Motorola expands mobile line-up with ATI's Imageon Media processors

ATI Technologies announced that Motorola has expanded its mobile phone line
up with twelve recently announced handsets based upon ATI's IMAGEON Media
Processors. The new models include RAZR V3 - the industry's thinnest quad-band
clamshell video phone, A630 - a two-way email EMS phone, i860 - an iDEN
clamshell, camera phone, and E398 - an MP3 player/camera phone with 3D stereo
speakers. Improving on its best selling V500/V600 clamshell phones, Motorola
introduces RAZR V3, the world's thinnest flip phone (only 13.9 mm thickness)
with a multitude of multimedia features including MPEG4 video playback
accelerated by the ATI Imageon Media processor. The Motorola A630 is a
versatile, EMS 5.0 compatible two-way email and camera phone that can be flipped
open offering a full QWERTY keyboard, and a landscape LCD display. The i860 is
NexTel's first camera phone on the iDEN network. Stunning images on full color
LCD displays and high quality video on these phones are made possible by these
processors.

ATI's Imageon processors provide advanced multimedia features such as
digital still image capture (digital camera), Image Viewing (JPEG decoding) and
rotation, and video clip (MPEG4) playback. All these functions create an
enhanced visual experience for the end-user, and help propel new wireless
services such as the popular Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) services. In
addition, all the integrated features, including frame buffer memory and
flexible display (LCD) controller, allow the Imageon to take workload off of the
handset's baseband processor, thereby minimizing power consumption and
extending battery life.

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