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FCC has approved the rumored Motorola A1600 MING 2 smartphone.

Judging by the available documentation this phone is for the Asian market and is not planned for a stateside release. But if you really want it, there's no problem in buying it outside the U.S. and bringing it back home, as it supports for quad band GSM, which allows for worldwide usage.

Other features include Linux OS, a 3.

Several photos of the rumored Motorola ZN5 cameraphone appeared at the Chinese KeySJ site.

The phone measures 11.8mm thick, has a 5Mpix Kodak-branded camera with xenon flash, “hybrid” keyboard (same as on the ROKR E8), and runs Motorola’s Linux – Java OS. 

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Three new phones from Motorola may be coming out in the near future, namely the W388, W396, and VA76r models.

The first two are low-end handsets with 128x128 screens, GPRS data, Java support, and VGA cameras.

The VA76r in its turn is more advanced and offers a QVGA screen, Montavista 2.6.10 Linux OS, Freescale ArgonLV processor, 2Mpix cam, and support for HSDPA network.

Here's another handset that was spotted at the FCC site last week.

Apparently, this is the Motorola A810, a new Linux-based touch screen smartphone with the onscreen keyboard and handwriting recognition, along with an FM radio, and tri-band GSM support.

The U.S. release is questionable, though availability details are unknown yet.

Stay tuned for more details.

Looks like long-awaited Motorola Z9 will be launched after all, as it has just been approved by the FCC.

The phone is still not announced, but we hope to see it at CTIA Las Vegas. FCC approval is always a good sign, right?

Just to remind you, Motorola Z9 is a slider cell phone with a 2Mpix camera, GPS, 3G support, and Linux-based OS.

Opera Mobile browser has been updated to version 9.5.

The latest build offers several enhancements, including faster browsing speeds and support for more Web technologies (Widgets, JavaScript, Ajax, Flash and Flash Lite 3), which deliver a more desktop-like browsing experience on a smartphone.

Some of the functions of the Opera Mobile include page content zooming, offline browsing, sending web links or images as SMS/MMS messages and more.

NXP Semiconductors and Purple Labs came up with a new low-cost Linux-based 3G handset.

The so called Purple Magic phone runs on the NXP Nexperia Cellular System Solution 7210 for 3G, coupled with the Purple Labs Linux suite.

This device probably won't be available for the general public, but since it is a working prototype, it is quite possible that some mobile operators in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America would sell it under a different name using their own brand.

OpenMoko announced Neo FreeRunner, an update to their previous open-source Neo 1973.

The new phone will look like the original, but will be available in two tri-band GSM variants (850/1800/1900 and 900/1800/1900) and will offer several hardware improvements, such as more powerful 500MHz CPU, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, better graphics support and motion sensors allowing for movement based user input.

T-Mobile started offering the Motorola RAZR2 V8.

This quad-band GSM/EDGE clamshell phone operates on Motorola's Linux-Java OS and comes with stereo Bluetooth, touch-sensitive controls, 2Mpix camera, and 2GB of on-board memory (no microSD slot).

The price is $250 with 2-year contract.

Motorola has developed a new open-source Mobile Linux platform, called MOTOMAGX. This new-gen platform offers more possibilities for the developers and supports 3rd party applications, including those created in J2ME, and later editions, native Linux apps. The first phones to use MOTOMAGX will be yet unavailable MOTOROKR Z6 and the RAZR2 V8.