Motorola to unveil a slew of new handsets at CTIA?

It's been a rough couple months for Motorola's handset division -- rumors of a sale, two high-profile executive departures, layoffs, and that pathetic showing at Mobile World Congress -- but today it looks like the company might have some tricks left up its sleeve for CTIA. We're not sure where it came from, but this supposed marketing video popped up on YouTube with shots of several new handsets, all of which jive with rumors we've heard about Moto's upcoming devices, like the Linux-based Ming 2 and the 5 megapixel cameraphone developed with Kodak (pictured above). Other notables are a Q variant running Windows Mobile 6.1 and an odd new music slider that could be the ROKR E10. Of course, none of this is official (and Moto did release a hype-laden video just before MWC only to fall totally flat), but we'd be lying if we said we weren't hoping to see Moto try and come back around at CTIA -- we'll see what happens. Video after the break.

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[tom @ Mar 11th 2008 12:01PM]

For some reasons, carriers are reluctant to carry motorola products. There isn't much to choose from and the UI is weird...

[tom @ Mar 11th 2008 12:04PM]

The motorola stuff - everything feels flimsy, especially Razr line. It doesn't give the solidity feeling to me. I'd stay away or be skeptical. However, i will look forward to Ming 2 and see if it is any better =)

[asphixiated @ Mar 12th 2008 11:12AM]

I disagree, i used a Razr V3 for a year and i've had a blackberry pearl, Sony W580i and Sony S500i since then.

To date, all of these phones feel like cheap plastic. It may be the aluminum in the casing of the razr, but thats the most reliable phone i've ever had, i've dropped it out of a moving vehicle once, as well as into a toilet, and it worked perfectly.

[Michael @ Mar 11th 2008 12:07PM]

Never owned a RAZR, I have the Samsung "knockoff", the MM-A900M for Sprint. Pretty much everyone I know with a RAZR just has it because it was a free phone. Occasionally my Sammy will lag a little bit in the menus, so I can't say it's perfect, but other than that, I really like it and it feels very sturdy.

On the flipside, Moto handsets have clearer voice quality than any Samsung I've used. I just usually get Samsungs because I'm used to the UI.

Hopefully these new Motos bring fresh features to the table and give people reason to consider Motorola still.

[Chris @ Mar 11th 2008 12:20PM]

I don't get the choice of any cool phones since I use T-Mobile

[Jeff @ Mar 11th 2008 3:23PM]

Same here, and i'm on Sprint.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 11th 2008 5:05PM]

Yeah.I'm on Sprint with no contract right now and the only phone that invites me is the mogul. I currently have a mogul and an unlocked iphone on tmobile. Don't falme at me for the unlocking of my iphone. If I wanted the iphone, I woudn't want it with at&t.

[Lincoln @ Mar 11th 2008 12:22PM]

impulssive?

[roach @ Mar 11th 2008 1:19PM]

Tell us how you really feel!!

Can you make a longer sentence next time please? And I am sure Moto features are shit cuz Americans like them...

Nice X-men 3 logo...did that just come out there?

[silverblackvoid @ Mar 11th 2008 1:27PM]

show some respect man... its Motorola we're talkin bout here. their recent stuff may not be spectacular but they are still motorola. They were the pioneers in this field. im a true blue fan. flame me, i dont care.

Moto Rocks!!!

[KF @ Mar 11th 2008 1:30PM]

Americans also invented the iPhone which you seem to like in so many other threads.

..and most Americans can do better than an X-Men 3 avatar.

[Fernando @ Mar 11th 2008 2:05PM]

lol @ all the Moto haters. Especially on a north american site.

MOTO WILL COME BACK!

[cibrlx01 @ Mar 11th 2008 2:45PM]

The ui seems fine to me, my slvr l7 is still running well and it has been dropped a million times by now (this is the unlocked version) and i have had to replace the outside screen 4 times now but everything still works.
Say what you want about the UI but it works preety well, i am currently trying to transfer data from a samsung phone and i have been having the hardest time doing it. In the end i gave up trying to connect it to my computer and just copied everything down myself. I have never had such a hard time doing anything like that from my motorola. Samsung otherwise seems fine, but they seem to lock the os down on their phone. Like you still cant record video on their line of phones through metro, despite having strong phones in their lineup like the R400, R410, U740
I really hope motorola finds their bearing again, would be a big shame if they go

[dieterpops @ Mar 11th 2008 3:00PM]

Umm...maybe they should learn how to spell check a video...impulssive?

