Tech Shout!

Motorola has brought freshness into its MOTOYUVA range of youth oriented phones in India. The latest additions are the MOTOYUVA W388, MOTOYUVA A810 and the MOTOYUVA ZN200.

“Our YUVA range of mobile phones offers Indian consumers a diverse range of affordable options,” said Lloyd Mathias, senior director and head of Sales and Distribution, India and South West Asia, Motorola Mobile Devices. “The YUVA W388 is a multimedia candybar phone, YUVA A810 is a touch screen phone, and the YUVA ZN200 is a slider imaging phone. There’s a YUVA phone to suit everyone’s style this festive season.”

The entry-level multimedia centric phones depict stylish designs at affordable prices. The MOTOYUVA W388 comes in a candybar form featuring a music dedicated key. It also features a MP3 player, MusicID application for song recognition.

It also comes with a FM radio that features the radio data system (RDS) function that shows the name of the artist and song with type of music that is being played. Another feature for a musical experience is that the phone lets users record excerpts of songs played on the FM plus there users can also set an FM alarm. Other features include CrystalTalk technology for noise cancellation, capacity to store 750 SMS and 1,000 phone book entries, optional microSD memory card up to 2GB, integrated VGA camera with 4x zoom and Java capabilities for easy Java games download.

The MOTOYUVA A810 is a touchscreen phone with some innovative features like shortcuts on the home screen that can be edited by users, advanced handwriting recognition, copy-paste for messages and numbers. It sports a large screen and also allows sketching and doodling on the phone. Other creative features include the cricket text commentary for cricket fans, cricket masala news, wallpapers, cricket video downloads topped up with 3 cricket games.

Also, WAP on the phone offers WAP version of Daily News from publications like Hindustan Times, Financial Express, Indian Express and Deccan Chronicle. The WAP also lets users book their railway tickets via the phone. Plus there is a bonus of Rs.250 off for the first two tickets users’ book through their MOTOYUVA A810.

Also featuring is an MP3 player, a 2.0 megapixel camera, an optional microSD card extendable up to 2GB, Bluetooth, GPRS with EDGE support, USB 2.0 and FM radio.

The third in the Yuva portfolio is the MOTOYUVA ZN200. The handset is a slider that promises really good audio quality. The handset boasts of a 1.9 inch display screen, a 2 megapixel camera, CrystalTalk technology, with support fro 2GB of extendable memory via a 2GB memory card, 30MB of internal memory, Bluetooth.

The prices of the MOTOYUVA W388, MOTOYUVA A810 and MOTOYUVA ZN200 are Rs 3,640, Rs. 8,119 and Rs. 6,719 respectively. All the three Yuva handsets offer access to WAP and Web plus they come with MOTOMUSIC scratch card inbox with 10 free ringtone downloads.