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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)

And now the news imply two other important names that are involved in the cell phone realm, and I’m talking about Motorola and Android, the famous Google platform that was so very talked about in the past couple of months.

It’s still a mystery whether Motorola is going to have an Android-based cell phone or not, but there are rumors about the so-called Motorola Heron, also known as Iron Man, that is said to come equipped with the Google operating system. So, if you’re an Android fan, you should know that AT&T is keen on offering you the famous mobile platform.

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Maybe you already read (I think it was a month ago or so) about the Heron and the fact that it was prepared to be unveiled, but at the time there weren’t many technical details available. But here we have a full list of features of the Motorola Heron: a large 2.8 inch display with touch sensitive capabilities (it can be used for browsing and viewing media files), a QWERTY keypad that slides, an integrated GPS and assisted GPS, email, such as POP3, IMAP4, Pocket Outlook, Exchange ActiveSync, GMM, a 3 megapixel camera with LED flash, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR Class 2, microUSB 2.0, 256MB Flash, 128MB RAM and a microSD card slot for no more than 32GB of external memory.



The new Motorola cell phone measures 57.5 x 104 x 15.9 millimeters and weighs approximately 125 grams. The AT&T news are completed with a release date that is said to be sometime in November, this year, but it’s not a certain one.

(Source: UnwiredView)

It is not a bad idea for a very successful cell phone to be brought from the dead, especially if the certain phone is expected to still create sensation if it were available in the market. It is not a bad idea if the company knows very well that there’s a real demand coming from the customers concerning the cell phone in discussion. Otherwise, efforts are useless.

This is what happened with the Motorola A1200, which was known as the Motorola Ming phone. It behave better than the company would have expected it to behave when it was released, back in 2006. Yearning for those days, Motorola decided to revive that fever, so it has just unveiled the new Motorola A1200R.

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The most important differences between the two handsets consist of the following features that you won’t be able to find withing the old version: widgets (you have easy access to weather information, news and so on), the Microsoft Office document editing, FM radio, business card scanner which is based on OCR technology (also known as Optical Character recognition) and an external memory of 1GB that is included in the package.



The camera and the display are exactly the same: a 2 megapixel camera and a QVGA display with touch sensitive capabilities.

The new Motorola Ming phone has just been announced in Argentina, so chances are very high for it to become available in other countries from Latin America. As for its price, we don’t know how much it will cost you to revive the Ming fever, but we’ll keep you informed.

(Source: UnwiredView)