Now available: Motorola Karma QA1 from AT&T and HTC Ozone from Verizon Wireless
Two new low cost handsets are now available for your budget-minded buying pleasure. This weekend AT&T debuted its teen and tween texting machine, the Motorola Karma QA1. The quad-band EDGE/dual-band HSDPA handset features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 2.5-inch QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, aGPS, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSDHC expansion and, most important for socializing t(w)eens, Facebook, MySpace, IM, MMS and threaded SMS support. The Karma is available now for $79.99 with a $50 mail in rebate and a 2-year contract.
On the CDMA side of things, we find the HTC Ozone. The Ozone is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard handset with dual-band 1xRTT/EV-DO Rev. A, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE for international roaming, 2.4-inch QVGA display, QWERTY keyboard with 5-way navigation key, 2 megapixel camera w/ auto-focus and video capture, 256MB ROM/128MB RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and microSD expansion (up to 16GB). The Ozone is available now for $49.99 after $70 mail-in rebate and 2-year contract via Web, telesales and B2B channels with in-store availability expected on July 13th.
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that moto phone is butt ugly.
What does Motorola put out such crap???
Motorola still makes cellphones ???
That’s about enough with this QWERTY-on-a-grid layout. Adjacent rows should not line up, I don’t care how much you have to adjust to a phone’s keyboard anyway.
I for one find the demo screens on phones for the PR campaigns kind of amusing.
Never do I let my phone out of my site for so long that I look at the screen to find my missed calls, voicemails, text messages, and emails lit up with numbers all over the place
i want to buy a TOUR today, not the ozone.
@Dusty….they are showing you what all the alerts look like
@grrr….uh, $150 more for a Tour…no thanks.
grr I agree with you. If the release date is right that means I will have pre-ordered the TOUR 2 days in advance…come on Verizon…let me pre-order!!!
Any word on GPS for the Ozone? Is it unlocked? There have been grumblings but there has yet to be anything more definitive.
what?\
no frantic LOVE for wifi on a verizon phone or unlocked GPS?
wierd that is ALL You idiots gripe about, and it is available on a lot of phones, but nobody cares now?
wierd, didn’t see THAT coming at all
The Ozone is definitely a great deal for the money. You know, before Verizon put it up on the site, there weren’t really any good shots of the back of the phone. I think the silver back makes it look significantly less cheap than it did before. The 360 view also shows just how thin it is.
If Verizon markets it well, they’ll have a winner on their hands. If you can look past WinMob (or if you happen to like it), it’s a great value. I hope this represents a sea change in Verizon’s smartphone pricing.
was this post meant to be a head to head matchup of the 2 ? if it is, you know who wins it hands down.don’t ya?
@ grr
im getting my coveted Tour on the two weeks after release date. with a ‘early upgrade’. anytime before that date means a painfull FRP which could mean $599 or more.
@brewhaha
i’m getting the TOUR for $85, and that extra 35 is worth it. my eyes won’t bleed from looking at winmo standard screens.
@joeTOUR
another month of waiting would be TOURture. at least you won’t be paying full retail.
@ notHTCkid:
Also no mention of the Sprint model NOT having WiFi, OR world bands, and still costing 3X as much…
while I don’t like the HEAVY weight of the karma and it’s overall styling, I will give the keyboard a thumbs up, very quick to type on…
I noticed Verizons website said the Ozone had 192mb RAM NOT 128mb.
I was thinking the same thing. I mean what happened over there. I find it hard to believe not one person at Moto had the balls to come out and call this thing too ugly to make. From the Razor to this. Oh how the mighty have fallen
Wow, so there are cell phone companies out there that release phones without 4 months of “in the wild” shots and a month for pre-orders.
Take notes T-Mobile jackasses.
HTC Ozone FTW. Best smartphone this year.
Wifi on a Verizon phone? Woooww.
Also, “I said so” best smart phone this year? Really? You’re that dense?
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Really? I haven’t seen another phone with these features at this price. The Curve is close, but is also over two years old and you still can’t gps, wi-fi, and 3g in the same device. For $50, it will sell like RAZRs, especially if VZW still doesn’t require a data plan on WM phones (they didn’t on my Q/Q9). It isn’t the game changer the Pre is, or an uber device like the N97, but outside the comments section on BGR, this is a very solid device. Oh and QWERTY is always a winner.
The haters are just pissed that they can’t bitch about Verizon being overpriced and locking out key features anymore.
I’ve never owned a WM phone and not sure how tech savy you have to be to make this phone worth while? I currently have a touch VZW dumb-phone and want more from a phone. Mainly I want to be able to listen to MLB games and XM radio. Any advise would be nice…
@ i said so
No. It may be a great deal, but that wasn’t what you said. It’s a good deal yeah, but it’s not the best phone out this year. May not even be in the top 10.
Could we agree it is the best Verizon smart phone so far this year? Or, you know, you could just fuck off…
Is the motorola Karma qa1 has wifi??