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First up - this isn't a phone we're going to see here anytime soon. Nor would we want to. It's the Motorola i465, designed for America's rather quaint iDEN networks (think 2-way radio meets mobile phone in a push-to-talk, text messaging stylee). What's interesting about it is the keypad - a fully-fledged QWERTY keyboard shoehorned on to a near standard-size phone by way of some nifty pyramid style keys.

The raised ridges keep the keys slender, while (hopefully) allowing enough separation to prevent any dual key press typibng mnqalklfunbctions. In another cunning innovation, Motorola has printed the numbers on one face of the pyramid, and the corresponding key-sharing letters on the other so you can glance from the left to read the numbers, or the right to see the letters - nice.

Feeling a little borassic? Cobwebs forming on your coin purse? We have the solution: a £3 mobile phone - or a £2.88 phone to be precise. That's the price being asked for Motorola's W180 at Carphone Warehouse.

Granted you'll need to buy a £10 Orange top up with that but at a total of £12.88 for phone and £10 voucher, we'd say that's a fairly credit crunch busting gift for any of your phoneless friends. Click through for the deets.

We may already have a glimpse at what Motorola's lining up for us in 2009. Boy Genius Report has been passed images supposedly from Verizon's upcoming catalogue, revealing a number of previously unseen Moto handsets.

While Verizon is a CDMA network, it does give some idea of the direction Motorola is heading. 2009 is being seen as something of a "make or break" year for Moto. Its handset division is already in dire straits after years of lacklustre launches. No doubt it'll be banking on these phones to turn things around. Click through for more and the rest of the snaps.

We've already reported that Motorola is looking to launch a social networking centric Android phone, but now BuinessWeek believes it has laid its hands on some more details. According to its sources, the Moto Android phone will have a slide-out keyboard, like the T-Mobile G1, but will compete with the iPhone more aggressively with a larger screen and a 'higher end' finish. Read on for the deets.

It's no secret that Motorola is developing Google-powered Android handsets but a new job ad might give a clue as to how it sees those developments panning out. It's currently seeking a 'Senior Staff Interaction Designer' with a revealing job spec. Read on for more.

For all the fuss around the launch of the first Google Android handset, the T-Mobile G1, other manufacturers haven't exactly been rushing to follow HTC's lead and bring out their own. But now Moto looks like it might be putting serious investment behind the platform.

The Boy Genius Report has turned up this admittedly grainy photo of a forthcoming Motorola phone that it reckons is the much rumoured 'Alexander' - supposedly Motorola's high-end, make-or-break,  great-white-hope mobile designed to rejuvenate its flagging sales, or bury the company for good.

While we agree that the mooted specs are high-end - Windows Mobile 6.1, a 5 to 8 megapixel camera, a dedicated NVIDIA GPU for 3D graphics and AGPS - we're not sure this is the phone Motorola will be pegging its future on. At least we hope it isn't.

Live video-streaming site Qik has moved from its invitation-only alpha stage to launch as a public beta. This means anyone who wants to can now use their mobile phone camera to broadcast video across the internet.

Qik requires the use of special software, which is free and downloaded and installed quickly and easily. However, only certain phones are supported – lots of Nokias and the odd Motorola and Samsung. For the full list of supported handsets, visit Qik’s sign-up page.

But what of Qik on iPhone – Apple’s handset doesn’t support video, does it? Oh yes it does. More after the cut.

The camera phone megapixel race has begun, and while Sony Ericsson may be winning with its 8.1MP C905, Motorola is closing the gap with this 5MP effort, the Motozine ZN5.

Sony Ericsson of course has the expertise of Sony to fall back on so Motorola, not yet renowned for its imaging prowess, has teamed up with Kodak to beef up the ZN5's credentials...

Motorola's been pushing the movie playing experience on mobiles such as the Z10 lately. Now it's taken the next natural step and offered movie downloads via its hellomoto.com website.

The full length films aren't delivered over the air but rather downloaded via PC to be transferred to a phone. It's a simple drag and drop process but the handset is required to go online and download a license key before the file will play.