Motorola to launch movie-playing cell phones

Motorola Inc. is set to unveil a mobile phone with full-motion video display and the means to play feature films on small removable storage cards, reports CNN.

"Speaking at the Software 2007 conference in Silicon Valley, Chief Executive Ed Zander briefly described one of the several devices the company has said it plans to announce at an event next Tuesday.

"We are going to show a device next week," Zander told several hundred attendees of the business software conference, saying it would show 30-frames-a-second, full-motion video. "It is a media monster.".

The new device would initially be targeted on the European market, where faster "third generation" (3G) networks are more widely available ".

emily | 7:15 AM | Movies on Cell Phones |
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