New Motorola A1200R Ming Mobile Launched

The Motorola A1200 MING became quite a popular mobile phone after its launch back in 2006, and now the handset maker decided it was high time to release into the wild a successor of the device, in the form of Motorola A1200R, a handset that has great chances to prove as successful as the original model.

The new Motorola A1200R has been announced for release onto the mobile phone market in Argentina, and it seems that the company also intends to launch it on other markets from the Latin American continent. The handset comes towards users with basically the same design as its predecessor, though there are a few differences that can be noticed.

Design-wise, the differences between the A1200 and the A1200R are hardly visible. However, the A1200R comes with features that are not included in the old phone – although it still runs on a Linux platform.

The Features are:

• Widgets (providing access to weather, news and so on)
• Microsoft Office document editing
• Business card scanner – using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology
• FM radio (I thought the old MING already had this)
• 1GB memory card included in the box

The other advance A1200R is the ability to display and edit Word and Excel files from Microsoft Office. You can also browse the Internet and synchronize personal and corporate emails. Unlike its previous version, the mobile also has FM radio.