Motorola Replaces Chief With an Insider

Motorola said yesterday that its chief executive, Edward J. Zander, was stepping down, a development applauded by the dissident shareholder Carl C. Ic

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Edward J. Zander is resigning as chief executive of Motorola. He will keep ties to the company.

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Gregory Q. Brown

Wall Street had expected Mr. Zander to step down as the company struggled to revive its troubled mobile division. He is being succeeded by Gregory Q. Brown, the chief operating officer who has led four of the company’s business units since his arrival four years ago.

Mr. Icahn applauded the ouster of Mr. Zander, saying it was long past due, but said it was not nearly enough to turn the company around.

“I believe that the steps announced today do not even begin to address the major problems at Motorola,” Mr. Icahn said.

A split would allow the wireless products division to attract top-flight executives, he said.

After seeing its share of the cellphone market surge a few years ago on the runaway success of the fashionable Razr phone — the company sold a record 100 million of the devices — Motorola failed to refresh its product line. It began to cut prices, which hurt its profit margins. Motorola’s share of the mobile phone market has fallen to third place, behind Samsung and the market leader, Nokia.

“The greatest challenges are in mobile devices, returning it to profitability and extending its product portfolio,” Mr. Brown said in an interview yesterday. “It improved significantly in its move to profitability, but there’s a lot more work to do.”

The news of Mr. Zander’s departure had little effect on Motorola stock. Shares closed up 32 cents at $15.97 in regular trading.

Mr. Zander, 60, will continue to serve as chairman until the annual shareholders meeting in May. Mr. Zander will also serve as strategic adviser to the chief executive and as a nonofficer employee through Jan. 5, 2009, the company said.

It said Mr. Zander was entitled to a $5.3 million bonus and to all options and restricted stock units that vest before his retirement. But he will not receive a severance payment or any unvested equity because he is stepping down, the company said.

Mr. Brown, 47, joined Motorola in 2003 from Micromuse, a network software company, and became president and chief operating officer in March. Mr. Zander said that he told the board two years ago that Mr. Brown would be a good candidate to lead the company.

“I began throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him,” Mr. Zander said in an interview. “He is a known quantity and a great leader.”

Mr. Brown managed the $3.9 billion acquisition of Symbol Technologies, the second-largest transaction in Motorola’s history, and is credited with returning the company’s automotive business to profitability. He also expanded the company’s government and public safety business. “Thank God Greg developed as fast as he did,” Mr. Zander said.

But some Wall Street investors analysts had thought Motorola might name a successor for Mr. Zander from outside the company, perhaps seeing an opportunity for a more significant change of direction.

“This says the board likes the plan and is focused on execution,” said Bill Choi, an analyst with Jefferies & Company. “We’ll have to wait and see.”

Paul Sagawa, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, described Mr. Brown as a “blank slate.” The key will be whether, under his leadership, Motorola can produce the kinds of technologies that can help it turn itself around, Mr. Sagawa said. “The cavalry has been slow in coming when it comes to new products,“ he said.

Mr. Zander insisted Friday that the decision to leave now was his own, and that he was looking forward to time with his family. Mr. Zander came to Motorola in 2004 about a year after resigning as president of Sun Microsystems. At the time, he was serving as a managing director at Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm in Menlo Park, Calif.

Mr. Zander has felt considerable shareholder pressure this year, most notably from Mr. Icahn, the billionaire investor, who led a fight for a seat on Motorola’s board. But at Motorola’s annual shareholders meeting in May, Mr. Icahn lost a proxy fight for a board seat, and Mr. Zander promised investors a turnaround this year.

Cellphone Envy Lays Motorola Low

When the sleek Motorola Razr V3 cellphone first hit the stores just over two years ago, it carried the price tag of a must-have status symbol: $500.

Now? About $30 with a two-year service contract.

Motorola’s fortunes have plunged along with the price of its Razr. Its profits have collapsed, and it announced plans last month to lay off 3,500 workers. Since last October, its stock has dropped 30 percent, attracting the attention of the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn, who bought 40 million shares last week on a bet that he could push the company to do better.

At first glance, the company’s troubles are puzzling. Almost one billion mobile phones are sold worldwide each year, and Motorola has almost a quarter of the market. Consumers are also replacing their phones faster, on average less than every two years.

But the cellphone business is still relatively young, and Motorola is learning a cruel new lesson about consumer tastes in phones. An industry that has focused more on microchips, screen size and data speed is finding it has more in common with the fashion business.

Today, a phone’s value reflects not so much what it can do, but whether it is the envy of friends and colleagues.

Just ask a San Francisco designer, Robert Brunner. Mr. Brunner bought a Razr when it first came out, but he quickly noticed that others did, too.

“I started being one of six people at the meeting with a Razr,” he said. “It went pretty quickly from a coveted object to a commodity-design thing.”

He now carries a black Nokia 8801, which sports a stainless steel keyboard cover that glides open and elicits oohs and aahs from workmates. He winced when his 17-year-old daughter recently bought a Razr for $50, a few hundred dollars less than he paid.

