Evolved media phone from Motorola

Sep 29, 2007 06:16 GMT  ·  By

Moto RIZR Z6tv will be available at Verizon from now on, along with the support for V CAST Mobile TV, V CAST Music and Video. This makes it a top media phone, capable of supporting many solutions for entertaining the user.

V CAST Mobile TV brings a[admark=1] wide variety of programming that is supposed to provide some mobility to the experience of watching TV. Among the most popular shows in the offer, there also count the 'Late Show with David Letterman', and 'Dora the Explorer'. There surely are some devoted fans for them out there that will be happy to find out that their favorite programs will be available on the handsets as well. The service offers live shows and mobile television content from CBS Mobile, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, MTV, NBC 2GO, NBC News2GO, and Nickelodeon too.

Moto RIZR Z6tv comes equipped with an integrated digital audio player and support for .mp3 and .wma music files, along with 50MB of internal memory space. There is also a microSD card, as the default one will surely prove to be insufficient. The phone has a 2.5mm headset jack and also supports landscape and portrait modes available for TV, video or camera capture. Such features show its true multimedia phone nature.

The 2-inch 65k color TFT screen is capable of supporting a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. That's a pretty low performance, coming form a handset that is meant to bring mobile TV to its users and will make images look uncomfortably small.

MOTORIZR Z6tv will be available on the US market starting with October 5, for the price of USD180 after a USD 50 mail-in rebate and new two-year customer agreement. More than 2,300 Verizon Wireless Communications Stores, as well as the online one at will have the handset in stock.