Right around
this time last year, we actually had lofty hopes that
Motorola would get its handset business in gear and shock us all with an ultra-potent, completely refined smartphone. Here we sit today, still waiting. Still, we can't pass up an opportunity to throw Moto's hardware design team a bone, as the ROKR ZN50 is downright sexy from any angle. The music-centric, full touchscreen slider packs a 3.2-inch panel (427 x 240 resolution), automatic screen rotation, shake to switch tracks, a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, Bluetooth stereo headset support, SRS WOW HD audio tech and a battery good for 30 hours of audio playback. There's also a T-DMB TV tuner, 4GB of inbuilt memory, a microSDHC card slot, 3.2 megapixel camera, an e-dictionary and support for 7.2Mbps HSDPA. Sadly, it seems as if the phone is being reserved for the Korean market, but seriously, can you imagine this hitting North America with
Android loaded on? Motorola: you're
this close.
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posted Jul 8th 2009 10:16AM
as one of my favourite tv shows (even though i think it was off the air before i was even born) would say
"missed it by that much"
Everyone's hoping on the touch screen bandwagon, as for me I still prefer my buttons lol
I am still rooting for Moto and actually still kinda like the v3m I have in my pocket, but I really have a hard time understanding why they keep doing things like coming out with interesting phones which are not available in North America. Hoping for some Android joy soon.....
It's even more ironic because they're American. To release something only in a non-home market is kind of a slap in the face, I think.
...still? Wow. Kudos.
Motorola's ROKR ZN50 touchscreen slider is simply the best. Thank you for nice article about it.