Motorola i850 Not Just Your Ordinary Walkie-Talkie

Remember when you used to play with a walkie-talkie and tried to contact your next door neighbor? The coverage of those two AA battery-powered radios only had a range between two houses. Most of the time, your friend’s voice sounded crackled. At present, you can enjoy the convenience of walkie-talkie usage, with all the cool add-on features, thanks to the Motorola i850. It’s a mobile phone, but it does more than just make phone calls.

It was released in the United States in the second half of 2005, with Nextel as the original service provider. Subscribers could avail of the i850 for a $300 two-year plan with the network. The phone is blessed with Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) capability, which Motorola pioneered. With the iDEN on the i850, users can have a two-way radio, alphanumeric pager, and data/fax machine, all on one phone. The advantage of iDEN is that it allows users to communicate, even when a cellular signal is unavailable. As the Motorola i850 has a push to talk (PTT) button, it can be a two-way radio for a range of six miles, depending on the terrain.

Can you imagine your old walkie-talkie with a digital camera on it? This walkie-talkie’s got it. The Motorola i850 has a 0.3 mega pixel camera mounted on its flip cover, with a small mirror for taking self portraits. The camera can zoom up to 4x, and has four resolution settings, from as large as 640 x 480 pixels, to as small as 128 x 96 pixels. Photos can be attached to Multimedia Message Service (MMS) templates or sent in emails. You can also sync up the i850 to your PC so you can transfer photos easily.
 
Can your old walkie-talkie play songs for you, or alert you when you have an important call? The Motorola i850 can. For caller alerts, there is a vibrate mode, plus polyphonic ring tones. You can customize the alert profiles with whatever mode you choose. Contact persons in the phonebook can be identified with picture ID or ring tone ID. The i850 also supports WAV, mp3, and MIDI formats of sound files, which you can play on the speaker or with included stereo headsets.

The Motorola i850 also comes with a colored LCD screen as the internal display. Its resolution is 176 x 220 pixels and can display 262,000 colors. You can view photos, watch video clips, browse websites, or have live TV feeds on the i850.

Here’s one more thing about the i850: you don’t need walkie-talkie AA batteries for it. The phone has a Lithium Ion battery that gives you talk time for 165 minutes, and stand by time for 70 hours.

Aren’t you glad Motorola came up with the i850? You’ve got PTT, SMS, MMS, email, voice memos, Java games, applications, calendar, customized wallpapers, polyphonic ring tones, and so much more. It works like a walkie-talkie, but it definitely can do much more than that. Don’t believe me? See the Motorola i850 for yourself.