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Posted: 21 May 2004
Market Status: Released
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US carrier availability: Sprint - Discontinued Sprint Nextel - Discontinued Southern LINC - Discontinued
Links: Motorola i830 / i833 Pininfarina / i836 manual Motorola i836 Official page Sprint phones

The one of the smallest iDEN phones to date. Features 65k color display, speakerphone, and JAVA. The i833 is the same as i830 but features design by the Pininfarina studios.

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Motorola i830 / i833 Pininfarina / i836 specifications

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Cons

It is so thick it needs a personal fitness trainer (0.79 inches)
Low resolution display (130 x 130 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
- Clamshell
Dimensions:
Dimensions - Phone's dimensions
- 3.35 x 1.77 x 0.79 (85mm x 45mm x 20mm)
Weight:
Weight - Phone's weight
- 3.94 oz (112 g)
  the average is 4.4 oz (126 g)
Design features:
- Numeric keypad

Display

Resolution:
Resolution - Refers to the width and the height of the display
- 130 x 130 pixels
Technology:
Technology - Refers to the type of the color displays. There are five major types: LCD, TFT, TFD, STN and OLED
- TFT
Colors:
Colors - Shows the number of colors that the display supports
- 65 536
Additional display:
Additional display - Shows specs of the phone's additional display
- - Color, STN
- Resolution:
  Resolution - Refers to the width and the length od the additional display
  - 96 x 32 pixels

Battery

Talk time:
Talk time - Maximum talk time in hours
- 2.50 hours
  the average is 7 h (448 min)
Stand-by time:
- 2.5 days (60 hours)
  the average is 16 days (391 h)
Type:
Type - Refers to the battery type. Three major battery typesare used: Li-Ion, Li-Polymer, Ni-MH
- Li - Ion

Hardware

Built-in storage:
- 2 MB

Multimedia

Music player:
Music player - Audio support such as MP3
- Supported formats:
  - WAV, MIDI

Internet browsing

Browser:
Browser - Capability to access special Internet sites using the mobile phone
- - Openwave 4.1 Browser
- Supports:
  - WAP 1.1

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 MHz
Satellite system:
- A-GPS

Phone features

Phonebook:
- 600 entries, Multiple numbers per contact, Picture ID, Ring ID
Organizer:
- Calendar
Messaging:
- SMS, MMS (iTAP), Predictive text input
JAVA:
JAVA - J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) is a technology that allows programmers to use the Java programming language and related tools to develop programs for mobile wireless information devices such as cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). J2ME consists of programming specifications and a special virtual machine, the K Virtual Machine, that allows a J2ME-encoded program to run in the mobile device.
- - Midp 2.0, CLDC 1.1
- API:
  - JSR-120
Games:
- - Yes

Connectivity

USB:
- - Yes
Headphones connector:
- 2.5mm

Other features

Notifications:
- Polyphonic ringtones (16 voices), Vibration, Phone profiles, Speakerphone
- Voice dialing, Voice recording, TTY/TDD, Push-to-Talk

Regulatory Approval

FCC approval:
FCC approval - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions. Every wireless phone device that that is sold in the U.S. has to be tested and approved for sale by the FCC.
- Date approved:
  Date approved - Shows the date when the particular phone is approved by the Federal Communications Commission
  - 26 Feb 2004
- - FCC ID value:
    FCC ID value - Shows the FCC Identifying value of the particular phone
    AZ489FT5828 link

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