CES: Motorola RIZR Z6 Announced

The RIZR Z3 slider has only just come to India , but Moto is already readying its successor, the Z6, at CES 2007. Most of the features remain the same, but the display of the Z6 is of a higher resolution QVGA (240x320) and, as promised, they have dumped the traditional old Motorola UI in favor of a new one based on Linux and Java.

The Z6 will also be a part of the new MOTOMUSIC platform, featuring a dedicated music key. It will playback MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, etc. The phone can be synced with Windows Media Player 11 and will also support Janus DRM.

Other features spill over: upto 2 GB of storage using a microSD/TransFlash memory card, USB 2.0 support, Bluetooth A2DP support for wireless stereo, 2 megapixel camera. The phone will be a quad-band GSM handset with support for GPRS and EDGE.

Given the actual amount of changes, I think a ‘Z3i’ or ‘Z4’ model number would have been more appropriate. Anyway, the Z6 should be out before mid-2007, but the price isn’t known yet.

Meanwhile, the Z3 sells in India for around Rs. 13,500.

Via Gizmodo .