Filed under: media, Motorola | Tags: Cameraphone, Motorola, MotoZine, ZN5
T-Mobile is now carrying the 5MegaPixel ZN5 camera phone from Motorola. A joint venture between Motorola and Kodak, the ZN5 sports some impressive camera features for a phone:
- 5 megapixel camera, auto-focus, low-light setting, digital zoom
- Shutter speed: 1/60 – 1/1000 seconds in auto mode
- Multi-shot mode
- Editing effects: grayscale, sepia, negative, reddish, greenish, bluish,
brightness, sharpen, contrast, blur
- Panorama feature automatically matches continuous shots taken on
horizon line into single image
- Focal length: 5.56mm. Aperture: 2.8/5.6
- 15 fps Video
- Auto connect to Kodak bluetooth enabled accessories
And some nice non-camera, phone features including Wifi enabled, full-HTML browser and FM radio.
The phone doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of a Nokia N95/96, but with T-Mobile offering the phone for $99 with a contract, it’s also going to be affordable for a much wider audience.
Filed under: cellular, James Quintana Pearce, mobile, Motorola, Nokia, Samusng
Nice piece in MocoNews by James Quintana Pearce today, “Motorola Doesn’t Need Another Hit Phone”. He argues that pundits who blame Motorola’s state on the lack of a hit phone are missing the point. Success in the industry has been driven by depth and variety in the product line, not a single hit phone.
Motorola announced this week that it will acquire Singapore based Pan-Asian music distribution service Soundbuzz. The acquisition extends Motorola’s MotoMusic store in China, and brings content deal with the major labels and over 45 independent labels. Motorola’s move is an interesting twist on the music store strategy of competitors Nokia and Sony Ericsson, who have launched initially in Europe.
Filed under: cellular, Google, Gphone, HTC, Microsoft, mobile, Motorola, Samsung
Google today announced its much anticipated cell phone strategy. Instead of competing with cell phone manufacturers, Google plans to provide the software to run on handsets manufactured by some of the worlds leading cell phone manufacturers including Motorola, HTC and Samsung, with additional partners anticipated in the future. There will be no Google phone or GPhone, rather, Google with license the software for free to handset manufacturers to encourage them to develop mobile computing and communications platforms that will surpass the Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones that are currently available on the market.
Consumer electronics hype junkies will be disappointed, but may change their mind when the new handsets start rolling out in the second half of next year.
Further demonstrating its commitment to the Symbian platform, Motorola and Sony Ericsson announced Monday that Motorola has acquired 50% of Sony Ericsson’s stake in UIQ. Sony had previously announced that they were interested in bringing in other investors in UIQ to strengthen the industries ties to the UIQ platform.
According to an article in the Wall St. Journal today, Motorola CEO Ed Zander told a group of business school students at the University of Chicago that Motorola had passed on a chance to to acquire GPS mapping company Navteq, recently acquired by Nokia. “That’s not our strategy,” Mr. Zander said. “We are not in the applications business.” referring to Nokia’s strategy of acquiring or developing wireless applications, mapping applications and music services.
Dell and HP are each making moves in the smartphone market, Dell in deals with Nokia (and possibly Quanta Computer) and HP with its iPaq 510. But Dell’s hire of former Motorola executive Ron Garriques is believed to indicate an even more serious push into mobile devices.
While the entire digirati and most mass media outlets remain obsessed with the phenomenon that is iPhone, life moves on in the mobile universe. Other phones that deliver the features promised in iPhone continue to ship and new advanced models are appearing. HTC, LG, Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung all have some awesome phones on the market and more are coming….
The Motorola MotoRIZR Z8 is now available in Europe with 30fps high def video, true 3G HSDPA connectivity, and a full suite of multimedia applications including mobile access to BSkyB and podcasts courtesy of Podcast.com (disclaimer: the blogger is an employee of Podcast.com) Great little phone that fits easily in your shirt pocket, activates easily with a variety of carriers (subtle dig), and packages exceptional phone performance along with full video functionality in a small kick-slider package that actually fits your face.
Apple’s iPhone may open up both Hollywood and cellular carriers to the mobile phone as a platform for media. This is a very US centric piece from the NY Times which seems to credit Apple for advances in multimedia and technology that have been pioneered by Nokia, Motorola and others. The major US carriers are blamed for delays in advances, but Apple is riding in to the rescue…..
Please. The Apple iPhone will be far from the first mobile phone to incorporate Wifi, to use a touch screen, to play full length movies or incorporate Hollywood content in the phone. U.S. carriers are delaying the adoption of much of the technology that has already rolled out in Europe and Asia, but they’re also rolling out multimedia features the iPhone doesn’t have and are providing comprehensive multimedia offerings like live TV, combined with full featured music and video stores with one click ease.
Yes, it’s a beautiful phone. Yes it has some unique design elements, but come on people. At least look at what is already on the market before you crank out insipid articles about innovative features that aren’t actually innovative/
Filed under: Apple, Blackberry, Good Technologies, iPhone, media, mobile, Motorola, RIM
Corporate IT and Telecommunications departments are resisting employees’ attempts to bring the iPhone into the corporate infrastructure. Integration with RIM’s Blackberry enterprise servers and Motorola’s Good servers is one issue. But consumer familiarity with Apple and its hip appeal may still win the day for Apple…or at least a beachhead.
Filed under: cellular, media, mobile, Motorola, podcasting, Podcasts, Symbian, Technology and Gadgets
Big news this week at Podcast.com!
Yesterday Podcast.com and Motorola announced that they are partnering to bring podcasts to high end Motorola phones including the new Motorola MotoRizr Z8, Motorola’s first new Symbian phone with incredible video and audio capabilities.
The announcements are here: Motorola’s Press Release on the Z8 and Media partners including Podcast.com
and here: Podcast.com’s Press Release
