February 24, 2008 – 3:09 pm | by Admin
Unveiled on CES last January and showcased on the recently concluded MWC 2008 is Motorola’s new low-end music phone — the Motorola W230. The phone is part of the W-series along with the W161 and the W181. The Motorola W230 is a phone which goes straight to the nitty-gritty. No frills, no added layers of useless fat.
In short, it only has basic features. A candybar, it has 1.6” 128 x 128 color screen, 9 hours of talk time, and the CrystalTalk audio technology. It also features support for Hinglish (Hindi + English), as well as seven different African languages. Its main attraction though, is the dedicated music key, which makes digital audio (iMelody, MIDI, MP3, AMR) and FM radio (with RDS) listening easier. The Motorola W230 comes with two color faceplates: manadarin-bordered dark titanium gray and lustrous silver-bordered licorice.
It’s now currently available in some countries for around US$50-75, depending upon the market. Yes, that’s 50 to 75 bucks. And that’s not the price after a mail-in rebate either. The phone costs just that, without plans of any sort whatsoever.
Update Aug 2009 :-
Connect Motorola W230 to PC for WindowsXP.
1. Make sure your cell phone is fully charged.
2. Before connecting W230 to PC install (Motorola 3.9.0 driver with motoconnect 32bit version) 32 bit version is for windows XP. This driver can be downloaded from (http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/nss/usb_drivers_pc_charging_drivers.asp)
3. After installing these drivers, download (PC charging driver 2 )from (http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/nss/usb_drivers_pc_charging_drivers.asp)
4. After downloading PC charging driver copy it to desktop.
5.Restart your computer.
6. format your memory card. not required but it is preffered.
7. Now unlock the keypad and connect the usb port to motorola W230, select “NO” at ” use your phone as a storage device ”
8. An icon will apear on pc screen. found new hardware now install pc charging software through it using the link below instruction (http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/nss/InstallationInstruction/wdriver.pdf)
9. after the pc charging driver installation. your usb is being used as a charging device.
10. now unplug the usb and reconnect it.
11. select yes for “mass storage”
12. after this step go to my computer and your phone will be displayed as a Removable Disk.
13. there would be three folders DRIVERS, pictures and Music.
14. copy and drag your mp3 files to music folder.
15. you can also make subfolders but only in music folder not in picture folder.
16. dont waste time in reading instructions go and start your installation process.
( Credit to our reader Pakistani Champion )
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