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While there is not much surprise here, as all the details have been previously leaked. One bit off good news is the retail price has come out a little lower than expected as the Z9 is $149.99, that is after an online discount along with a two-year agreement.

Aside from the lower price, the Z9 is currently available and marks the first AT&T handset to offer support for AT&T Navigator. The slider-styled Z9 also has 3G/HSDPA support and quad-band GSM coverage along with a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recording capability, stereo Bluetooth, built-in MP3 player and a microSD card slot for additional storage.

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With CTIA beginning on April 1 this year, its becoming difficult to judge whether we are seeing some April Fools jokes or good information. However in the case of the Motorola Z9 and the complete lack of secrecy up till this point I tend to believe when they say it will be launched on April 1.

So far we have seen a leaked pic, then the Z9 showed up with the FCC, some white papers were leaked, then a scanned ad showing the price, and finally the last piece of the puzzle—the release date.

In addition to the release date, which according to the BGR, it will indeed be launched with AT&T on April 1, the Z9 will also include AT&T Navigator support. The Navigator, which will be the new name for TeleNav is a GPS solution, but its still unclear if the Z9 will feature an A-GPS solution or true GPS support. Based on all the leaks up till this point it seems the next time we mention the Z9 should hopefully be the official announcement from AT&T.

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It seems that by the time the Motorola Z9 is officially released we will not have anything new to learn, so far we have seen the first leaked image way back in July 2007, then some more details hit the FCC website earlier this month, only to have the official white paper show up yesterday.

Well, as of yesterday we were just waiting for a price and official release date. Now one of those two bits of information can now be checked off the list, it seems that AT&T is planning to charge $249.99 for the Z9, that is of course with a few rebates and a two-year agreement.

With just a release date left to ponder, its a shame this latest leak did not let us in on that, but based on the rate of information leaks on the Z9 I would imagine that we will be seeing that in a day or two.

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We had seen the first leaked image of the Motorola Z9 way back in July 2007 only to have it finally turn up on the FCC earlier this month, now we have all the details and its safe to say they are official, they were leaked courtesy of a Motorola product sheet.

The Motorola Z9 will be a media-centric slider style phone with dedicated music keys that will appear when the music player is launched or the phone is set to music mode. The Z9 has support for GSM 850/19001800/1900, WCDMA 1900/850 and 3.6 Mbps HSDPA. It will feature a 2.4-inch QVGA display, have A-GPS support, a 2-megapixel camera with flash and 8x zoom, Opera 8 browser and 45MB of internal memory with up to 8GB of additional storage with the microSD card slot.

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One more Motorola Z heading for AT&T’s bonnet. The Motorola Z9 was leaked almost a year ago in 2007 and has taken its own sweet time to arrive at the FCC’s door. The Z8’s successor is also 3G capable and runs on Motorola’s Linux-based Synergy OS. While we weren’t too impressed by Z8’s weird sliding action, we did appreciate its multimedia versatility nonetheless. Motorola has now ditched the curved slider design, sticking to the more conventional straight slider approach in the case of Z9. Other known features include a 2-megapixel camera with flash, hot-swappable microSD expansion, a QVGA display, and Bluetooth with Stereo A2DP profile along with AT&T’s 3G-dependent Video Share feature. No details on when this phone will turn up, but as always we will keep you posted.

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