Motorola launches Motoluxe and DEFY Mini in Germany, UK

Motorola announced the availability of its latest Android smartphones for the German and UK markets. The company, which is soon to be acquired by Google, will be taking the Motoluxe to Germany and UK, and the DEFY Mini to Germany.

The Motorola Motoluxe will be hitting the UK in late February at a yet undisclosed price and Germany the following month for €279. Deutche Telecom (T-Mobile) will be one of the carriers offering the Motoluxe, but there's no saying what other stores and carriers will get it.

Motorola MOTOLUXE XT615

As for the rugged and compact Motorola DEFY Mini - it will be catching the plane to Germany in March. Pricing and carrier availability is yet to be announced, but we are hoping it will be able to offer the attractive bang for buck ratio of the original Defy.

Motorola DEFY MINI XT320

Motorola unveils Gleam+ - a clamshell featurephone

We were almost going to bet that clamshell featurephones are extinct in these parts of the world, but here comes Motorola announcing one. The company just unveiled the Gleam+ - a simple folding handset that should rely on an attractive price to lure in customers.

The Motorola Gleam+ comes with a 2.8" main LCD of WQVGA resolution (400 x 240 pixels) and an external display consisting of 144 LEDs. A modest 2 megapixel fixed focus camera should cater for your photography needs, while Bluetooth 2.1 and USB 2.0 are all the Gleam+ has to offer in terms of connectivity.

Motorola Gleam+

The internal memory on the Motorola Gleam+ is just 50MB, but you can expand that by up to 16GB, thanks to the built-in microSD card slot. And FM radio and a 3.5mm audio jack complete the (admittedly short) highlights list for this one.

The Motorola Gleam+ will cost €99 off contract, when it hits the shelves in March. The clamshell will be available in silver and winter white.