Motorola's E680i and E685 musicphones
posted March 24th 2005 12:40PM
We hit up the E725 earlier today, but Motorola announced two other musicphones this morning, the E680i and the E685.
The E680i (pictured at right) looks like an updated version of their Linux-powered
E680 smartphone which came out last year (the name is a
dead giveaway). This one's a tri-band GSM/GPRS handset that comes with support for stereo Bluetooth headphones
(it has the A2DP profile, which is sort of a big deal for a cellphone), playback of MP3, WMA, WAV, and AAC audio files,
a digital camera (not sure what quality, but we're guessing VGA), an SD memory card slot, and a built-in FM tuner.
Should be available in the Asia and Pacific markets next month.
The E685 is a slider-style CDMA phone with support for MP3 playback, a stereo headset jack, and VGA quality
digital camera. This one's only for China.
Now if nextel would just come out with one of these. Frustrating, all the other cell phone providers have all these cool phones and Nextel comes out with crap. Still waiting for the i930...and waiting...and waiting... i'd switch to a different provider but work pays my cell phone bill so I'm kinda stuck.
-jeff
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Sorry, but just because they watermarked a press image doesn't mean they "own" it. That's Motorola's press image, and we can do what we please with it.
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I replaced the image, but in no way did we cross a line here. If anyone crossed a line it was Mobile-file for watermarking a photo they didn't own. If you notice, we don't watermark ANY photos, not even original photos we take at events or for reviews.
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