MOTOSURF - Motorola’s Answer the TouchScreen Arena

The last mobile phone that Motorola launched during the recently concluded CES 2009 was perhaps the company's answer to the growing touchscreen-enabled mobile phone market - the MOTOSURF A3100. This mobile device boasts of a touch-enabled home screen on featuring applications that can be accessed using a tip of the finger, stylus or the usual omni-directional trackball. This homescreen can also be customized to feature live feeds on weather, personal and work-email, messaging, calendar event and news.

The MOTOSURF A3100 is being touted as Motorola's social smartphone giving users' fast and easy access to various social networking and mobile functionality such as video conferencing, Facebook activities, GPS navigation among other useful features of the A3100.

Slated for a Q1 release, the MOTOSURF A3100 will initially be available in Asia and Latin America and will have key features such as Windows Mobile 6.1 OS to give you access to personal and corporate email, documents and PC-like mobile Internet browsing, 3G/HSDAP, HSUP and Wi-Fi connectivity, windows media player, and video streaming with YouTube.

Looking closer at the MOTOSURF A3100 would give us specs including a 2.8-inch QVGA touch panel screen, 3 megapixel camera with auto-focus, VGA secondary camera for video calls, 256 MB internal flash memory, 128 MB RAM, support for microSD card up to 32GB, Qualcomm MSM 7210A chipset, USB 2.0 HS, Stereo Bluetooth with A2DP, support MPEG-4, H.263/H.264 and WMV playback, 3GP and MP4. The MOTOSURF is runs on GSM Quad-Band EDGE/GPRS, 12/12 WCDMA and HSDPA 7.2 850/1900/2100 Triband modes. It gives out up to 6.8 hours GSM standby time and up to 12 days talk time.