Motorola Chief Executive Ed Zander has been speaking about the company's upcoming phones, one of which should be announced in full next Tuesday (15th May). Speaking at Software 2007, Zander calle the new phones a "Media Monster", as it will apparently be capable of showing full length movies at 30 frames per second.

That's not all, though. In a time of financial difficulty for the company, Zander laid out his plans for Motorola to regain profitability - designing super-cool tech-heavy phones. In particular, he want to instill a sense of urgency for innovation with its mobile phones. About time, too!

More details of what he has planned after the jump.

Motorola Media Monster phone

The Motorola media monster phone (for want of a better name) will act as a Personal Media Player, capable of storing entire films on a brand new storage card. The new storage card will be based on SD technology, but will feature storage capacities of several gigabytes.

"We are working with another company to deliver movies on SD cards. You can start watching unbelievable quality movies", further said Ed Zander.

Although the other company wasn't named, it could be Samsung, as the company announced last month that it's begun production of 16Gb (2 Gigabyte) NAND flash memory chips, and "will offer an optimized suite of Flash software and firmware-incorporated storage devices for music phones and MP3 players to support [the new chips]"

The aim is for movies to be preloaded onto SD cards, and sold in the same way that DVDs are today. This is an interesting move, but one that can only work if enough film companies support it, and also if other mobile phones support the format too, as you're unlikely to see SD card-based films at Wal-Mart if only one type of phone supports it.

Motorola global remote control phones

Zander also discussed how Motorola's forthcoming smartphones will offer both enterprise and consumer features, and suggested that these phones would interact with wired devices in a user's home. The example he gave was of a Motorola smartphone that could program a video recorder wherever the user happened to be.

Such a phone would act as global remote control, letting you control your home gadgets wherever yo are in the world. You could even set your video up to record Neighbours from the other side of the world - now that really would be useful!

The Motorola Multimedia Computer

For some time, Nokia has been calling its N-Series mobile phones "multimedia computers", and it seems Zander has also come round to this way of thinking. He said that mobile phones are increasingly gaining PC-like features (well, Nokia and Samsung ones are!), pushing the phone down the same path that led to the PC's dominant role in home and office technology.

"We're making a bet that what happened to PCs will happen to these (smart phones)," said Zander.

A bit worrying that it's taken him 'till now to work that one out, but at least he got there in the end!

Motorola aims to increase the merging of PC and mobile phone technologies by showcasing new smartphones that support Java, as well as a raft of new applications designed to integrate the phones with existing office-based applications.

Motorola 3G

One of the reasons Zander cited for Motorola's recent profit slump was its lack of 3G-equipped phones. Accordingly, the company aims to redress this with a plethora of new 3G-equipped mobile phones coming our way in the coming months, with Europe being the prime market initially.

Summary

Although not revealing too much, Zander's comments at Software 2007 show that the company has at last woken up to the fact that it's mobile phones are now years behind its competitors, and that simply repainting its existing phones is not going to recreate the success it had with the RAZR.

Indeed, Motorola have ceded the designer phone market that the RAZR single-handedly carved out for itself to LG and now Sony Ericsson, whose latest mobile phones, although technologically advanced, are certainly more advanced than Motorola's offerings, and a good sight more attractive, too.

It'll be interesting to see what Motorola has up its sleeves for us over the coming months. We will, as always, keep you up to date with all the latest news.

Oh, and if you want to see selected clips of Zander's keynote, check out the video over at CNet

[Source: Software 2007, Samsung, Softpedia]