"Ming" simply means bright in English. If you don't like that, it is also called the A1200.

I personally have one. When it came out it put US phones to shame with features 2 generations ahead of its time. 

Everyone that has seen this phone loves the design of it too. I like the fact that no one else has one. Like I want to be like everyone else with a carrier branded RAZR or Jesus phone.

Btw, the software it runs on is now on all new Moto phones.

The easy way to sell phones is to make them available. I want to buy a Motorola ZN5 here in the UK, and can I? No.

It's been out in the States and China for a while now, and it's quadband, so I really can't see why it isn't available here.

Personally I have no interest in 3G as yet, not because I don't want fast data (I do), but because the network operators seem to insist on charging like an enraged rhino for insignificantly small amounts of data.

Until the networks bring 3G costs into the realm of reality, I'll stick with WiFi. Which the ZN5 has.

Motorola UK, if you're reading this can you please hurry up and launch it!?!

"So far Motorola says it has already sold eight million handsets in the Ming range. Obviously it needs to do more work on its global branding. Who in the UK would want to buy a handset which is a Ming-er? "

-- Nobody, of course. Which is why the new Ming devices, like the earlier ones, are available almost exclusively in China/APAC markets.