By Jon Gales — At a Motorola hosted media event in Chicago Monday evening, Motorola announced several new phone models that will define the next generation of phones from the largest handset manufacturer in the US market. The new models, including a highly anticipated model that will compete with the Treo and BlackBerry:

Moto Q
A910
Expanded selection […]

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UPDATE: See live photos and our exclusive take on the Motorola Q over in our MOTONOW coverage article
MOTONOW – Motorola has taken the wraps off its BlackBerry competitor, it’s called the Moto Q. Motorola is billing the handset as the smallest QWERTY phone on the market.

Windows Mobile 5.0 OS
1.3 megapixel camera
Out of the box support […]

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MOTONOW – We’re sitting in the front row waiting for Motorola’s CEO Ed Zander to begin speaking at MOTONOW and on stage are what appears to be several new models. One of the new models has a iPod like scroll wheel… It’s black, has a keypad like the SLVR and appears to be a […]

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Shares of Research In Motion (maker of the popular BlackBerry) fell in trading Monday due to increased speculation that Motorola will release a BlackBerry competitor. Dubbed the RAZRBerry, the device is supposed to mimmick the design of RIM’s flagship product. Purported design mockups leaked online late last month. Barron’s cover story [subscription req.] this week […]

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Amp’d Mobile, a youth oriented MVNO startup, today announced the first phone that it will carry once the service launches later this year. The Kyocera Jet Multimedia Phone is a customized version of the Slider Remix, with one major addition being EV-DO high-speed data.
Other features of the Kyocera Jet include:

176ื220 pixel 262K color display
VGA camera […]

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Cingular Wireless today announced plans to sell the RAZRWIRE Bluetooth headset that is the combined effort of Motorola and Oakley. RAZRWIRE packages both high-end sunglasses and a Bluetooth headset into one package.
Cingular will begin selling the device in early August, the same time as both Motorola and Oakley. The list price is $294.99.
The Bluetooth headset […]

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Package:

Handset
Battery
Charger
Manual

Sony Ericsson J210i is a renewed version of the J200. The main change is a 65K display against the former 4096 colour one. Also MMS is now supported.
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According to an article in Red Herring, Motorola is expected to debut its first iTunes phone at an event dubbed MOTONOW on Monday evening. The event will be held before the annual financial analyst meeting which, one year ago was the announcement platform for the iTunes plan. Various internet rumors have hinted at a surprise […]

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MMCmicro, a competitor to the newly established standard microSD, has been finalized. Development of MMCmicro has been headed up by Samsung (microSD, formally known as TransFlash, was created by memory giant SanDisk).
While MMCmicro cards are slightly larger than micoSD, they are currently available in sizes up to 1GB today. microSD tops out at 512MB, though […]

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The Department of Consumer Affairs in New York City has filed a lawsuit againt Sprint, T-Mobile and Nextel for “deceptive advertising.”
“You can’t promise a great deal in the headline and hide the true costs in the fine print,” the consumer agencies’ Acting Commissioner Jonathan Mintz said in a statement.

Sprint and Nextel have announced plans […]

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