"With a fun design, beautiful and a great social media options, the Motorola XT316 provide experience using a smartphone on a busy user at affordable prices," said Fei Liu, Senior Vice President, Mass Market Consumer Products Motorola Mobility.
Gingerbread Android-based handset that has a touch-screen portrait width of 2.8 inch QVGA screen with a qwerty keyboard. Other features such as a 3MP camera, WI Fi, GPS and other smartphones standard facilities.
By relying on the CPU 600MHz ARM 11 processor with Adreno 200 GPU, 256MB of RAM and 512MB of built-in memory. Not quite powerful indeed, but it's not too disappointing.
Motorola XT316 already available in China at a price of 165 Euros or about U.S. $ 200. The handset will soon be marketed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Latin America, Europe and several countries in Asia.
Besides Motorola, LG is also preparing to launch a handset with a similar form factor. LG Optimus Pro, ready to be marketed at a price more or less the same.
Motorola XT 316 Specifications:
- HSDPA7.2Mbps/UL384Kbps, WCDMA850/1900 or 850/2100 or 900/2100
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900 EDGE class 12
- Dimensions : 116.5 x 58x 13.45mm (4.6 x 2.3 x 0.53 inches)
- Weight: 110g
- Display : 2.8” QVGA display with capacitive multitouch and full QWERTY keypad
- Android 2.3 Gingerbread
- Connectivity: 3.5mm audio jack
- Network: EDGE class 12; HSDPA; DL7.2 Mbps/UL384Kbps
- WLAN: Wi-Fi b/g/n
- Camera: 3MP camera
- Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer
- FM Radio with RDS support
- Audio:128poly MIDI, AMR, MP3, AAC, eAcc+ and AAC+
- Video: Capture/playback/streaming, H.263, H.264, MPEG4
- Memory: 512MB ROM / 256MB RAM
- MicroSD card slot up to 32G external
- GPS/aGPS, E-compass
- Battery: 1420mAh battery
- Up to 8 hours talk time and 27 days standby in 3G mode