Motorola U9 MOTO Fashion Phone Announced

Motorola has announced their newest stylish fashion phone, Motorola U9 MOTO. This quad-band device will feature a 2.0", QVGA 262k color TFT screen, a smaller, 1.45" 65k color OLED display, a 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x zoom, video capture/playback, music player with MP3, AAC(+), WMAv10 support, 25MB internal memory, microSD card slot for up to 4GB of additional memory and stereo Bluetooth with A2DP.

Blending Motorola’s fashionable design savvy with an incredible music experience, MOTO U9 gives consumers a new way to see, feel and hear the stylish side of music. The latest addition to our music-enabled devices, U9 is designed for those discerning consumers who want to talk and rock in style. The stylish clamshell measures only 90mm x 48.6mm x 16.4mm with a volume of 57.8 cc, and weighs the mere 87.5 g. It has an internal 2" QVGA 262k display and an external 1.45" 65K-color OLED one with a resolution of 128 x 160. The latter does look borderless, as the manufacturer claims, and touch sensitive keys appear at its bottom when the music player is activated. It goes without saying that it supports Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP profile for listening to music on a stereo bluetooth headset, and a USB 2.0 port for fast data transfers.

The U9 delivers music capabilities:
- Easy transition from phone to music and back again, the U9 allows one-touch access to your library and pauses music as calls come through
- Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 makes the U9 ready to rock as soon as it's out of the box, with simple synching and automatic recognition of the device
- Integrated music player supports multiple audio files: Windows WMAv10 plus Janus DRM, MP3, AAC, AAC+, AAC+ enhanced
- Ability to download the latest music hits from more than 200 music stores onto the device from a PC using USB 2.0 for speedy transfers and data access

The camera of MOTO U9 is a 2 megapixel one, sporting video recording. The internal memory of the quad-band device is 25MB but that can be expanded through the microSD card slot, which supports cards with capacity of up to 4GB. Another added gain of the new MOTO is the CrystalTalk technology, which Motorola claims should ensure better talk clarity even in noisy environment. Motorola MOTO U9 will be available soon in Europe, Asia and Latin America starting the 4th quarter of this year.