Although the target seems developing countries and prepaid markets, I hope (for myself) that it will be available here too.

Mobileburn.com was able to test drive the device, here the promising report:

While its spec sheet might not seem all that impressive, the F3 demands your attention when you have it in your hands. It is amazingly thin (9mm/.35"), solid, and beautiful. The monochromatic EPD (Electrophoretic) "Clear Vision" display is retro-cool looking in that 1980's LCD watch kinda way. In fact, when in use, it looks for all the world like an Etch-a-Sketch children's toy, thanks to its black digits and powdery gray background. The display is made up of two lines for text and numbers with icons filling the top and bottom areas. The same EPD technology appears to be used for the volume and battery level indicators that sit above the display and on either side of the big Motorola "M" emblem. EPD technology is often known by other names like "e-ink" and "e-paper", among others.
The very basic menu system, accessed with the up arrow button to the left of the d-pad, makes use of simple icons and voice prompts to denote what section the user is in and what they can do there. There is no icon grid main menu, no animations, nothing to confuse even your grandmother. In fact, the large, high-contrast display and simple user interface make this the perfect phone for the very young and the very old alike. The F3 might have been designed with users in places like New Delhi in mind, but I'm quite certain that it will find a following in many other places as well.
Motorola expects the MOTOFONE F3 to sell for well under US$50 without any carrier subsidies at all. That, along with its good looks and high usability, is likely to make the MOTOFONE F3 a very popular handset, in my opinion.

I have escaped last week from the record heat here in Europe into the Swiss mountains. Now some hot news also has shown up. The following is a selected list:

• The Skype founders are at it again as Business Week Online reports. This time TV peer-to-peer in a venture dubbed "Venice Project".
• In the US a wireless services auction is a place for showing off with downpayments (the money is given back if a bidder fails to get among the winners).
• Social networking site MySpace from the US and the South Korean market leader Cyworld will be competing head on with Cyworld entering the US and soon also the German market in a partnership with Deutsche Telecom. This will be interesting to follow and watch who can better adapt its site to foreign cultures. In the US I doubt they will have a chance against MySpace but in Europe and Asia it will be an entirely different game.
• GoogleTalk is catching up with e.g. Skype with features such as voicemail, file transfer, among others.
• VC firm Worldview Partners fails to raise a new fund. This is not news by itself since unsuccessful VC funds should have a hard time getting even more money. The news is that they talk about it now openly in blogs such as in SiliconBeat. Of course the VC firm's partners were not available for comments...
• Motorola announces a great new phone - MOTOFONE - that appears to be another winner and possibly then be able to step out of the shadow of Motorola's hugely successful RAZR phone series.