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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, GSM, EDGE

It’s no world-beating Alexander or anything (not even close, really), but the W530 clamshell will still make and take calls with the bes. of ‘em. Reportedly, Moto is preparing the simplistic handset you see above for the Chinese market, and with it will come a 220 x 176 resolution internal display, 1.3-megapixel camera, an FM radio module, 20MB of inbuilt memory, microSD expansion slot, quad-band GSM support and that lightning quick EDGE data. No telling when precisely this will drop (nor for how much), but we’d surmise “soon.”

Motorola preps simplistic W530 clamshell originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Android

If you were a bit taken aback by the £40 ($59) monthly tariff required to take the G1 home for free, apparently you weren’t alone. T-Mobile has hacked that requirement down to £30 ($44) per month, and while the carrier itself has said that it’s not a reaction to poor sales, industry analysts are saying otherwise. In fact, a company spokesperson even states that it has chosen to “offer the device free with a £30 contract to make the pricing more competitive in light of recent device launches,” even though it is “well on track to achieve [its] sales forecasts.” Whatever the agenda, we’re all about getting phones into hands for less, so three cheers all around. Except for you early adopters… bummer, eh?

[Via Pocket-lint]

T-Mobile lowers price of G1 admission in the UK to better compete originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, GSM, EDGE

Not to be upstaged by Nokia’s neverending stream of goodies today — well, honestly, nothing’s plan to stop that — Motorola has seen fit to push out a new music-centric device dubbed the ROKR EM35. On the sonic front, it packs audio-enhancing CrystalTalk (which features two microphones to help filter out background noise), virtual stereo surround sound, the MOTOMUSIC player, dual speakers, and an RDS-enabled FM radio. Hardware specs give us quad-band EDGE, a 3.1 megapixel camera, 110MB of onboard memory that’s expandable to 32GB, in a fairly tidy 116 gram package. Carrier availability and pricing is missing in this place, though, we’ll likely hear something soon enough.

Motorola launches the ROKR EM35 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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