The Motorola Karma QA1, announced about a week ago, will be hitting the shelves today. The entry-level full QWERTY slider with easy access to Twitter, MySpace and Facebook via large icons on the homescreen, is aimed at teenagers and young adults. The 3.5×2.5-inch phone has a glass faceplate instead of plastic, giving it a solid feel but it still remains light at 5 ounces. The keyboard is large enough for comfortable thumb typing, with the phone's numeric keypad towards the left side. To complement its social networking friendly appeal, it also comes with A-GPS - probably to help locate buddies in the real world - apart from a whole range of multimedia features. The Karma will be available from AT&T for $80 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract.

Verizon Wireless has announced the Motorola A455 Rival handset designed for text and instant messaging lovers. It sports a sleek side-sliding backlit QWERTY keyboard with appropriate shortcuts for easy access to text message composition and email. There is also touchscreen dialing to save you from sliding out the keypad in case you only wish to place a phone call. Other features in the purple and silver body include a 2MP camera, EV-DO, VZ Navigator and microSD memory expansion of up to 8GB, all for $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year contract.

Live pictures of the Motorola Rival a445 have surfaced. The device was previously known as the Rush 2, and is defined for Verizon Wireless. The a455 has a colorful QWERTY sideways-sliding keyboard, along with EV-DO, GPS, Bluetooth and a 1.3 or 2-megapixel camera. These leaked pictures are blurry, as per custom.

iDEN phones always seem to have a design problem in the sense that there aren’t many pretty devices for iDEN networks. Fortunately, Motorola’s latest Clutch i465 iDEN device looks quite pleasing, not to mention that it is very durable. The device will be available on Boost Mobile before June, though there isn’t any official word on pricing just yet. Features of the Motorola Clutch i465 include:

• 1.79" TFT display with 64k colors and 128 x 160 pixels
• Bluetooth connectivity
• Threaded messaging, MMS, email
• VGA camera
• 20MB internal memory

It certainly seems like a long time since any sort of good news has come from Motorola, and it looks like we’re going to have to wait a while longer before we have any hope of hearing something happy from them. The company has just revealed that it missed its projected sales figure of $5.62 billion, posting $5.4 billion, $1.8 billion of which were in its handset division. Sales of cell phones were down 45%, and Motorola is looking at a $291 million loss ($0.13 per share), which certainly can’t be good news.

A picture of what is supposedly an upcoming Android-powered Motorola device has surfaced, and the smartphone that is pictured here will either be officially called, or bears the codename “Ironman”. We’re actually more inclined that think that it’s a codename, as it’s rather hard to imagine Motorola marketing an Ironman, but you never know, right? The device will supposedly be released by the end of Q3 and will sport features such as Wi-Fi, 3G, high-res camera etc. Definitely something to keep an eye out for, right?

An FCC filing has revealed some details on a Motorola A4500 world phone. The device will supposedly support CDMA for Verizon Wireless’ network, and also quad-band GSM for Vodafone customers. At a glance, the device looks very much like the Motorola Q9, but the device actually sports features like a 2-megapixel camera, EV-DO, stereo Bluetooth, Windows Mobile and a biometric fingerprint scanner at the back of the phone itself.

Did you ever stop to wonder which manufacturer would be the first to have an Android-powered device on Verizon Wireless? It might be a little surprising, but Motorola might just be the first, with its Android-powered Motorola Calgary phone. The device supposedly will sport a QWERTY keyboard and will have a focus on social networking. Motorola was rumored to be bringing its first Android-powered device to the market by the end of Q2 2009, but there isn’t any confirmation whether the Calgary will fall within that timescale.

Different people have different taste, that’s for sure, but it will certainly be interesting to see if anybody will actually think that the (unannounced) Motorola W7 is attractive. The device has just received China’s telecom certification, which is similar to getting the FCC’s approval. The device will reportedly sport a 2.2-inch QVGA display, secondary video camera for video calls, microSD card expansion, and FM radio and will support China’s 3G network. The device should be available in May 2009.

Have you ever heard of a Motorola V10 phone? Well, the device has just been announced by Motorola over in South Korea. This mid-range 2G clamshell does seem to bear a passing resemblance to Motorola’s RAZR V9, and seems to keep its square-ish and slim design. The Motorola V10 should be available for purchase in South Korea in a few weeks, though no pricing was mentioned at this time.

Fond of the weird design of Motorola’s Hint? Well, Cricket is now offering the device, which should be good news if you’re looking to pick up this device. Cricket is currently offering the phone $229.99 without a contract. In case you forgot, the device sports a 2-megapixel camera, EV-DO, and QWERTY slider keyboard.

Motorola certainly hasn’t been doing too well of late, but hardships or not, it looks like it’s still determined to make sure that its marketing department is up to scratch. The latest ad for its Motorola AURA sees David Beckham feature in a terminator-esque advertisement. Whatever the advert, would you be willing to pay $2,000 for a Motorola phone?