June 26, 2009

Motorola Karma QA1

The Motorola Karma QA1 is an entry-level slider with full QWERTY keyboard and homescreen access to MySpace and Facebook. Targeted at teenagers and young adults, the Karma has a 2.5-inch 240 x 320 display, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, 2-megapixel camera with video recording functionality and a microSD card slot. The media player supports audio and video and has both a 3.5mm headphone jack and A2DP stereo Bluetooth 2.0 support. There’s even A-GPS and AT&T load their Navigator PND app onto the handset.

Some of Karmas other features include a full HTML browser, mobile email support including AOL, Yahoo!, and Windows Live Mail, and it can receive and send SMS and MMS messages. There is also voice-memo recording, a speakerphone, and CrystalTalk active background noise filter. AT&T will be selling the Motorola Karma QA1 beginning June 28th and it will be priced at $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Also plan to budget for a minimum of a $39.99 voice plan and $20 data or messaging plan.


Motorola Karma™ QA1 Specs:

Talk and Standby Time:
GSM TT: 312 min
WCDMA TT: 217 min
GSM ST: 347 hrs
WCDMA ST: 366 hrs3

Bands/Modes:
3G 850/1900 Dual Band; GSM Quad Band 850/900/1800/1900; GPRS / EDGE Class 101

Weight:
141g/4.97 oz

Dimensions:
64 x 88 x 17.9 (mm)

2.52 x 3.46 x .7 (in)

Battery:
1170 mAh

Connectivity:
Stereo Bluetooth2 w/ A2DP, USB 2.0 Full Speed, 3.5mm Headset Jack

Display:
2.5” QVGA 240×320 262k

Messaging:
SMS, MMS, IM w/ presence, Email (POP3, IMAP4, SMTP), Message Threading1

Audio:
MIDI, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, RealAudio, XMF

Video:
Capture/Playback/Streaming, 15 FPS, H.263, MPEG4, Video Share1

Camera:
2.0 megapixel w/ 8x digital zoom

Memory:
100MB user available memory, MicroSD up to 16 GB

Form Factor:
Full QWERTY Slider