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Motorola's new 3G cameraphone - V975 reviewed

We still don't have any way of buying any ("due out 4Q04") but there is now a review online for Motorola's latest 3G camera-phone, the V975.

The phone was announced two weeks ago with the traditional PR enthusiasm:

"Shoot a video, send a photo, download a MP3 ringtone, conduct a chat via 2-way video conferencing or play a favourite game on a huge colour display. It's all possible with the affordable Motorola V975, which boasts 3G technology for broadband-like speeds. This sleek, clam shell, mobile handset features a bounty of multi-media options to keep you informed, in touch and entertained while on-the-go."

Mobile Burn's reviewer, Siddharth Raja seems more restrained.

The V975 "may not be the best looking phone on the market" notes the review, but "Motorola is really pushing the multimedia capabilities of its latest handset by including a TransFlash card, supporting up to 256MB memory, a large 176x220 resolution TFT screen, audio and video capturing, and support for many popular file formats such as MPEG4, WMV, WMA, and MP3."

He also notes that this is the first non-Microsoft phone he's reviewed which will cope with Microsoft's own proprietary audio/video formats, WMA and WMV.

Full review plus several pictures on Mobile Burn.