Early this week, British climber Rod Baber used Motorola's new MOTORIZR Z8 smartphone to set the record for the world's highest mobile phone call on Mount Everest. Actually, Baber made two calls, one to a specially setup voice mail account and the other to his family. He also sent a text message, thumbing, "One small text for man, one giant leap for mobilekind."
The calls and text message, made possible when China installed a mobile base station with a line of sight to the northern ridge, were performed at 29,035 feet (around 8,848 meters) in temperatures of -22 degrees Fahrenheit (-30 degrees Centigrade).
Not surprisingly, Motorola sponsored Baber's quest, which began on March 30th when he left Britain for the Himalayas. He started his final ascent to the top of Everest on May 15.
Motorola officially introduced the Z8, along with a new, slimmer RAZR2 phone and the ROKR Z6 (among other devices), at a launch event in New York City a week ago.
The Symbian-run, UIQ 3.1 interface smartphone sports a new 'kick-slider' design that curls the Z8 into a banana shape to conform to the shape of your face and reveal a numeric keypad when opened.
Additional features of the 15.3-milimeter thin Z8 include ultra high-speed (3.5G) 3.6Mbps HSDPA data networking; a microSD slot (for about to 4GB of extra storage, today's max for the format); 90MB of internal memory; a 2 megapixel camera with 8x zoom, lumi LED light, and a dedicated shutter button for one-click photo and video capture; Bluetooth with support for stereo wireless headsets; and a 2.2-inch QVGA pixel resolution screen that supports 16 million colors.
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