A decline in price was inevitable. People expect to pay less for yesterday’s technology.

But while Motorola earned hundreds of dollars of profit on each Razr during its first year, it makes little on the newer, heavily discounted Razrs — a precipitous drop in profit margin that was behind last quarter’s earnings shortfall.

To replace that revenue, the company needs the same thing as every fashion giant: fresh hits.

Motorola declined to comment for this article, citing legal restrictions on how it can respond to Mr. Icahn’s activities.

But executives have said that in their bid to increase market share in the mobile phone business, the company discounted its older phones too aggressively and that newer models have not sold particularly well.

Analysts and consumers view many of these new phones as mere Razr knock-offs, with derivative, vowel-challenged names like the Pebl, Slvr, Rizr and Rckr.

“Phone manufacturers are only as hot as their last major hit — if they haven’t smacked it over the fence in a while, they’re in trouble,” said Carmi Levy, senior research analyst for the Info-Tech Research Group. “Motorola failed to follow it up with something similarly as big as the Razr.”

Just like fashion houses that shamelessly copy each other’s styles, rivals have also swarmed to duplicate the Razr mystique, flooding the market with thin-phone clones. Last year, Samsung unveiled the 6.9-millimeter-thick SGH-X820, which analysts called the “Slvr-kllr” because it is 40 percent thinner than Motorola’s skinniest handset.

Motorola hoped that its latest phone, the Krzr, would lure back style-conscious consumers willing to spend heavily on a phone. Inside, the Krzr is a completely different animal from the Razr. It has a faster processor, a better digital camera and has access to broadband wireless networks.

At $199 with a two-year contract, the price tag gives Motorola the profit margin it needs to satisfy investors.

But the Krzr also looks a lot like a Razr, albeit with a slightly thinner body, rounded edges and glossy finish. Analysts say that consumers are unwilling to open their wallets for something that appears, at least on the surface, to be yesterday’s style.

The wireless carriers seem to have suspected this. They have not promoted the Krzr heavily in North America, and AT&T — formerly Cingular Wireless, the company that introduced the Razr — did not even carry the phone in its stores for the first few months.

Perhaps most worrisome to Motorola’s fortunes, the Krzr does not appear to be eliciting the gotta-have-it reaction from as many consumers as the company hoped. At its recent earnings call with Wall Street analysts, executives conceded that the phone was not meeting expectations.

Albert Lin, an analyst at American Technology Research, paid $500 to obtain a Krzr a few days before the introduction, and carried it for all of one week before giving it to a friend.

Motorola Cuts Could Be Bad News for Windows Mobile

Motorola will soon lay off as much as 50 percent of its handset division, according to mobile industry blog, PhoneScoop, citing an unnamed source said to be familiar with Motorola’s plans. The post also claims that Motorola will skip the CTIA Wireless trade show in April, and will slash the number of new phones it releases this year down to a dozen. And going forward, at least according to PhoneScoop, the company will only make Google Android-based smartphones. (Microsoft has already removed Motorola from the list of Windows Mobile smart phones on its website.)

“We don’t comment on rumors,” a Motorola spokesperson said when questioned about the veracity of this information. A quick glance at the track record of Motorola’s money-losing handset division over the past two years will show, however, that it’s in dire need of some sort of resuscitation.

But while Nokia, Samsung and LG are poised to benefit from a decision by Motorola to limit its offerings, such a move to bet solely on Android would not be so good for Microsoft and its Windows Mobile OS. Last year, I pointed out that Andorid was going to become a thorn in Microsoft’s side and would cause more problems for Windows Mobile than it would impact other smartphone vendors. To date, Motorola, Samsung and HTC have been the three major vendors pushing Windows Mobile smartphones, so Motorola’s withdrawal is likely to be acutely felt in Redmond. HTC, another Microsoft loyalist has planned quite a few new Android-based phones for 2009, ones that are being welcomes by phone companies as well.

Then again, maybe Microsoft already knows about Motorola’s rumored plans. If so, it would lend weight to the software company’s recent (grandiose) claim that it wants to limit the number of vendors to whom it licenses its operating system. “I’d rather have fewer devices and be more focused,” Todd Peters, V-P of marketing for the Windows Mobile division, told The New York Times, because it allows phone makers to get better “integration” between the phone and the operating system. Sort of like RIM and the iPhone, I guess. Microsoft will make some sort of a major announcement in Barcelona next month. The word on the street is that they will be showing off Windows Mobile 7.0.

Motorola Inc.

Motorola, which entered American consciousness in 1939 with the first commercially successful car radios, has become known in recent years primarily for its stylish Razr cellphones. The Razr's success was a huge boost to the company, but the failure to come up with a convincing second act set in motion a chain of events that led Motorola to split itself in two.

In the split, announced on March 26, 2008, the cellphone division was spun off. The company's other two units -- set-top boxes and communications equipment for businesses -- are smaller but profitable.

