Motorola Z8 MOTORIZR smartphone coming soon

April 19, 2007 at 3:33 pm by Jay | In Mobile Phones, Coming Soon Handsets

Motorola Z8The Motorola Z8 MOTORIZR is a ‘kick’ slider phone and runs the Symbian UIQ 9.1 operating system. The Z8 has an impressive feature list, including a 2.0 megapixel camera, a 2.2 inch QVGA screen supporting up to 16 million colours, and support for HSDPA, the mobile broadband service that offers download speeds of up to 3.6mbps

The design of the Z8 is unique among current handsets, when the slide is fully extended the Z8 curves to fit the contours of your face. Inevitably comparisons are drawn to the Nokia ‘banana’ phone of years gone by. I’m sure if the Z8 gains as iconic a status as that enjoyed by the original Nokia, Motorola won’t mind one bit.

MotoRIZR Z8Motorola are very keen to promote the media capabilities of their new phone. Video playback is at 30 fps offering a very smooth and enjoyable viewing experience. The Z8 will support additional memory in the form of Micro SD cards, and will handle cards up to 4GB in capacity. Motorola say consumers should expect to be able to store up to 10 movies for future viewing. The handset itself ships with a 512MB card that will have a movie pre installed so consumers can enjoy the viewing experience straight away.

In addition to the video playback options, Motorola have also enhanced the media capabilities on the handset by including the Sky By Mobile service on the phone. This allows SKY subscribers to log into their account from the phone, view the full SKY program guide, access news and sports stories, and you can even set your SKY+ box to record programs whilst you are out and about. And if that is not enough, you can stream SKY channels to the handset over 3G.

The Z8 is expected to launch late April early May

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  1. Actually it’s UIQ 3.1 on top of Symbian OS 9.2.

    Comment by M — 20 April, 2007 #

  2. Anyone know if the Motorola Z8 has a TV Out capability? I have a pair of Icuiti iWear glasses (www.icuiti.com) that I watch movies stored on my Video iPod and this would be great if I could do this from the Z8.

    Comment by Ahab — 18 May, 2007 #

  3. what other movies are available for th z8 and where do i get them from?

    Comment by sean — 23 July, 2007 #

  4. I’m not aware of any officially announced movies yet, but you should be able to use movie converter software to enable you to put on DVD’s of films you already own. Check the link, from our own software shop:

    http://software.mobiles.co.uk/35376/Video_Converter_for_Sony_Ericsson_Smartphones.html

    Comment by Jay Andolini — 25 July, 2007 #

  5. Does anybody know if they are going to bring it out an another colour.

    Comment by jacemmmi — 3 September, 2007 #

  6. i advise you not 2 get this phone as i have one and i regret getting it. it is slow boring and crashes alot and you can only watch half a movie on a full charge

    Comment by gw — 27 January, 2008 #

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