Speaking of CTIA Wireless event in Las Vegas, you'll know that it's getting nearer when mobile phone manufacturers start churning out press releases for their mobile phones. Motorola seems to have been nonexistent during the MWC 2009 but now they've announced the Motorola Evoke.

I guess considering that most of their market is in the USA, Motorola deems it proper to announce their goodies on US events like the CTIA. Anyways, the Motorola Evoke is a touchscreen slider phone from Motorola and no, it doesn't have the traditional candybar design but more of a "soap" design since the Motorola QA4 features rounded corners.



The Motorola Evoke only has a 2.8 inch touchscreen with a singular menu button in front but slide-out the keypad and you get a traditional mobile phone. It has aGPS and sGPS, a 2 megapixel camera, memory card slot, and stereo Bluetooth. Unfortunately, it looks like the Motorola Evoke won't be coming to Europe as it is only compatible with band modes: CDMA 800/1900/1700/2100, Diversity 1900MHz and 2100 MHz EVDO Rev A.

Zzzz...Come on Motorola!!! When are you going to start churning up good phones? Whatever happened to your research and development team? We need better phones than this Evoke, Motorola. Please wake up and smell the coffee! Pretty soon you'll be losing ground to Sony Ericsson. 

MySpace has recenlty announced that it would provide support for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Silverlight. The MySpace mobile application will be available this summer and will use MS Silverlight.

MySpace's support for Silverlight would enable app developers to create new MySpace apps so that Windows Mobile users will have a "more personal MySpace Experience" on their mobile phone.

The MySpace application will be available for download starting this Summer and will support Windows Mobile 6.1 while LG's recent Microsoft Mobile phones will have this application preloaded. 

The Nokia E63 is essentially a cut-down version of the existing Nokia E71. It is a 3G smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi, aimed generally more at consumers than business people, and with a significantly lower price tag.

Some obvious features that the E63 shares with the E71 are the QWERTY keyboard and the 2.36 inch QVGA display. As with the E71, the E63 is a 3G phone with WiFi support, microSD expandable memory, email and VPN support, a web browser, multimedia player, an FM radio and the Symbian S60 operating system. I have to admit I particularly love its email and VPN support.

Both handsets can use Nokia’s Ovi service, and E63 even has enhanced file sharing capabilities.

Given the success of the Nokia E71, we see no reason why the Nokia E63 should be any different, potentially swaying users who didn’t fancy learning a BlackBerry operating system or the E71’s higher price… especially when you consider that it is also much cheaper than the Nokia 6500 Slide and Classic handsets.

Nokia E63 Technical Specifications

Network (2G): GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900 / GSM 850
Network (3G): UMTS 2100 / UMTS 900
Form factor : Block
Weight: 126 g (with battery)
Dimensions: 113.0 x 59.0 x 13.0 mm

Coloured: Yes, TFT, 16M colors
Size: 320 x 240 pixels
Shared memory 110 MB
Memory: microSD (TransFlash), up to 8GB
Polyphonic ringtones: Yes
MP3, True Tones: Yes

GPRS: Yes, Class 32, 100 kbps
EDGE: Yes, Class 32, 296 kbps
3G: Yes, 384 kbps
HSCSD: Yes
WLAN : Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
USB: Yes, 2.0 microUSB
Bluetooth: Yes, 2.0 with A2DP
WAP: Yes
Browser: Yes, WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML

Battery Type: Li-Po
Standby time: GSM: 432h
Talk time: GSM – 11h 30m