The MING features sleek curves and clean lines throughout its design. Apart from the transparent flip, the phone is encased entirely in a soft touch rubber compound. Frequent readers of the site will know how much we love this material on our phones, as it not only gives us good grip but makes our phones more scratch resistant as well. With chromed plastic linings on the hinge and sides, the MING looks all class and ready for business. The Motorola A1200 Ming is a Linux based. It’s look like a handheld computer that happens to have a phone. It’s Motorola’s customized Linux, and it has a touchscreen interface that changes depending on the application currently in use.
Feature Motorola A1200 Ming
Quad Band Cell
Mp3 Player, Video Player
GPRS Wireless Internet
Bluetooth
Personal Information Manager
Business Card Capture
2 Megapixel Still Camera and Video Recorder
FM Radio
Touchscreen Interface
Document Reader
Motorola A1200 Ming review by MobileBurn “Flipping open the MING, the QVGA screen takes up most of the front of the device. You will find the 5-way navigational joystick between the call and end keys below the screen. Motorola has attached the earpiece to the transparent cover, running two very thin wires up either side of the flip, making something very plain and boring into a design element. Unfortunately, the transparent cover is very easily scratched, and our review unit has already suffered from this. Users of the MING might want to invest in a good pouch to protect their phone.”
Motorola A1200 Ming review by theorist from WirelessAdvisor “The a1200 supports a pretty nifty display of 240 x 320 pixels. for many, it will be more than enough. i do wish there was a physical keypad but the onboard touchscreen keyboard does okay for what it’s worth. it’s just enough real estate for the somewhat adept to use their fingers to dial instead of using the stylus. of course, if you have paul bunyun worthy fingers, i would consider getting something else rather than the a1200. the display is bright and quite clear. the text is large though i turned it down to small in the settings because i like small things. i was impressed with the crispness of the icons and the text. the handwriting tool is pretty decent.”
Motorola A1200 Ming review by djlosch “The phone uses RealPlayer and supports most popular formats. My concern was MP3 support, and it does have it. The phone does apparently support forward lock DRM, but a little explanation is in order (as I hate DRM and would never support it). If I have a regular MP3 (downloaded from one of my DJ sites, or ripped myself), I can transfer the MP3 to and from the phone without any problem. The phone doesn’t have some translator that wrecks my non-DRM files. The DRM only applies if the file you’re importing to the phone has DRM. I don’t know all of the details on what commercially supports this, but I did gloss over the DRM section in the developer’s manual. DRM aside, the music portion of the media player easily supports AAC(+), MP3, RealAudio, MIDI, and WAV.”
