Motorola Delivers One Millionth TETRA Terminal

Schaumburg, Illinois-headquartered Motorola Inc reached the milestone of delivering one million TETRA terminals recently, when the Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) picked up a terminal for internal deployment. Considering that the 200,000th terminal was delivered to the Surrey Police as late as in November 2003, this milestone has come at a very rapid clip.

The company has received an order from the JAF for supply of TETRA portable devices such as MTH800 terminals, MTM800 Enhanced mobiles and CM5000 TETRA Gateway repeaters. These devices are to be used for security coverage across the length and breadth of the country. The CM5000 DMO Gateway / Repeater is used for radio communications where coverage is compromised such as inside buildings, underground locations, etc. The MTM800 control head is a rugged mobile that is resistant to dust and water and handy for policemen on motorcycles. The MTH800 is a GPS receiver that helps personnel in pinpointing and coordinating locations.

Motorola’s TETRA radios were very much visible during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where over 60,000 of these devices were put in force by the organizers to maintain communication between the ground-personnel. The company’s security-centric communications products are now in use in over 85 countries.

Read more about the latest milestone achieved by Motorola, here.

New i776w Handset From Motorola

Schaumberg, Illinois-headquartered Motorola announced the launch of “i776w” – its newest slimmest handset that mixes durability with style.

The new handset has a clamshell form factor weighing 3.56 ounces, and measures 0.8″ at its thickest. The machine works on iDEN 800/900 Mhz network for walkie-talkie, interconnect and data transfer and has 205 minutes of talk time powered by standard capacity Li-Ion battery.

A built-in VGA-quality camera shoots images which can then be uploaded to a computer using Bluetooth wireless technology. Multimedia messages can be transmitted and received to email addresses, and even be wirelessly stored on the Sprint website.

Communication with any Nextel Direct Connect subscriber within US, and with walkie-talkie users in countries such as Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru is possible at the push of a button. An embedded GPS chip helps the handset owner to utilize E911 emergency location services, besides location mapping and conducting local searches, or to receive audible and visual turn-by-turn driving directions.

The handset also sports routine features such as incoming call (phone / walkie-talkie) alerts, message and voicemail alerts through the VibraCall technology, and hands-free conversations with the help of built-in speakerphone.

Read more about the i776w handset here.

Motorola’s Latest Mobile Phone MOTOZINE ZN5 Launched

Schaumberg, Illinois-headquartered Motorola has announced the launch of its latest mobile phone offering – the MOTOZINE ZN5 – in the USA; this high-end camera phone will be sold exclusively by T-Mobile USA.

Weighing 114gms, the ZN5 measures 5.05cm by 11.8cm by 1.2cm thickness. With average usage and under optimum network conditions, the device has a talk time of between 349 and 574 minutes. The phone operates in the GSM 850/900/1800/1900 bands, with EDGE Class 12 and GPRS Class 12 modes.

The ZN5 is touted as the “first mobile phone to combine Motorola’s ModeShift technology and KODAK Imaging Technology.” Simply slide open the lens cover, and the mobile phone metamorphoses into a high-end, 5-megapixel camera, complete with a shutter button, Xenon flash, viewer, autofocus, optimized settings for low-light environments and red-eye reduction, multiple image capture modes (such as multi-shot and panorama), an included 1 Gb memory card to store for posterity those memorable images… excuse me, are we talking here about a mobile phone, or a camera?

Once you have clicked those photos, upload them to the KODAK Gallery (at http://www.kodakgallery.com), and share them with the rest of the world. Plus, photos can be transferred to the computer via the USB, viewed on a TV in slideshow format (a TV output/AV cable is provided in the kit), or simply transferred over Bluetooth. Kodak has also offered to provide 50 free prints to customers who purchase a ZN5 from T-Mobile and use their KODAK Gallery for image upload.

Read more about the product here.