Motorola to Play Big Role at CTIA Wireless 2008

Motorola is not really in its best period since it's in the mobile phone industry. This will apparently change after the 2008 edition of CTIA Wireless (1 - 3 April, Las Vegas), where the American company plans to unveil several of its new handsets set to wow mobile users around the globe.

According to a video released on YouTube, Motorola has four new phones that will be announced during CTIA Wireless. The video was removed from YouTube shortly after being published, but thanks to Unwired View we have some images with the new handsets.

Among these new handsets there's a candybar that seems to be made in collaboration with Kodak. If this is true then it's clear that we're talking about a device with a high-end photo camera. It could be the 5 Megapixel phone announced by Motorola and Kodak in May 2007, or even a more evolved device. Anyway, the image with the new phone shows a keypad that resembles the one Motorola ROKR E8 comes with, which is a good thing, since this type of morphing keypad was pretty well received by mobile enthusiasts in general.

The other new phones rumored to be presented by Motorola at CTIA Wireless 2008 are a smartphone from the Q series, a music-centered slider and a good-looking clamshell. We can't say much about them, since we don't have any official details.

As you probably already know, Motorola came with absolutely nothing worthy at MWC 2008 (11 - 14 February), but it did showcase some cool phones at the more recent 2008 CeBIT Fair: the banana-shaped Z10, ROKR E8 and the fancy U9 clamshell. Sure, these are not actually new handsets, as they've been first announced back in 2007, but they still represented a good line-up of products.

We're now waiting to see if Motorola will indeed come at CTIA Wireless 2008 with the rumored phones that we mentioned above. Moto fans sure hope so.