Motorola Leverages Ecosystem Strength to Create Ultimate Mobile Entertainment Experience for MOTO Z8

Solutions from Actimagine, CNN Mobile, DataViz, Podcast.com, ShoZu, weComm and Yahoo! help enable consumers to do more with their MOTO Z8 device

Basingstoke – 17 October 2007 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today recognizes its ecosystem allies for their contributions in enriching the MOTO Z8 product experience. A multimedia powerhouse, the MOTO™ Z8 features crystal clear video capture and playback at 30 frames per second. The device also offers generous external memory support for media storage – from the optional 4GB cards available on the market today up to 32GB when larger capacity cards become available. Motorola coupled its own innovative design and technological expertise with industry-leading applications and solutions from Actimagine, CNN Mobile, DataViz, Podcast.com, ShoZu, weComm and Yahoo! to create the MOTO Z8, which recently hit store shelves.

MOTO Z8 is the world’s first Kick Slider™ phone featuring a unique ergonomic ‘fit-to-face’ profile. The handset enables entertainment fans to access their mobile TV¹, video and music all on one device. Motorola’s ecosystem allies contributed to the development of many of the unique features of MOTO Z8, including:

• Actimagine – Actimagine develops and sells Mobiclip™, a patented software video codec which has been optimized for mobile platforms. Mobiclip offers DVD-like quality – 30fps full screen – for all kinds of video, both free and premium content, without compromising battery-life. Complementary to the MOTO Z8’s groundbreaking multimedia capabilities, Mobiclip delivers a unique and exciting mobile video experience, allowing customers to enjoy multimedia content with crystal clear video and high fidelity sound.

• CNN Mobile – CNN International allows users to stay informed while on the go with CNN Mobile, the international news leader’s mobile internet site. A pre-embedded URL in the MOTO Z8’s internet browser allows direct access to CNN’s ‘World News Now’, an hourly, two-minute video news summary, as well as the easy-to-navigate home page with links to Top Stories, World News, Business, Weather, Sport, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The site offers in excess of 120 stories per day with multiple images to support and enhance each story and users will be able to search an archive from the last 14 days, with access to over 2000 stories. In addition, CNN’s citizen journalism area, iReport, offers users the chance to interact by providing their stories, pictures and videos direct from their mobile device.¹

• DataViz – As an industry leader in developing Microsoft Office^® compatibility and productivity solutions, DataViz offers its award-winning Documents To Go^®® files. document viewer application for MOTO Z8. The Documents To Go viewer edition is specifically tailored for Motorola’s MOTO Z8 and enables users to open and view Microsoft Office Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint

• Podcast.com – Enables consumers to download their favorite audio and video podcasts direct from the Internet automatically to their handset or PC. Podcast.com is providing MOTO Z8 users a world of free content with the inclusion of the Podcast.com service.¹

• ShoZu – ShoZu provides mobile social media services that enable fast, easy exchange of multimedia content and web-based services on mobile phones. Optimized for MOTO Z8, ShoZu’s Share-It service provides users with an easy method to upload photos and video clips captured on their camera phones to a growing list of over two dozen blogs, social networking sites and news desks, as well any email address, with one or zero clicks. In addition, ShoZu offers MOTO Z8 users its ZuCast media delivery service, which offers automated, zero-click delivery of user-selected content such as video, audio, photos and music directly to the mobile phone.¹

• weComm – weComm develops the Sky Anytime on Mobile application for BSkyB. It has worked closely with Motorola to port the application to the MOTO Z8 for pre-installation. Sky Anytime on Mobile provides MOTO Z8 users with an interactive mobile TV application that extends Sky’s digital TV experience to the mobile platform. As well as offering access to an on-demand library of updating news, entertainment and sports, Sky’s ‘Anytime’ application also provides an access point to Sky’s range of mobile TV services.¹

• Yahoo! – Yahoo!™ Go 2.0 is a mobile application featuring an easy to navigate carousel of widgets that gives consumers access to a wide variety of Internet services – search, local, mail, photos, news, sports and weather services on their mobile phone and will come pre-loaded on MOTO Z8. By putting search, local information, interactive maps, photo-sharing and more all into a single mobile application within an intuitive interface, Yahoo! Go 2.0 gives users the power of the Web in their pocket. Key features include Yahoo! oneSearch™, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Mail, Flickr™, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Entertainment and Yahoo! Weather. For more information on Yahoo! Go 2.0, please visit www.mobile.yahoo.com.¹
  

“The involvement of these leading mobile application and solution providers illustrates the incredible ecosystem strength behind the development of Motorola products,” said Christy Wyatt, Vice President, Software Platforms & Ecosystem, Motorola.

“We’re thrilled to have had such an impressive line up of support behind our equally impressive new handset, the MOTO Z8. We believe MOTO Z8 is the ideal multimedia mobile phone, enabling consumers to listen to music, download video, create blogs and store memories on the go,” said Mike Hickey, Senior Vice President, Multimedia, Motorola.

Availability
MOTO Z8 is now available. For more information please visit: http://www.hellomoto.com/motoz8.

For specific regional availability and pricing, contact your local Motorola representative.