Motorola i296
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Posted: 10 Jun 2010
Market Status: Released
Release date: 09 Jun 2010
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US carrier availability: Boost Mobile - Available (Since 09 Jun 2010) Southern LINC - Available (Since 01 Sep 2010)
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Motorola i296 is a rugged iDEN candybar phone featuring color display, GPS, Bluetooth, MMS and Calendar.

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Motorola i296 specifications

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Cons

Low pixel densitiy screen, below 180ppi (114 ppi)
Low resolution display (128 x 160 pixels)
Lacks microSD slot for storage expansion
Lacks a standard (3.5mm) headphones jack
Lacks an ambient light sensor for automatic screen brightness adjustment

Design

Form factor:
Form factor - Refers to the form factor of a phone. The main handset designs are bar, clamshell, slide, swivel
- Candybar
Dimensions:
- 4.63 x 1.89 x 0.59 (118 x 48 x 15 mm)
Weight:
- 2.96 oz (84 g)
  the average is 4.2 oz (120 g)
Rugged:
- - Yes
- MIL-STD-810 certified:
  - Yes

Display

Physical size:
- 1.79 inches
Resolution:
- 128 x 160 pixels
Pixel density:
Pixel density - The pixel density of a display represents the number of pixels over an area of one inch. It’s measured in “pixels per inch”, or ppi. The higher the number, the more detailed and good-looking the display is.
- 114 ppi
Technology:
Technology - There are two main screen technologies currently used in phones and tablets: LCD and AMOLED. The former usually features a light source and liquid crystals, while the latter is based on organic light-emitting diodes. Newer LCD variations like IPS-LCD and Super-LCD allow for very accurate color reproduction and very wide viewing angles, where no significant image quality loss is observed. Current AMOLED screens differ in such a way that they can exhibit much more saturated colors (sometimes too much) and incredibly high contrast levels, which is due to black color being completely black in AMOLED displays.
- TFT
Colors:
Colors - Shows the number of colors that the display supports
- 65 536

Battery

Talk time:
Talk time - Maximum talk time in hours
- 2.91 hours
  the average is 8 h (496 min)
Stand-by time:
- 6.0 days (144 hours)
  the average is 21 days (498 h)
Capacity:
- 930 mAh

Hardware

Built-in storage:
- 20 MB

Technology

iDEN:
iDEN - iDEN (Integrated Digital Enhanced Network) is a wireless network standard developed by Motorola and used by Nextel Wireless. It operates at 800Mhz, 900Mhz and 1500Mhz frequency bands and it is a mixture of TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) and GSM arhitecture. It allows the use of one mobile device as a digital phone, pager, two-way radio and fax/modem.
- 800, 900 MHz
Positioning:
Positioning - This field shows the positioning systems supported by the device. There are three main types: GPS, A-GPS and GLONASS. GPS - This is one of the most widespread global positioning technologies, developed and maintained by the U.S. government. It uses satellites in order to detect your location. Works best in clear weather. A-GPS - A-GPS stands for Assisted GPS and is the industry standard for positioning and navigation. “Assisted” means that it can use local wireless networks, in addition to satellites, for quicker and more precise localization. GLONASS - GLONASS is a global positioning system, developed by the Russian Federation. It’s very similar to GPS, but isn’t so popular in cell phones.
- GPS, A-GPS

Phone features

Phonebook:
Organizer:
- Calendar, Alarm, Calculator
Messaging:
- SMS, MMS, Predictive text input

Connectivity

Bluetooth:
- - 2.0
USB:
- - Yes
- Connector:
  - microUSB
- Features:
  Features - Universal Serial Bus - is a plug-and-play interface for connection a computer and add-on devices such as joysticks, keyboards, wireless phones, scanner, cameras etc. USB supports hot-swap (ability to add a new device without having to reboot the computer). USB supports data speed of 12 megabits per second.
  - USB charging

Other features

Notifications:
- Polyphonic ringtones, Vibration, Flight mode, Silent mode, Speakerphone
Hearing aid compatibility:
- - M3
- Voice dialing, Voice commands, Voice recording, TTY/TDD, Push-to-Talk

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