Mobiles2day - Mobile Industry News » Motorola http://www.mobiles2day.com Mobile Telecomms news, mobile handsets announcements and reviews Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:15:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Motorola Testing Next Generation Networks (LTE) In Swindon http://www.mobiles2day.com/2009/02/05/motorola-testing-next-generation-networks-lte-in-swindon/ http://www.mobiles2day.com/2009/02/05/motorola-testing-next-generation-networks-lte-in-swindon/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:09:56 +0000 admin http://www.mobiles2day.com/2009/02/05/motorola-testing-next-generation-networks-lte-in-swindon/ Motorola has been testing 4th generation networks in Swindon, demonstrating calls over next generation mobile networks over Long Term Evolution (LTE) connections.The Swindon-based lab demonstrated voice calls and data streaming using the LTE standard, operating at 2.6GHz – a frequency that should come onto the UK market later this year.

LTE is the next generation of GSM, following on from W-CDMA which was commonly known as 3G. This is the technology that will connect the next generation of mobile phones and computers, despite attempts from the WiMAX crowd to get their technology integrated into the GSM process – incumbent network operators are wholeheartedly endorsing LTE around the world. See our previous post about LTE here.

Not only is LTE happy to operate in a wide range of frequencies, but the standard also enables connections to broaden the radio band they are using. This allows potentially breathtaking speeds, assuming no one nearby wants any bandwidth.

The technology has been demonstrated before but the installation in Swindon is more of a test-bed to allow network operators to come along and see how their infrastructure will integrate with the next generation of radio interface, ahead of Motorola launching commercial LTE products in 2.6GHz and 700MHz later this year.

Source: The Register

]]> http://www.mobiles2day.com/2009/02/05/motorola-testing-next-generation-networks-lte-in-swindon/feed/ 0 New Motorola ROKR E8 given to Oscar Nominees http://www.mobiles2day.com/2008/02/06/new-motorola-rokr-e8-given-to-oscar-nominees/ http://www.mobiles2day.com/2008/02/06/new-motorola-rokr-e8-given-to-oscar-nominees/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:46:26 +0000 admin http://www.mobiles2day.com/2008/02/06/new-motorola-rokr-e8-given-to-oscar-nominees/ With Oscars Award ceremony approaching fast, Motorola announced today that they have given each of the Oscar nominees in the directing and four acting categories not-yet-available ROKR E8 handset.

Phone is delivered in custom box, female nominees get fuhsia and male nominees cobalt colored box

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Nominees also recieved Motorola S9-HD™ bluetooth headset so they can enjoy music on their new phone.

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It is a quad band phone, which supports variety of music formats:

MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, WMA, WAV, AMR-NB, Real Audio (RA) v10 Microsoft™ music ecosystem

Motorola promises uncompromised consumer experience for music or talk, new patented pending ModeShift technology, which changes music player to phone and vice versa at a touch of a button. Depending on what you are currently using, phone will display ony relevant controls.

There is also FastScroll navigation wheel allows for scrolling through songs, contact and image library with the slide of a thumb.

Other features include 2MP camera, bluetooth support, 2GB internal memory and memory slot up to 4GB.

Quick Specs:

  • Dimensions: 115x53x10.6mm
  • Band: Quad Band; GPRS/EDGE class 12
  • Weight: 100 grams
  • Battery: 970mAh
  • Display: 2.0″ QVGA 240×320
  • Full HTML Browser

Motorola’s website claims that phone will be available 1st quarter of 2008 in US, in Europe probably later in a year.

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