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!

The other device is a follow-up to the Q line of devices. The Q11 is a Windows Mobile Standard device (no touch screen) with WiFi, improved GPS and WinMo6.1. There is no mention of the Q11 on the Motorola website. They had 2 different colors on display – Blue with grey keyboard, and chrome with white keyboard. Both devices looked very nice and felt solid in my hand. The keyboard was similar to the Q9 series but with a little more height to the keys. At least it felt that way, I can’t be sure as I had nothing with me to compare it to. The camera has been updated to a 3MP with LED flash.

There was no talk of availability or price for either of these phones. The release does put to rest the rumour from last week that Motorola was looking to drop Windows Mobile from their line up. I think it’s pretty clear with the release of 2 new phones, that Motorola is planning on staying in this arena for a while longer!

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