To be offered by Verizon

Apr 12, 2008 09:40 GMT  ·  By

Motorola V750 is the name of a new clamshell phone that should soon be available in the US, via Verizon Wireless, the second largest North American mobile carrier.

While overall the V750 doesn't look too different from a RAZR handset, its keypad is quite unusual for a Motorola phone, resembling the one used by Moto for another unreleased yet clamshell, namely VU30, which should also come from Verizon.

Regrading V750's features, there aren't too many details surfaced. Actually, there aren't any at all, but in the images brought to the "light of the Web" by phoneArena, we can spot a camera-dedicated key, which tells us the V750 comes with a photo/video camera (probably of at least 2.0 Megapixels). All in all, the new Moto seems to be a mid-end handset, which is good, I guess.

In case "Motorola V750" sounds familiar to you, it might be because another Moto phone, named exactly like this, already exists. It's also a clamshell, like the new model, but it dates from 2003 and it's now discontinued. I don't really get the reasoning behind naming a new phone model like an old one. I mean, there are countless combinations that can be made between a letter (V, in this case) and three numbers, so that you can give the newly announced phones new names that are actually new, and not re-iterations of obsolete ones. Anyway, it's not the first case when a handset manufacturer gives "old" names to new devices, as Nokia, for example, also did this.

At this moment, there is no info about the release date of the Verizonized Motorola V750, nor about its price. It shouldn't be a high one anyway, since Verizon offers RAZR clamshells even for free (but with a 2-year contract agreement, of course).