Motorola RIZR Z8 phone released

Motorola announced MOTORIZR Z8, combining Motorola's signature design quality with outstanding video capture and playback and hi-fi audio quality for a mobile experience without compromise. MOTORIZR Z8 also features Motorola's first ever "kick slider," a graceful mechanism that achieves a "fit-to-face" profile by gliding open in a curve to match the contour of your face.

With high-speed connectivity via HSDPA, and a multimedia feature set that includes a brilliant 16 million colour 35x50mm QVGA full screen display, MOTORIZR Z8 boasts video playback speeds of up to 30 frames per second. In addition to its 90MB of internal memory, the device also supports expandable memory up to 4GB using MicroSD, enough space for full length movies, hours of music or tons of pictures.

The unprecedented entertainment experience is brought to life via a partnership with BSkyB which will users to access Sky's mobile content services. As well as offering access to an on-demand library of updating news, entertainment and sports, Sky's 'Anytime' application also provides an access point to Sky's range of live mobile TV services. Anytime also allows customers to use their mobile phone to programme their Sky+ boxes remotely.

MOTORIZR Z8 will be available from April 2007.