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Motorola Tundra is a resistant phone, and it confers the user a sturdy and comfortable feel. It has military specifications certification for rain, shock, and other external factors which may action on it. It has an external antenna, which is quite a rarity on mobile phones these days, but it's not extendable, and this makes Motorola Tundra similar with Nextel phones.
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Its dimensions: 3.85 inches by 2.10 inches by 0.96 inch and 4.94 ounces give this phone a durable design and taking into account that the front and rear faces are plastics, but edges covered in rubber, we can say that this phone has a comfortable and resistant look.

The external display is quite small, 1 inch diagonally, but it shows the necessary information, like date, time, battery life and signal strength, and it supports photo caller ID because it is full color. The camera is right above the display and it doesn't have a flash. All the controls are covered with a rubber surface, and on the bottom there is a mini USB slot for an USB cable and a charger. The display on the inner side is 2.2 inches, and it has bright colors, sharp graphics, easy and user friendly menus. the brightness can be changed, and the backlight also, but not the font size.

This phone's keypad and the array for navigation are excellent and I like that both are spacious and that the navigation array has a OK button with a circular toggle around. The keypad has large buttons, and I think this is a cool aspect of the design, it has bright backlight and it is easy to use for dialing and texting.

The phonebook can be stored on 100 MB of the internal memory, and if you need more, you can go on those 250 contacts on the SIM card. Every contact can get five numbers, an e-mail address, mail addresses (three of them), birthday field, and other fields, which are pretty much information for each person. You can customize each person with a photo ID and one of the polyphonic ringtones you have on the phone. This mobile phone has vibrate mode, calendar, PC syncing, voice dialing, Web based POP3 e-mail and text and multimedia messages support, an alarm clock and a world clock, a voice recorder, task list and notepad.

Tundra offers the whole set of AT&T's wireless broadband multimedia services and Cellular Video and AT&T Mobile Music have simple designs and I like that they support a large palette of file formats. Motorola Tundra has a quite solid selection of music features, like Radio Mobile, Billboard Mobile channel and it offers access to fan sites, communities and music downloads.

The camera offers 2 Mp possibilities, four picture resolutions, three settings for quality and you can use the night mode also, you can modify the exposure and the lighting conditions, the color tones and the shutter sounds. Photos can be tagged and you can insert them into multimedia messages automatically. Video recording options are quite ok, but the resolution is far too small, 176x144 or 128x96 and you can record in multimedia message mode (24 seconds) or normal mode (unlimited).

Motorola Tundra's battery life is 5 hours of talk time and 14 days on standby mode. FCC radiation tests are around 1.36 W/KG. The connection is strong for downloads and browsing the Internet, and the Cellular Videos load in 10 seconds on average. Tundra's quality is much better than many other AT&T phones. Sound matches the video but sometimes, videos paused to re buffer, and the sound/image lag was noticeable.

I think that Motorola Tundra, with its sturdy design is a great phone, with an easy-to-use interface and a good call quality, but I don't like the low quality media system (and this means poor photo quality and streaming video with lag). This phone is great for the making calls function, but the multimedia field has some lacks.

The Motorola cell phones have never impressed customers with a spectacular design or with features that they couldn’t find on another handsets. However, they managed to catch the attention during the years, with a couple of devices.

A relevant example of such a handset is the new Motorola music slider that was baptized with the name of Motorola ROKR ZN50. Being a full touch sensitive cell phone, the ROKR ZN50 was launched in the Korean market only.

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The list of features include WCDMA 2100, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps connectivity, a 3.2 inches TFT color display with a resolution of 240 x 420 pixels, a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 (HS), an integrated GPS, SRS WOW HD sound system and built-in EQ, T-DMB2 TV tuner, 3.5mm headphone jack, a microSD card support for expandable memory of no more than 16GB and a 950 mAh battery.



The phone measures 54 x 108.9 x 14.34 millimeters and weighs 143 grams. The user interface the Motorola ROKR ZN50 comes with is called Motorola panorama and it’s a new one. In additions, it “supports three separate screens, allowing more widgets and shortcuts to be arranged according to usage patterns”.

