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Android phone that combines a touch screen and a physical qwerty keyboard beneath it will more and more. Motorola announced the presence of Motorola XT316.

"With a fun design, beautiful and a great social media options, the Motorola XT316 provide experience using a smartphone on a busy user at affordable prices," said Fei Liu, Senior Vice President, Mass Market Consumer Products Motorola Mobility.

Gingerbread Android-based handset that has a touch-screen portrait width of 2.8 inch QVGA screen with a qwerty keyboard. Other features such as a 3MP camera, WI Fi, GPS and other smartphones standard facilities.

By relying on the CPU 600MHz ARM 11 processor with Adreno 200 GPU, 256MB of RAM and 512MB of built-in memory. Not quite powerful indeed, but its not too disappointing.

Motorola XT316 already available in China at a price of 165 Euros or about U.S. $ 200. The handset will soon be marketed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Latin America, Europe and several countries in Asia.

Besides Motorola, LG is also preparing to launch a handset with a similar form factor. LG Optimus Pro, ready to be marketed at a price more or less the same.

Motorola XT 316 Specifications:

• HSDPA7.2Mbps/UL384Kbps, WCDMA850/1900 or 850/2100 or 900/2100
• GSM 850/900/1800/1900 EDGE class 12
• Dimensions : 116.5 x 58x 13.45mm (4.6 x 2.3 x 0.53 inches)
• Weight: 110g
• Display : 2.8” QVGA display with capacitive multitouch and full QWERTY keypad
• Android 2.3 Gingerbread
• Connectivity: 3.5mm audio jack
• Network: EDGE class 12; HSDPA; DL7.2 Mbps/UL384Kbps
• WLAN: Wi-Fi b/g/n
• Camera: 3MP camera
• Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer
• FM Radio with RDS support
• Audio:128poly MIDI, AMR, MP3, AAC, eAcc+ and AAC+
• Video: Capture/playback/streaming, H.263, H.264, MPEG4
• Memory: 512MB ROM / 256MB RAM
• MicroSD card slot up to 32G external
• GPS/aGPS, E-compass
• Battery: 1420mAh battery
• Up to 8 hours talk time and 27 days standby in 3G mode

Previously, Motorola had to present a video about the presence of Xoom. Where in the video, Motorola claims tablets greater than Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab.




Looking at the specifications, Motorola Xoom is quite extraordinary. With dual-core 1GHz processor and 1GB of DDR2 DRAM, Motorola Xoom also has two cameras. Rear-resolution 5 megapixel camera with 720p HD recording capability and the front 2-megapixel camera. From this perspective, Xoom is superior compared to the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

Motorola Xoom screens that of 10.1-inch has a resolution of 1280x800 pixels, better than iPad and Galaxy Tab. Then users can also enjoy the video quality of 1080p HD. Included is also version 5.0 Google Maps with 3D interaction, built-in gyroscope, a barometer, e-compass, and accelerometer.

Motorola Xoom be the first tablets which are marketed by directly adopting Android Honeycomb or the so-called version 3.0 is rumored very suitable to be applied on the tablet compared to previous versions of Android.  

Motorola Xoom Specifications:

• 10.1 inch touchscreen display
• 1280 x 800 pixels resolution
• Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS
• 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor
• 5 megapixel rear camera with dual LED flash
• 2 megapixel front-facing camera
• 3.5mm headset jack
• micro USB 2.0
• Corporate Sync
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR + HID
• 3G Connectivity
• 4G LTE upgradeable
• HD (720p) video recording
• Full HD (1080p) playback
• 32GB internal memory
• SD card support
• 1GB DDR2 RAM
• Up to 10 hour video playback