Yesterday saw Motorola take the wraps off of two new handsets - the first being the eco-friendly W233 Renew, which features and exterior shell entirely made from recycled plastic bottles, and the second being the Motosurf A3100, which previously went under the better known working title of Attila.

Named after the infamous Hun from medieval history, the so-called 'Scourge of God', the Attila represents Motorola's ambition to reconquer the mobile market atop which it once sat pretty, before the days when a certain touchscreen-based handset blindsided everybody and seriously shook things up.

Yes, the A3100 is a touchscreen-based beast, or 'touch tablet' as Moto would have you say, and looks set to do quite well in 2009. Specs include the following:

  • 2.8" TFT touchscreen display
  • HSDPA connectivity
  • Omni-directional trackball
  • Assisted GPS
  • Wi-Fi
  • Integrated support for Facebook
  • A 3 MP camera with autofocus
  • Video call camera
  • Micro SDHC card support, up to 32GB

Mixing business and pleasure, the A3100 comes with a host of handy features for the about-town business client including A-GPS, support for video calls, and HSDPA allowing for fast access to emails, and comes with a whopping memory ceiling limit of 32GB. I don't really know what else that could be used for other than storing audio and video files, or other suitably fun apps.

Motorola are also promising a large degree of customisation, allowing users to drag and drop shortcuts and a bunch of other cool stuff onto the home screen.

"We developed the Motosurf A3100 as a true social smartphone," says John Cipolla, senior vice president of Product Development for Motorola's mobile wing. "Home screen personalization and access to a whole host of applications gets the info you want - fast, and at your fingertips."

Whilst there are no details on price or network availability, um, available just yet, we can tell you that the A3100 will be available by the end of this quarter at the very least.

Whether the A3100 will in time prove to become the 'Scourge of Jobs' remains to be seen...