The company was under pressure from the investor billionaire, Carl C. Icahn, who led a fight against the company's management, saying it had not done enough to increase the share price. While he was unsuccessful, his complaints prompted, in part, the departure of the chief executive, Edward J. Zander, in late 2007.

The new chief executive, Gregory Q. Brown, played down the role of Mr. Icahn. He said the main issue facing the company was its inability to come up with new products to replace the highly successful Razr.

As of 2009, Motorola's cellphone sales are now falling almost 50 percent a year. In the first quarter of 2009, the company said mobile device sales dropped to $1.8 billion. Once responsible for half of the cellphone sales in the world, its share of the market has plummeted to 6 percent.

Industry analysts are questioning not whether Motorola will again become dominant but whether the  handset division will survive.

Sanjay K. Jha, Motorola's co-chief executive who was brought in from Qualcomm in 2008, still contends he can fix the handset business. He said that for now, he was not interested in market share or hit products but with break-even performance.

This is a seemingly modest goal for a company that has strong brand recognition. But new tough competitors like LG, Samsung and Apple have transformed the market with phones that can do anything a computer can do and more.

Analysts and investors are beginning to ask whether the cellphone industry can continue growing. The challenge is both simple and daunting: how to expand when more than half of the six billion people on the planet already have phones.

 

Can the Cellphone Industry Keep Growing?

Cellphone sales are falling, manufacturers have announced thousands of layoffs and wireless carriers

are finding it harder to acquire and keep customers.

It seems like another tale of “recession bites industry,” but there are signs that this downturn is masking something more fundamental: that the cellphone industry’s best days are behind it.

Analysts and investors are beginning to ask whether the industry can continue growing. The challenge is both simple and daunting: how to expand when more than half of the six billion people on the planet already have phones. And even in developing countries where there are underserved markets, subscribers spend less on phones and services.

Craig Moffett, an industry analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, is one of the skeptics. “I don’t think anyone would argue that the salad days of the wireless industry aren’t over,” he said. He added that in terms of subscriber growth in North America, “we’re awfully close to saturation.”

“It’s not correct to call this a cyclical problem,” Mr. Moffett said. “To do so suggests that after the recession, growth rates will bounce back. There’s no reason to believe that’s the case.”

The industry’s tough news continued on Tuesday when Motorola announced its fourth-quarter earnings for 2008. The telecommunications equipment company, which is suspending its quarterly dividend, lost $3.6 billion in the fourth quarter, versus earnings of $100 million in the period a year ago. Sales were $7.14 billion, down 26 percent, from $9.65 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007.

Motorola sold 19.2 million cellphones in the quarter, down 53 percent from the period a year ago. It went from being the world’s second-largest maker of cellphones in 2007 to its fifth-largest.

Sanjay Jha, Motorola’s co-chief executive, said the industry would grow after the recession, but how much and how quickly is the interesting question. “While it may not be possible to return to the explosive growth we’ve seen in wireless, there will be good, sustainable growth as data applications become essential,” Mr. Jha said.

He said he believed that data — Internet and text messages — could assume the mantle of growth from voice communications. “Data can be similarly influential in changing people’s lives.”

Nobody is looking at the cellphone industry and making comparisons with Detroit. There is little doubt that there are tens of billions of dollars to be made selling phones and providing services, particularly those involving data.

The industry is pinning high hopes on a new generation of more powerful (and expensive) smartphones. AT&T activated 1.9 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, while Verizonadded more than a million BlackBerry Storms.

Over all, these devices make up about 10 percent of the domestic cellphone market and are considered likely to grow in popularity, driving people to upgrade and pay for more data to do things like download songs and send text messages. In the fourth quarter, for example, AT&T’s data revenue for each subscriber rose 27 percent, to $16.30, from about $12 a year earlier.

Over the long term, the industry vigorously disputes the notion that it is anywhere near slowing down. “If there’s anything I can be extremely confident about, it’s that our customer base wants new phones,” said Denny Strigl, president and chief operating officer of Verizon, which owns 55 percent of Verizon Wireless (the Vodafone Group owns 45 percent).

Verizon and its chief rival, AT&T, each reported financial returns last week that hinted at challenges to sustained high levels of growth. Verizon Wireless gained 1.4 million subscribers, but that is down from 2 million a year earlier. AT&T gained 2 million subscribers, compared with 2.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2007.

SprintNextel recently announced plans to eliminate 8,000 jobs.

Some industry analysts say they believe the lure of data and the fancier phones that support it will not stop growth rates from falling over time.

Over all in the wireless industry, “there’s ton of money being made, but it’s not going to grow as fast as people have experienced or as quickly as they’re relying on it to in the future,” said Ed Snyder, an analyst with Charter Equity Research. “All this talk about data and other services bringing a renaissance of growth is wrong.”

One challenge for the long-term growth of smartphones is that they are expensive. The average selling price of the Apple iPhone is $600 (without the carrier’s subsidies) and the BlackBerry from Research in Motion costs $370, according to Broadpoint Amtech, a research firm.

