Posts filed under CTIA 2007

Motorola have announced the Motorola T605 in-car music streamer at CTIA 2007. The T605 lets you stream music from your mobile phone to your car stereo over Bluetooth, and even pauses the music automatically when you receive a call.

But don’t take my word for it – MediaMentalism has far more to say on the Motorola T605.

[Source: MediaMentalism.com]

Samsung had a better CTIA than most of the other manufacturers. They started off showing the Samsung Upstage, which is a rebranded Samsung Ultra Music phone, which will coming to Sprint in the US later in the year.

The Samsung Upstage is a super-thin candy-bar phone with two faces: the front, which provides traditional mobile phone keypad layout (see pic on left), together with a small screen; and the, er, front, with a larger screen and dedicated music buttons (pic on the right).

The Samsung Upstage price will be $149 with contract, will accept up to 2GB flash cards, and will feature over the air (OTA) music downloads (which, ironically, you won’t be able to use as ringtones!)

Samsung had a few other goodies to show off at CTIA 2007, as you can see after the jump.

Motorola had a disappointing CTIA 2007. They let loose the new MOTOROKR Z6m, a new sliding music phone with 2 megapixel camera and up to 2GB of storage, and the RAZR maxx Ve, which is a 3G RAZR with 2 megapixel camera. Don’t know why they didn’t just call it the RAZR yamr (yet-another-motorola-razr)!

Rumours that Motorola’s manufacturing plants can’t actually build a phone that doesn’t look like a RAZR are unconfirmed (but would explain why company keeps churning out the same old design!).

Just before CTIA 2007 started, Sony Ericsson announced their new Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman phone. A slider phone with 2 megapixel camera, the W580 is nothing special, but it looks good, should sound good, and is destined for the US market first (hence it’s announcement just prior to CTIA 2007, which is seen as the US’s version of 3GSM).

The W580 was on display at the show, and like Sony Ericsson’s W880i, which was also on display, won wide plaudits for its slimness and overall design.

The company also announced the Sony Ericsson Z750, which their first HSDPA phone for the US. The Z750 is an attractive clamshell phone with mirror-like external finish, 2 megapixel camera and VGA video camera.

Other than the W580 and W880i, though, Sony Ericsson didn’t have anything else exciting on display, but you can see a plethora of piccies and videos after the jump.

The major mobile manufacturers have been upstaged at CTIA 2007 by the gloriously-sounding Thunder Super Radio HiFi phone. As you can see form the pic, the Thunder phone is a normal mobile phne on one side, but rather than kitting the back out with a camera, they’ve bolted on what looks like an old ’80s ghetto blaster!

More pics of the Thunder Super Radio HiFi phone after the jump.