Posted by ketyung
on Oct/19/2008
at 8:07 am
Krave ZN4 is the first full touchscreen cellphone from Motorola, that is to be launched through major US carriers such as Verizon.
The Motorola Krave ZN4 supports the Verizon 3G services including TV and music. Verizon also includes a couple of other great services such as mobile email, GPS, speaker independent voice dialing and also the visual voicemail.
This phone has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack which allows users to use any headphones to listen to music and enjoy the TV. Somemore it supports stereo Bluetooth which lets you grab music over it wirelessly. The device has a microSDHC card slot that has been tested capable of supporting up to 8GB cards, which is more than sufficient to store your music files and those photos taken with the phone’s 2 megapixel camera.
The Krave ZN4 comes with a Ming-inspired front-flip. The flip is transparent and also touch-sensitive too which needn’t be opened for controlling the phone. Some other minor functionalities can be done on the closed flip itself without opening it up, such as reading messages, controlling your music playback, and navigating the roads with VZ Navigator. Some more viewing photos and watching TV on the closed flip are also possible. Other operations such as writing messages, buying music, or navigating the main menu need you to open the flip. There is also a lock button, which prevents getting mistakenly touched while the phone is in a pocket.
The touchscreen itself is a WQVGA display that boasts a resolution of 400×240 pixel and is highly sensitive to touch that needs users to have light touches only. And the feedback is great, which provides vibration haptic feedback when touched.
The UI is also pretty interactive, with the built-in accelerometer, the phone rotates its screen automatically to suit your viewing for apps like browser, virtual keyboard and mobile TV. The virtual keyboard will switch itself to 12-key keypad and full QWERTY for portrait and landscape modes respectively. The browser app is worth-mentioned here as it’s sensitive to touch on hyperlinks by your fingertips only, which presents easiness to use. The browser also supports Flash, which is just good enough for viewing YouTube’s video.
The Krave ZN4 weighs 130g, which isn’t that lightweight but it’s a great phone for those who need tons of functionalities. Its battery can last over 4 hours of talk time and 20 days on standby. The ZN4 comes in a dark gray color scheme with soft-touch paint around the back and a polished metal frame on the front face.
It’s now available at Verizon wireless for a price of $149.99 after the mail-in rebate with a 2-year agreement that binds you. We have a video here showing the Krave ZN4 in action.
via [gadgetlite], via [mobileburn]
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