Motorola has officially announced the follow-up to the iconic RAZR phone, the RAZR 2. The announcement comes with a 360-degree tour on Motorola’s home page, giving a first up-close and personal view on the new RAZR phone.
The new RAZR will come in three versions. The V8, which will be a dark pearl gray color. The V9M, which will have an Espresso color, and the V9 in a pinkish hue. (more…)
We in Asia have to wait till 2007 for the iPhone to arrive, the recent report from FCC has shattered dreams of millions since the widgets were to be substituted by Cingular’s monopolistic services for the mean time, the sole support for 850 and 1900Mhz would make parallel import (or roaming) to most parts of the world impossible.
The Japanese aren’t waiting, so they wrote an iPhone theme for their super high-end Toshiba 911T phone… and unfortunately the whole package does look a lot more attractive than the iPhone itself. Think about it, a 3″ W-VGA screen (800×480 pixels), One-Seg DMB tuner, HSDPA support, a microSD slot with support up to 2GB (plus 1GB internal memory you get 3GB), a battery that lasts more than 40 minutes, an anti-shake 3.2MP camera with autofocus, removable battery (thank god), Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF document reader, bluetooth A2DP supporting streaming to HiFis, a slider with a real keypad, 3 shiny color variations… we can also pick up the Oakley A2DP sunglasses with headphones. If you live in Japan, forget about the darn iPhone. –Sam Chan
Hong Kong based iDo launched its new line of P890 smartphones which run the Windows Mobile 5.0 PPC Phone Edition OS with Push Mail. It might look kind of clunky, but it’s one of those phones that packs in enough meat to make it worth it.
With a Freescale iMX21 350 MHz processor doing the powering deed along with a 128 MB Flash ROM and 64MB RAM, the P890 packs in enough power for the typical power-user. Its 2.8″ 260k LTPS TFT LCD color display won’t disappoint those who are looking for a hard worker rather then a feature powerhouse.
In addition, the P890 can record MPEG4 video and supports MPEG4, H.263, 3GP, ASF, WMV video, MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, and AAC+ audio files. A 3 MP camera, QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 1.2, and an A2DP, miniSD slot tops it off. Measuring in at 126 x 59.4 x 22.4 mm and 195g.
The iDo P890 is now available in Hong Kong for 4980 Hong Kong dollars. We like them a little sleeker then the P890, but to each his own.
Softbank announces today their strongest ever multimedia phone, the 911T manufactured by Toshiba. This slider houses a 3″ W-VGA screen (480×800 pixels) in its 17.9mm thin sliding body (4mm thinner than the Toshiba W52T slider, 51×112x17.9mm 142g). The phone runs on Softbank’s 3.6Mbps HSDPA network, receives One-Seg digital TV service, comes with Bluetooth A2DP profile so you can connect your stereo headphones wirelessly, you can also stream music to supported bluetooth HiFi’s. Toshiba has partnered Oakley to design a pair of sunglasses with stereo bluetooth headphones on it, these cool looking glasses will come with the phone as you buy it, so be prepared to pay for quite a bit. The camera is a 3.2 megapixel CMOS with autofocus and anti-handshake functions; internal memory is 1GB and you con expand it with microSD up to 2GB (that’s 3GB altogether). The standard highend features such as MS Office document reader, full HTML browser and Felica electronic money chip are all built in. This mad phone will go on sale in March, expect it to be a hit. Jump for more pics.
