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Motorola i920
While the majority of the techie-savvy community has been rejoicing to the inclusion of cameras in the modern cellular phone technology, the minority may find the feature automation a limitation of choice. Basically all smart phones have been camera-enabled, as the technology has been subsequently passed to newer cellular phone models, but taking away camera non-enthusiasts’ freedom of choice. In fact, a lot of businesses don’t actually allow the use of cameras during work hours and the incorporation of such technology would mean a much effortless form of violating a rule. The problem has in a way solved when Motorola i920 has been introduced to the market, a camera-less smart phone. The unit has also been Motorola’s first wave of iDEN Protocol-based smart phones, along side Motorola i930.
Motorola i920 sports a dimension of 3.46 x 1.93 x 1.18 inches (or 88 x 49 x 30 mm) and weighs 5.9 oz (or 167 grams). This clamshell-designed smart phone includes a push-to-open spring-loaded hinge and an extendable (retractable) antenna. It has side keys for controlling its volume and voice memo functions and a 2.5 mm headset jack, which has been formerly common only to CD and MP3 players. Offering 4,096 colors, i920 boasts its Color TFT/TFD LCD display technology that showcases an excellent quality of image and response time for the consumers to experience, especially with the phone’s 176 x 220 pixels resolution.
A second display is also included, located in the front part of the phone. Although the phone doesn’t include a camera, music and video enthusiasts can enjoy their own media through the Windows Media Player.
i920 is both enabled with SMS and MMS capabilities, and also features a predictive text entry function which allows users to enter text by pressing only one key per letter as well as text messaging templates. Battery used for i920 is Lithium Ion and has a standby time of 95 hours and a talk time of 2.8 hours, although many criticisms have been bombarded to this model because of its poor battery life.
The phone is powered by the Windows Mobile Operating System, and is enabled with Java applications, E-mail client features and the Pocket Internet Explorer as web browser. Users can also send and receive faxes and data files via the i920, which makes it a very useful business device and can retrieve and save files to and from computer through the USB Port. It also includes an Infrared port.
Motorola i920 has been much criticized for its lack of built-in Bluetooth and its use of the un-upgradeable Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition for its operating system rather than utilizing Windows Mobile 5.0. The application locking which doesn’t permit installation of non-smart phone software has also been raised as an issue. However, it the phone is practically hailed for being an “all-in-one” device, containing all essential elements in one sophisticatedly looking package: calendar, contacts, tasks, lists, notes, protected information, media player, recorder and more.