Motorola's r765 and r765IS could crush your phone with their bare fists

by Chris Ziegler posted Apr 17th 2009 at 11:33PM

You may have been under some horribly misguided impression that your silly little i580 was "rugged." Well, we've got news for you, pretty boy -- Motorola has handsets that eat i580s for breakfast, and they're coming out this year. The r765 and r765IS are designed for use in some of the harshest working environments in the world, and odds are you'll never see one, much less own one -- in fact, they're targeted for private iDEN networks, not anything like Nextel -- but those who need it will probably appreciate the mil-spec compliance, the full watt of radio power (0.6 watts on the r765IS), and the latter model's intrinsic safety rating for use in explosive environments. Look for the r765 to launch this quarter, with the IS model following on a quarter later.

[Via MobileBurn]

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, iDEN

Tags: iden, moto, motorola, r765, r765is

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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bifbib @ Apr 18th 2009 7:37AM

comes with these accessory nutz: http://www.truck-nuts.com/balls.html

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Jeremiah @ Apr 18th 2009 7:41AM

i want one!!! i beat i could beat a man to death with it

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lejupp @ Apr 21st 2009 12:27PM

Communicaton and self defense in one handy(?) box. What could be better?

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Peter F @ Apr 21st 2009 4:39PM

I love my Moto, but this is once again another proprietary radio. I do public safety in Illinois. Our county operates on 800 Mhz trunked radios. Motorola's 800 Mhz radios will not interoperate. We used to have all Moto radios when we had vhf, but now we had to go elsewhere to prevent ourself from being trapped. This new private iden radio looks great, but upgrading and changing later will prove to be horribly expensive.