Rumors on the Motorola Z10 and the Motorola SKARVEN
December 3, 2007 by Dario Soltani
At the Fast Track event last week I had the opportunity to listen on Paul D. Leeper, Ecosystem and Market Development director at Motorola. Paul’s Market & Business Development team is responsible for working with developers and technology enabling companies to discover, develop and deliver core functionality and rich experiences that differentiate Motorola products. Paul did not confirm any speculations on the rumored Motorola Z10, however he did confirm that Motorola would get busy developing several devices for the UIQ platform in 2008. Paul seemed much focused on GPS services and fast data delivery systems such as WiMAX.
Motorola Z10 rumored specifications
If the rumors are true, this device will a cool upgrade from it’s precursor the Motorola Z8. The cover consists of gray metal, the camera is upgraded featuring 3.2 megapixels. The device also comes with HSDPA, a QVGA screen, Bluetooth A2DP, USB and a microSD slot supporting up to 32GB memory cards. I’m not sure if this baby will include a touchscreen but the form factor suggests it does not.
Check the gallery for more images on the Z10.
Speculations on the Motorola Skarven
The Motorola Skarven sounds like a fantastic device featuring an 8 megapixel camera, 3x optical zoom (which probably will drain you battery faster than you can blink), a huge 2.8 inch screen, 16 million colors, GPS and WiFi. A device with 8 megapixel camera is however more likely to depend solely on digital zoom to save battery, that is if the sensors are good enough.
Remember these are all rumors and nothing has yet been confirmed.
[Via Gizmos.es]
[...] I tried to ask Elisabet about Motorola’s engagement with other platforms such as Linux and Windows Mobile. Elisabet of course could not give me any answers on Motorola’s strategies, however she felt Motorola was making a big undertaking with UIQ considering they’ve bought half the company and felt they have great interest in their platform. There was no doubt she was convinced Motorola would fulfill whatever engagements they’d agreed on with UIQ. As lots of company’s in the industry, UIQ was excited about 2008. To me it seems everybody’s moving in the heavy artillery in 2008, trying to bit a bite of the smartphone pie. Elisabet described how several new UIQ devices will be release in 2008 but did not talk about details such as functionality or models. There’s of course devices both from Sony Ericsson and Motorola and I’m sure we’ll see the Z10 from Motorola next year. [...]
[...] Editor In-Chief, Dario Soltani posted about a Motorola UIQ 3 smartphone codenamed “Skarven“, in early December 2007 and now, [...]
hola… solo quiero saber si estos modelos podrian llegar a mexico y en que tiempo ya que no pasan del u9, ya hace falta algo mas chido. Y una mas: a cuanto estaria el precio de cada uno. Se los agradezco mucho.