Motorola Android Phone 'Motoroi' Unveiled In Korea  'Motoroi' |
Motorola has rolled out a new Android handset called Motoroi in Korea through SK Telecom’s network. This is touted to be the first Android smartphone with hordes of features.
This smartphone sports a full touch screen with a large 3.7 inch high-definition WVGA display. It is loaded with Android 2.0 and comes with a slew of features including music, videos, and maps everything incorporated with it.
The set also comes with Motorola’s touch user interface (UI) and a capacitive touch sensor to enable efficient screen flipping and scrolling. The smart widgets are also there to provide the users in giving personalization experience. Smart widgets allow users to use their content more suitably by regulating the size of the calendar, memo pad, contacts, e-mail and and shortcut icons on the home screen. Motoroi also comes up with some features like 5 text-input techniques, counting a 3X4 keypad, full QWERTY, half QWERTY, hand writing and writing pad to provide flexibility to the user.
Sanjay Jha, co-chief executive officer of Motorola and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobile Devices, said, “We are delighted to announce Motoroi, the first Android-based phone, with SK Telecom in Korea, a key partner in one of Motorola’s key markets in the world. Motoroi is a smart phone without compromise, delivering a wiser, richer web and messaging experience with the most delightful touch-interface you have ever experienced, all made possible through the combination of Motorola’s expertise in design, a truly differentiated Android experience, and the power of SK Telecom’s network.”
Ha Sung-min, MNO president of SK Telecom, stated, “Motorola’s smart phones powered by Android are receiving tremendous response around the world, and it is our pleasure to introduce one of them for the first time in Korea. Motoroi by Motorola will bring a paradigm shift in the domestic mobile market with outstanding Internet, multimedia features and access to the fast-growing Android Market.”
The other features incorporated with the Motoroi include Wi-Fi support, browsing through Android Web Kit Browser, Google services including Google Maps, GMail, YouTube and GoogleTalk. For the camera freaks, the mobile phone has a 8MP camera and offers Smart Image Capture which can mesmerise the user with its advanced techniques like multi-shot feature. Camera shake prevention is also enabled to protect the set. Playing HD video from the mobile phone also has been made easy.
This multi-featured Motoroi also sports Optical Character Recognition, business card reader and the document reader to make the work effortless. However, this nice handset can only be purchased after February this year. And, the pricing details are still under wraps.