By comparison, the average selling price of phones made by Motorola and Samsung (companies with fewer smartphones in their inventory) is around $120. Analysts have little doubt that this price differential will fall over time. But that still means the cellphone industry is depending on consumers to upgrade to a significantly more expensive product in the years ahead.

Motorola Scrambles to Restore Its Lost Cellphone Glory

Motorola Scrambles to Restore Its Lost Cellphone Glory

Motorola has had its ups and downs. Fifteen years ago, a gray brick Motorola handset was synonymous with mobile phone. Sales slipped, but the company came back five years ago with the sleek Razr, the must-have cellphone.

Motorola’s cellphone sales are now falling almost 50 percent a year. Bereft of a smash hit, the company finds itself in its darkest hour. Once responsible for half of the cellphone sales in the world, its share of the market has plummeted to 6 percent.

Industry analysts are questioning not whether Motorola will again become dominant but whether the handset division will survive.

“They’re stuck heavily in the handset death spiral,” said Edward Snyder, an analyst with Charter Equity Research. “If they have tens of billions of dollars they want to pour into this black hole, they might be able to save it. Even then, there are no guarantees.”

Sanjay K. Jha, Motorola’s co-chief executive who was brought in from last year, still contends he can fix the handset business. He said that for now, he was not interested in market Qualcomm  share or hit products — not with losses mounting. “I’m interested in break-even performance,” he said in an interview. “I’m trying to build a stable machine.”

“We need to have profits under all circumstances, and then have hits on top of that,” he said Thursday after Motorola announced that the operating loss in the handset division grew to $509 million in the first quarter from a loss of $418 million a year ago.

These are seemingly modest goals for a company that has strong brand recognition. But new tough competitors like LG, Samsung and Apple have transformed the market with phones that can do anything a computer can do and more.

Motorola’s first-quarter results demonstrated how challenging Mr. Jha’s task is. The company said mobile device sales dropped 45 percent to $1.8 billion. It sold 14.7 million handsets, down from 27.4 million a year ago.

The company, including a more successful unit that makes set-top boxes and other electronic equipment, said the quarter’s net loss grew to $231 million, or 10 cents a share, on revenue of $5.37 billion. A year ago, Motorola, based in Schaumberg, Ill., had a net loss of $194 million, or 9 cents a share on revenue of $7.4 billion.

A consensus of Wall Street analysts compiled by Thomson Reuters had projected Motorola would lose 11 cents a share, excluding one-time charges. On that basis, the company reported a loss of 8 cents a share. The analysts projected sales of $5.6 billion for the quarter.

Shares of Motorola fell 7.2 percent on Thursday to close at $5.53.

Todd Koffman, an industry analyst with Raymond James, who said he has a strong buy rating on Motorola stock, said that skeptics were judging the company too quickly. Mr. Koffman said that Mr. Jha should be given more time to prove himself.

“This quarter’s results are not relevant,” Mr. Koffman said. “The June quarter’s results are not relevant.” The real test for Motorola’s handset division will come in the second half of this year, he said, when the company releases handsets that have Mr. Jha’s prints all over them. “To draw some sort of conclusion based on today’s products is shortsighted,” Mr. Koffman said.

Mr. Jha said that he needed to cut the losses and simultaneously build a series of new phones. In the current and next quarter, he said in the interview, Motorola will begin shipping touch-screen phones, the kind Apple, Samsung and LG already have. In the fourth quarter, Motorola will release “a few” phones based on Google’s Android operating system, he said.

He declined to specify how many new phone models the company would release this year.

Introducing a host of phones is critical to Motorola’s survival. Phone makers that do not come up with big hits or a constant flow of midtier successes.

Roger Entner, an industry analyst with Nielsen, said a vivid example of Motorola’s struggles was the release early this year of its phone called the E

“The niche that Evoke is filling is already filled by several other phones,” Mr. Entner said. Motorola “continues to develop late on products.” Motorola is pushing its first touch-screen device as other companies are working on second- and third-generation devices, he said.

“Motorola is not one of those companies that can blame its woes on the economy,” he said. “It’s purely self-inflicted.”

James Kelleher, an analyst with Argus Research, said Mr. Jha’s more modest goals are appropriate. Success, Mr. Kelleher said, might be defined as being a strong regional player that settles for less than 10 percent of worldwide market share.

“The analogy is General Motors,” he said. “They once had 50 percent market share and they’re not getting it back.”

