London, October 05, 2009 – Motorola DEXT™, the first Android™ powered device from Motorola and the first to feature the innovative MOTOBLUR™ 1 solution, will be on sale in the UK from this week.
Ranged exclusively on the Orange network in the UK, Motorola DEXT will be on sale in Orange retail outlets from October 7th and in Phones4U stores from October 8th.
For those eager to experience the DEXT before anyone else, it will be on sale from 3pm at the opening of the Orange Multimedia Store in Milton Keynes on October 6th – Orange’s first Multimedia Store in the UK.
Launched globally in September, Motorola DEXT with MOTOBLUR manages and integrates communications — from work e-mail to social messaging activity — all to your home screen. Updates to contacts, posts, messages, photos and more are streamed together and synced from sources including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, LastFM and Yahoo and work and personal e-mail.
MOTOBLUR automatically delivers these updates to the home screen in easy-to-view streams so there is no need to open and close different mobile applications to keep up with the latest content.
Orange is offering the DEXT free to customers who take out a £34.26 per month, 24 month contract. The package includes 900 any network call minutes, unlimited texts, Orange Maps as well as inclusive anytime internet browsing so users can make the most of their mobile experience.
For more information, visit Orange stores, www.orange.co.uk/shop or Phones4u stores, www.phones4u.co.uk
To experience DEXT with MOTOBLUR, please visit www.motorola.com/motoblur. For the latest product news and promotions, now you can also find us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
Motorola DEXT with MOTOBLUR
A QWERTY slider, Motorola DEXT is packed full of features including:
- Touch screen capabilities
- 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and connected to Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket or MySpace for easy uploading
- Video speed of 24 frames per second for easy capture & upload to share with friends, as well as playback capability for your favorite YouTube videos 2
- A full HTML browser, 3G speed and Wi-Fi
- A 3.5 mm headset jack for your own headphones and easily connect to your music, create your own playlist or discover new music by seeing what your friends are listening to on LastFM
- Packed with Google Mobile Services: Maps, Talk, Mail, Voice Search, Integrated GPS for turn by turn directions and a rich HMTL browser
- Access to thousands of apps through Android marketplace
- A removable 2GB Micro SD card
- Bluetooth capabilities3
- Supports up to 32GB MicroSD for all of your photos, music and more
About Orange
Orange is the key brand of the France Telecom Group, one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators. With 123 million customers, the Orange brand now covers Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the Group operates.
In the UK, Orange provides high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population. At the end of July 2009, Orange had almost 17 million customers in the UK – 15.9 million active mobile customers and close to one million fixed broadband customers.
At the end of 2008, France Telecom had consolidated sales of 53.5 billion euros (12.7 billion euros for the first quarter of 2009) and at 31st March 2009, the Group had a customer base of almost 184 million customers in 32 countries. These include 123 million mobile customers worldwide and 13 million broadband Internet (ADSL) customers in Europe. Orange is the number three mobile operator and the number one provider of broadband Internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.
Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited.
Media Contact Orange
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Julian Lambert
Orange
+44 7977255928
julian.a.lambert@orange-ftgroup.com