Motorola has launched the next-generation, GPS-enabled, sleek, touch screen mobile phone, the Motoming A1600 in India.
MING A1600 provides consumers with lifetime free access to fully navigable maps1 and landmarks of 30 major cities in India, allowing voice-guided navigation across major national and state highways.
The latest in the MING series, the A1600 has the distinctive “MING” transparent flip cover with a slimmer, sleeker, stylish design. This new MING comes with next-generation features and applications to meet the growing needs of modern-day executives, helping them stay in touch and in charge. MING A1600 supports turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation, and easy search of points-of-interest like hotels, colleges, petrol pumps, airports, railway stations, cinemas, tourist attractions and more in these cities. It also provides coverage across national and state highways in India.
In addition to voice-guided navigation, Motorola”’s MotoNav application offers unique features like route simulation and location based reminders. Consumers can set alerts and reminders when approaching chosen destinations and plan a route before starting a journey and view a suggested route summary or read a list of directions. MotoNav offers three modes of navigation from which to choose: shortest, quickest or pedestrian path, along with points of interest that show up on the screen as the users approach the site. The MotoNav application allows users to mark favourite destinations for quick navigation guidance and to retrieve a history of previously traveled paths. It also allows users to send SMS location information to friends.
MOTOMING A1600 comes with a 1GB MicroSD card5 and an expandable memory capacity of up to 4GB5 offering enough space to save important documents for work and fun. Powered by MapmyIndia, India maps come preloaded on the memory card of MING A1600. All the consumer needs to do is to choose ‘India’ maps from the MotoNav application to enjoy an unparalleled navigation experience. The MOTOMING A1600 comes with an in-car charger that lets users utilize the GPS voice-guidance over long drives while keeping the phone powered.
With a 3.2 megapixel camera, the MING A1600 makes it easy to snap, save and share pictures. The 8X zoom allows multiple capture modes, helping the consumer record all the action. The MING A1600 also enables consumers to record locations of these images for posterity. All that the consumer needs to do is add location details on the captured images utilizing the GPS navigation feature and later use this data to map7 the images’ exact locations onto sites like Google EarthTM. The panorama capability of MING A1600’s camera can stitch together multiple shots taken across a horizon and make a 360-degree panoramic photo. It can also make animated GIF files, which can be shared with friends through MMS.
The new MING A1600 empowers the consumer to work and socialize while on the go with mobile business and multimedia applications, including mobile e-mail, business card reader3, document viewer and Motorola’s industry-leading smart handwriting technology. The Linux-based platform supports multi-tasking and rich applications to provide a fast, stable and efficient experience. Consumers can read content from newspapers such as Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age right on the mobile phone.
The MING A1600 is also a mobile music device with multimedia applications. It offers an MP3 player and Music ID, and provides users direct access to MOTOMUSIC (www.hellomoto.com/in/music). MOTOMUSIC, as a combined Web and WAP2 service, offers consumers more than 350,000 easily downloadable, high-quality full songs, ring tones, music video clips and wallpapers2. MING A1600 also provides video capture and video playback at 30 fps (frames per second). MOTOMING A1600 supports Class 2 Bluetooth wireless technology4, features a talk time of up to approximately 405 minutes8 and a standby time of approximately 176 hours8.
Motoming 1600 is available at Rs 14,599 (MRP: Rs 15,847) at MOTOSTORE, MOTOSTORE Lite and other retail stores. The MING A1600 includes 1GB microSD card5 (preloaded with navigation maps), 27MB5 of user-available memory expandable up to 4GB through a microSD card5, a wired stereo headset, a CD-ROM with Roxio PC software to transform videos to a format compatible to the MING A1600, and a MOTOMUSIC scratch card offering 50 free wallpapers and music video downloads.