Motorola Quietly Announces New Windows Mobile Devices at CES

During CES Motorola quietly rolled out 2 new Windows Mobile devices – 1 touch screen and 1 non-touch screen device. I was taking a short walk across the show floor when I spotted some devices in the Motorola booth. Upon closer examination, I realized that these are new Windows Mobile devices. I asked the Motorola rep when these where released and was told that the devices had been announced here at CES. Oddly enough, I haven’t seen any talk or coverage of these devices. I shouldn’t be surprised, Moto could have done more to get the word and buzz going. In fact, they should have come out to CntrStg and announced the devices directly to mobile focused bloggers. Anyway…

The first device is a oval touch screen device with a new interface on top of the professional version of Windows Mobile. Unfortunately, my pictures of this device didn’t turn out very well. You’ll have to suffer with this image that I clipped from the Moto site. The A3100 or Moto Surf has a cool little trackball for navigation, which actually works very well. I really like the use of these little trackballs on mobile devices. The Surf is a quad-band GSM phone with a 3MP camera, Windows Mobile 6.1, 256MB Flash, 128MB RAM, and a nice standby time of 12 days!

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HTC’s 2009 Mobile Device Line Up Leaked

It’s next to impossible to keep something a secret in today’s connected world. Once again, HTC’s product roadmap for the coming year has been leaked on the internet. There’s a number of new devices displayed in the pictures, unfortunately, there is no specifications to go along withe the images. Which means we can only guess what coolness these devices have inside their beautiful looks.

One of the leaked images is a 3G follow-up to the Excalibur code named Maple. I’ve been longing for a messenger style, 3G device from HTC since the Dash was released. While the Dash was nice, it lacked the speed that I’ve grown accustom too.

There are a couple other messenger style devices in the roadmap, however there is no clear indication if these are touch screen or not. Code named Willow and Cedar, these devices will take HTC from zero devices with physical non-sliding keyboards to 3 in the spam of a year. It looks like HTC is paying attention to the competition and feedback from members of the community. I, for one, am looking forward to their release! There’s a couple more pics after the break.

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