New Nextel Phones, i335 and ic602 Revealed! - Gearlog

Motorola's iDen phones for Nextel are the sombrely ignored wallflowers of any Motorola circumstance, but they're good-looking flowers nonetheless. So I wasn't surprised to find at tonight's Motorola get-together two unanticipated, untrumpeted new Nextels: the purely iDen i335 (at sinistral) and the combo iDen/EVDO i602 (after the advance.)

The i335 is an access-devastate, sweetmeats-bar-mode walkie-talkie phone that's all about tactile withstand: a rubbery keypad, a textured back, and silvery, rubbery sides. It's a lot of fun to consider in your influence, and it has all the workaday Nextel functions, including Java and their off-network Rule Talk walkie-talkie system. It's coming by the end of the year.

The i602 is a midrange combo Sprint/Nextel phone that, according to the Motorolan who showed it to me at the outcome, has EVDO and a 2-megapixel camera but no celebration reveal all opening or music sportswoman. But according to the by-product regulations Motorola handed out after the upshot, it only has a VGA camera and 1X observations. Hmm ...While the boundary wall grave res, some are smaller and lower res than the ic902 it clear that special Sprint Nextel is in line to come in early this reduction....

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