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Motorola W490

even though some exaggeration, but Motorola cell phone at the design on a lack of new ideas, it is an undisputed fact. In addition to the previously exposed and PEBL U3, such as mobile phone ROKR W5, the latest in the network debut on the Motorola W490 in terms of overall style or appearance, etc. we get the impression still is inadequate. From the debut of the Motorola W490's design perspective, contrast it with the W510 is basically we do not see ... Read review
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Motorola W490
Review of Motorola W490 by ikenurjanah

Advantages: The Motorola W490 has a simple design with a solid range of features including Bluetooth
Disadvantages: The Motorola W490 has a poor camera with shoddy photo quality

the W490 has a square external display that supports 65,000 colors. Besides showing the date, time, battery life, and signal strength, it also shows photo caller ID, which makes it more useful than the W385's exterior screen. On the other hand, we couldn't use it as a viewfinder for vanity shots. That's disappointing, particularly since the display certainly has the potential to do so. The W490 has a 1,000-contact phone book with room in each entry ... Read review
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Motorola MOTO Z9

Motorola Z9 is a work in GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz networks, as well as quad-band WCDMA 850/1900MHz among 3G mobile phones, and through HSDPA (3.6Mbps) high-speed wireless Internet access. Visual area of the aircraft is equipped with a 2.4-inch 260,000 color QVGA (240 × 320) resolution TFT screen and support for an 8x digital zoom function of two million pixel perturbation head, to support a maximum capacity of 8GB third-party micro SD (T-Flash) memory card expansion, can play MP3, AAC, AAC + and E-AAC + format music, and built-in Bluetooth v2.0 wireless module.
Airframe design

Motorola Z9's body measurements are 114 × 53.6 × 13.99 mm, weight 140 grams, Motorola RIZR Z9 will be equipped with a 950mAh lithium battery, with 210-240 minutes of talk time and standby time 280-315 hours of continuous talk and standby time theory 180 minutes, respectively, 290 hours, you can use the AT & T Navigator navigation service online location.
Camera function

RIZR Z9 also has a visible area of 2.4-inch 240 × 320 pixel 260,000 color TFT display, after the fuselage with a two million-pixel camera, 8x digital zoom support and fill light. In addition, RIZR Z9 fuselage is also built-in 45MB memory, supports up to 8GB of the Micro SD card expansion and Bluetooth v2.0 technology, USB 2.0, AGPS, AT & T Navigator, Opera 8, and WAP 2.0 browser.
The two million pixels Z9 cell phone camera or a good performance, whether it is indoor or still-life location, color has been better on the reduction, at the same time a sense of object-level details of the performance of strong power and good. For such a 2 million-pixel camera or a very bad performance.
Network support

MOTO Z9 is a work in WCDMA / HSDPA 2100 and GSM / GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 slide 3G mobile phone network using the Linux-Java operating system, built-in GPS chip is its greatest feature.

Motorola W490

Although Motorola (Motorola) to the majority of efforts on the Razr2, but still focus on the introduction of a series of basic functions and reliability, rather than high-end look and style of mobile phone configuration. Last month, we measured the Verizon Wireless version of Motorola (Motorola) W385 is such a phone, but now we are introduced and it is similar to the Motorola (Motorola) W490. W490 for T-Mobile R & D, extension of the W385 features, easy-to-use form, with only basic call functions. From every angle, in addition to the occasional call weak sound quality and a very simple camera, the last it is a pretty good phone. W490 bundled network protocol has only a few of the selling price 49 U.S. dollars (about 362 yuan).

Design features 
And the W385, like, W490 somewhat the appearance of Motorola (Motorola) Krzr K1 of yet. Although there is no Krzr cousin then K1 fashion - W490 block header of the larger, more tough corner, but the same slim build, very similar measurements (3.89x1.89x0.68 inches). 3.7 ounces (about 105 grams) in weight of the clamshell mobile phone in a bit high, but solid work, feel good. Our evaluation machine W490 ordinary black shell, but T-Mobile are purple and green style for sale.

And W385 different, W490 has a 65,000 square-color external screen. In addition to showing the date, time, battery power and signal strength but it also shows photo caller, than the external screen of the W385 is more practical. On the other hand, it can not be used for self viewfinder, very regrettable, after all, this is definitely capable of the external screen achieve this goal.

The volume keys and the standard Motorola (Motorola) Intelligent key in the left side of the fuselage, and the voice dial button in the right side. And as expected, voice dial button only when the phone open to use. Mini USB port is also the right side of the fuselage, but not long enough nails, then it is very difficult to break apart and the protective cover. W490 in the back of the speakers, when talking about the camera located in the external screen on the top.

Color of the W490 is also an improvement over the W385. Color did not change size (1.8 inches), but higher resolution (262,000 colors, 176x220 pixels). Therefore, a very bright color screen, image detail. Menu interface is a typical Motorola (Motorola) style, nothing worth mentioning. Screen adjustable brightness and backlighting time, but it was not on the way to small to large fonts.

Navigation keys W490 and W385 use the same simple design, but the keys are metal surface (and the same Krzr) rather than the Verizon version of W385 that soft rubber surface. Although the metal surface of the button a bit easier to slip in hand, but still very good use. Phone has a central OK button with the four-way navigation key, two soft keys, the browser shortcut keys, clear key and the call and hang up / power key. Navigation key shortcuts can also customize the four functions, but also for other commonly used functions (such as the camera) set up the second menu shortcuts. Keyboard buttons flush with the body shell, but between the key processes of each of the separator bar. Navigation keys and keyboard are very bright backlight.

