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Motorola Zeppelin, isn’t a new name we have heard as few of its pictures had already been leaked on the web. But we thought looking at the market trends and existing super Smartphone Motorola will dust off its old style and bring something innovative for the consumers. But seems Moto is just not serious about getting back on its foot and making a mark in the smartphone industry as yet again it is just about to bring a rather not too great phone to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.

Not bad but neither impressive features, it boast of a touch-sensitive buttons below the display, a 5 megapixel camera, 3.2-inch 320×480 HVGA display, a built-in GPS sensor company’s MOTOBLUR interface and a 550 MHz processor. It is not known which Android build it will ship with, but it 2.0 or 2.1 are only the ones as an option.

We may not call it the highest-end phone on the block. As we see the handset doesn’t blow our mind away with its design that has a metal casing along with HTC type form factor. After Razr, the company hasn’t been able to create a stir in the market and this phone may line up as the next disaster spilling water over Motorola’s hopes of getting back its lost glory.

Japan’s largest mobile-phone company NTT DoCoMo Inc.  had released its first ever Android powered mobile phone HT-03A model in May an year ago. Marching ahead the company is now ready to release a new smartphone model, Xperia, as it aims to make a difference in the Smartphone market.

Xperia, created by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will run Google Inc.’s Android operating system and is scheduled to reach the Japanese market by April. The basic features include a four-inch screen with a touch-panel display, 7.2Mbps down/2.0Mbps up, Wi-Fi connectivity, an 8.1-megapixel camera and will roll out in “Sensuous Black” and “Luster White” colors The model is said to be priced between 35,000 yen to 40,000 yen with some discount offers for a 2 year usage period by the customer.

The move is said to be Docomo’s attempt to attack its rival, SoftBank Mobile Corp., the company which sells Apple Inc.’s iPhone in Japan and is currently a major leader in the smartphone business in the country. DoCoMo already offers RIM Ltd.’s BlackBerry and mobile devices using Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile software.

At an event that was held to promote the new model, company President Ryuji Yamada said, “ This is a model that we can call the nouvelle entertainment machine. With this handset, you can handle such data as music, pictures and movies as you like…I’m confident that Xperia is superior to iPhone in terms of both hardware and software.”

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Google and China strife isn’t seeing any chances of coming to some settlement and now this news should not come as surprise to anybody. Google has decided to postpone the launch of its phone in China as its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mailing reaches no conclusion.

An anonymous company spokesman said   “ It would not be a good experience for consumers to receive a phone right now with its applications.” However Marsha Wang, a spokeswoman for Google Inc., only stated that the planned Wednesday ceremony with local carrier China Unicom Ltd. was delayed for some time in future.

China has the world’s most-populous mobile phone market with more than 700 million accounts and increasingly affluent customers who are always ready to pay for the latest technology and services. For Google who has just stepped into the smartphone industry, the current situation may pose a serious threat to its business in the country. Also under adverse circumstances, Google search which has a potential market share at present, will loose on to world’s biggest Internet market by users.

So what will be the final effect? Android that was launched a year ago has already been adopted by China Mobile’s OPhone and Dell’s Mini 3. But will the open mobile OS hold on its place in the Chinese market? The story has real interesting twists and turns and the final result will be surprising and divisive.

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Motorola, the largest cell phone manufacturer in the United States, has finally unveiled Motoroi, its first ever Android 2.0  powered smartphone in the South Korean market.

MOTOROI offers an array of user applications that will be powered by SK Telecom Co.  These include  effortless pinch-and-zoom browsing to cinematic navigation through music, videos and maps of the world. Motoroi features a full touch screen with a 3.7 inch, high-definition WVGA (480X854) display, 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash that also functions as a 720p HD camcorder. The phone offers 8GB of storage and up to 32 GB of microSD support and allows 8 open browser windows at a time. The phone is said to have better specifications and higher resolution than Droid.

“MOTOROI is a smartphone without compromise, delivering a wiser, richer web and messaging experience with the most delightful touch-interface you have ever experienced, all made possible through the combination of Motorola’s expertise in design, a truly differentiated Android experience, and the power of SK Telecom’s network,” said Sanjay Jha, chief executive officer of Motorola Mobile Devices.

The phone is said to hit the stores across Korea by next month.  The penetration rate of the smartphone in Korea records only 1.2% of the total mobile phone market as of June 2009 and the telecom regulator KCC  is working to  expand its market expecting  the rate to reach 20 percent of total mobile users, or 4 million units of sales in 2013. Android  has well attracted the interest of almost every smartphone maker and Korea is just flowing with the new wave.

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