Motorola's fugly iDEN i465 passes through the FCC

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Motorola’s upcoming i465, its first full-QWERTY iDEN phone, is one of those “special” phones that manages to get uglier each and every time that we see it — even in sexed up press shots. But ugly or not, the FCC has given its blessings after the handset successfully satisfied all federal telecommunications requirements. For those interested and intrigued by this device, a user manual was included alongside quite a few photographs. Given that these are the first really detailed shots of the i465, we were quite shocked when we saw its battery cover which looks a bit too much like a piece of plastic that was poorly cut by a drunk person with a circular saw. In fairness however, the battery cover does look rather grip-tastic, something that the iDEN folk tend to like. The only other note — in an image below we can finally see the surface of the keypad buttons and it doesn’t look quite as horrible and pointy as it does from the front. Anyway, hit the jump for more shots (if you can stomach it).

[Via Phone Arena]

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34 Comments
  • itbeme

    I think this phone was marketed for boost mobile. There new 50.00 plan comes with free text so this phone will be nice. Looks like a rugged nextel phone to me. Hopefully its tough like most nextel phones. I just ordered this today from boost and was told they sold out the 1st day they started selling them so it sounds like there a hit with boost users.

  • acsam

    The phone does not look that ugly. i seen really really fat and really ugly phones. this one looks good to me. but again im not a big phone freak. im just glad Boost Mobile is getting a phone like this on their network

  • Michael

    honestly i dont know what the heck all of you people are talking about (the ones hating on this phone) Half of you havent even held the phone. Just be happy that they thought about the ones that like having a keyboard and brought this phone out, and the price is amazing!!!!

  • JENNY

    I ORDERED THIS FONE ON THE BOOST MOBILE WEBSITE AND I THINK ITS THE BEST PHONE BOOST EVER CAME OUT WITH AND I BEEN A BOOSTMOBILE CUSTOMER FOR ABOUT 7YRS I HAD EVERY PHONE THEY CAME OUT WITH BESIDES THE I9 $300.00 WTF NOT EVEN THE REAL BLACKBERRY OR IPHONE IS THAT MUCH THE I9 DOES NOT HAVE GOLD TO BE SOOO EXPENCIVE SOO I THINK THE I465 IS THE BEST

  • Domo

    I got my I465 on Friday I think this is the best phone boostmobile came out with too. 129.99 is a great price for this phone not like the i9 299.99 for a damn boostmobile I will never spend that much money on a boost mobile. It better be just like Iphone or touch phone but the i465 is cool phone it cute and little I think it cool for a girl it looks like a girly phone so don’t talk sh*t about the phone until you see and everything like that and I’m not talking about looking at in online.

  • quixote2ooo

    I have one of this and it works pretty good….except by the internet capabilities…other than that it is strong and easy to use and very handy….

  • mike

    well this phone work well , i did add some apps to it , like mimi opera browser, and some other stuff .
    it work good , goodbye verizon.

  • mike

    i got one of these on a thursday, it got ranover by a truck on monday,it still could ring and dile out but the screen was toast.so i bought another. its not a smart phone , but its a good phone (in a forest gump kinda way) but combined with my old IPAQ pda via bluetooth i get on the internet and do about any thing i want (allthough the iDEN network conjures up images of the bird useing a stone tablet and chizel ala flintstones cartoon.
    it runs oper 4.2 and LIP(life inpocket GPS nav++)
    like a champ (GPS reception is pretty slow to be honest, but it works)
    the nextel beep beep works pretty well. the camera is “ok” at best but ive seen worse
    the keyboard is small but after useing it its not too small and the ponty key lay out is a nice touch to allow better viewing of function keys and numbers
    i paid $99 for this phone twice and im happy with it.

  • Esau Pulido

    I am just about to up grade so I already read a couple of bad reviews,
    But the way I see it the Back Berry is over rated and I don’t care for those bad reviews I’m getting it any and that’s that!!!!!!!

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