Strange as it is to believe, Motorola have developed a fixed carphone.  The M990 “Smart Rider”, spotted in an FCC approval document, is described as a “GSM high tier fixed mobile car phone” and is a quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset with integrated GPS and Bluetooth. 

 The FCC documentation describes it as “targeted to a broad band of markets looking for exclusivity like business men, limousines and private cars looking for stylish communication and navigation solution”, which seems a pretty unusual and old-fashioned brief.

I can’t bring myself to believe that this sort of product is what’s going to turn Motorola’s ailing fortunes around.  Please, Moto, more like the Z12 and less of this rubbish!

[via Unwired View]