Press shots of the Motorola i465 leak out

By on Feb 27, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Rumor February 27, 2009

We’ve known what the upcoming Motorola i465 iDEN has looked like for at least a month but upon seeing this leaked press release photo, it looks Motorola has succeeded in doing something we think is has secretly been trying to do for years — create a full-QWERTY phone that is uglier than Jocelyn Wildenstein. Specific specs are sparse but we think we’re going to see a VGA camera, Bluetooth 2.0 and that crazy iDEN PTT that so many love. Of course we suppose those bad specs aren’t too big of a deal considering that the main selling point is iDEN connectivity with a QWERTY keypad thrown in for messaging fiends. We can definitely see the i465 being somewhat popular for Boost which still doesn’t have a QWERTY phone in its bag, so we hope Sprint goes that route as opposed to having it compete with the BlackBerry 8350i. Because honestly…

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  • Don Louie

    I wonder who will buy that?

  • HG

    Sold!

  • http://(null) melmac

    The keys look really angular. If nothing else, would be fun to play with and see how useable it is. I’m guessing BB’s don’t have angular keys for a reason though…

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Mendham United States

  • http://none sadavyk

    wow it’s looks like it’s made out of clay or candle wacks i wonder why don’t motorola just give up and stop making phone

  • BM

    It is an IDEN phone folks. Stop comparing these IDEN devices to GSM and CDMA devices.

  • http://www.bgr.com Michael Bettiol

    @BM

    8350i Curve is iDEN.

  • vandebe

    Looks like the keypad from the q9 camp. I like it. But alas, I’m not on an iden carrier

  • backbeat

    Geee, DonLouie … You ‘wonder’ quite alot. Anyone ever tell you that?

    It’s far too late for Nextel. It wouldn’t matter if Nextel was selling the cure for cancer, they’d still fuck it up.

  • JohnBo

    Ew, can the screen be any smaller? This isn’t the year 2000, any screen less than 2.5 inches is unacceptable!

  • epicphail

    it’s chirptastic

  • YoungC

    ” hey look at that baby, it looks just like a berry”

    “all my construction worker friends will love this”

    “they should make this a qchat”

    dumb idiot construction worker mike.

  • Don Louie

    Now that you brought up qchat, I’m looking for a smartphone (I know this isn’t one) w/ptt and just knew Moto would lead the way. The phone looks unique and all but want something more asthetically pleasing with all the Sprint functions accustomed to

  • Ric Kaysen

    Putting a RAZR size screen on a phone like that just doesn’t make any sense to me. If it was April 1st, I’d think it was a Photoshop joke. To whom is this ugly thing supposed to appeal?

  • VDubb

    @Ric

    This is going to appeal to people looking for a QWERTY device on the Boost $50 unlimited plan.

    - VDubb

  • BM

    @Michael Bettiol

    The 8350i Curve is NOT iDEN…. It is CDMA with Qchat.

  • BM

    ^^^^ or maybe not….

  • http://bgr tblack

    its ok ill get it just to get it 3g iden anybody

  • noone1

    Um…What is IDEN? Is it CDMA or GSM?

  • Miguel

    At the end of the Day…this is just a Qwerty device for people on Boost Mobile with the Unlimited plan.

    If you dont have Boost…Why are you worried.

    If people wanted a plan so they could have a more attractive Blackberry or Treo or W.E then they would.

    Im gonna get one…cuz i dont like Flip phones and the Candybar phones are too thin.

  • yay

    yay blackstone…used this thing….its ok,but a shitty first try for iden at a QWERTY…next one should be better if software is vastly improved ;)

  • http://www.yahoo.com Jiina=]]

    I think it looks good for a chirper.

    Im getting one.

    Especially with that plan.

    Its pretty bad-ass.

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