Motorola sweeps with six new phones: V1150, V557, V280, V270, and V176

Well what do you know? That new 3G RAZR V1150 we were so hyped on a couple days ago turned out to be true—unfortunately, Motorola hasn't released the photos to confirm that part of the bargain yet, but so far as we can tell the specs are the same as we previously published: tri-band GSM/GPRS, WCDMA, 2.2-inch QVGA screen, 2-megapixel camera, TransFlash slot, and extensive multimedia playback (hit up that link for the full rundown) capabilities. Due out in the second half!

But Motorola didn't stop there. They also released:

• The V557, the latest update to the V551, which now features Push-to-Talk (and that same Bluetooth and EDGE), and will be due in Q2

• The V280 is known as the SLVRcam, which from its specs (Bluetooth, a VGA camera, and Push-to-Talk) may well appear to be the Borneo we told you about, and is due in the second half of this year

• The V270 is the SLVRlite, which is the same phone as the SLVRcam V280, just without the cam (hence the name), and also due out in the second half

• The V176 is their latest low-ender—a budget clamshell phone (GSM we presume) featureing PTT

• The Vodafone-only multimedia-centric V1050, which has a 1.23-megapixel camera, two-way video calling,

They also introduced their SCREEN3 technology, which sounds a lot like MSN Direct (sports scores, weather, news headlines, etc. in what we assume will be a ticker-style interface on the phone desktop). We assume this is the same thing as Dynamic Idle, which we heard about them cramming into the SLVR V8. But what they didn't introduce was the iTunes phone (not that we're not surprised after so many freaking false starts already). But seriously, Moto, what gives?