Motorola's new line of multimedia sets to be named Motorola ZiNE?

Color us fairly skeptical friends, but the word from the web is that Moto's new line of multimedia handsets are going to be dubbed Motorola ZiNE -- yeah, we thought the same. We'd heard rumors that new and wildly unoriginal ideas would be rolling out of the labs and design studios at Motorola in the near future and (fingers crossed) hopefully these'll bring a change of fortune. Apparently the "ZiNE" line will feature a Z10 successor with a big touchscreen, WiFI, and GPS and an 8 megapixel monster with optical zoom purportedly created in conjunction with Kodak. Of course, all of this is fluff and smoke 'til we see the real deal, but know we'll be posting the dodgy and blurry pics if and when we get our hands on 'em.

[Meredith Baxter Berney @ Nov 28th 2007 8:11PM]

I heard it's the "Roil."

[Xavier Gill @ Nov 28th 2007 9:48PM]

They're using vowels in product names now eh? Its just crazy enough to work....

[Jeremy W @ Nov 29th 2007 1:10AM]

You must be forgetting about Motorola's most popular four-letter phone, the RAZR. It's got a vowel.

[omer @ Nov 28th 2007 8:24PM]

thats how you say penis in hebrew...haha

and by the way.. doesnt sound like zune at all..(which is f*ck in hebrew)

[Andune @ Nov 28th 2007 8:31PM]

Ohh, Motorola ZuNE you say?
Ehh i mean ZiNE... Finger slipped.

[Ypoknons @ Nov 28th 2007 8:31PM]

If that's true that's a bloody good phone, but in my books an open platform (or at least 3rd patry applications) is more important than a 8MP camera when you can get a 5MP camera on the Symbian N95 or N82. A Xenon flash would really make the camera useful. Of course, with all this, maybe a giant battery is what we all need...

[Rich @ Nov 29th 2007 7:33AM]

The article mentions that its a successor to the Symbian-based Z10. It's a good bet to assume that this phone will also run Symbian (+ UIQ).

[bernard @ Nov 28th 2007 8:31PM]

Zine...Zune

Tomayto...Tomahto...

[John @ Nov 28th 2007 8:52PM]

Tomito, tomuto.

[Homeboy @ Nov 28th 2007 8:58PM]

Will the Z10 come in Scooby Doo brown?

[videonevin @ Nov 28th 2007 9:02PM]

i wonder if the zine 80 will have battery issues too?

seriously motorola, back to the drawing board on this one.

[Japanesegorilla @ Nov 28th 2007 9:03PM]

Z10 successor??? Was the Z10 ever even released? Or was it an everywhere but the US thing kinda like the Z8?

[Michael LaFramboise @ Nov 28th 2007 9:27PM]

Whoever comes up w/ all these names for Motorola should seriously be replaced.

[Maestro @ Nov 28th 2007 11:07PM]

You mean RPLCD

[seba @ Nov 28th 2007 11:22PM]

Does it sound like Maga-Zine?
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2311958

[Generic @ Nov 29th 2007 4:42AM]

Moto mashup: ZiNE = iTunes + Zune

[pismo @ Nov 29th 2007 8:12AM]

sounds more like the name for a motorola magazine, and why not- sharper image has one and god knows moto has enough products!

[pismo @ Nov 30th 2007 4:24PM]

sounds more like the name for a motorola magazine, and why not- sharper image has one and god knows moto has enough products!