2.18.2005
Live Shots of Motorola's SLVR V8 from 3GSM
"Motorola SLVR V8 It took a bit of doing, but Sid managed to get a few moments with a SLVR V8 while at a Motorola sponsored dinner at 3GSM in Cannes, France. We don't have an awful lot to show you since the lighting conditions were less than ideal (yes, that is a table cloth the phones are sitting on), but the photos are still worth taking a look at.
For one, you can get a real feel for just how tiny the SLVR V8 is. Thinner than even Motorola's RAZR, and not all that much longer than a closed RAZR, the SLVR is really a very slight phone - one you are sure to forget about after you place it in your pocket.
The black color scheme seems to work pretty well with the SLVR, too - the name is sliver, after all, not silver. We do have a few concerns about the size of the keypad, though. It uses the same nickel plated copper material as the RAZR, but the effective key size has been reduced quite a bit to get it to fit into the much smaller form factor. The display is a lower resolution unit than is found in the RAZR for the same reason.
But there is one thing that you get in the SLVR that is not found in the RAZR: a TransFlash memory card slot. By the time the SLVR is available from retailers, 512MB TransFlash memory cards should be widely available.
No matter how you look at it, it appears that Motorola has found its muse. The new V series "four letter word" handsets are mighty fine." [Via Mobileburn.com]
