The Motorola V6 Pebl is due for release in Q3 of 2005 just in time for the Christmas market and the feature list is just starting to seep out, it seems from 1st peeks seen at Cebit that moto have spent a bit more effort on the Pebl's shell than its innards. For a start the V6 Pebl is a tri band mobile with EDGE data support and both WAP 2.0 and GPRS, but its multimedia features are a bit lacking.

Multimedia features are the current battle ground for the mobile phone manufacturers, Sony Ericsson are pushing on 2 fronts with both mega pixel count in their inbuilt cameras and also in megabytes with their W800 walkman phone. Nokia have recently announced the N91 which features a 4gb hard drive, so its a little bemusing that this icon of style (the Pebl) has only 5mb or inbuilt memory and a VGA camera with 4 x digital zoom.

The V6 Pebl is about the size of a bar of soap and feels quite substantial despite its metallic slippery case, opening the baby moto phone is a bit of a treat, you just need to push the case inwards at the top corner and the flip case opens under its own steam. Not since the Nokia Matrix phone have we seen such a stylish opening move from a mobile and this one reveals the 176 x 220 pixel 9 line 262k colour screen and distinctly Razr like keypad.

The 49mm x 86.5mm x 20mm moto Pebl weighs 110 grams which means its well suited to its target market of young fashion conscious phone buyers. It has a couple of the other essentials in today's market namely Bluetooth hands free support and also MP3 ringtone capability, plus a whole host of moto software to allow you to use SMS / MMS and POP3 email.

The 720 mAh battery will provide around 150 hours standby time and 3 hrs talk time dependent on use, plus the Moto V6 Pebl has USB connectivity which Motorola may use for charging the phone as well as external PC connectivity.

Fashion phones come in for a lot of stick and this one will not be an exception but it does have room for 1000 contacts and Motorola seem to have made a device that can vibrate and ring at the same time, so perhaps we'll be able to give it a good write up when we get out hands on one for a full review.

Motorola say the V6 Pebl was inspired by rocks in a stream, its early days yet but the UK market will prove if the baby moto phone will sink or swim.

Published - 05/06/2005

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