Motorola C139
Cingular is getting a new phone from Motorola, the Motorola C139, a budget conscious phone for those that can’t afford some of the crazy mobile phones out there these days.
The C139 does not have many features, but it is not aimed at being the everything to everyone device. It includes a small 65k color LCD screen with a resolution of 96×65 pixels, which is tiny by today’s standards. It also supports polyphonic ringtones, not MP3 or other fancy formats, and has an iTap predictive text entry. You also get a calendar application inside of the tiny bit of memory on the device, but there is not much else worth mentioning.
For the low price of $39.99 USD, you can get it online through Cingular, which includes a $10 credit for GoPhone airtime. It does not get much more simple than this. Atleast the unit looks pretty nice though.
Moto Q versus RIM Blackberry 7130c
Popgadget placed a quick versus battle between Motorola’s new Q against RIM’s new Blackberry 7130c and who comes out on top? Motorola, by a hair.
For most users, perhaps the most significant drawback of the Moto Q is the absence of push email ability without using SMS or a third-party client. The Blackberry conveniently scores here as Cingular’s BlackBerry Internet Service provides push email to the handset. However, for me personally, the absence of integrated push email facility is not really vital, as I am not a keen instant email user. The other drawback with the Moto Q is that there is no possibility of using the device as an EV-DO modem for a PC, which could be rather disappointing.
Overall, however, my first impressions of the Motorola Q place it a notch higher than the Blackberry 7130c. This time around, Motorola seems to have goten it right, and this phone has potential as a Blackberry killer.
I think without a push e-mail service, no other device will beat out the Blackberry, as that is one of the most important uses of such a device. I honestly don’t understand, with the drawbacks listed, how the Motorola Q comes out on top.
Motorola Q Review
Mobile Burn has a review up on the Motorola Q a device much like the BlackBerry from RIM that everyone loves, and that is what they compare it to many times throughout the review. It has been recently released on Verizon Wireless’ CDMA EV-DO network.
Physically, the Motorola Q is much like a traditional RIM BlackBerry that has been stretched a bit longer, narrower, and thinner. It measures 116mm x 66mm x 12mm (4.6″ x 2.6″ x .5″) in size. When compared to the Palm Treo 700p we just reviewed, the Q is 3mm longer (if you ignore the 700p’s stub antenna), 6mm wider, and about half as thick. When you consider that the Q weighs only 122g (4.3oz) with a miniSD card inserted, you end up with a very pocketable device that weighs 15 to 50g less than the competition. That’s something that Motorola can be proud of.
In the end they gave it a rating of highly recommended as it is compact, light, slick looking, is EV-DO enabled, and has a reasonably easy to use QWERTY keyboard. Some of the downsides of the unit include a short battery life, mediocre camera, and the lack of any WiFi abilities.
Motorola Phones Give off Most Radiation
If you put stock in the cell phones give people cancer claims, then you might want to not buy a Motorola.
Motorola managed to score the top eight spots in a list compiled by Cnet of phones with high radiation levels, as tested by the FCC. Tje phones are all given SAR levels, which measures the quantity of radio frequencey energy absorbed by the body per kilogram of organic tissue.
Most of the phones are nearly a decade old, but a two month old C290 made the cut, and at the top of the list is the SLVR L6 which comes it a at SAR level of 1.58W/kg, nearing the maximum of 1.6W/kg.
Motorola PVOT Concept Phone
Remember the $100 Laptop concept, where as an alternative to charging the battery from AC-power, the hinge actually contains a hand-crank to load up the battery with some juice while in the field? Well, motorola has just the thing for mobile phones: the PVOT concept phone. Techblog has the skinny:
Designed for developing nations, the Motorola PVOT is a hand crank, rechargeable AA battery powered phone. You get one minute of use for every 25 cranks. Other features include a 125 x 125 Dot Matrix LCD and an “Eraser Shield” keypad. No word yet on if this concept will go into production.
