Originally published August 2 2005
Motorola to compete with BlackBerry
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Motorola has released their newest phone, Q. It is the thinnest phone ever made and will rival BlackBerries with its ability to process wireless e-mails.
Motorola has a new phone, called Q that is thinner than the hit RAZR phone -- touted as the world's thinnest phone -- and will take on BlackBerry and Treo, the popular wireless e-mail smart phones.
At a meeting at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center on Monday, Moto said the Q is 50 percent thinner than its rivals.
The new device is 0.45 inches thick, compared with 0.54 for the RAZR.
Q, scheduled to hit the market in the first quarter of 2006, has a QWERTY keyboard, electro-luminescent keys and a color screen that enables users to send and receive e-mail as well as to surf the Net and take photos with a 1.3 megapixel camera with flash.
Ron Garriques, president of Motorola's mobile devices business, described the Q as "wickedly cool.
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John Slack, a wireless analyst with Morningstar, the Chicago-based independent stock analysis company, said cell-phone fans had been speculating on the new Moto device, referring to it as "RAZRberry."
Motorola's design team broke with the recent pattern of selecting stylized four-letter names for phones, such as SLVR, PEBL and RAZR, and the old tradition of phones with techy names, such as DYBA-TAC and STAR-TAC, and selected a stylish single letter.
Q was the gadget guy in the Bond series," a spokeswoman said.
Motorola also displayed music phones in its ROKR line; the RAZRWIRE Bluetooth sunglasses developed with Oakley, and a device that will help the police automatically identify license plates and check databases for "hot" vehicles.
Motorola also announced MOTOFWRD, a scholarship competition challenging college students to show what seamless mobility, Motorola's product mantra, will look like in the future.
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