Motorola’s future flagship handset, code-named “Alexander,” has been spied by The Boy Genius Report.
BGR reports that the handset’s OS will be Windows Mobile 6.1.
For the three readers now left reading this report, the Motorola entry is said to feature assisted GPS and a 5-8 mexapixel camera.
Release date is fourth quarter 2008, according to BGR.
More details and larger photo here.
If that’s the flagship, Moto’s fleet is sunk.
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I can’t wait to dump my iPhone for this! Going to have to line up pretty early to get one though…this launch is gonna be insane!!
Looks like the iPhone and Blackberry’s bastard mutant child.
god that thing is hideous
D’oh! I just bought Motorola stock.
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They’ll be lining up for this puppy!! You Betcha!!
Ugly.
5 – 8 megapixels. ie so crammed onto the CCD that it will be terrible quality.
Why the megapixel myth is perpetuated I really don’t understand.
Why the 5-8 mp camera? They can’t put a decent lens in that thing so even at that resolution the pics will still suck.
… great minds critique alike
It wouldn’t be bad if it was Moto’s answer to the Palm Centro. Slim, pocketable and very cheap. Unfortunately with a 5-8 megapixel camera you can tell they’ll try to market it as a somewhat expensive, top-of-the-line device and that’s where it will fail.
Of course any comparisons to the iPhone will hurt it that much more. I personally would rather buy an old, beat up 1stGen iPhone with a cracked screen off eBay than the Moto “Alexander.”
‘Zander died a loooong time ago. Just ask Michael Caine.
Why do they all have to look like a cheap iPhone-knockoff? Enough with the chrome bezel.
“For the three readers now left reading this report”…
LOL…funniest thing you’ve posted in a long time.
I dunno. Its kinda ok looking. Yes, it does seem to be a genetic cross between an iphone and a blackberry. Its sorta creepy like they threw an iphone and a blackberry into a primitive telepod from the fly movies and integrated them as they were transported into another telepod. I can picture the phones screaming in horror as they operator threw the switch. =/
The name ‘Alexander’ was inspired by another company who makes overstuffed products:
http://www.la-z-boy.com/furniture/catalog.aspx?cid=1&Action=ViewAll
I rather call with my shoe…
That’s not Motorola’s new headset. That’s a pic from Ballmer’s colonoscopy.
If they’re calling it Alexander because they believe it will be some great conquering force, methinks they’re quite deluded.
I bet the housing does not crack…
Just my $0.02
That thing is sad. Also very fecal.
Man, that thing sure does win the buttons-per-square-inch award.
Wow.
My head hurts.
@ Olternaut
Hopefully this thing won’t reproduce.
“Its kinda ok looking.”
Not to me it isn’t. It looks like a sick iPhone with some hideous malignant growth protruding from its nether regions.
@amyhre
I think it’s worse than mere delusion, actually. It’s wholesale insanity. It’s believing the Earth is flat, that the Sun is the size of a coin when you hold one up to the sky. It’s the belief that Motorola has a chance in hell of competing against ANYTHING with that weird blackberry clone they call the next best thing.
I suppose Motorola hope they’ll corner the ‘dork’ market and be given spades of credibility in return…
Alexander is the project code name. It will probably end up as the successor to the Q9 or some new variant of the MotoQ squadron.
@Micro Me
“It might be a tumor.”
“It’s not a toomar!”
– California Governor
“I rather call with my shoe…”
I’ve scrapped better looking stuff than that off the bottom of MY shoe.
Macaday and McScrith you are absolutely right about the resolution myth. Without a lens to match the capability of the sensor, the picture will be no better. And lenses are likes pipes – too small and nothing goes through. I love people who take pictures with cell phones and expect that they have some archival master piece. Try enlarging it!
“I bet the housing does not crack…”
No, it will ooze like the festering sores on Steve Ballmer’s buttocks. And it won’t smell so great, either.
” And lenses are likes pipes – too small and nothing goes through.”
Kinda like the internet, huh?
I can remember when the, now defunked American Motors Company (AMC) introduced the Pacer as the “flagship” of their auto line up too. This thing is the “Pacer” of smartphones…
Looks like it’s a slider, which will make it fairly thick compared to an iPhone. It may be shorter than an iPhone, but the screen is definitely smaller, also. Not going to work well for internet use, not only due to screen size but also browser and OS.
On the other hand, what did anyone expect of Moto? Apple appears to have multi-touch locked up with patents, the other companies are years behind in development, and no one has an OS anywhere near as powerful as OS X on iPhone.
If Moto tried to compete directly with the iPhone, it would get killed. So it’s doing the next best thing – going after all those people who want tiny physical buttons and Windows Mobile.
Good luck to ’em.
@ Sir Gill Bates
You know, all that talk of Ballmer reminds me of Jeff Goldblum’s transformation in the film, The Fly.
It seems oddly applicable to this Motorola phone, too.
Wow… I have never seen such an advanced piece of device! Windows Mobile 6.1!?! Awesome… now we know how good it can be. This is just another piece of crap.
