The World Is One Touch Away: MOTOSURF A3100 Hits Malaysia

Motorola debuts new 3G touch tablet with customizable home screen

Kuala Lumpur – 16 March 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT), a global leader in mobile communications, announced the availability of the MOTOSURF™ A3100 in Malaysia, making it easier to manage your life, whenever and wherever you want. A new, intuitive and customizable touch screen smart phone, the 3G MOTOSURF A3100 allows for seamless, easy access to the information you need to always stay connected, such as Internet content¹, contacts and calendars – all with just the touch of a finger. Working at high-speeds that give immediate access to everything you need, all through a single personalized icon-based home screen, the A3100 offers you the ultimate balance between business and entertainment.

Managing your social and work lives just got easier with the MOTOSURF A3100. The touch tablet’s customizable home screen is layered on top of the familiar Windows Mobile 6.1 software and offers up a huge range of applications that can all be accessed with the tip of your finger, a stylus, or using the built-in omni-directional trackball. You can choose to personalize your selection of icons on the A3100’s home screen to show whatever you need – updates on local weather, RSS feeds, news, personal and work e-mails, or messaging and calendar events.
“MOTOSURF A3100 was designed to be a true social smartphone – perfect for those who always want to be connected to every part of their lives whether it be personal or professional,” said Ankur Bhandari, General Manager, Malaysia. “Home screen personalization, 3G connectivity, and access to a whole host of applications get the info you want – fast, at your fingertips, and in a slick and sleek package!”

Whether toggling back and forth between documents while on the go, listening to mp3s, video conferencing on the run, updating your Facebook status or using aGPS to navigate from point A to B, MOTOSURF A3100 puts every aspect of your life, personal and professional, just a touch away.

Key Features:

Begs to be Touched: Navigate your content by simply touching or swiping your finger across the vibrant touch screen, or use the omni-directional trackball. Use the digital keypad to communicate quickly and easily with the embedded stylus.

Take Control: Take control of your mobile world – it’s easy with Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional for fast and familiar access to personal and corporate email, documents and PC-like browsing with Internet Explorer/Opera. Never miss a beat with advanced features such as video conferencing and aGPS for finding places on the go.

When You Need It All, Right Now: Everything on the MOTOSURF A3100 is faster with reliable 3G speed. Connecting with HSDPA, HSUPA and Wi-Fi makes data transfer fast and simple.

Get Personal: With the customizable icon-based home screen, obtain access to continuous “live” updates of RSS feeds, weather, email, news and calendar events, delivered right to your fingertips. Connect with friends and update your status with one-touch access to Facebook.

Brilliant and Beautiful: The vibrant, 2.8” full-touch display provides one-touch access to the people, information and conversations that matter most to you.

Multi-Media On-The-Go: Set your tempo to music with Windows Media Player enabling you to transfer music, videos and images from a PC with ease. Watch streaming video anytime, anywhere with YouTube.

In addition, Motorola Malaysia offers two extra applications namely SongID™and ShoZu™ to all MOTOSURF A3100 owners. These applications are uploaded on a 1GB MicroSD card so that it can be conveniently and quickly installed on the device.

SongID is a great feature that recognizes and displays tune information. Users only need to point the phone at the source of a nice tune and at the simple click of a button, the phone analyses and displays the song title, artist and even the album art.

ShoZu allows you to easily share the photos you’ve captured on your mobile phone with your chosen online networks. When you use ShoZu you can send photos and videos to over 50 websites including social networking sites, blogs, photo and news sites and you can send to email addresses.

Availability
MOTOSURF A3100 retails at MYR1, 999 and is available at all leading retail outlets. For more information and a full list of product specifications and features, please visit www.motorola.com/my