After announcing the new Motorola SCPL line of mobile phones, Motorola also described its plans for the now-ageing, but still-popular, RAZR line. Chief amongst its announcements was a demonstration of DVB-H mobile TV running on a RAZR. However, this can be seen as the last hurrah for the phone that will surely go down in history as an icon of its time, as Motorola plan to position the SCPL platform as the high-end range of phones, with the RAZR being down-graded to Motorola's mid-range of phones.


Motorola also announced other plans they have for the future, with the most interesting being a shift to Linux and Java. According to Motorola bigwig Ron Gariques, "when you start looking past the middle of next year, the bulk of everything we do as far as a smartphone as well as a feature phone will be on Linux/Java."

For those of you (presumably US users) interested in Nextel iDEN phones, Garriques promised "we're going to put Wi-Fi into the iDEN phone, we're going to put WiMax into the iDEN phone, we're going to put DVB-H into the iDen phone."

All this is part of Motorola's plans to ship 500 million phones...a year! That's one serious target to meet, and if it's met, it will be interesting to see how many phones current number 1 Nokia will ship. Is the world ready for that many mobile phones? Yeh, probably!

Apparently, more information on the SCPL platform will come out at next year's big trade shows, the Consumer Electronics Show 2007 in January and 3GSM 2007 in February. At least that gives us some part of the winter to look forward to.

[Source: PCMag]