[alanwestenbroek @ Mar 11th 2008 3:26PM]

Dunno...you'd think Motorola would bother to spell "impulsive" correctly in their PR video.

[beq @ Mar 11th 2008 4:20PM]

I've been wanting the Motorola Z10 kick (banana) slider for quite awhile, which was also shown in this video. When will it come out?

[PS3guy @ Mar 11th 2008 4:41PM]

I have an Moto cable box and it's a piece of sh1t.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 11th 2008 5:00PM]

I agree with silver. Moto, yeah maybe their recent phones are like beta browsers in a sense. Pretty cool looking yet features and etc. kinda suck. But Moto pretty much created the field of phones. Without them, the iphone might've came 5 years from now. Most of use cell users would still be using landline. They are the pioneers in cellphone making. Without them, the cellphone industry would've looked a lot differently. I hope Moto will make a comeback with these phones, or it's "Goodbye Moto"

[Mark @ Mar 11th 2008 5:50PM]

You can probably bet that Samsung reverse engineered a lot of Motorola's phones. We owe Motorola another chance.

[Robert Castor @ Mar 11th 2008 7:43PM]

Maybe you think motorola phones are shit because you can't spell or form good sentences. Ok so here is the thing; yes, they have struggled, and personally think that it's the software that sucks, not the hardware. Let's also keep in mind that it isn't just some magical land where cell phones appear from, it's people. So you want motorola to go away huh? you want thousands of people to lose their jobs because you don't like a few of their products huh? How about just buy something else and quit bitching.

[Skorpius @ Mar 11th 2008 8:44PM]

Still using my StarTAC I bought in 2000. I highly doubt any phone made today would last half as long.

[David @ Mar 11th 2008 9:25PM]

What happened to the Skarven? I had a Rizr Z8 but had to return it because it was a Tri-Band and wouldn't work. Why aren't some of the banana phones released as Quad-Bands?

[rob @ Mar 11th 2008 9:45PM]

Carl Icon... where the Hell Are You!! MOT stock should be smokin'. RIM... now that's a phone!

[Oskin @ Mar 12th 2008 1:43AM]

I've had a lot of phones in my life and let me tell you most of them don't even though a year. For some reason, i drop my phone everywhere... I've had a razr for 2 years now and it still works like a charm. Alright the software suck and sometimes it does weird things for no reason but it's still working like a charm! It has amazing quality and i can still see all the numbers/letters... All the phone i've used before have had this problem (samsung, an old old nokia phone, an old moto, ericson before it was sony). Anyhow its still working, that gotta count for something right?

[sully420 @ Mar 12th 2008 2:05AM]

I've had the Startac and the Moto Q and everything in between and I've never had one failure with Motorola products. The UI is intuituve and simple and I've been modding these phones since the first one that I owned. I had the Startac running an email client in like 1997 and i watched movies/played music/used ROMS on my e810 and like 3 different razr models. I've never dropped a call but I've dropped the phones as well as gotten them wet but never had a hardware failure. The new lineup is a welcome addition to the Motorola family and I'm sure they will be quality, easy to use, and easy to hack handsets. For the record I carry a jail-breaked ipod touch and a modded Motorola everyday in the same pocket. I'm a post-intel Mac user and the iphone is great proof of concept, but I find it unreasonable in this day and age to go without video, tethering, call quality, and reasonable rates(alltel offers unlimited text, mobile web, data, "my cirlce" plan, and free nights and weekends for calls for $66 per month) that the iphone does not offer. Iphone V2 may be a monster but it's sure going to be hard to break the Moto loyalty. Bring on the Razr touch.

[realworldweirdo @ Mar 12th 2008 3:56AM]

I was hoping they'd get out of the industry altogether. I can't stomach selling their products, unless they're mandated to certain specs by a company (coughnextelcough) they're completely worthless peices of trash. For example, the RAZR.

[Nirvan Nagar @ Mar 12th 2008 5:01PM]

xperia X1 anyone?