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Motorola announces MING A1600 and A1800 with little fanfare

By: |Jun 24th, 2008 at 05:43PM
Filed Under: CDMA, GPS, GSM, Handsets, Motorola
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What a week for an almost-perfect Motorola device announcement, right? Motorola has announced the MING A1600 and A1800 with remarkably little fanfare. Spec wise, both handsets are relatively the same, both sporting GPS, touchscreens, Linux, A2DP, 3 megapixel camera, and more. The CDMA/GSM hybrid A1800 sports support for two simultaneous network connections, while the GSM-only A1600 tops out at EDGE. Why, oh why, is Moto crippling their GSM handsets with lowly EDGE connections? The Chinese target market is cer...

Our Motorola A1800 gets a billion friends in China

By: |Jun 3rd, 2008 at 02:27PM
Filed Under: Carriers - International, Handsets, Motorola
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Wait, what? Motorola actually shipped a new product? Well, it seems so, because they just released the Motorola A1800 MING to the Chinese market. The phone is a hybrid CDMA/GSM device which runs on the China Unicom CDMA network. Hard specs are as follow:2.4″ 240×320 displaymicroSD slotGPSHandwriting recognition3 megapixel camera with autofocusFunny enough, on the CDMA side, the phone is only 1x capable and on the GSM side, only GPRS. Sad indeed. Wake us up when your 5 megapixel camera phones get au...