Another day, another new phone from Motorola. The MOTOFONE brings high-end design to an affordable handset aimed at "the next billion users". Besides price point, the MOTOFONE aims to simplify the user experience by relying more on icons and voice prompts than text. The display is specially formulated to perform well in direct sunlight, something that most LCDs balk at.
Features of the MOTOFONE include:
The Motorola FONE should begin shipping in Q4 to markets around the world. The CDMA version will be called MOTOFONE F3c. Motorola claims to have already gotten orders for 500,000 FONE units. The FONE is Motorola's first announced handset of its SCPL line (scalpel). There will be many more in the future and it should replace the RAZR line.
No camera, this phone is meant to be cheap. Its target demo is happy to have a working phone, let alone a camera. But we should see more phones with some of the same innovations (such as the screen) with higher end features.
Thank God someone makes a PHONE and not a doo dad gadget full of handicapped digital cameras, MP3 players, video players and other ridiculous features appealing to 13 year olds.
I hope this phone uses something like e-paper technology for it’s screen. Please give me modern monochrome display, I am sick of nickelodeon screens.
I have to agree with Dmitri about this one. All that interests majority of mobile phone users (including myself) is good reception, long battery life, clear sound and durability.
Bravo Motorola!
This moto is the slimmest yet. But it's still 2.1 mm thicker than the Samsung x820, which also boasts a 2-megapixel camera, colour screen, EDGE connectivity, Bluetooth and 80MB internal memory. But the world's definitley moving towards slim phones, adn it's just a matter of time before Nokia also jumps onto the slim bandwagon.
Where in the NYC metro area can I get the Motofone now. Will Verizon be offering it?
It hasn`t camera?