browser. And unlike other Windows Mobile 6 phones, Q9h is equipped with “Documents To Go” applications instead of the Microsoft Mobile Office applications which is used to open Word, Excel and PowerPoint files although they are not that good as compared with the Mobile Office.

As long as performance is at stake, the Q9h can be a commendable one, both as a computer and phone although it has been flunked by other users for the lack of WiFi. The only sure thing is that, Q9h is the phone that emerged as a rival for the BlackBerry phones.

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With similar styling to the MOTORAZR, the Motorola Q9c is a Windows Mobile 6 Smart phone, and is the second generation Motorola Q. It was out in the market in November 2007 and has been hailed for being a more ergonomic version of the Q series. Basically, the slim Q9c is a big improvement of the earlier phones of its line.

The phone itself embodies a sophisticated slick appearance, sporting a black casing with nice chrome accent, and incorporates a slim dimension of 4.61 x 2.56 x 0.47 inches, Q9c weighs 135 grams. It doesn’t have a touch screen unlike other smart phones in the market, featuring a full QWERTY keypad instead, as well as side keys. It also includes a 2.5 mm headset jack for those who prefer accepting calls via the headset and microphone. The life of its Lithium Ion battery is somewhat impressive, with 212 hours of standby time and 4.5 hours of talk time. It also has an internal antenna.

The TFT LCD-type display boasts a 16-bit 65,536 colors and has a resolution of 320×240 pixels. The camera is able to take 1.3 mega-pixels photos and also includes an LED flash. In addition, it can also capture videos with 30 seconds the maximum length. Qc9 is also enabled with video streaming.

Data messaging with Qc9 includes SMS, MMS and E-mail and it also has support with AIM, Yahoo and MSN. It includes a music player which supports MP3, AAX, AAC+, WAV, XMF and Real formats and an external speaker. Application in Q9c enables its users to view and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents via the Microsoft Office Mobile Suite. Other essential business features included in the Qc9 are the following: calendar, contacts, to-do list, alarm, calculator, voice recorder, and task and memory managers. The phone book includes features such as ringer ID, ringer profiles, voice dialing and photo caller ID.

An EV-DO handset, the Qc9 lets its users to enjoy data speeds as fast as 2.4Mbps. It offers Sprint TV support which enables you to watch live TV like CNN. Comedy Central, Sprint Exclusive Entertainment and the NFL Network, as well as live streaming music radio from MTV Mobile and VH1 Mobile. However, these services aren’t free and will require you to subscribe at $20 per month if you want to avail the service.

Just like other smart phones, it is Bluetooth and GPS enabled. The former wireless connectivity option can be used with mono and stereo Bluetooth headsets, objects exchange, file sharing and dial-up networking. The latter one can turn the phone into a handheld navigator which is very usable during business trips and other travels. Unfortunately, the phone doesn’t have an integrated WiFi, although one can attach a miniSD Wi-Fi card.

Although the phone has been praised by critics and ordinary users alike, the phone has been quite stashed out by the bulky extended battery and its stiff keyboard. With such minor glitches, the phone is still highly recommendable for its impressive performances.

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If you are looking for a mobile phone that offers the most commendable of features while in itself an impressive aesthetic work, then Motorola A1200 or most popular on its other name, is the most recommended product for an important wrap of fashion and function. This smarphone of stunning beauty is the fourth generation of Motorola’s Linux devices. It is armed with Bluetooth, a document viewer, FM radio, music player, and a business card reader.

Love at first sight would always bring a prospective buyer to the Motorola Ming. Boasting a sophisticated clamshell design in colors blue, red or black, it has a dimension is 95.7 x 51.7 x 21.5 mm and weighs 122 grams. Ming’s screen is unusually and interestingly located at the bottom of the flip-top. The top portion is made of plastic to serve as the touch screen’s

protection from dust and scratches. Touch screen haters need not attempt to buy this product because there are no keypads in this unit, with all your inputs totally dependent to the touch screen, a TFT Color type of display with a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 262,144 18-bit colors. It is also equipped with handwriting and speech recognition, both in English and in Chinese. There are three vestigial buttons in the phone’s front part. And despite the relatively smaller dimensions of its touch screen, it is easy to work with.

Battery life is impressive at 7.4 hours talk time and 7.1 days standby time. It has a card slot for a micro SD card that can store up to 2 GB size of files. It has 8 MB built-in user memory and 3.5 MB phonebook memory and has an Intel XScale 312MHz processor. Ming has a built-in mini-USB connector as well as Bluetooth connection which support a variety of profiles: HSP, HFP, AVRC, OPP and a lot more.

Messaging with Ming can be done via Email, MMS and SMS, while one can choose to make or accept voice calls via the speaker phone or a headset jack. Additional features include FM radio, Real One Player that supports MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC+ and AMR music formats and video files, a 2.0 megapixel camera, and a video capture with a maximum length of two hours. The camera produces a decent photo quality with noticeable flaws especially in the oranges and reds which usually appear very unnatural.

It also includes a talking dictionary and one game, Extreme Air Snowboarding, although you are free to download more games and applications in your convenience, Despite the beauty Ming possesses, a lot of enthusiasts have been disappointed with the absence of 3G and Wi-Fi, and the low internal memory.

