New Phones announced: Motorola A1000 and Panasonic X700

News posted February 24th, 2004 by eric
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Two more Symbian based devices have been officially announced today at the 3GSM World Congress:
-  another 3G device by Motorola: the A1000
-  the first Panasonic Symbian powered phone: the X700

Motorola A1000

a1000-small.jpg The A1000 is a new Symbian 7.0 / UIQ based phone by Motorola. It is expected to be available in Q4-2004 with the following features:
-  WCDMA 2100 MHz, GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900
-  208 x320 TFT (65K) Color display
-  1.2 Mega-pixel & VGA integrated camera (video record / Image capture with 4X digital zoom)
-  2 Way video conferencing (Point to Point Video)
-  Multimedia: Streaming, Capture & Playback (MP3, MPEG4)
-  Messaging: SMS, MMS, E-mail (IMAP4, POP3)
-  Full HTML Browser with Small Screen Rendering
-  Picsel™ Document Viewer (Supporting Microsoft Word®, Microsoft Excel®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, Adobe PDF, Unzip)
-  PIM Application (Calendar, Contacts, Notes)
-  Synchronization: SyncML (OTA), Desktop PC Sync
-  24MB of User Memory /Supports Removable Memory (Triflash-R)
-  Integrated USB, Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
-  A-GPS support for Location Services
-  Virtual Private Networks Support (User installable)
-  Symbian™ 7.0 Operating System
-  J2ME™ (MIDP 2.0 + APIs)
-  Download pictures, video, audio, ringtones, wallpaper, and applications
-  Companion products (Stereo headsets, Bluetooth® headset, Bluetooth® car kits, and many more items)

Panasonic X700

x700_side.jpgThe X700 smartphone is the first phone from Panasonic to use Symbian OS. It uses Symbian v7.0s with Nokia Series 60 v2 UI. It features:
-  Triband / GPRS Class 10
-  176x208, 65K colors TFT display
-  MiniSD card support
-  Bluetooth, Infrared and USB support
-  Built-in camera with video capture
-  Video capture
-  Java MIDP 2.0
-  Wap 2.0
-  Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint document compatibility
-  Speaker Independent voice recognition

Availability is not yet known for this phone.