The Motorola A3100 (aka the MOTOSURF) is an elegant mobile phone with a nice curved edge design. Measuring just 110mm x 59.7mm x 13.7mm and weighing 119 grams, with a large 2.8 inch TFT touch screen which can display up to 65,000 colours and a screen resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. Navigating the features on the Motorola A3100 is easy using the touch screen to input text and navigate menus with the provided stylus, or using the roller ball navigation control. Handwriting recognition technology is also supported. The rechargeable battery provides up to 6 hours talk time and 288 hours on standby.

The Motorola A3100 has a fantastic 3 mega pixel camera with digital zoom, auto focus and flash. Capable of video recording and playback in both MPEG4 and WMV video modes. A second camera located at the front of the handset provides video calling capability with other users with compatible handsets.

Internet and connectivity options on the Motorola A3100 are good with fast connections utilising the Motorola A3100 MOTOSURF’s built-in web browsing technologies such as 3G HSDPA GPRS and EDGE, Bluetooth with A2DP, WAP 2.0 XHTML, HTML and RSS feed readers. The Motorola A3100 is a Quad-band network phone which provides the user with reception abroad using the automatic roaming facility. Being a 3G HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) phone the Motorola A3100 supports high speed internet access and has full 3G video calling capability.

Multimedia and entertainment functions are offered with built-in music player supporting mp3 and WMA files and Polyphonic and mp3 ring-tone options. Additionally a range of embedded games are offered with ability to download many more. As standard the Motorola A3100 has 256Mb of flash memory and 128Mb of RAM memory with memory card support included.

The Motorola A3100 is powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS. A3100 users enjoy a full suite of applications such as OneNote(free-form information gathering, and multi-user collaboration software), PDF Viewer, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel and GPS Navigation.

Pros
Stylus, Finger Control and Roller Ball Touch Screen
2.8 Inch colour touch screen
Music Player
3 Megapixel Camera
3G HSDPA Technology
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 OS
GPS Navigation with AGPS
Video player with MPEG4 & WMV

Cons
Expensive
Unconventional looks won’t suit everyone
No Wi-fi support

The Motorola A3100 MOTOSURF phone has an elegant and classy look and is packed with the latest technologies. The curved looks will appeal to many but others will prefer the conventional looks of competitor phones. Lack of Wi-Fi LAN and highish price are the only real drawbacks.

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