Motorola recently announced the Motokey Social, a budget Facebook phone more like the low-end Vodafone 555 Blue, than the HTC ChaCha or Salsa. What all Facebook phones share in common however, is the little-blue Facebook button on the device, a way to one-touch share on everybody’s favourite social network. The phone should start shipping by December, and for now, the company has not announced pricing details.
The Motorola Motokey Social, or Motorola
EX225 is very similar in form factor to other Motorola QWERTY devices,
especially the recent Charm, and the Motorola EX119
dual-SIM offering So far, consumers don’t seem too thrilled by the
news, and without the popular Android operating system onboard (unlike
the HTC ChaCha and Salsa), the device will mainly be for serious
Facebook buffs. As you can imagine, pricing will be key, and if
sufficiently low, will make the Motokey Social an attractive proposition
for quite a few.
All that is not to say the Motokey Social has nothing else going for it,
with some decent feature phones specs onboard. It supports Wi-Fi 802.11
b/g connectivity, unlike the Vodafone Blue, its fellow proprietary
OS-based Facebook phone. It has a 3MP fixed-focus camera, a 2.4-inch
QVGA TFT touchscreen, 64MB RAM, 128MB of ROM, microSD card slot (up to
32GB), and 50MB of built-in storage.
Other features include a 3.5mm headphone
jack, Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, a microUSB port, and a 910 mAh
battery rated to deliver up to 8 hours of talktime, and 28 days of
standby time. It supports playback MP4 and H.263 video formats, and MP3,
WAV and AAC audio formats.