Motorola RIZR Z6 Smartphone Multimedia Capabilities

The Motorola ROKR Z6 (formerly RIZR Z6) is an upgrade of the original Z3 RIZR combined it is not more than one or two months. Although on the surface of the ROKR Z6 appears almost identical, it is in fact a very different underneath.

Motorola RIZR Z6 first on the bottom line – it’s a quad GSM EDGE slider phone with the data, the ROKR Z6 also has a 2 megapixel camera, 2 “240×320 pixels 262000 colors, a reader multimedia (including support for MP3, AAC, AMR, WAV and Windows Media formats), microSD expandable memory (expandable to 2 GB, and 64Mb on board) and Bluetooth. Surprisingly, the RIZR Z6 Linux is now a Motorola smartphone with new user interface on it. Another surprise is that the player is indeed Windows Media Player 11. Yes, Windows Media Player runs on Linux.

So what we have here is a Linux smartphone with very strong multimedia capabilities shoehorned in the same form factor as the old RIZR, which is a shame because the Z6 is basically completely new underneath.

In terms of technical specifications and features, the Motorola ROKR Z6 promises to be a very impressive unit. Unfortunately, the consumer interest in these devices RAZR style is drying quickly enough and for that reason alone, the ROKR Z6 might not have much impact.

Motorola ROKR say that the Z6 will be available from May 2007 in China in June 2007 and in the rest of the world.

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