Motorola - six new W-Series phones


Somewhat overshadowed by the endless RAZR handsets, Motorola also makes some pretty inexpensive monoblock devices, including the excellent MOTOFONE. These W-Series phones are aimed at the value end of the market, and they promise to combine good value for money with a attractive looks.
We don't know much about these low-end Motorola W-Series phones at present other than what we can tell from the pictures.. in fact we can't even say for certain if they're all GSM phones as Motorola also has some CDMA versions. So, while we wait for the full technical specifications.. here are the pictures.
The Motorola W156 (left) and W160 (right) are two identical looking monochrome phones with 128x128 pixel displays and an illuminated keypad. The W160 comes with an FM radio, where the W156 does not. There's a standard jack plug connector on both, although it's hard to see what the W156 would use it for as you can bet it doesn't have MP3 playback! There's a USB connector too.
The display does look rather like the digital paper unit found on the FONE F3, but we can't say exactly what it is.
One characteristic of these very low end Motorolas tends to be light weight and very long battery life. If Motorola stick to their past form, then the W156 and W160 will probably make very dependable low-end handsets.

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