Motorola is far from "dead"
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| gus3 Nov 19, 2009 8:54 PM EDT |
Their cell phone sales are strong enough to justify their continued existence. |
| Steven_Rosenber Nov 19, 2009 10:39 PM EDT |
I actually had a Motorola phone that wasn't %$@. Used it for years. Miss it now ... but I use an LG at this point. Price and features deemed it so. |
| hkwint Nov 20, 2009 8:28 AM EDT |
I actually had a Motorola phone that was %$@. Used it for a few months, don't miss it now. It looked very good, and was very thin; the thinnest phone around. IIRC it was an L6 (or L5), probably the predecessor of the Razrs. However, the OS 'hung' from time to time, and after it "dropped out of my pocket" (or hand?) once or twice it sometimes halted during a call. Very annoying. The buttons were rather sensitive, making it difficult to press only one of them at once. The photo's I made with it were also not very well, but hey, it was (late) 2006 and the phone was very thin. A friend of mine has the same phone, and she's also very dissatisfied with it. OTOH, I had a Siemens M50 which I dropped about 30 times before it finally broke, only ater three years! A friend of mine had a Nokia 36xx (or something alike) he always threw around in the garden against walls etc when he was drunk. just to show how strong it was, 20 sec in a bucket filled with water also was not a problem. and now I have a Sony Ericsson, because Siemens/Benq are gone sadly. The SE is also quite strong, dropped it a few times but no problem though. Also, the menu / interface of the Motorola was quite hard to use and not intinuitive at all. Other people could not use my phone back then, and I - even though I was young at that time - ahum (22) had a problem learning how to deal with it. Even when reading the manual. So no Motorola for me I guess. However, I suppose almost all brands of mobile phones are rather prone to breaking these days. My best friend always buys Samsungs, and they're alomst always out of order within 6-12 months. LG I heard the same stories about. Maybe I should be looking for an industrial phone after all? Anyway, if the Droid is as bad as the L6 I suppose even if Motorola isn't dead, it won't last long. |
| jdixon Nov 20, 2009 10:13 AM EDT |
> I suppose almost all brands of mobile phones are rather prone to breaking these days. I've had better luck with Nokia's than any other brand in that regard. They simply seem to be better made. YMMV. |
| caitlyn Nov 20, 2009 2:28 PM EDT |
I've had my Nokia for about two years now, which is a lifetime for a cellphone with all the new features appearing all the time. So far, so good. Another huge market for Motorola is radio: commercial, military, and other government. They are still considered tops in quality there. Dead? Not by a very long way. |
| softwarejanitor Nov 20, 2009 4:34 PM EDT |
The last Motorola phone I had was one of the old StarTac's which I got as a "freebie" with service from Verizon back in 2001. It lasted until 2008, including the original battery still holding a charge... Actually it still appears to be functional, albeit it hasn't had any service since I got a new (Nokia, another "freebie") last year. |
| moopst Nov 20, 2009 5:09 PM EDT |
I had a Razor for three years that held up well. It fell out of my shirt pocket at least ten times on some kind of hard surface. The camera was a joke but so are all cell phone cameras. Finally it started crapping out and rebooting one day when I was at a baseball game. I think it was the heat and maybe the battery was getting old. |
| phsolide Nov 20, 2009 5:09 PM EDT |
Motorola isn't dead, 'e's just pinin' for the fjords. Remarkable smartphone, id'nit, squire? Lovely plumage! |
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