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The best thing Motorola could do is go fully Android. Discuss.

Started by Ewan · 8 months ago

I paid the 500 quid for the StarTac back in 1999. It was a brilliant, revolutionary handset. My favourite feature was the fact it carried a credit card sized sim card. Not that useful but I liked the concept. Of course the form factor was simply amazing.
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  • Ben Smith

    8 months ago

    "I was the coolest kid at University College London". Discuss.
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  • Ben Smith

    8 months ago

    Perhaps this is why Moto's stand at the Symbian Smartphone show was, well, kak. Dwarfed by Samsung's and only slightly less miserable that RIM's.
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  • Matt

    8 months ago

    Good thought. I proposed this as a way for Palm to recapture marketshare in the smartphone wars.

    Motorola definitely offers a better lineup of devices though, and would be more consumer-focused.

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  • Kip Hakes

    8 months ago

    I agree.. but there is always going to be a demand for the lowest common denominator phone. The RAZR-ites will live on for a very long time. We are mobile geeks, we like cool features that Android and Symbian give us. But, there is still a market who don't really give a rats arse so long as their handset 'makes calls and recieves/sends texts'. Some people recoil in horror when I tell them I use my phone for e-mails, the internet, GPS, photographs etc.. they just like a mobile to perform those two simple tasks. Why? Fuck knows!

    K
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  • SMSblack

    8 months ago

    The thing is for a great many normobs that is what is important - voice and text. Mobile email, IM, Facebook apps etc might be great for MIR readers, but my mum will never use Twitter. However she does send texts, as do millions of other people - http://smsisthenewblack.wordpress.com/2008/10/3...
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  • Ben Smith

    8 months ago

    I agree re: Twitter - it may not have the longevity to go truly mainstream but 5 years ago people said their mum wouldn't use SMS.... "typing words on a phone keyboard... it's too slow and fiddly".

    Mobile web and e-mail will trickle down. In some geographies you'd be hard pushed to argue it hasn't already...
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  • SMSblack

    8 months ago

    Ben, I agree that innovation needs to happen and that the new stuff will
    eventually trickle down (although not to my mum!). My point is that at the
    moment it seems as if operators are ignoring the opportunities they have
    with the mainstream. Instead of waiting for them to catch up with the new
    innovation they could introduce apps that bridge the gap - new stuff, using
    technologies that the mass market is already comfortable with ...

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  • Kip Hakes

    8 months ago

    We all saw the jumper on the log flume picture - I think Ewan should hastily retract that statement.
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  • gedcarroll

    8 months ago

    Motorola to be fair to them have done some decent things with Linux particularly the Ming handset for chinese users. Also the startac and ilk have had a fair bit of reliabilty problems with the flip hinge
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  • swissy

    8 months ago

    MOTO is too far behind! Their only chance is if they get some great designers and software gurus because their phones lack design. They should concentrate on the new open Symbian foundation Nokia is about to release. At least they will have a chance with a mature OS.
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