Motorola Alexander spied with Windows Mobile 6.1
By Will Park on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 at 7:54 PM PST In Devices, Motorola, Rumors, Windows Mobile
Motorola’s only got a few more product cycles to get it right or fold their cards and declare their handset business defunct. Time is running out, and the pressure is on for CEO Greg Brown to get things into high gear.
Moto’s last stand in the handset business has been talked about as being an 8 megapixel cameraphone worthy of high-end smartphone praise. While we may not see a monstrous 8 megapixel shooter from the ailing handset manufacturer, there’s little doubt that Motorola (NYSE: MOT) is looking to get a high-end feature-set to market before it’s too late to make a difference. The Motorola ZN5 isn’t going to cut it without a 3G radio on board. But, the MotoZINE ZN5 does prove that Motorola can hang with the imaging giants like the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95 (soon to be N96) and Samsung G800.
In that light, we bring you the first live pics of the Motorola Alexander – the smartphone that Motorola hopes will help bring their mobile phone manufacturing arm back in to the black. The interesting form-factor aside, the Motorola Alexander could do well with the list of features that have reportedly been confirmed. It’s destined to be released later this year and will be a member of the Windows Mobile camp.
We’re expecting the Motorola Alexander (aka Motorola’s last stand) to sport a 5-8 megapixel camera, NVIDIA 3D graphics hardware, aGPS and Windows Mobile 6.1! Look for the Motorola Alexander to go live in Q4 2008.
Will you be picking up a Motorola handset that looks like this? Sound off in the comments.
Note: The more we look at the Motorola Alexander, the more attractive it looks. With the slider closed, it looks like it could give the iPhone a run for its money. Anyone else find this thing pretty?
Of course, we’ll have to reserve final judgment until we can see the handset in person, or at least in pictures with more detail and depth.
[Via: BGR]
Looks like it will be sporting a touchscreen as well.
But I’ll be honest Will, I don’t think I’d buy a phone that looks like that. I want moto to have a comeback just as much as you do but a full qwerty keypad is kinda risky for the mass market wouldn’t you think?
8 megapixel business phone? It could hit a niche market hard, however it won’t be seeing any of my dollars any time soon.
If they could cram the features you mentioned plus a few curve balls on a Symbian OS, I would drop the dollars in a heartbeat!
I think Stefan mentioned earlier that Nokia had said they wanted cellphones to be able to run on any OS and that you would choose which OS you wanted upon purchasing the hardware.
That concept would work perfectly with Moto’s company saving device (not this btw). As I would buy Moto’s sexy hardware and simply put the software I’d like on it.
Anyways, back to the point:
This phone simply can’t be the “company saving” phone as I believe it’s target market is too small.
As oppose to this device being the companies last stand, I think this could be part of a wave of new devices. This could simply be the high end business-phone.
Who knows, in a couple of weeks we could be seeing the new sexy chick phone. (a phone that looks great but does nothing special) Possibly next month we might be seeing Moto’s answer to the Samsung Innov8! I mean, if they can produce an 8 megapixel snapper, what’s stopping them from bundling it with a bunch of other cool features?
BRING IT ON MOTO!!!!!!!!!!
I would consider buying it because I have a full keyboard phone now And it,s better than any touch keyboard phone can ever be
Bring it on indeed. I hope the new handset division executive can get things in order.
What is the company for this phone?