Motorola Karma QA1 brings serious mobile social networking to AT&T this month
By Sean P. Aune
It’s pretty fair to say that Motorola has one very specific demographic in mind with its new Karma QA1: socially connected teenagers.
Launching on June 28th, the Motorola Karma QA1 is all about keeping you connected on the go by any means necessary, and doing it at a price that won’t send parents in to a tizzy over buying it for their youngsters. Priced at $79.99 on contract after a $50 mail-in rebate, the QA1 may not be an iPhone, but it is certainly going to give teens the features they want.
Sporting a portrait slide out QWERTY keyboard, the Karma allows you to follow multiple IM and text conversations at once in a fashion that will make it easy for you to see who each message is coming from and keeps the conversation organized at the same time. You can also chat across multiple instant messaging platforms (AIM, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger) at the same time, so no matter what your friends use, you can keep up with the latest happenings.
Social networking is also not ignored with native applications for Facebook and MySpace coming pre-installed. With 3G speeds, you should be able to breeze through the sites fairly quickly. The built-in 2 megapixel camera should also make it easy for you to add photos on the go. The only surprising thing here is that there is no mention of a native application for Twitter. Perhaps it is coming to the phone at a later date?
The price is certainly been set with the idea of parents buying this phone for their kids, and I have to say it looks like the perfect solution for that. It won’t break the bank, and since it can carry up to 16GB of media files via the microSD reader, you may even be able to convince your teenager they don’t need an iPod to go along with it! Unlikely, but you never know might work.
You can start looking for the Motorola Karma QA1 starting June 28th at AT&T.
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