Motorola Karma

The Motorola Karma features IM-style messaging and an all-in-one view on its 2.5 inch QVGA display screen designed on a compact slide out QWERTY 3.46 x 2.52 x 0.70 inch form factor. The Karma provides users with the facilities to locate people and places with on-board aGPS. It also gives users access to social networking websites such as Facebook® and MySpace™. The Motorola Karma also features CrystalTalk™ technology, and comes pre-loaded with applications such as YellowPages.com™, Firethorn® Mobile Banking, WikiMobile, games such as Scrabble Blast®, Super Jewel Quest, Zuma and Oregon; location base application such as WHERE™ and AT&T Navigator™, XM Radio Mobile, VIP Access and MusicID, AT&T Media Mall, JuiceCaster™ 6.0, OZ™ Email and IM and MobiTV and MobiVJ®.

Specifications
Form factor
The Motorola Karma features a 2.5 inch display with 240 x 320 pixels resolution and 262k Vibrant display and sounding speakers built into its slider form factor that measures 3.46 x 2.52 x 0.70 inch and weighs 4.97 oz. It has internal antenna, a 4-way navigation with Center select key, dedicated keys for Music, Messaging, Web browser, Back, and Home, keypad lock and language support for English, Spanish, French, and Chinese.

Network and memory
The Motorola Karma has a 100 MB internal flash memory with expandability up to 16GB via a microSD card. The Motorola Karma utilizes the 3G 850/1900 Dual Band network.

Display
The Motorola Karma features a 2.5″ QVGA, 240 x 320 pixels display

Camera
It features a 2 megapixel camera that has 8x digital zoom, flash, fixed focus, and shutter sound support.

Music & Video
The Motorola Karma supports a music player that has Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 11 support, and provides users with the ability to play AAC, H.263, MP3, MPEG, MPEG-4, WAV, WMA9, WMA10, eAAC+, PNG, AAC+, MIDI, and Real Audio files. The unit also provides users with content delivery services, digital rights management and allows for media sharing via Bluetooth®, MMS, or blogging. It also supports a video player.

Power
The Motorola Karma is powered by a 1170 mAh capacity battery that provides users with up to approx. 3.5 hours (3G usage) of usage time and up to approx. 366 hours (3G usage) of standby time.

Messaging
The Motorola Karma supports text messaging (SMS) with SMS message threading, Email with POP3, IMAP4 Mobile email support, Multimedia Messaging (MMS), Instant Messaging (IM) with multiple community IM with message threading, centralized message storage and voice mail support.

Connectivity
The Motorola Karma features Stereo Bluetooth® Technology, software updates (FOTA) and synchronization. It also features GPS and location services via AT&T Navigator™ and allows users to access data via USB 2.0 Full Speed interface (connector type is Micro USB). The Motorola Karma supports a Full HTML browser for surfing the Internet, blogging and lets users download content such as Audio, Animations, Games, and Pictures.

Other features
The Motorola Karma has a 3.5 mm headset jack that lets users plug a compatible headset for private listening to music and making calls, and is a device rated for M3-2007 Hearing Aid Compatible. It also has Text Telephone (TTY) compatibility. Other features on the Motorola Karma includes a speakerphone, noise reduction technology CrystalTalk™, automatic redial, conference calling (three-way), emergency dial, speed dial, voice dialing, wait and pause dialing.

Included Applications
The Motorola Karma comes bundled with the following applications: YellowPages.com™, Firethorn® Mobile Banking; WikiMobile; Scrabble Blast®, Super Jewel Quest, Zuma, Oregon Trail; WHERE™, AT&T Navigator™; XM Radio Mobile, VIP Access, MusicID; and AT&T Media Mall. The Motorola Karma also supports JuiceCaster™ 6.0, OZ™ Email and IM as well as MobiTV® and MobiVJ®.

Personalization
The Motorola Karma also allows users to personalize the phone by changing ringtone formats, ringtones (it has polyphonic, preloaded and downloadable ringtones), screensavers, themes and wallpaper.

Reviews

“The Motorola Karma QA1 belies its cute appearance with high-end features that put it above just an ordinary messaging phone.” – (CNET, 2009)

“The Motorola Karma QA1 may not bring back the once dominant phone maker back to its prime form. Luckily, it’s a small step towards the right direction with an untraditional form factor that Motorola is not accustomed to producing. From the great build quality to its performance, the Karma QA1 makes for a great messaging device while trying to jump on the social networking success.” – (PhoneArena, 2009)