Motorola and AT&T announce the Karma QA1
Life’s a bitch and so is karma, but AT&T is hoping to change that with the Motorola Karma QA1. A goofy looking dumb phone that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Somerset, the Karma is a media-centric device that has home screen access to both Facebook and MySpace as well as support for email, IM, MMS and threaded SMS. In terms of hardware, the quad-band EDGE/dual-band HSDPA Karma packs a sliding QWERTY keypad, 2.5-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.5mm headphone jack and 100MB of internal memory with microSDHC support (up to 16GB). The Karma will be available online and in AT&T stores on the 28th of this month for $79.99 on a 2-year deal after a $50 mail-in rebate. Any takers?
Ewwwwwwwww! Where the hell is the Sprint Tour?
I have to agree. yuck.
motorola has some of the worst handset designers in the history of design
This thing freaking rocks! Look at that killer design. At least there is no way this would take anything from Apple at AT&T
The slide out qwerty kinda reminds me of the Pre
How is Motorola still in business?
Hideous.
How the mighty have fallen…
apparently, I am the only one that thinks that is good looking.
Kinda homely, but what do you want for an $80 phone? Nice mulimedia dumbphone for texting tweens. Plus it will do mms messaging (threaded), flash photography and expands with micro sd cards…can you think of any priceier trendoid phones that lack those basic capabilities? Hmmm, think realy hard…..
motorola should of canned this and kept the flash. OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE!?!
I also think this thing is pretty cool looking. Tweens & grandparents will love it.
This phone was molded from watery bowels…kill yourself motorola.
how do they have the neon at $30 and this at @80… makes no sense
Love the name – Karma (on Motorola)
LOL @ hold the mayo
I’d have to agree it is ugly. I used to like motorcycle back when I had the V710 and E815 for Verizon. Now I don’t even remember their last phone that intrigued me.
Att would be out of business without the iPhone. This is proof.
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Well im surprised they actually developed a phone that does notlook like the razr…however Motorola is still wayyyyyy behind in design and style
what is that? seriously. after a gem like the aura you would expect something beautiful, not this.
Isn’t the data icon on the phone the GPRS icon? HAHA!
The ONLY way this thing sells is if it’s dirt cheap. Who is designing their stuff these days? They should all be taken out back and beaten about the head and shoulders with a stick.
why would anyone walk into an at&t store and say, “no, i dont want and iphone. no, i dont want a bold. i want that sliding motorola instead.”
@ VZW
It’s a 3G icon! HAHA!
It’s a $79 phone that will be $50 in a couple of months so relax. This is an entry level texting phone for teens. If if were up to all of you, everyone would just make iPhone knock offs.
It’s a lot less interesting without Android or Windows Mobile. Oh well–it could have beaten the Samsung i640 style devices hands down with the inclusion of a smart operating system since they were thoughtful enough to include usb and 3.5mm jack, something that Samsung has yet to do with any smartphone.
VZW,
it doesn’t have wifi, looks like you will likely get a chance to sell this over at your kiosk soon!!
I thought I used wifi on my verizon phone often at home and work. I guess I must be mistaken. Thanks for straightening me out!