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Early Motorola Canary and Capri review
Motorola will soon be releasing replacements for the RAZR and SLVR. Currently known as the Motorola Canary and Capri respectively, the new mobile phones are still under development, and haven't even been announced by Motorola yet. That hasn't stopped BengalBoy, though, who not only managed to get his hands on this pair of phones, he's even reviewed them! Way to go BengalBoy!!

More details and pictures of the Motorola Canary and Capri after the jump.


Motorola Canary and Capri review

So what can we expect from the new Motorola phones? Well, a new form factor, case materials and a camera flash, and er...that's about it! Both come with a 2 megapixel camera and video capture at 352×288, and the Capri comes with a real camera flash. The Canary comes with a clamshell form factor whilst the Capri is a new slider design from Motorola.
Disappointingly, all the hardware and internal gubbins are identical to the current generation RAZR and SLVR. This makes reviewing these phones surprisingly easy: simply read a review for a current RAZR or SLVR, and there you have it! Apparently the Capri is 'beefy' and has the better looking keypad, whilst the Canary looks the biz from the outside but its screen is prone to fingerprints.
Rather than seeing these phones as the 'next' RAZR and SLVR, we should really see them as an updated version of the existing models. Motorola have been talking up next year's Motorola SCPL as the real RAZR2, so even Motorola is perhaps seeing the Canary as RAZR 1.5. Disappointing, as the RAZR's really showing its age now; at least a new form factor is better than simply repainting the existing RAZR, I guess, but it does show a chronic lack of imagination from Motorola.

No news on when the Motorola Canary and Capri will be released (or even announced), but it should be later in 2006 (at least it should if Motorola want to sell any of these phones!)

Labels: mobile phones