Quite steampunkish actually — a bit like a Victorian typewriter.
Mind you, I doubt that’s the effect they were really after
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@ MacDaddy
Maybe Motorola will call it the CRAPZR?
Mtnmnn,
The curvy lines of the Alexander are actually reminiscent of the Pacer. Think that’s where they got their design cues? I always preferred the Gremlin myself.
If you ignore the QWERTY section, the main body tries to look like an iPhone albeit with exaggerated corner radii. I think this can fly. If you hurl it.
At least it looks like they aren’t aping the iPhone interface like every other company does.
@SGB,
A Gremlin was about the only car my old Plymouth Horizon (“The Hor”) could outrun.
When you flip the keyboard over there is a rotary dial on the back.
BGR reports that the handset’s OS will be Windows Mobile 6.1!
Freakin’ awesome. I know Motorola wouldn’t let me down. Just look at that beautiful phone. You MAC sheep must feet pretty stupid to wait all day for a dumpy I-Phone when you could have one of these. Alexander the Great. Clearly Microsoft’s partnerships are paying off with this one. Reminds me of the Dell Ditty/MSN Music partnership that rocked the MP3 player industry. Microsoft is doing it again with the Big Mo. Great job, guys!
Your potential Our passion.™
Andy,
Yeah, that movie was nasty. Maybe ‘Alexander’ will ooze that liquid crap and dissolve peoples skulls. Coool !!! Serves ’em right.
Sir Gill Bates,
Pacer is a better name for a phone, than Gremlin. I too preferred the Gremlin but, only after the Javelin (AMX). My ranking of AMC cars are as follow:
AMX
Gremlin
Hornet
Pacer
(drum roll) Matador (the last model)
All by the way, could be used as names for Motorola phones instead of the xx-OKR.
well, amazing it certainly is not. sure has a lot of nifty buttons though. and it is shiny.
honestly, with a slightly better camera, and a forward facing camera for video conferencing, the iPhone would be perfect for me…
SGB, Don’t forget the Hornet, Matador, Javelin etc….
Could it be named after Alexander Graham Bell?
You know, the guy who invented the first phone.
Cubert,
That HORizon was one bad mo’ fo’, that’s fer sure. Did yours have the optional hemi package?
Sir Gill Bates,
Also, Brooks Stevens (also notable for designing the Weinermobile) was the principle designer of many AMC products (Pacer, Gremlin, etc.). Whoever is designing phones at Moto, is most likely an understudy or greatly influenced by Stevens’s work…
http://www.brooksstevenshistory.com/
Mtnmnn and Gil,
I always liked the 4 wheel drive Concord wagon. Those things were good in the snow, and looked nice too.
Hey, what about the Marlin?
Too bad about AMC.
Crass. Just plain crass. No elegance at all.
Everybody now!
I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener …
Bell didn’t invent the phone. He was first in line at the patent office by a few hours.
ugly, small screen, atrocious OS
GOOD LUCK !
hehe, i actually stopped reading before “For the three readers now left reading” (saw it after reading the comments)
😀
brilliant, MDN is inspired this week
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“Bell didn’t invent the phone. He was first in line at the patent office by a few hours.”
Unfortunately, he was second in line for the patent on the wiener. If not for that, today we would sing:
“I wish I were an Alexander Graham Bell wiener …”
And it’s goodbye Motorola…….
This thing give “designed in America” a bad name.
Has Moto ever heard of “focus groups”? hello?
Who the hell thought up this waste of good landfill space?
Appropriately named after the Oliver Stone film that tanked.
It looks like a shoehorn.
Whoa! Chick Magnet!
(In Soviet-era Ukraine)
Missy Pants,
Good one!
FreddyThePig,
In order to use those tiny keys, Moto offers their optional Freddy Krueger Multi-Stylus. Very avant-garde.
The sarcasm went a little over the top when you brought up the Ditty. Good job otherwise!
this has to be the most butt ugly red headed bastard child from hell cellphone. seriously? they have got to be doing meth to come up with crap like this
i really do hope they blow a ton of cash trying to morph this into a phone. Geez I think they used this in Forrest Gump to play table tennis.
sugar grove,
Since there’s nothing in the picture to give it scale, this thing could be much bigger than we realize. In that case, it could be used as a snow board in a pinch. We might see it utilized in the next James Bond movie.
if it’s a slider and thin, it doesn’t look that bad. the only bad thing is if it’s not touch screen and if they are really considering using Windows Mobile.
Poor non-Apple handset makers, shackled to Windows Mobile … just like non-Apple PC makers are shackled to Windows Fistula.
NOPE! No thank you. That’s not for me. However, the Motorola RAZR2 V9 looks pretty nice. If they made an iTunes version, I’d buy that.
“Bell didn’t invent the phone. He was first in line at the patent office by a few hours.”
He still invented the phone.
It was his version that got the patent first, but that doesn’t negate the fact that he invented the phone.
this is the iphone killer for sure