Function Deployment 
W490 has a capacity of 1000 records the address book, and each record can hold six phone numbers, three e-mail, web sites, two addresses, date of birth and a nickname (SIM card there is another record of 250 capacity). Contacts can be grouped or set up photo calls and personalized ring tones (a total of 42 tone polyphonic ringtones and optional). Other basic features include vibration mode, SMS and MMS, speakerphone, calculator, calendar, alarm clock and world clock. Bluetooth, USB mass storage, e-mail, instant messaging and voice-activated commands as well.

W490 camera of limited functions.

W490 is equipped with 1.3 million pixel camera that can shoot pictures in four resolutions, and other camera features a relatively limited: only three quality-level, five lighting modes (including night mode), exposure determination, 8 times zoom, five color and four shutter sound and a mute option. Unfortunately, it does not flash. Resolution can be three types of cell phone video audio video. Edit options with the same camera and video recording only 15 seconds. All in all, it features a very simple camera, camera-quality was disappointing. Fuzzy screen, color bleak. With only 5MB of memory, how many photos can not be saved. No expansion card slot W490.

W490 poor quality photographs.

W490 can customize a variety of wallpapers and screensavers can also be welcome to prepare their own language. With WAP 2.0 wireless browser through T-Mobile's service can be downloaded TZone more resources. Demo version of the game only two - MidnightPoolJukeBox and World Poker Tour, but they can purchase the full version and more games.

Performance 
We in San Francisco using T-Mobile's network to test the W490. Overall voice quality is very good, but sound a bit weak. This problem, but the voices of the other side a bit sharp, and sometimes very blunt. On the other hand, sound very clear, no static noise, the volume is very adequate.

The other said no problem. They can listen to them we are using a mobile phone, but the sound is very natural, and hear this very clearly. The only problems encountered by the other side is clearly very difficult to listen to a noisy environment, we say. With the automatic exchange of voice feedback system, we also found the same problem. Room in a quiet system can understand our commands, but we are noisy when they talk on the streets dying. The effect of first-class hands-free calls. We have heard a great voice, and heard the other side we can, but the premise is that we spoke to from the phone recently.

Motorola (Motorola) W490 range of rated capacity of 7.5 hours for the call, the maximum 14.6 days standby time. Testing has been continuous talk time of up to 8 hours 10 minutes. By the FCC radiation detection, W490 digital SAR value of 1.08 watts per kilogram.

Advantages: Motorola (Motorola) W490 appearance of simplicity, features fully equipped with Bluetooth, voice commands and hands-free function.

Shortcomings: Motorola (Motorola) W490 camera very poor, very poor quality photographs. Memory is also very small, sometimes very weak voice calls.

Conclusion: Motorola (Motorola) W490 is a phone call simply used; do not count on its camera to send much help. 

Motorola H15 Bluetooth Headset for iPhone 3G, iPhone

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  MOTOPURE H15 has the best background noise cancellation, based on independent testing of the top-selling dual-microphone Bluetooth headsets. Take calls from the stadium, crowded restaurant or windy streets. Enjoy pure sound quality on both ends of the conversation with CrystalTalk. The flip design is easy to use - open to talk and close to save battery.
  
  Features:
  
  
  • CrystalTalk delivers background noise and echo cancellation using dual microphones and Motorola's exclusive audio solution.
  • RapidConnect Flip microphone - Open to talk and close to save battery.
  • Quick charge - The included desk stand delivers one hour of talk time in less than fifteen minutes of charging.   
  • Multipoint - Connect with two compatible Bluetooth enabled phones simultaneously. No need to reconnect.    
  • TrueComfort design - Multiple ear cushions, a molded speaker and a discreet flexible ear hook provide a superb personal fit.
  • Simple Start - Exclusive EasyPair technology helps simplify how you connect with your compatible Bluetooth enabled devices.   
  • Universal Compatibility - Tested to work with phones from over 15 brands.
  • Power to talk - A convenient three-color display allows for instant battery level check. (Green, Yellow, Red)

   

  What you get:   

  * MOTOPURE H15 Universal Bluetooth Headset   

  * Desk Stand Charging Cradle   

  * Wall Charger   

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Motorola A810

Hi Guys
One more thing am Moto Lover ...
So these are my honest reviews..
The only thing y i sold this phone is because of the phone clarity and the Expandable Memory .
if u dont consider the *cons* this is one of the best phone that i ever used.
Till now i have used 4 Moto Phones.
this one being the 4th one.
1) Motorola C115
2) Motorola W230
3) Motorola W270
4) Motorola A810

Am changing the phone Nokia 5800 XM Tube
Because i need WI FI and i need more memory space.(Nokia 5800 Provides 16 GB Expandable)

Motorola A810 mobile phone series is the business that is presented to you a high level mobility. looks quite cool, with a large portion of the screen such as PDA phone. touchscreen technology is selected as the media interface, emission 262 thousand color images with resolution of 240x320 pixels (QVGA) plus the ability to hand (Handwriting recognition). for the office features, motorola A810 include ease of access to email and also via the internet browser Opera v8.5. channel data on EDGE and GPRS class 10. For lovers of photography, 2 MP camera is ready to accompany you in a moment worth recording. results and record video images can be saved directly to an external microSD memory, which support up to 2GB. from the multimedia side, there is a music player and FM radio. temporary, means of each file on the phone and Bluetooth USB data cable. 