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Motorola i930 is one of the two of the first iDEN smart phones released by Motorola. The Motorola i930 brings in almost the same features brought by its predecessor, the Motorola i920, only to include a built-in camera, to the delight for photo aficionados, which has actually been a basic feature among usual smart phones in the market. The i930 has been considered an underrated gadget, as it has shown that many are still under the tail of the more established smart phones, without realizing the i930’s potential power.

Lovers of the Motorola i930 have focused much on the advantage of it being an all-in-one mobile device, wrapping up essential functions like messaging, calendar, media player, recorder, calculator, alarm clock, camera, contacts list, notes and a lot more in one package. Although its interoperability lies mainly for sandwiching iDEN, WiDEN and GSM in one, and this seems to invite executives and businessmen who would most likely prefer to have a single number wherever they are located in the world and use it anytime.

Although much has been talked about i930’s poor battery capabilities, Lithium Ion with a standby time of four days and a talk time that lasts to 2.75 hours, there’s a lot of praise behind its magnificent features, much of which is a replica to that of the little earlier i920.

This clamshell phone has dimensions of 3.46 x 1.93 x 1.18 inches or 88 x 49 x 30 mm and weighs 5.9 oz. It has a retractable antenna, a 2.5 mm headset jack as well as side keys. The camera, which has been absent from the prior model, is one such feature for i930, with VGA LED flash which outputs are greatly displayed on the phone’s colored TFT LCD display with 16-bit 65,536 colors and a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels. A second display is also included in the front, with 4,096 colors and a resolution of 96 x 65 pixels. Video streaming and music player is also included in i930, a surely important feature for multimedia enthusiasts. It supports MP4, H.263, WMV formats for video and MIDI, WAV, AU, VSELP, AMR, MP3, AMBE, WMA formats for music in Windows Media Player.

Data messaging proves to be i930’s forte as it includes Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), SMS, MSN Messenger and POP3, SMTP and IMAP4 e-mail clients. It also features Predictive Text Entry function that allows users to enter text by pressing only one key per letter. This smart phone, with a built-in 64 MB and additional SD memory slot, is powered by Windows Mobile Standard, 2003 Edition operating system, another common criticism for not using the more upgraded Windows Mobile 5.0. It has a 180 MHz processor and a 32MB separately allotted for RAM and ROM. It can also be connected through a main computer via the USB port and through the Internet with WAP and the Pocket Internet Explorer. Just like the i920, i930 is criticized being not blue-tooth capable, although some would pass this as a minute mishap for i920, although such additional feature could have helped it rise above the mobile phone pedestal.

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While the majority of the techie-savvy community has been rejoicing to the inclusion of cameras in the modern cellular phone technology, the minority may find the feature automation a limitation of choice. Basically all smart phones have been camera-enabled, as the technology has been subsequently passed to newer cellular phone models, but taking away camera non-enthusiasts’ freedom of choice. In fact, a lot of businesses don’t actually allow the use of cameras during work hours and the incorporation of such technology would mean a much effortless form of violating a rule. The problem has in a way solved when Motorola i920 has been introduced to the market, a camera-less smart phone. The unit has also been Motorola’s first wave of iDEN Protocol-based smart phones, along side Motorola i930.

Motorola i920 sports a dimension of 3.46 x 1.93 x 1.18 inches (or 88 x 49 x 30 mm) and weighs 5.9 oz (or 167 grams). This clamshell-designed smart phone includes a push-to-open spring-loaded hinge and an extendable (retractable) antenna. It has side keys for controlling its volume and voice memo functions and a 2.5 mm headset jack, which has been formerly common only to CD and MP3 players.  Offering 4,096 colors, i920 boasts its Color TFT/TFD LCD display technology that showcases an excellent quality of image and response time for the consumers to experience, especially with the phone’s 176 x 220 pixels resolution.

A second display is also included, located in the front part of the phone. Although the phone doesn’t include a camera, music and video enthusiasts can enjoy their own media through the Windows Media Player.

i920 is both enabled with SMS and MMS capabilities, and also features a predictive text entry function which allows users to enter text by pressing only one key per letter as well as text messaging templates. Battery used for i920 is Lithium Ion and has a standby time of 95 hours and a talk time of 2.8 hours, although many criticisms have been bombarded to this model because of its poor battery life.

The phone is powered by the Windows Mobile Operating System, and is enabled with Java applications, E-mail client features and the Pocket Internet Explorer as web browser. Users can also send and receive faxes and data files via the i920, which makes it a very useful business device and can retrieve and save files to and from computer through the USB Port. It also includes an Infrared port.

Motorola i920 has been much criticized for its lack of built-in Bluetooth and its use of the un-upgradeable Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition for its operating system rather than utilizing Windows Mobile 5.0. The application locking which doesn’t permit installation of non-smart phone software has also been raised as an issue. However, it the phone is practically hailed for being an “all-in-one” device, containing all essential elements in one sophisticatedly looking package: calendar, contacts, tasks, lists, notes, protected information, media player, recorder and more.

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