Succeeding the A920, Motorola's newest Symbian OS WAN handheld offers 3G services, UIQ PDA functionality - and Bluetooth functionality which actually works.
Read the preview of Motorola A925.
The Australian web site of 3G network Three has quietly announced Motorola's latest handheld, the A925. Its predecessor, the A920, was Motorola's first handheld to run the UIQ platform, familiar from Sony Ericsson's P800 and P900, atop the Symbian OS.
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The new handheld is very similar to its ancestor, with the most obvious different being its snazzy new colour scheme - a tasteful black and silver - with redesigned buttons and other design tweaks.
Spec-wise we find UMTS 3G network support alongside tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS, with a 208 x 320-pixel 16-bit TFT touchscreen accommodated within a hefty 210 g beast of a phone. Measuring 148 x 60 x 24 mm, the device displaces a titanic 175 cc.
In terms of expansion Motorola have included an SD/MMC slot (probably not SDIO-capable) to supplement the 8 MB of built-in RAM. The phone is powered by an 850 mAh Lithium-Ion battery rated at 1.5 hours of talk-time.
Capabilities include a built-in VGA digital camera for video calling and recording both still and moving images, both of the user and the world thanks to a rotating lens.
Unlike its predecessor's initial release, the A925 features Bluetooth, although no mention is made of IR. Also under the hood is Java support, WAP 2.0, an e-mail client, MP3 and MPEG-video player and SyncML support. In addition to SMS, both EMS and MMS are included, while other phone features are beefed up with polyphonic ringtones and a built-in speakerphone.
Finally, the A925 incorporates the Assisted GPS feature originally found in the A920, although no further details were available regarding the status of this feature.
The Motorola A925 will be available soon on the Three network in Australia for $768 AU without contract.
An additional hi-res picture of the Motorola A925 is available on the following page.
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