Cellphone9 says it’s a DMB CNCEPT, but hey, there’s a market for self-charging mobiles. Okay, there are concept solar-cell paneled mobile batteries, but this one’s more robust (you can’t charge a solar-cell under the moon!), in my opinion. And the use of AA also helps–I used to own an AA-powered Motorola (back in the heyday of analog phones), and it was cool that I didn’t fear losing juice in the middle of nowhere as long as I had AA cells to replace the rechargeable pack with.
Motorola Patents Shocking New Silent Alert System
Mobile Burn with the heads up on a development from Motorola that you can definetly call shocking.
Motorola has recently received a patent for a completely silent way of alerting users to incoming calls and messages. No, this isn’t the usual vibrating system - the Motorola patent involves alerting the owner using mild electric shock.
The system, not unlike the massage and weight loss systems currently available on the market today, uses a small pad containing electrodes that are wirelessly linked to a handset. When an event occurs on the handset, an electric potential is placed across the electrodes, stimulating the skin and underling muscles, thus alerting the wearer.
Better warn people with heart problems before you toss them your cell phone.
Motorola’s Slim SLVR L7 Review
Mobile Burn is talking about the SLVR L7 from Motorola.
While it took a year’s worth of time and a name change to get to us, the Motorola SLVR L7 has finally arrived in most world markets. First introduced as the SLVR V8 back at 3GSM 2005 and later renamed to the L7, the SLVR was designed to do to the candy bar form factor what the Motorola RAZR V3 did to the clamshell. It appears to be working to some extent, too, since we are starting to see a fair number of SLVR-like devices coming out of Asia.
The Quad-band GSM/GPRS SLVR L7 has gone through a number of specification changes since its initial introduction, as well. The L7 is, as I mentioned, no longer a triband device, and no longer supports EDGE. People who have been following the device for a long time (or are reading old web pages) might notice other discrepancies, as well.
They basically say that this is not the phone to use for its camera abilities as it does not have a decent camera, and does not include a flash, but otherwise its a pretty decent phone thus earning a highly recommended rating.
Motorola RAZR V3i Review
Pocket-lint looks at the RAZR V3i, and gives it a good once over.
A manufacturer with the most popular mobile on the market has a problem when it comes to updating that phone: just how do you improve on a product without ruining it? Motorola has obviously decided the way forward is to leave well alone, only pausing to correct a couple of oversights it made in the original.
While the RAZR might be the most popular series of phones, I doubt the V3i will do as well, especially as since it only earned a six out of ten on their rating system. How fast they fall against their competitors…
Motorola PEBL Gets a Colorful Makeover
Increasing popularity by spicing up the colors is something that Motorola knows well, as they did with their RAZR, they are doing with their PEBL.
Now offered in green, pink, blue and orange, the popular PEBL handset can fit any tweens favorite color, though its not as though you really need to buy one, even the Vice President of the company says so…
“We’ve gone from pink to “whoa” - leveraging our leadership in color and design to make the PEBL expressive and refreshing. This is a product you choose because you want it, not because you need it,” said Jim Wicks, Vice President and Director, Consumer Experience Design, Motorola. “Combining a rich experience in technology with the value of self expression, the Motorola PEBL in living color is a break from the traditional and makes a deeper connection between consumer and mobile device - it allows you to directly mix and match your mobile phone style.”
Motorola SLVR L6 Review
Pocket-lint reviews the SLVR L6, a very slim handset from Motorola that not only looks god, but it has some decent features. Very much like the L7, except even smaller, and with a few less features, the L6 is an interesting feature, but will people buy it without all the cool features of the L7 and other such cell phones.
The L6 is the slimmest handset available on the market right now, and unless you want a phone that will snap every time you press a button too vigorously while texting it’s hard to see where it could shed any further micrometers. This handset is seriously thin, 10.9mm! Although it’s still quite wide and slightly taller than an iPod.
What isn’t hard to spot is the L6’s lineage, as it’s a doppelganger for the L7 we’ve looked at previously. It fits in just below it in the brand’s line up, loosing a few extra millimetres and a couple of features on the way. It’s the RAZR V3 and V3i all over again – these handsets are darn close to each other in almost every respect!
For their final rating the phone manages to earn a seven out of a possible ten, as points were taken off for only having a VGA camera and lacking a MP3 player.
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