To meet the growing demand for mobile devices with industry-leading
enterprise features, Sprint (NYSE: S) and Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:
MMI) will launch two new smartphones with enhanced business-ready
capabilities, built on the Android™ platform. Motorola XPRT™ is the
first Android smartphone from Sprint to deliver enterprise-class
security, personal productivity enhancements and international roaming.
Motorola Titanium™ leverages Sprint’s industry-leading Push-to-Talk
capabilities as the first Nextel Direct Connect® smartphone
built on Android 2.1.
“We are pleased to extend our portfolio of products directed at
business-users with these two powerful and versatile Android devices,”
said Paget L. Alves, president – Sprint Business. “Motorola XPRT
delivers the security features enterprise customers demand without
scrimping on the latest in technology, while Motorola Titanium is a
rugged Android smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect’s sub-second
Push-to-Talk.”
Motorola XPRT will be available on Sunday, June 5, in Sprint Stores,
Business Sales, Web sales (www.sprint.com)
and Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1), for $129.99 with a new line or eligible
upgrade and two-year service agreement. Pricing and availability for
Motorola Titanium will be announced at a later date.
“Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium blend feature-packed consumer
experiences with an optimal set of productivity and security tools,”
said Jeff Miller, corporate vice president of sales, Motorola Mobility.
“We are pleased to partner with Sprint to deliver each of these unique
business-ready devices to their continuously growing enterprise customer
base.”
Packed with Productivity Tools
Designed for business users, Motorola XPRT offers a sleek, compact
design built on Android 2.2, Froyo. This full-feature world phone is
equipped with a pinch-to-zoom capable touchscreen, 3.1-inch HVGA
display, full QWERTY keyboard and 1GHz processor with Adobe Flash 10 web
browsing.
Enterprise managers and workforces across field service, field sales,
healthcare, retail, utilities, manufacturing and
transportation/distribution industries will benefit from its
feature-rich capabilities, enterprise-class security and data
encryption. Motorola XPRT delivers business-class security features with
256-bit AES data encryption and controls the IT department will
appreciate, including the ability to remotely handle functions like
enabling pin or password lock, password recovery and data wipe on both
the phone and SD card if lost or stolen.
Motorola XPRT comes loaded with MOTOBLUR™ offering personalized content,
including email and social media updates, delivered right to the user’s
home screen. It enables convenient viewing of news feeds, updates and
messages from social media sites from a single screen.
Additional key features of Motorola XPRT include:
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Android Market™ for access to more than 150,000 applications, widgets
and games available for download
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Google™ mobile services, such as Google Maps™ with Navigation, Google
Talk™, Gmail™ and YouTube™
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Corporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®) and
personal (POP & IMAP) email
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Worldmode – CDMA (EVDO Rev. A), GSM/UMTS (HSPA) – international
roaming service available in more than 200 countries
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3G Mobile Hotspot capability, supporting up to five Wi-Fi enabled
devices simultaneously
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5-megapixel camera with camcorder and dual LED flash for low-light
performance
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microSD slot, with a 2GB memory card included, supporting up to 32GB
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Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR
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Wi-Fi® b/g/n
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1860 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Motorola XPRT requires activation on one of Sprint’s Everything Data
plans, plus a required $10 Premium Data add-on charge for smartphones.
Sprint’s Everything Data plan with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM
includes unlimited web, texting and calling to and from any mobile in
America while on the Sprint Network, starting at just $69.99 per month
plus required $10 Premium Data add-on charge (pricing excludes
surcharges and taxes).
Sprint also offers great value with international service add-ons for
Motorola XPRT. For just $4.99 per month, the Sprint Worldwide Voice Add
on offers discounted rates while traveling in more than 100 countries.
For only $2.99 per month, you can make local calls in Canada, call back
to the United States and even receive calls in Canada for just $0.20 per
minute. That’s a savings of $0.39 per minute over standard roaming
charges. While roaming in Canada, Mexico, China, and other destinations
data rates start as low as $0.002 per KB (on CDMA networks).
To sign up to learn more about Motorola XPRT, please visit www.motorola.com/XPRT.
Leading in Push-to-Talk
As the successor to the popular Motorola i1 launched by Sprint last
year, Motorola Titanium is sleek and attractive, yet durable. It is the
first iDEN device to combine Sprint’s best-in-class Nextel Direct
Connect and Android 2.1, Éclair, for a feature rich business-class
experience. It features a full QWERTY keyboard and 3.1-inch touchscreen
display. Built military-grade tough, Motorola Titanium is certified to
Military Specification 810G for dust, shock, vibration, low pressure,
solar radiation, high temperature and low temperature.
With more than 17 years of expertise, Sprint is the industry leader in
Push-to-Talk, serving the world’s largest Push-to-Talk community with
millions of Nextel Direct Connect subscribers on the fastest national
Push-to-Talk network. Nextel Direct Connect has set the industry
standard for Push-to-Talk worldwide. More U.S. workers communicate in
less than a second with Nextel Direct Connect than with any other
Push-to-Talk service.
Additional key features of Motorola Titanium include:
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Support for Nextel Direct Connect Services, including Direct Connect,
Group Connect®, International Direct Connect®,
DirectSendSM, Group Messaging and NextMail®
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Android Market for access to more than 150,000 applications, widgets
and games available for download
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Google mobile services such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Talk,
Google Maps with Navigation, syncing with Google Calendar™ and YouTube
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Corporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync) and personal (POP3 &
IMAP) email
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5-megapixel camera with camcorder, 4x zoom and flash
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Wi-Fi b/g
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Stereo Bluetooth
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GPS navigation
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microSD slot, with a 2GB memory card included, supporting up to 32GB
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1820 mAh Lithium-ion battery
To learn more about Motorola Titanium, please visit www.motorola.com/titanium.
Sprint has earned top honors in the competitive business marketplace –
winning the #1 ranking for overall satisfaction for wireless voice
service providers and a matching #1 ranking in overall satisfaction for
wireless data service providers in a survey of large business decision
makers, according to a comprehensive study by Yankee Group and Mobile
Enterprise Magazine (www.mobileenterprisemag.com).1
The study indicated that Sprint ranked first in overall satisfaction in
wireless voice and data, and in voice services, ranked first or second
in nine of the 10 categories among large business customers.
About Sprint Nextel
Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline
communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers,
businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel served more than 51
million customers at the end of 1Q 2011 and is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including
the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United
States; offering industry-leading mobile data services, leading prepaid
brands including Virgin Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance
Wireless; instant national and international push-to-talk capabilities;
and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone. Newsweek ranked Sprint No.
6 in its 2010 Green Rankings, listing it as one of the nation’s greenest
companies, the highest of any telecommunications company. You can learn
more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com
or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.
About Motorola Mobility
Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with
human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich
people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as
smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data
delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access
devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility.
1 Polling occurred in November 2009 among "respondents from
both Yankee Group's Anywhere Enterprise panel of business
decision-makers and Mobile Enterprise Magazine's readership, and
totaled 274 large-business respondents (in companies with more than 500
employees), and 292 small- and medium-business respondents (in companies
with 500 employees or fewer).
MOTOROLA and the stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent &
Trademark Office. Android, Android Market Google, Google Maps, Google
Talk, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Calendar are trademarks of Google, Inc.
Microsoft,
Windows and Windows Mobile are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and other countries. The Bluetooth
trademarks are owned by their proprietor and used by Motorola, Inc.
under license. All other product or service names are the property of
their respective owners. © Motorola, Inc. 2011
