Last night Ed Zander of Motorola and Steve Ballmer jointly anounced the Motorola 'Q'. Its a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone device with a QUERTY keyboard - touted as the worlds smallest QUERTY phone. Its based on the very popular Motorola RAZR hardware and is slated for an early 2006 launch.
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Specs:
Q
Dimensions
117 x 64 x 11.5 mm; 4.6 x 2.5 x 0.45 inches
Size
80cc
Weight
115 g; 4.06 ounces
Battery
1130mAh
Talk Time**: up to approximately 200 mins
Standby Time**: up to approximately 200 hours
Display
2.4” 320 x 240 65k TFT
Features
• One of the first devices to run on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0
• Optimized for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and a variety of third party email solutions that
enable a broad set of corporate email capabilities
• Thinnest QWERTY device in the world – 11.5 mm
• Full, ergonomic QWERTY keyboard, 5-way navigation button and thumb wheel
• Video clip capture and playback
• Multi-Media Messaging (MMS)
• Dual, stereo-quality speakers
• Audio formats supported: iMelody, MIDI, MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, WAX, QCELP
• Image formats supported: GIF87a, GIF89a, JPEG, WBMP, BMP, PNG
• Video formats supported: H.263, MPEG-4, GSM-AMR, AAC, WMV
• Mini-SD removable memory card slot
• Large, high-resolution display (320 x 240 pixels, 65K TFT)
• 1.3 mega pixel Camera with photo lighting
• PIM functionality with Picture Caller ID
• Advanced speech recognition
• Speakerphone
Connectivity
• Bluetooth® wireless technology which takes advantage of Motorola’s line of Bluetooth accessories
• USB and IrDA
Did you spot the screen resolution? Its 320 x 240, and yes it is running Smartphone - so thats the new QVGA resolution, *and* its in landscape orientation!
Marcus