Motorola's Krave ZN4 acquired, photographed

by Darren Murph, posted Oct 12th 2008 at 12:54PM

Here on the right coast of the US of A, it's not quite October 14th. That factoid aside, someone has still managed to acquire one of Motorola's peculiar (in a good way) Krave ZN4s from Verizon a few days in advance of its official release date. The touchscreen-heavy flip phone looks mighty impressive in the enviable photos waiting in the read link, and early impressions from the lucky owner assert that call quality is "very good," texting on it is a breeze and the touch response in general is quite satisfactory. For those of you passing this off as a gimmick before, see if you're still feeling the same way after having a look at the in the wild shots.

[Via phoneArena]

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: inthe wild, IntheWild, Krave, Krave ZN4, KraveZn4, Moto, Motorola, pics, pictures, ZN4

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ojas @ Oct 12th 2008 12:58PM

Do bad I have ATT....otherwise looking pretty slick!

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vaxick @ Oct 12th 2008 3:53PM

Just read the forums over there and see it has a glass screen apparently. Was not expecting that at all. I'd be all over it if it were not for the Storm coming next month.

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Steve @ Oct 12th 2008 7:35PM

This is nowhere close to the Storm...it's not even really anywhere in the league of the Voyager or Dare. It seems like it'll probably compete with the Glyde in the lower cost touchscreen segment, and give people another choice in a more familiar form factor.

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Ryan @ Oct 12th 2008 5:15PM

nope. played with one and its garbage. the touch isn't exactly inaccurate, but its very slow to respond. texting is awful because with the flip open there is no way to comfortaably hold the phone in landscape mode. that coupled with how slow it is makes texting painful.

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vaxick @ Oct 12th 2008 6:18PM

Your opinion is different from over at HowardForums where they are saying the screen feels more responsive than the Dares. Not that the Dare has a impressive touch screen to begin with as it's pretty sloppy.

The sideways typing is a bit strange though. I always assumed that flap would be able to move completely back to lay flat on the back of the phone when open. That's just strange if it can't do that since when sideways your hands naturally hold the sides of the phone when typing.

Ugh I wish the Storm came out this month instead of that. Need a new phone so baddly. I'm on a freaking Windows Mobile 2003 phone right now.

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Steve @ Oct 12th 2008 7:33PM

I agree with you 100%,..more or less took the words right out of my mouth. We played around with it at work for awhile and everyone thinks it's a neat idea but the execution is poor. As a righty it was unbearable to text with on QWERTY mode, and even the lefty had trouble finding a good position. The touch itself is responsive but the menus are extremely laggy and the phone itself is even slower than the Glyde.

Many of the positives on this phone are really just things that make you say "wow, cool" and have no real point at all. The fact that you can use the touch from the outside without flipping it open is kind of neat, but you really can't do anything on the shortened menu they give you...

Another gripe I had was that when you're holding the phone up to your ear, it's extremely long and just doesn't fit right compared to the usual thin and long flip style phones most people are used to (Razr, LG 8600/8700, etc.). Everyone that's seen it at our store thinks about the same thing...an unusal gimmick phone from a company that's drowning without a life preserver.

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elgee02 @ Oct 13th 2008 1:06PM

That's funny, I got 10 good minutes goofing off with this bad boy and came away quite impressed (mainly because when I first heard of it I didn't expect much). The touch screen is very responsive, NO lag at all (no clue where in the hell other people got that from), and my right handed self had no problems at all texting with it. I'd still take a Voyager over this but this seriously aint bad.

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Dilip @ Oct 12th 2008 6:06PM

There is an interesting talk called "Global Mobile" at Stanford Univ. on Oct 21st, where Device Anywhere, MoBlast and KPCB's Cyriac Roeding are on the panel. This may be a good venue for some of you to ask them questions about how to build and test applications on mobile platforms that can run anywhere in the world. Goto www.vlab.org for more details.

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