| Motorola introduced latest design cell phone Motorola | | | | also quite usable. |
| A1200. The flip is anything but flimsy, but to open this | | | | Another peculiarity is found in the ringtone/vibrate |
| clamshell, you need to employ your fingernails as a | | | | profiles accessible via the external volume buttons. |
| shucking knife on one of the two shallow dents on | | | | You would expect that all the profile choices involving |
| either side of the casing left there to aid opening, but | | | | ringtones would apply to the one ringtone you chose |
| not by much. You will also need fingernails to pull out | | | | when setting up the phone. Instead you have to set |
| the plugs that keep the earphone and mini-USB jacks | | | | each of the five ring profiles to that one ringtone you |
| dust-free. | | | | want because they all default to different ringtones. |
| The lens for the 2.0 megapixel camera comes with a | | | | Motorola A1200's an annoyance you can work around |
| tiny flip switch to choose between normal and macro | | | | once and forget about, unless you change your |
| mode. The zoom is purely digital, so you won't call on | | | | ringtone often. |
| Motorola A1200 often unless you're going for that | | | | You might wonder if a phone based on Linux works |
| pixelated look. The zoom operates in 6 distinct steps | | | | properly with a Windows PC. The answer, surprisingly, |
| from 1.0x to 8.0x. To store your images and other | | | | is yes. But Motorola A1200 pays to have a broadband |
| data, the phone uses a tiny microSD card for memory | | | | connection set up on the machine when installing the |
| expansion. | | | | drivers because the process involves downloading |
| The phone comes with a telescoping stylus for use | | | | around 16MB worth of updates. Motorola A1200 |
| with the bright, clear touchscreen, which doubles up as | | | | comes with "phone tools" software that allows you to |
| a virtual numeric keypad for normal phone functions, | | | | sync your data and address list with a PC, as well as |
| with keys generously spaced. As you can imagine, | | | | drag and drop media files between the two. Motorola |
| keeping the screen and clear plastic flip free of | | | | A1200 can view Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint |
| fingerprints takes commitment. Voice quality is | | | | and PDF files but there is no way to edit them. The |
| excellent and volumes of the polyphonic ringtones can | | | | screen is definitely too small to read any normal-sized |
| be set loud enough to annoy people on the far side of | | | | font even when maximized to the full width and |
| the room. The external buttons all give a responsive | | | | rotated into landscape mode. You will have to tap and |
| click when pressed and the tiny chrome joystick is | | | | drag the document around to read it. |