Motorola Krave
mobile phone
The Krave (model ZN4) is a 3G CDMA mobile phone produced by Motorola, introduced in October 2008 exclusively for Verizon Wireless. It runs the BREW application platform on the Synergy operating system.
Features
The Krave is a revolutionary flip phone in that it is a touch screen phone which can be accessed from the phone's transparent cover, although with less accuracy and sensitivity than with it open. The earpiece speaker and speakerphone microphone is mounted in the middle of the cover, with no apparent connection to the phone. The "wires" are actually a fine mesh which is laminated into the cover. This red-colored mesh can be easily seen only in sunshine or other very bright direct lighting. Because this piece covers part of the 240×400 color LCD screen, some options of the camera and media player are not available with the cover closed, and this portion of the screen is blank black at those times. When closed, it effectively has a qVGA resolution of 240×320.
The phone connects to 1xRTT voice and EV-DO data cellular networks. It also receives V Cast TV, Verizon's brand of mobile TV provided by MediaFLO. This is a pay TV service, and it cannot receive new free-to-air ATSC-M/H signals from local TV stations.
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