Motorola unveiled new Rizr Z8

Wed, 14 Feb 2007

Motorola the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker, introduced the Rizr Z8 an upgraded version of the Z6. The phone slides open to reveal a keyboard and bends to bring the microphone closer to the user's mouth. The main difference between the two is the Z8 is powered by Symbian unlike Z6.

The Z8 uses a Symbian-based user interface and features high-speed mobile broadband (HSDPA), comes equipped with a 2 mega pixel camera with 8x zoom and LED light, media player and A2DP AVRCP Bluetooth, video record and playback capabilities, 90MB of internal memory and an expandable microSD slot that will support up to 4GB.

The phone is one of Motorola's first new handsets after weak fourth quarter results put it under pressure to produce innovative designs to replace its aging slim Razr phone .

Oppenheimer analyst Lawrence Harris said, "While many investors had not expected new phones in the current quarter, others were likely unhappy the phone will not arrive sooner."

Harris said, "While these phones will certainly help results beginning in the second quarter and in the second half of the year, the results for the first quarter will be determined by what's out there in the market place right now."

"It was a good sign that Motorola was moving beyond the Razr, which started the trend for thin phones, because slimness has become so common among rivals," he added.

"They're doing something different and that's what Motorola needs to do," said Harris. "The market is getting more competitive and being thin is not enough."

The MOTORIZR Z8 is expected to be available around April/May time. Since Motorola was talking up a partnership with Sky, we're betting on a European launch for the device.

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