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Motorola will be revising its line of industrial handsets so that they will be able to run Windows Mobile 6.1. While this will be good news for those who use these rugged handsets, if you need one straight away, you’re out of luck, as these updated handsets will only be available from Q1 of 2009. If you’ve got your heart set on Windows Mobile 6.1, you’ll have to exercise some patience to get it.

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Motorola is the first handset manufacturer to bundle Boingo Mobile on a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone. Across all manufacturers, the Boingo Mobile portfolio of smartphones includes support for the Windows Mobile, Symbian 60, Maemo Linux and UIQ operating systems.

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You may love it, or hate it, but Motorola looks set to bring the design of its V70 phone back. Their upcoming Motorola AURA will feature the distinctive swivel design that appeared on the V70. The AURA will have a circular display that will be able to display 16 million colors in 300dpi resolution, which will be protected by a Grade 1, 62-carat sapphire crystal lens. The phone is also hand-sculpted, and will also sport Stereo Bluetooth connectivity. There currently isn’t any information on pricing on this phone just yet, but it doesn’t look like it will be cheap.

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Motorola’s finally preparing a RAZR 2-style device, one that supports iDEN and has a 3 megapixel camera. Add an external touchscreen to that, Bluetooth, support for a 6GB SD card and a great piano black body. Seems we’ll even see a ModeShift keypad on CABO, while the rest of the specs are a mystery till now.

There’s even a supposed launch period for the Motorola i890, Q4 2008, so we’re bound to get an announcement soon enough.

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Bluetooth SIG has already given us the info on the upcoming Moto Q11 early this month, although there wasn’t much other specifications info and pictures on the site. It does not take long to see the actual devices though, Mobility Today posted 2 spyshots together with some info yesterday.

Other than a more compact QWERTY keyboard, the new Motorola Q11 is similar to other Moto Q-family. It will be running Windows Mobile 6.1, comes with built in GPS, WiFi, bluetooth and a 3 megapixel camera.

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I received an email just the other day, that had a beautiful concept design attached: the Motorola Briq. No details at all about it, but there was a name at the end of the email, Piotr Paczkowski, who is, I suspect, the designer of the handset. We’re dealing with a dual sliding beauty, with a very, very strange keypad, a diagonal numeric one on the right and a half QWERTY on the left.

- dual slider with two independent keyboards
- EDGE/HSDPA/UMTS/GSM
- touchscreen (1:2 or 2:1)
- 256 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM
- CPU 450 MHz
- internal memory 8GB and microSDHC
- WiFi
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- 3,2 mpx camera with autofocus
- Windows Mobile 6, with free update to Windows Mobile 7

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