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March 24, 2005 9:00 AM PST

Motorola flashes music phones

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Motorola has unveiled phones designed for music addicts or for people sick of carrying a separate MP3 player.

One of the new handsets, E680i, is designed to let people transfer, store and catalog music. It can be used with Bluetooth headphones. The phone is compatible with formats such as MP3 and WMA. It also features an FM radio receiver, video-shooting and playback capabilities, and handwriting recognition and e-mail functions, Motorola said. The phone will be available in the Asia-Pacific region in April.

The second handset, the E725, has EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network capability that enables wireless downloads of music and video. It can be synchronized with a PC and has up to 2GB of storage on the optional removable memory card, the company said. The E725 will be available in the Americas in the second half of 2005.

Motorola also said it will launch a new handset China in the second half of this year. The E685 has an MP3 player with a stereo headset jack and a camera. It can be connected to a PC for transferring music to the phone.

Prices of the new phones were not announced.

Separately, Motorola and MTV introduced "Hijacked" handsets with jointly developed content for the youth market. They will feature specially designed SMS (Short Message Service) templates, preloaded wallpaper, screensavers, phonebook IDs, games, ring tones and alerts. The models are slated for Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Brazil and the Asia-Pacific region.

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Why WAit untill these devices comeout when
by March 25, 2005 10:10 AM PST
Why wait ?
there are already ways to have,
many phones not designed to play Mpg3 to do so today.
Intead of only one type of device being able to perform these feats why not utilize a Software that makes all existing Phones play Mpg3,
Video On Demand, Live television, etc.

That already exists for consumers today in Spain by downloading a Proprietary software already in the market in Spain, your Nokia 7610 can play Mpg3 as well as many other already existing phone models in the market place, now.
In 5 minutes a phone which was never meant to play Video or Mpg3 files, starts doing so.

For a Nominal fee of 3 Euros you can have Mpg3 on your phone now.

In Spain you just send an SMS message to the short number code : 7724
with the words
"player english" send and
in seconds a Software is sent to your phone via SMS message.
When you download the message the software installs and modifies the phone to allow for Video on Demand , live television and Mpg3 Files to play on your phone.
When they were never designed to do so by the manufacturer in the first place.

Why Wait,
be on the look out for this technology it will soon arrive in other parts of the world as well, before these Specialized devices ever hit the market. this can be done today in Spain.

If you want to know more feel free to contact QuackDuck@warriorvoice.com
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