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Motorola ROKR ZN50. Your gran

Imagine, if you will, what your reaction might be if your gran came round on a Sunday afternoon for some tea and a natter, and she turned up in a convertible BMW wearing what, after you’d checked, turned out to be a trendy Diesel Jacket, some Adidas trainers and, triple-checking here, an asymmetrical fringe of the type made popular in Hoxton not too long ago.

You’d be a little shocked, right? Because, after all these years, you expect certain things. Normally not very impressive things, to be fair, even though it’s hardly her fault. And this is just the case with poor little Motorola, as while they’re still releasing some decent phones (as this Motorola phones list shows), they’ve pretty much struggled to produce anything even vaguely interesting / impressive since it’s been revealed that their finances are about as stable as Woolworths were a few months back. So when details of the Motorola ROKR ZN50 turned up, we were, well, pretty shocked. Because while it might not be a world beater, this is a pretty decent phone by way of specs, and a more than decent phone in the looks department.

With a TFT resistive touchscreen, TV tuner, great music player and an interesting looking user interface (very much in the mode of Google’s Android), we think the Motorola ZN50 might prove to be a hit when it’s released in Korea in the near future. Whether that proves to be a big enough hit for it to make the transition over to these shores is still to be proven, but needless to say we’ll be letting you know as soon as we hear anything. That’s if we can get our gran to shut up about the Vice Magazine shoot she was on last week. Check out a full Motorola ZN50 review here, or have a little look at the amusingly poor video below.