We got word of these presentation photos of what appears to be Motorola’s new RAZR PDA. That’s right, a smartphone in the RAZR form factor, because the world needs another RAZR like it needs touchscreen voting machines. Details are sketchy at best, as all we have are blurry, gadget rumortastic camphone photos, but they’re good enough that we can clearly see moderately thicker RAZR with a slightly enlarged outer display.
We know that Moto has a Linux-based ROKR ready to go that’s already cleared the FCC labyrinth of regulation, so it’s likely that the RAZR in this shot will sport some Linuxy goodness.
Also on the page, which is from an isreali gadget blog we can’t read, are photos of a “glowing PEBL”, and uglyized version of the popular T-Mobile PEBL. We’re not exactly sure what “glowing” refers to, but this PEBL does have what appears to be dual outer displays, and it looks like one’s color and one’s monochrome, which is confusing as hell. We’re going to comb through the FCC database now and see if we can find anything on these guys, but for now we’re calling it a Halloween mystery.
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This looks like a variant of the A1200 Ming phone, which has been on the Chinese market for 6 months or so. It is running Linux so possibly Motorola is bringing it to the US and Europe as a RAZR brand.
Comment by Tim Meyer — October 31, 2006 @ 2:16 pm
I love my original RAZR V3. Performance and functionality pending, I’d definitely consider a RAZR smartphone. Especially if it was Linux-based, and even more especially, if it synced happily with my MacBook Pro.
Comment by Steve Collins — October 31, 2006 @ 4:21 pm
a smartphone in a razr form factor? aren’t they a little late to that party? (htc startrk?)
Comment by Bryan — November 1, 2006 @ 9:42 am
What will they come up with next?
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Pingback by A Frog in the Valley » Blog Archive » [Frog Trail 20061102] — November 2, 2006 @ 6:36 am
Finally, I can move on from my Treo 650p to a PDA without WINDOWS.
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I belive motorola has the cell phone bussiness on lock in what i mean is you never had to buy ringtones or wallpaper for the simple reason you can make you on files!!! And a razr or a slvr pda is a very smart idea, i would buy one just because its a long lasting phone!!! Thank moto make somthing else for me!!!
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