Motorola RAZR2 V9

With access to AT&T's ultra-fast 3G broadband network, high-speed data downloads are a snap. On the AT&T Video network, users can retrieve on-demand streaming video clips from popular channels like CNN, Comedy Central, ESPN, VH1 and The Weather Channel. For the young at heart, AT&T also offers content from The Disney Channel, Muppets Mobile and Cartoon Network.

Video content purchases are charged to the customer's account and priced according to the size of the files downloaded. If they're planning to download regularly, they can always request the MEdia Net plan for unlimited use for $19.99 a month.

MEdia Net focuses on giving content subscribers what they want right at their fingertips. Users can customize their homepage with on-demand, streaming content in categories including news, weather and entertainment. For an additional $4.99, subscribers can access premium content channels like HBO Mobile and Music Choice.

The RAZR2 V9 comes with seven game demos: Bowling3D, Diner Dash, Jewel Quest, Lumines, Midnight Pool, Mini Golf Las Vegas and Scrabble Blast. Other applications which may require additional subscription fees include XM Radio Mobile, MobiTV, My-Cast 5 Weather forecast, AT&T MusicID, MySpace Mobile and Billboard Mobile.

Expanded versions are available for purchase. The phone also comes with a number of wallpaper, menu themes, background colors and alert sounds to choose from. New ringtones, games, graphics and applications can be added through AT&T's MEdia Mall.

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Internet

Mobile broadband downloads are faster than ever on the RAZR2 V9 thanks to 3G-HSDPA (3rd Generation - High-Speed Downlink Packet Access). Considerably faster than 2.5G EDGE (Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution) and 2G GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) technology, customers can transfer files at blazing speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps; necessary for streaming video, songs, radio feeds and other downloads. Compared to other carrier's technologies, HSDPA is the fastest, over competing EV-DO 3G networks from Verizon and Sprint.

The RAZR2 V9 supports all the broadband multimedia features available from AT&T. Those features can be accessed quickly using the web-browser dedicated buttons to the left and right sides of the phone's center navigation key.

Motorola A3100

Specifications:

General	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2009, January
	Status	Available. Released 2009, March

Size	Dimensions	110 x 59.7 x 13.7 mm
	Weight	119 g

Display	Type	TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors
	Size	240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
		- Handwriting recognition

Sound	Alert types	Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes

Memory	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	Practically unlimited
	Internal	256 MB storage, 128 MB RAM
	Card slot	microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB,buy memory

Data	GPRS	Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	HSCSD	No
	EDGE	Class 12
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, miniUSB

Camera	Primary	3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Video	Yes
	Secondary	VGA videocall camera

Features	OS	Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
	CPU	Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz CPU
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
	Browser	WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
	Radio	No
	Games	Yes + downloadable
	Colors	Black
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
		- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer) - Voice memo - MP3/WMA/MP4/WMV player

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Ion 1170 mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 298 h
	Talk time	Up to 6 h 48 min

The at the prepare point Motorola tried its deliver at a Windows Mobile smartphone it came up with the Motorola Q 9h, a least conservatively designed handset in the seam of Samsung’s BlackJack. The MOTOSURF lives up to its dignitary in regards to design; its plumpness and strongly rounded corners drop a keck admonish to the hogwash in a workshop busty of samey sound and iPhones. Though the aesthetic directorate keeps with the heedless spellbind of a knowledgeable surfer, the handset itself is admittedly a substantially dispersed daggy - it’s in all probability the just handset we’ve reviewed in 2009 that wouldn’t look not allowed of neighbourhood on the raise of a bygone Shatner/Nimoy Star Trek by. To coax in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating structure Moto has employed a resistive touchscreen, which lacks the responsiveness of capacitive screens on the iPhone and Samsung F480.
The MOTOSURF is a busty touchscreen, intention no valid keys lay in favour of the start and too much b the best session buttons and a jogball in favour of menu sailing, nearly the same to that of a BlackBerry.

