Motorola i860
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Posted: 23 Sep 2004
Market Status: Released
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US carrier availability: Southern LINC - Discontinued Sprint Nextel - Discontinued
Links: Motorola i860 Official page Southern LINC phones

Motorola i860 is first iDEN camera phone. It sports 262k color TFT display, GPS location, J2ME, polyphonic ringtones, speakerphone, digital TTY, voice recording and voice dialing.

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Motorola i860 specifications

Pros

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Cons

It is so thick it needs a personal fitness trainer (1.01 inches)
Low resolution display (176 x 220 pixels)
Low-resolution camera (0.3 megapixels VGA)
The camera lacks autofocus
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
- 3.45 x 1.96 x 1.01 (88 x 50 x 26 mm)
Weight:
Weight - Phone's weight
- 4.77 oz (135 g)
  the average is 4.4 oz (126 g)

Display

Resolution:
Resolution - Refers to the width and the height of the display
- 176 x 220 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
- 262 144
Additional display:
Additional display - Shows specs of the phone's additional display
- - LCD
- Resolution:
  Resolution - Refers to the width and the length od the additional display
  - 95 x 65 pixels
- Colors:
  Colors - Shows the number of colors that the additional display supports
  - 4096

Battery

Talk time:
Talk time - Maximum talk time in hours
- 2.75 hours
  the average is 7 h (448 min)
Stand-by time:
- 2.7 days (65 hours)
  the average is 16 days (391 h)

Hardware

Built-in storage:
- 25 MB

Camera

Camera:
Camera - Camera specs
- - 0.3 megapixels VGA
- Flash:
  - Yes
- Features:
  - Digital zoom, Self-timer
Camcorder:
- - Yes

Multimedia

Radio:
- - FM

Internet browsing

Browser:
Browser - Capability to access special Internet sites using the mobile phone
- - Openwave 7.0 Browser
- Supports:
  - WAP 2.0

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:
- GPS

Phone features

Phonebook:
- 600 entries, Caller groups, Multiple numbers per contact, Picture ID, Ring ID
Organizer:
- Calendar, To-Do, Calculator
Messaging:
- SMS, MMS (iTAP), Predictive text input

Connectivity

USB:
- - Yes

Other features

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

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