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Word on the street (if you imagine the blogosphere to be a little like Sesame Street only with less back-stabbing) is that the phone in these photos is Motorola’s fabled SCPL, a candybar handset thinner than the RAZR2 and blessed with such fripperies as quad-band GSM, 16m colour 240 x 320 display and 2-megapixel camera.
That said, maybe it’s the angle or the scale of the phone, but it doesn’t look all that thin. Guesstimated specs for the SCPL predicted a wafer-thin 5mm depth, which this model doesn’t appear to achieve; still, there’s no confirmation as of yet that this is even the right model. All we know is that it’s running the JUIX OS, possibly has a memory card slot below the battery and has a micro-USB port.
Motorola SCPL revealed! [The Boy Genius Report]
No, I believe the phone pictured is a the Motorola Motofone. It was developed for third world nations (mostly India) and has not been released in the US. I think that it may represent the low-end of the SCPL line, but am not for sure. This one has extremely scant features (black and white screen, no camera, music player-like literally nothing) but is in-fact very thin and cheap (if released in the US would be less than 100 without carrier). I ordered one, but it didn’t work when I received it because of it not yet being available in the US and I had to send it back…
It does look quite a bit like the Motofone (http://www.slashgear.com/motorola-motofone-f3-is-cheap-and-cheerful-254065.php), but if you look at another photo from TBG’s gallery you can see that the screen is certainly high-res and colour: http://www.boygeniusreport.com.....icture_nav
I do hope that this isnt infact the SCPL that was supposed to put moto back on the map
I know that there is going to be a whole line of SCPL phones including the Motofone, so prehaps this is just one of the lower end ones?
I pray to god they make a new decent flip phone though.