Motorola Zhiling: Keyboardless Droid-O-Phone On December 28th

by Rob Jackson on December 8th, 2009 at 10:44 am

motorola-mt710The Motorola Zhiling is the manufacturer”s first Android Phone made for China Mobile’s “Open Mobile System” line of phones that they brand “OPhone”. It isn’t EXACTLY like a Moto Droid with no keyboard but to draw that comparison is certainly not a stretch.

The Zhiling has model number MT710 and will go on sale starting December 28th. It comes with China Mobile’s 3G standard (TD-SCDMA), Wi-Fi, 5MP camera, 3.7-inch screen and more. The inclusion of Wi-Fi is only possible because of a security protocol included – China has previously banned Wi-Fi on mobile phones.

Over at the Motorola Developer’s portal they’ve listed all the specs for the Motorola MT710 Zhiling so I suggest you check out the nitty gritty details over there!

[Yahoo News via EngadgetMobile]

  • swehes

    Looking interesting. Why the red on one side though?

  • http://jeftek.com Jef

    There is much more different than just the keyboard compared to the Droid.

    Different display..Droid is much better

    Different Storage…Droid doesn’t have 4GB built in storage + SDHC

    Different Sensors…Droid has a 3 axis compared to 1 axis, Droid has magnetometer and proximity sensor

    Different Camera…Droid looks to have better camera software?

    Check out the Droid specs also from MotoDev:

    http://developer.motorola.com/products/droid/

  • Rob

    @Jef:

    I would agree. This looks to me more like a bad iPhone copy than a Droid. I would expect better from Moto, unless this is meant for a entry-level/bargain basement smartphone.

  • xE4GL3k

    @swehes:
    red thing is one of typical chinese things, flag’s back color is red, ppl believe red is “hot”, “on fire”, so…

  • Bruce

    May be a “bad iPhone copy” or not, but one thing they got right that Apple didn’t is Wi-Fi. iPhone got tepid sales there because of that exclusion, so if Moto gets a good response due to adopting the different security standards, code bode well for Moto revenue.

  • Andrew

    The iphone has Wi-Fi. Atleast mine, and all my coworkes do. (Before I switched to droid)

    They have 3g’s and 3gs’s and I had a 2G.

  • Carig

    Sounds like the lack of wi-fi is more the government’s fault than anything. China sucks, but hey, i’m not saying i could run a country of over a billion people.

  • http://worldwide.blackberry.com Best Smartphone

    OPhone with Mobile China can compete to iPhone tegether with China Communication Unicom?

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