Motorola have been quite busy during CES this week, announcing several new phones. Of these, only the Motorola Z10 and ROKR E8 are worthy of note (the rest are just low-end phones), and quite surprising they are too…Motorola may actually have built a half decent phone!

More details and pics of the Motorola Z10 after the jump.

Motorola Z10

The Motorola Z10 is being pitched as a mobile video phone, similar to the two year old Nokia N93. The Z10 offers 30 frames per second video recording in “millions of colors”, viewable through a 2.2″ QVGA screen, and stored on up to 32GB of external memory (when 32GB flash cards become available…only 8GB until then).

You can also take pictures on its 3.2 megapixel camera, which comes complete with auto-focus, and then share your videos or pictures via YouTube, Google and Yahoo! with the click of a button. There’s even on-board video editing software, which enables you tot idy up your video, add transitions and effects, etc.

Even more impressively, the Z10 comes with HSDPA and GSM/GRPS/EDGE.

Hmmm a super-fast 3.5G Motorola phone with decent multimedia features? Is Motorola finally starting to compete at last?!

Well, yes and no. Yes, in the sense that it beats the pants off any other Motorola phone released so far. No, in the sense that it still falls short of many of the latest phones that were released over 9 months ago by the other major manufacturers.

As UnwiredView points out, the Nokia N95, LG Viewty, Samsung G800 and Sony Ericsson K850i all offer similar features and software, but with a 5 megapixel camera and other bells and whistles such as Sat-Nav.

Still, for its key US audience, the Motorola Z10 should go down well. Actually, it would have if it was released before Nokia released its N95 over there, but given that they’ve done just that, the Z10 may find itself struggling even in the technologically behind-the-times US, unless it’s sold cheaply.

Still, good to see Motorola at least trying.

[Source: UnwiredView, Gizmodo]