Day: January 4, 2011

“Starting today, Motorola Inc will change its name to Motorola Solutions Inc (MSI) and will have a newly spun-off company called Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc (MMI). It means the current Motorola stock ticker (MOT) will be replaced by MSI and MMI. Motorola Mobility Holdings will get the company’s smartphone business. The handset division that becomes MMH on Tuesday enjoyed a successful year in 2010 thanks to sales of Motorola’s Android-powered smartphones. The rest of the company (the business mobile and network divisions) will comprise Motorola Solutions and will trade on the NYSE as MSI.” via slashphone.com

Did a Thai company we’ve never heard of just make the best-looking portrait QWERTY Android phone to date? We might not jump the gun that quickly — but it’s definitely up there. Spriiing Design (yes, three i’s) is launching its Smile model in Bangkok on January 18th and the rest of Thailand thereafter, featuring a 3 megapixel camera, 512MB of ROM, 256MB of RAM, microSD expansion to 16GB, and a 2.6-inch QVGA display along with 3G support on the 900 and 2100MHz bands paired to a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 core atop Android 2.1. In other words… yeah, this pretty low end fare. More interestingly, though, the handset was apparently designed in Sweden and manufactured by Huawei — in fact, it’s got “In connection with Ideos” silkscreened on the back, and Ideos is the brand that Huawei’s been pushing this year for its Android-powered gear.

• ANDROIDTM PLATFORM
  • AndroidTM 2.1
• 
  • Qwerty Keyboard with Trackball
    Resistive Touch Screen
• Dimensions
  • – Weight(with Battery) : 110 grams
  • – Dimentions : 96.4 x 62.2 x 12 mm
• Processor
  • – Qualcomm® MSM7225-1TM, 528 MHz
• Memory
  • – ROM 512 MB
  • – RAM 256 MB
  • – External Memory Support: microSDTMCard (up to 16 GB)
• Power Management
  • – 930 mAh Li-lon battery
  • – Standby time: up to 290 hours
  • – Talking time: up to 180 mins
    Display
    • – Size: 2.6-inch Resistive Touch Screen
    • – Resolution: QVGA 320 x 240
  • Camera
    • – 3 Megapixel
    • – LED Flashlight
  • Network
    • – HSPA / WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz
    • – GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
      (WCDMA:384 Kbps/HSDPA 7.2MBps)
  • Multimedia
    • – FM Radio
    • – Audio format : MP3, MIDI, AMR, AAC, eAAC+, OGG
    • – Video format : MPEG4, H.263, H.264
  • Sensor
    • – Light sensor
    • – Digital Compass
    • – Accelerometer
      Connectivity
      • – GPS/A-GPS
      • – Bluetooth : V2.1 Stereo Bluetooth
        Headset support
      • – WiFi : 802.11b/g/n
      • – WiFi Router
      • – PC Suite for AndroidTM
      • – Headset Jack : 3.5 mm
      • – High-Speed USB 2.0
        (micro USB connector)
    • SPRiiiNGTM Services
      • – SPRiiiNGTM Chat
      • – SPRiiiNGTM widget
      • – SPRiiiNGTM Center
    • Google Mobile ServicesTM
      • – Google MailTM
      • – Google SearchTM
      • – Google TalkTM
      • – Google MapsTM
      • – Google CalendarTM
      • – YouTube
      • – Android MarketTM