14 DAY TRIAL // Mobile phone maker Motorola has been hard at work lately with the development of some new devices for various wireless carriers around the world, and the MOTO MT716 is one of these handsets, accompanied by various smartphones that just landed on the market in the US.
The new smartphone comes with OPhone OS v2.0 on board and was designed specifically for China Mobile's airwaves, Motorola notes on its website.
“MOTO MT716 'Extreme Smart' is made especially for China Mobile’s high-speed 3G network. Perfection starts with intelligence, and MT716 provides both the most intelligent experience and exquisite quality,” the company notes.
The new mobile phone was pushed to the high-end of the market, being packed with a 3.7-inch touchscreen display (boasting a FWVGA (480 x 854 pixels) resolution) complemented by an 8-megapixel photo snapper with auto focus and 720p HD video capture capabilities, and more.
On the outside, the new device looks very much like the popular Motorola DROID, though it sports a quite different sliding QWERTY keyboard.
However, plenty of high-end features have been packed inside this beauty, it appears, including Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, GB15629.11 (WAPI), Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, USB 2.0 High Speed, GSM 850/900/1800/1900, TD-SCDMA 2010/2025 and GPRS/EDGE Class 10, and HSUPA connectivity options.
The phone packs a TI OMAP3430 processor inside, clocked in at 600 MHz and complemented by 512 MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM.
MOTO MT716 also comes with a microSDHC memory card slot for additional storage space, as well as with assisted GPS, and with a 0.3 megapixels (640 x 480) front-facing camera.
The phone packs an Android WebKit browser, as well as Adobe Flash Lite for viewing more online content.
A nice rtange of multimedia features have been also included into the mix, such as 720p HD (1280 x 720) video playback, pr support for streaming of AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, H.263, H.264, and MPEG-4 file formats.