The Motorola U9… Barney wants his PEBLs

Motorola made official yesterday (for everyone outside of the Americas) the U9… essentially the sequel to the PEBL. It takes the RAZR2’s shiny and touchy factors and incorporates them into a slimmer PEBL-like form. The U9 features a 2 megapixel camera, a larger mirrored external display with touch controls, Bluetooth, and a more media-centered outlook with Windows Media Player 11 sync support. It’s a quadband GSM/EDGE device though, which is why I think it’s doomed to fail since it’s being released in areas already used to the speed of a 3G network.