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You may have heard that Motorola is quietly readying a few new handsets for a comeback in the mobile handset making game, like the 5-megapixel packing Motorola ZN5 Zine and the Motoming A1600 smartphone. While both of these handsets aren’t exactly packing high-end tech behind their casings, we were still hoping that Motorola would roll out a few more handsets including one that would be worthy of being called its flagship. Well, our wait ends today as detailed specs and information are revealed about Moto’s upcoming phones for 2008. And they’re not all bad, but considering the things that other handset manufacturers have been releasing quite recently, it seems that Moto is really lagging behind the rest of the group, only readying a few so-so mobile handsets and their flagship model has turned out to be that 5-megapixel Linux-based smartphone after all. Something that Nokia, SE, Samsung, and even Apple have been able to equal and even surpass in terms of functionality last year, if not a couple of years ago.

Motorola’s newest phones are reportedly only going to be released in China (or Asia) for now, and will be pretty basic in terms of both form and function. Nothing, it seems, will be rolled out that’s even half as impressive as their monumental Motorola RAZR, the slim, grim, metallic clamshell phone “that started it all.” This year from Moto, we get a couple of old model remakes and little innovation, so it’s hard to say that their next release would be able to salvage what’s left of the ailing mobile phone company.

What’s clear with this leak is that there will indeed be a 5-megapixel Linux-powered smartphone in the form of the Motorola ZN5, two new variants of the Motorola MING smartphone are to come with similar features with their predecessors (and each other), and Motorola has given in to the apparent popularity of dual-SIM mobiles in the form of the Motorola VE750 multimedia slider. Other than this dual-SIM number and the 5-megapixel smartphone, nothing else in the unofficial lineup seems capable of saving Motorola. Add to that the rumors that these will only be released in Asia, if only at first. And that most of these haven’t even been announced as official. Someone might be inclined to think that Moto was trying to kill itself on purpose. Don’t you agree?

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