Motorola W385
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Plans

It is currently offered by Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless
Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, is one of the largest mobile network operators in the United States. The network has 107.7 million subscribers as of 2011, making it the largest wireless service provider in America....

, U.S. Cellular
U.S. Cellular
United States Cellular Corporation, d.b.a. U.S. Cellular , owns and operates the sixth largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, behind Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Metro PCS. , they serve about 6.1 million customers in 126 markets in...

, Boost Mobile
Boost Mobile
Boost Mobile is a brand of wireless prepay service run by Sprint Nextel, operating within the Sprint Prepaid Group along with Virgin Mobile USA, Assurance Wireless, and payLo by Virgin Mobile. Boost Mobile uses GSMand iDEN networks...

, Qwest Wireless
Qwest Wireless
Owned by Qwest Communications, Qwest Wireless LLC is a cellular phone service offered in the United States. Qwest Wireless is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator that currently operates on Verizon Wireless' CDMA network. While Qwest originally owned its own wireless network, it discontinued that...

 and Metro PCS in the United States
United States
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, and is also offered in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 through Telus Mobility
Telus Mobility
Telus Mobility is a division of Telus Communications which sells wireless services in Canada on its numerous networks. They currently have three different networks based on three different technologies: CDMA and HSPA+ on its mainstream networks, plus iDEN via its Mike division...

 and Koodo Mobile
Koodo Mobile
Koodo Mobile is a mobile brand in Canada started by Telus in 2008. Koodo differs from its parent Telus by not requiring a fixed term contract. Koodo offers all its services on a month by month basis. Koodo uses the concept of a Tab which allows customers to build credit towards new phones...

.

Specifications

  • Specs Source: Motorola
    Motorola
    Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

  • Modes: CDMA 1x 800/1900
  • Weight: 110 g
  • Dimensions: 99 × 44 × 18.1 mm
  • Form Factor: Clamshell
  • Antenna: Internal
  • Battery Life: Talk: 240 minutes, Standby: 440 hours
  • Battery Type: Lithium-ion
  • Internal Display: LCD (Color TFT), 65,536 colors (16-bit), 128 × 160 pixels
  • External Display: CLI
    CLI
    -Computing:* Command-line interface, sending commands to a computer by text typed into a command-line interpreter .* Call Level Interface, an SQL database management API...

    , 96 × 32 pixels
  • Memory: 37 MB (built-in, flash shared memory)
  • Phone Book Capacity: 100 (on Verizon), 1000 (all others)
  • Operating System: BREW
    Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless
    Brew is an application development platform created by Qualcomm, originally for CDMA mobile phones, featuring third party applications such as mobile games. It is offered in some feature phones but not in smart phones...

  • Internet Browser: WAP
    Wireless Application Protocol
    Wireless Application Protocol is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.Before the introduction of WAP, mobile service providers had limited opportunities to offer...

     2.0 Dual Stack with Openwave 6.2.3
  • Connectivity: CE bus (mini USB), Bluetooth
    Bluetooth
    Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

     Class 2
  • Camera: VGA (0.3 megapixels)

Summary of key features

  • Slim clamshell form factor 45 × 99 × 18.2 millimeters
  • Messaging via EMS
    Enhanced Messaging Service
    Enhanced Messaging Service , is a cross-industry collaboration between Samsung, Ericsson, Motorola, Siemens and Alcatel, among others. It is an application-level extension to Short Message Service for cellular phones available on GSM, TDMA and CDMA networks.EMS is an intermediate technology,...

    , MMS
    Multimedia Messaging Service
    Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length.The most popular use is to send photographs from...

    , SMS
    SMS
    SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...

  • Integrated VGA Camera
  • Class 2 Bluetooth
    Bluetooth
    Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

     wireless technology, USB 1.1,
  • aGPS
    AGPS
    AGPS can refer to:* Assisted GPS* Alkylglycerone phosphate synthase...

     location services
  • 1.8” 128 × 160k TFT
    TFT LCD
    Thin film transistor liquid crystal display is a variant of liquid crystal display which uses thin-film transistor technology to improve image quality . TFT LCD is one type of Active matrix LCD, though all LCD-screens are based on TFT active matrix addressing...

     display
  • Internal antenna
  • 950 mAh battery

Design

The W385 is similar in design to the Motorola KRZR. Its dimensions are 3.9-inches tall by 1.8-inches wide by 0.71-inch thick and it weighs 3.8 ounces. It's covered on its front and rear face with a black, rubber material. It also comes in pink without the rubber.
The W385's vertical display is set in a mirrored frame just below the camera lens. The rectangular display is 96x32 pixels. The display shows the time, battery life, signal strength, and caller ID
Caller ID
Caller ID , also called calling line identification or calling number identification or Calling Line Identification Presentation , is a telephone service, available in analog and digital phone systems and most Voice over Internet Protocol applications, that transmits a caller's number to...

. Also on the exterior of the W385 are a volume rocker, a speakerphone shortcut, and a mini USB port on the left spine, while the voice dialing button sits on the right spine.

The 65,000-color internal display on the W385 is 1.8 inches and it offers a resolution of 160x128 pixels. On the new version from Qwest Wireless
Qwest Wireless
Owned by Qwest Communications, Qwest Wireless LLC is a cellular phone service offered in the United States. Qwest Wireless is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator that currently operates on Verizon Wireless' CDMA network. While Qwest originally owned its own wireless network, it discontinued that...

 it has been upgraded to a newer version of the Moto software with JVM 2.0.

The W385's navigation array and keypad buttons take cues from the Motorola KRZR, but instead of metal, the controls are covered in a soft-touch material similar to the phone's exterior covering. There's a four-way toggle with a central OK button, two soft keys, a clear button, and the Talk and End/Power controls. There's also a camera shortcut, and the toggle can be programmed to give one-touch access to four user-defined functions. Both the navigation array and the keypad buttons are backlit.

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