Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Motorola in Barcelona: Z6w and two entry phones

Motorola officially announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the release of three new mobile phones: MOTO Z6w, Motorola W161 and Motorola W181.

Motorola Z6w
Motorola Z6w is a quad-band GSM/EDGE running on the MOTOMAGX, Motorola's Linux-Java OS. With the absence of HSDPA, the most notable feature of this slider is the UMA support and Wi-Fi, which by the way is the only upgrade over the ROKR Z6.

MOTO Z6w is the latest Wi-Fi enabled handset from the American company, and with the GSM and WLAN compatibility it comes to broaden users' wireless world for making calls, Internet browsing and multimedia fun by extending beyond multiple service areas, automatically switching networks to provide high-speed wireless services.

Motorola Z6w has a 2" QVGA TFT display. As a music-oriented phone, Z6w supports Windows Media Player 11 with DRM compatibility. The Z6w carries other media must-haves like instant messaging, a 2 megapixel camera without autofocus, MP3 and MPEG-4 video player. Listening to music over stereo Bluetooth headphones is possible thanks to the Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP support. Built in storage space is 64MB, expandable via microSD cards.
Motorola W181 and W161
The other two handsets are the low-end Motorola W181 and Motorola W161. They cover the basic phone features, and come in unassuming candy bar packages.
Motorola W181 and W161 will be available in two dual-band versions. The key differences between units are in the display, dimensions, phonebook and SMS entries.
W181 has a 65K 128 x 128 pixel CSTN display, while W161 carries a monochrome display in the same resolution.

The phonebook of W181 stores up to 500 entries, while the other handset has only 200 entries. The number of stored messages varies from 750 to 200, again in favor of W181.

In terms of design, W181 has slightly elevated keys, while the W161 offers the typical flatbed keypad.

The other features and applications that both phones integrate are CrystalTalk, speakerphone, FM radio, calculator, currency converter and calendar. The phones also support 7 African languages, as along with Hindi and English.

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