The rumour is that the Motorola W755 clamshell will effectively be given away free when you purchase it along with a Verizon two year shackle plan. And judging by the specs we can see why they may well be tossing these out like candy at Halloween

* CDMA dual band (800/1900 MHz)
* 3G Capable
* 1.3 MP camera with video capturing functionality
* plays mp3 and acc audio files with touch-sensitive buttons
* 80MB memory
* microSD slot
* predictive text
* mini USB connectivity
* 1.2 stereo bluetooth connectivity

Yeah, nothing to phone write home about, so if you’re up for a cell phone to just make phone calls on - ooh, how retro - the Motorola W755 at Verizon may just be the deal for you! The phone will be launched in early May and sport either a grey casing or a potentially vomit inducing purple version.

Source: phoneArena

The Motorola Q9h has seen the light of day over at AT&T as the MOTO Q Global. The full QWERTY unit looks a wee bit cumbersome as all full QWERTY models tend to do, but certainly sports some funky features behind that wide exterior.

* Windows Mobile 6
* 3G support
* 2MP camera with flash
* Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
* 9 hours of talk time on battery and 30 days standby
* MicroSD memory expandable up to 32 GB
* Quad-band support (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
* Dual-band UMTS/HSDPA support

If you opt for the two year shackle plan then with a mail in rebate this little sucker will only set up back US$200, however if you prefer to be free-spirited the standalone unit costs US$500. Whilst the Q Global certainly has all the bells and whistles, I’m not sure that a $500 price tag will make it appealing to non-AT&T customers, however for those already committed to them it will have a certain attraction with a $200 tag.

Source: AT&T

Frankly I’m finding it difficult to get worked up over the Motorola U9, or the ‘MOTO U9′ as the press release prefers to call it. Motorola announced their latest addition on Thursday and I’m still trying to find something good to say about it. Unfortunately the only word that springs to mind at the moment is ‘mediocre’. The features include a 2 mp camera, USB connectivity for transferring your tunes, expandable microSD memory up to 4GB and Bluetooth connectivity - what can I say apart from average.

There is an upside but I’m not sure its worth the as of yet unspecified dollar amount ‘MOTO’ will be asking for this baby. So what is the upside, well it does look nice with its super-sleek curves and flush external OLED display neatly displaying tune and call info but without the all important price tag I’m still gonna hold back judgement on this sucker as I’m sure ‘MOTO’ will need some dollars to pay the designers and I’m not convinced the word ‘cheap’ will be used to describe this phone any time soon.

So, yeah, I’m not impressed by the U9, it’s a bit like my old school reports which read ‘Could do better’, come on MOTO show us what you’re really made of.

Source: MOTO

Good news for all you RAZR 2 fans out there. Motorola have announced that the RAZR2 will be available on every major cell network in the US, so no carrier hopping for the RAZR junkies wanting to get their mits on this little sucker.

It looks like Verizon will be one of the first to make the RAZR2 available with a launch date expected to be prior to August 24th, a mere two weeks away. Other carriers will include Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA and US Cellular.

Just to re-cap spec wise the RAZR2 incorporates “hauptics” technology allowing the user to receive tactile feedback through the external screen, up to 2 GB of memory, a 2 MP camera and dual 240×320 displays. For more details check out a video review.

There’s no confirmed prices from the carriers yet although there is an expectation of a $300 price tag combined with a two year contract.

Almost on time, WildCharge have announced their first adapter for use with their WildCharger pad. The adapter is for the Motorola RAZR phone, so replace the back-cover of your RAZR with this little sucker, place on the pad and a-charging you will go.

WildCharge will be selling the pad and RAZR adapter as a bundle for US$89.99 - the adapter is available separately at US$34.99 but in theory no-one has the pad yet as this is the first adapter available. The next gizmo up for wildcharging is the Apple iPod Nano (in August), with its adapter priced the same as the RAZR’s but no bundle currently available. You can buy the pad separately at US$59.99, so if the pricing for the adpaters stays at around US$34.99 then for a pad with three adapters you’re looking at an outlay of around US$165 to get rid of a couple of trailing power leads.

If anyone out there has purchased or used one of these pads, share your thoughts with us all.

Source: Gizmodo

Rather than read me banging on about the various features of the Motorola RAZR 2 check out this video from Shinymedia. Two lasses show off the new features on the RAZR re-incarnation although as they point out the vibrating touch screen feature - hauptics - is a bit difficult to demo in a video! A warning about the video is that your eye will be drawn away from the RAZR 2 by the garish ‘rose ring’ worn by the faceless presenter. Apart from the ring, enjoy!

With much fanfare across the tech and gadget blog world, the Motorola RAZR 2 was launched on Tuesday. The new version of the incredibly popular (almost 100 million sold worldwide) yet highly criticized RAZR has had a complete redesign of its UI and has slimmed down a further 2mm (GSM and CDMA versions). It can handle up to 2GB of memory to hold your tunes and the touchscreen UI incorporates ‘haptics’ technology - the internal display vibrates in response to finger taps.

The RAZR 2 boasts two displays, a 2 inch external and a 2.2 inch internal, operates Motorola’s Linux-based platform JUIX and will sync with Windows Media Player. All in all a smart little cookie. But how much of a dent will it make in your wallet? Motorola decided to keep quiet on that statistic but the rumors are around $500. If that’s true it’s probably not a iPhone beater but it’ll still sell well on the back of the original’s reputation alone. As an aside Motorola shares closed down at $17.92 a drop of 1.3 percent after the launch.

Source: engadget