Take 1: Motorola Rizr Z8

Also known as the “MotoRIZR Z8″, it will be the successor to the sleek Motorola Rizr Z6. I do also believe that this is Motorola’s answer to the iPhone.

I really do feel bad for the iPhone. All these cell-phone manufacturers seem to be trying to bury it; then again, a couple of years ago, all the digital audio manufacturers seemed to be trying to kill the iPod. I clearly remember hearing about a lot of “iPod-killers”; one being the Creative Zen Vision:M. As we can see, the iPod seems to be quite immortal; but will the young iPhone have just as powerful a grip on its respective industry?

The MotoRIZR Z8 is very appealing in aesthetic terms, which is a trait inherited from its ancestor the MotoRIZR Z6. It’s a slider phone, which gets a few extra points from me. It features a 2.0-megapixel camera, which now seems to be the industry’s standard (although I can see it moving up to 3.2-megapixels really soon). Actually, I’m quite surprised that the MotoRIZR Z8 doesn’t have a 3.2-megapixel camera itself; I do believe that it will need to gain as much ground as it can, especially when competing with the w960 and the iPhone. It does however have 3.5G, a feature that the iPhone is lacking. It features Symbian software (which I have heard mixed reviews about), and a 2.2-inch screen, and apparently, Windows Media Player 11 (source: http://www.trendygadget.com/2007/05/18/latest-hsdpa-phone-from-motorola-z8/). It also features HSDPA, High-Speed Downlink Packet Access, a 3g protocol allowing for downlink speeds of up to 14.4 Mbit/s.

I think that the MotoRIZR Z8 will fare as well as the Z6 did, if not a bit better; considering how aesthetically-pleasing it is (yeah, I’m a shallow guy) not to mention the 3g features, I think that it has a little chance in hell of beating the iPhone.

Actually, I was wondering what happens when the iPhone-killers kill the iPhone? Will they start trying to kill each other? Heck, would that be a whole new category of phones?! Perhaps the iPhone really is revolutionary in that aspect.