As evidenced by the RAZR and its
endless variants, Motorola knows a good thing when it sees one and likes to ride it into the ground -- not necessarily a bad thing, especially when you consider that they're shaping up to make a serious run at the coveted '#1 handset manufacturer' title (don't worry Nokia, we still love ya, and we don't expect you to give it up without a fight). The
PEBL's been mostly content to stay in the RAZR's huge shadow since its release, but its design cues are finally starting to find their way into Motorola's CDMA stable, as first evidenced by Roc's
unearthing of the W315. Now, we have this little gem that just came across the FCC wires, looking even
more PEBL-like than the W315 before it with a full-out etched metal keypad and internal antenna. No word on pricing, availability, or what carrier this might be bound for -- those kinds of details aren't really the FCC's gig -- but if we had to venture a guess, we'd say "less than the K1m," "soon," and "Verizon."
posted Sep 30th 2006 2:41PM
This is the PEBL U6c according to the user manual.
Just a CDMA version of the PEBL.
Much uglier, though.
This one is much more attractive than the current gsm pebl, in my opinion, judging by this picture.
That looks like a slot for a sim card in the upper right hand corner in the picture on the right...
It says it has a VGA camera on it... SO pathetic.
Bnet I noticed the same thing, I think its GSM
Deff GSM, SIM slot is obvious, I'm suprise engadget missed that.
Nope, it is CDMA. From the FCC filings:
"This equipment is a CDMA portable transceiver, which operates in the Analog 800 MHz cellular band and
in the Digital CDMA 800 MHz PCS band."
That could be a memory card slot, maybe? Or it could be the battery contacts...
To answer the question about hte SIM card looking slot, it is an R-UIM slot (AKA CDMA SIM CARD)
Since this phone was designed for and released first in China on China Unicom (the largest CDMA carrier in China) and they actually use R-UIM technology in all their phones it makes sence that it has an R-UIM slot.
It will likely remain in the US version and just be inactive much like every Nokia (original not rebadged) CDMA phone has an R-UIM slot in the back aswell.
@8. Elias:
See post 6 by David F.:
"This equipment is a CDMA portable transceiver, which operates in the Analog 800 MHz cellular band and
in the Digital CDMA 800 MHz PCS band."
NO, it is CDMA.
no such thing as an 800MHz PCS band... only 1900MHz PCS. 800MHz is cellular.