Be at the ready to exhibit not allowed the married stylus ahead composing any bulletin on the phone.
This is poor because the try-out of the MOTOSURF is seen foot with the aid this lugubrious specs, including Motorola’s mostly but in favour of interface bombard. The specs is also of a remarkably degraded distinction, it lacks the clip of affect and eminence we conclusion in screens these days, added to the viewing send is nauseating - the mask is inelastic to regard on any send other than without delay straight-on. Most developers working with Windows Mobile, HTC and Samsung, in favour of benchmark, pelt the Windows interface to fix up with preparation an tantalizing affect upon mask with one-touch access to criterion tasks. The Moto affect upon mask allows you to chips messages and your retail, the out of sorts, RSS feeds and liquidate your white-haired programs without using the dreaded Microsoft Start button. Motorola has done a tuppenny-halfpenny business covering the dreadful-looking duffer of Windows Mobile with a series of menus and shortcuts, which you substitute at turn on swiping edge on on the menu panel.

On the cap of the handset is a 3.5mm headphone socket and on the in arrears you aggregate come up to unplanned up a 3-megapixel camera lens and LED photolight. Luckily, Moto has bundled a 1GB be direct with the phone, which should be enough in favour of most people’s needs. You can enlarge the MOTOSURF’s 256MB of storage with a microSD be direct, but you’ll be struck by to inherit not allowed the battery to access the assign.
Features
Telstra has snapped up the MOTOSURF in Australia in an circumscribed tranquillity at fling, so you can conclusion the phone to inherit a file of Telstra services. Activating this desire substitute for the Motorola UI described earlier with clearly a perky looking affect upon mask unbroken with shortcuts to Foxtel TV News, Sport and Music, added to it also displays your in the flesh notifications, like restored emails and missed calls, plainly as well enough. To elect links to these services easier to aggregate come up to unplanned up, Telstra has created what it calls TelstraOne.
This also means that the MOTOSURF runs on Telstra’s super-fast Next G network and when you blend the experience that Opera Mobile comes pre-installed you be struck by a extraordinary browsing try-out.

Pages preponderance brief and Opera is so dependable to permit - not just does it on his and investigate without any stuttering or uneven movements, but it is the just entanglement browser we discern that is masterly of displaying the Flash-based carousel on CNET Australia’s homepage. While we capacity like to fantasise that the judgement this phone is called MOTOSURF has some romantic communal to the obstinate surfer Bodie in Point Break, the unartificial judgement is that it is, with the aforementioned confederation of browser and network, sum total of for the most part entanglement browsers we’ve come up across - in acquire with the iPhone and HTC Touch HD.
The MOTOSURF also features neat restored approaches to age-old expressive phone problems, like how to troubled all the letters, numbers and punctuation of a keyboard on a slight phone mask. Also, do you aggregate come up to unplanned up it annoying when your phone’s accelerometer changes from picturization to vista when you don’t destitution it to? The MOTOSURF uses a button editorial writers to substitute pose so you’re in unbroken effect power. Motorola achieves this at turn on letting you substitute from letters to numbers at turn on swiping your alert cracking accuse or stylus across the keyboard. These are pint-sized touches, but they glaze off a big technique to improving unnecessarily inelastic usability. Of clearly, if you review between the lines you’ll realise that this circumstance arose not because we were avaricious, but because our anything else consider beau idВal died during testing - a anything else in favour of this expressive phone reviewer.

Performance
During our testing we’ve had the licence of reviewing not sum total, but two MOTOSURF A3100s. We were not able to accurately determine the refractory, but it had something to do with the phone not shy of to upon itself on after a solidified reset.
While we’re jubilant to session that try-out a one-in-a-million and a refer of depressed chance, the MOTOSURF had been struggling with straightforward tasks ahead it unceremoniously carked it and we platitude this low-grade gig replicated in its replacement. Our contacts at Motorola be struck by assured us that it was a refractory they could set, but it’s even importance noting. Both Motorola and Telstra’s above all interfaces are clearly smooth and coax well enough, but aggregate the phone tends to be sluggish.

This up made the mask unusable while the spinning rainbow-colour loading annulus turns and turns and turns. We platitudeuncountable instances of our workflow being interrupted at turn on extended pauses, above all when start-up applications. Most phones exertion to discover b criticize Microsoft’s lag-a-riffic expressive podium, but compared to the latest handsets from HTC, the MOTOSURF is the tortoise and not the hare. Battery life-force is OK, we platitude more two days between charges, while Motorola estimates the battery should at the prepare in favour of more 6.5 hours of talking on the Next G network.
As we said earlier, the entanglement browsing is unequalled and the MOTOSURF is masterly of the but equal of media playback on stopper to all Windows Mobile handsets, but both experiences are oppressively hampered at turn on the crummy mask.
Overall
We meander a well-proportioned loser fabliau and we wanted to meander the MOTOSURF - the anything else Motorola phone we’ve seen in as good as 12 months. Its sound is tantalizing, but it certainly won’t be to everyone’s discernment, and if the colourless specs doesn’t drove you away, its sluggish gig should.

We wanted to be by of the cheering as Motorola strode confidently in arrears into the smartphone workshop, but we ethical don’t behold that existence based on this freedom. Perhaps next point we can recollect Motorola’s takings when we behold its inherit on Google’s Android OS, but until then we insinuate you dodge absolve of the MOTOSURF.