Other details, regarding the availability and the price, are not at our disposal for the moment, but stay tuned, because we’ll keep you informed.

(Source: UnwiredView)

For those of you who didn’t know (and I have to admit I didn’t either), there is something for the humanity to celebrate these days: I’m talking about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11, which is sometime this month. I hope you didn’t raise that eyebrow because you don’t know what the deal is with Apollo 11. Anyway, just in case you lack information, Apollo 11 is the equivalent of the first landing on the moon.

I don’t know how many of you are interested in the celebration of the moon landing, but Motorola is. And the proof consists of the special edition launched by the company of the Aura, the so very expensive cell phone that I’m sure you’ve had the chance to read about. The new version is called the Celestial Edition and comes with pre-loaded audio clips that made history, just like the famous words “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” or ‘The Eagle has landed”.

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The phone is identical with the first version as far as the features are concerned. What we don’t know right now is the price of the Celestial Edition, but I have a vague impression that it won’t be cheap.

(Source: Coolest-Gadgets)

It’s been a while since the last time we reported on a rugged cell phone. But Sprint has just made an announcement concerning the availability of a brand new device coming from Motorola, which is expected to start selling sometime in the near future.

The so-called Clutch, or the Motorola Clutch i465 (this is the full name of the phone), is an iDEN phone, a rugged one, to be more precise, that is currently available for the customers via Boost Mobile.

As for the Sprint release, it seems that cell phone users that are interested in rugged devices will be able to have their own Clutch starting the summer of 2009. The price is of no more than $39.99, if the customer is willing to sign a contract agreement for two years, after a $20 instant rebate and another one of $50 mail-in rebate.

The Motorola Clutch is said to be the first cell phone to be sold as a Nextel Direct Connect phone that is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard. In addition, it comes with a compatibility with the Military Specification 810F, a set of rules that are related to dust, high and low temperatures, low pressure, shocks of all sorts, solar radiation and vibration.

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The list of features consists of the following elements: a display with a resolution of 128 x 160 pixels, a VGA photo camera, GPS and Bluetooth, push to talk, Group Messaging (the user is able to create groups of no more than 20 different contact and to send messages to these groups in the same time).

Those who want more information about the rugged cell phone can always register at the official website of Sprint where they’ll be able to find out details about the availability of the phone.

(Source: UnwiredView)

I’m aware of the fact that people’s mind goes to one direction and one direction only when they hear the word “karma”. According to Wikipedia, “Karma is the concept of ‘action’ or ‘deed’ in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e. the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies”.

No one would blame you for not thinking about the new Motorola device that has just been announced by the company, in collaboration with AT&T. Those who are interested in cell phones more than they are in Indian religion should know that the Karma QA1 first appeared in the spotlight at the beginning of this year, back in February.

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According to the company, the phone is aimed at teenagers and young adults, being a quick messaging and social networking device. The features of the Karma QA1 include text messaging, instant messaging, easy access, directly from the homescreen, to Facebook and MySpace, a QWERTY keyboard that slides out, a display with high resolution and access to AT&T’s 3G network, the CrystalTalk technology, for a better sound without the background noise, a 2.0 megapixel camera, JuiceCaster support, a service gives the user the chance to connect with friends and share all sorts of pictures and videos with them, 3.5mm headphone jack.



“Unique visitors to Facebook from AT&T’s MEdia Net portal grew over 100% in 2008”, said Michael Woodward, the Vice President of Mobile Phone Portofolio, at AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “Karma’s one-click access to Facebook and MySpace will resonate with customers who are committed to keeping up with social networking sites on the go”.

If you are interested in this new karma definition, then you should know that the Motorola phone is expected to become available starting June 28th in select AT&T stores or online, for a price of $79.99 after a mail-in rebate as long as you’re willing to sign a contract agreement for two years.

(Source: Press release)