When you think about it, Vertus and Ferraris have a lot in common: just as Ferraris give a select few the opportunity to spend an insane amount of cash on an object that provides little more value than a, say, $1,000 used car, Vertu offers a product with little additional value (and in some cases, less value) than phones offered free from carriers. Of course, you can’t put a price on status, so getting these two status symbols to hook up and co-brand a device seems like a match made in heaven (more appropriate than a Ferrari-branded Moto, for example). The “Ferrari Challenge” rendition of the Ascent — in red and black leather — is limited to 1,947 examples (can that many people in the world really afford this thing?), each featuring a couple well-placed Ferrari logos and some weird thing on the back that’s apparently supposed to look like a brake pedal. Look for it to grace your local Vertu retailer in July — but please don’t use it while driving, lest you destroy your real Ferrari, k?

Motorola has announced the re-release of it’s StarTAC, and everyone…in korea.. is pretty excited. The new version of this is a budget phone. It’s low on feature, high on function. It’s one of the first shell phones that was comfortable and fun to use. It was also one of the first universally used phones to add modifications to. It may never see US shores but she still is pretty.

Motorola is continuing with its deals with motor manufacturers and has announced its latest – the Motorola MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition, a perfect marriage between the style of Ferrari and the technological innovation of Motorola.

The unique handset comes with HSDPA capability and offers a series of exclusive features: the Ferrari emblem on the exterior glass, the roar of the Ferrari F1 eight-cylindre engine accompanies the switching of the handset on or off, images of the Ferrari F430 engine on the mini external display and the image of the Ferrari emblem on a gray Ferrari in the internal display.

Underlining the elegance and attention to detail that have always been the hallmark of both brands; the MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition comes with a soft, hand-made carry case in Ferrari-red leather.

The MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone delivers the capability to listen to music, browse the Internet and download content at extremely high speed, all within a handset with high-end finishes, in a futuristic mix of metal and tempered glass. External touch controls allow for fast access to the music functions when the phone is closed with great elegance and simplicity.

Grab it from Ferrari Stores and all major Motorola dealers, at the recommended price of €490.00(approximately US$630).

Source: PHONEMAG

Members of the candybar phone set who envied the Motorola RAZR”thin is in” good looks are in luck. The Motorola SLVR L7, offered by Cingular in the US, takes the RAZR’s techno-chic design and signature polished metal keypad and flattens it into the thinnest candybar phone on the US market. The 11.5mm thin SLVR lives up to its name, being incredibly slim though not notably small in height or breadth.

The SLVR is about more than good looks, and falls into the feature phone category thanks to its VGA camera, Bluetooth and Micro SD (aka TransFlash) card slot which comes filled with a 512 meg card. Why such a high capacity card? Because the SLVR is yet another iTunes phone from Motorola and it can handle up to 100 songs. Unlike the 100 song ROKR, whose only claim to fame was its iTunes capability, the SLVR L7 more subtlely adds the feature as one of several reasons to want this phone. Much better marketing: getting a SLVR means getting a cool looking phone with decent features that also happens to replace an iPod.

 

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According to the latest CNET radiation test results, it seems that Motorola cell phones possess the highest cellular radiation with 9 models in their top ten, with the tenth being the Palm Treo 650 GSM. Among these models are the new SLVR L6 and L2, but the unit with the highest radiation output, at 1.6 SAR, is the Motorola V195. The popular RAZR isn’t on the top ten list though, so I guess that’s something RAZR owners ought to be thankful for. Motorola owners, check this list out, and if you happen to have any of these phones, consider yourself warned….or potentially sterile.

Phones as of late, speak more to the person than they do to functionality. None are higher on the list than this, the Dolce and Gabbana RAZR. The Motorola RAZR came out to a lot of fan fare and has fizzled with the problems that they have. No iTunes support, bad sound, fragile all are things said about the RAZR.

The new D&G phone is an all world phone. All countries are capable of running this phone without a hitch. The problem is much the same. For the price, your getting a fragile phone, with no iTunes capabilites, short batter life and bad quality sound. So basically, if you get a good one, it’s great. If you get anything other than a perfect one, you have crap in a gold case. Not even Dolce could save the phone in the end. If you just have to have it, be gentle with it, or you’ll break it faster than you know.

Motorolla Chief executive Ed Zander made quite a few announcements as he delivered a keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. From a new handset that can be charged on a cycle - probably why Zander showed up on stage cycling!

There was also a demo of a new mobile service, Yahoo2Go 2.0, aimed at making Yahoo services more accessible on wireless phones by Zander. Motorola also launched two handsets based on a new design for music downloads. The company bills its Motomusic Experience as a series of phones optimized for music and media.

The RIZR Z6, one of the phones launched will be compatible with Microsoft Windows Media Player subscription stores. The phone looks vaguely like Motorola’s popular RAZR handset, but instead of folding open, its upper portion slides up to reveal a keypad.

The company will be looking to up its stocks after the beating it took finishing down 34 cents, or 1.8%, on Jan. 8, closing at $18.60.

Motorola’s E680i is a mobile phone that combines a PDA and a camera in one palm size device! It operates at GSM 900/1800/1900 networks and features an integrated VGA camera with 8x zoom. View oth video playback and recording on the large and bright 240 x 320 TFT color display. The E680i has a 50 MB internal memory and a SD memory card slot that is easily expandable to 2 GB. This PDA phone is based on the Linux operating system and uses a user interface that is written in Java.

Initially I was a bit worried about the size of the phone, but after seeing the size comparison it doesn’t seem to be much larger than other phones in its class. It is interesting that it runs on Linux as this should make hacking and customizing the phone a bit easier, but could also lead to the potential of not being able to return to the default settings if you decide to take things a bit too far.

The inclusion of Real Player as the main software leaves me with an uneasy feeling because I can only imagine what kind of resources it hogs up on the phone when put to use. Fortunately they got the browser selection right by going with Opera 7.5, although having the ability to upgrade to Opera 8.0 would be a welcomed feature. All the rest of the applications are typical Trolltech ones so there is nothing special, but good to see the basic necessities are covered.

An interesting complaint in the OSNews review is that you have to recharge the phone every two days if you use it regularly. This seems reasonable enough to me, especially with a phone that offers so many features and assuredly requires a bit more power than your average cellphone.

In the near future I do plan on getting a smartphone as they are improving vastly in both size and quality so hopefully Motorola doesn’t decide to wait too long to release the next version of the E680i. You can get the phone at Geeks.com for $339.0 (at the time of this writing).

Slashphone has a preview of the new Motorola C118 designer mobile phone.

Features:

• Compact form
• Affordable price tag
• Superior battery life with up to 700 minutes of talk time

Avaiable Q4 2005.

Howard Forums has posted this image of a Motorola RAZR phone with an iTunes icon. While this isn’t out the realm of possibility, I hate seeing blurred images such as this because we could very well just be looking at a nice Photoshop job. However, we feed off of rumors so it only makes sense to report it.

I can’t say I am totally sold on the phone/mp3 hybrid, but all the none geeks I talk to seem to be wanting and salivating over the new ROKR phone. I guess owning 3 iPods will leave a man jaded.

via Engadget