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By: Après le Z8, que nous prépare Motorola ? | NokiaPhones.fr

Après le Z8, que nous prépare Motorola ? | NokiaPhones.fr — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:00:05 +0000

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By: ofirdav

ofirdav — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:36:02 +0000

I don’t think Z8 is competition for S60, it’s not the same level. Moto Q is competition, but still Motorola have a lot of work to do until they give good solution for N95.

Z8 is a basic phone… nothing more…

By: El Mike’s Blog » Blog Archive » Will Zander’s Smoke and Mirrors Be Enough To Save His Job?

Wed, 16 May 2007 06:08:14 +0000

[...] Motorola continues to struggle as it hunts for a device to follow up the success of the RAZR. Last week, the company’s CEO, Ed Zander, intimated that big things were in store from the company, and would be announced at an event today — in particular, he talked up a movie-playing phone. So what’s the company announce today for its renewed attack on the mobile handset market? Four products it had already announced, and the next-generation RAZR, creatively titled the RAZR 2. The idea is that consumers will flock to the update and pay a premium price for it, but it’s hard to see people paying a high price for 2005’s fad. While Zander proudly talks up how the RAZR has sold almost 100 million units, he leaves out how many of those sales came only after deep price cuts. Featurewise, the device isn’t particularly exciting, and it’s hard to explain the reannouncements of the other four products. The company says it has more high-end, feature-rich devices in the pipeline, but they’re nowhere to be seen. It’s hard to see today’s event as much more than Zander trying some smoke and mirrors to polish the company’s image — and his own, which has taken a hit lately. But while he’s showing off new products that aren’t really new, Nokia’s taking market share from slow-moving Motorola. [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:14:03 +0000

Great competition for S60. UIQ historically had better apps developed. Heck, a profile manager for S60 3rd JUST NOW came out!!!

Perhaps this is moto trying to recoup their original investment in the Symbian consortium.

By: alfie

alfie — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:57:41 +0000

steve – competition for S60? WTF? No way man, the developer community is years old on S60, and no matter what M deliver with this it’s not going to turn developers onto it unless somehow all the operators pony up 400 eruo a handset and put all their marketing behind it for the next three years straight.

That said, be nice if M produced a handset wasn’t just the horrible horrible progeny of engineers who don’t give a toss about usability.

By: Klaus

Klaus — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:35:21 +0000

Ok, one shouldn’t write off Motorola – I must admit I’m quite impressed with the RAZR 2 they introduced today (2 QVGA screens, 500MHz ARM processor, thinner, HTML browser, HSDPA, …)

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:44:43 +0000

Great news – some real competition for S60 at last! Maybe Nokia will get round to upgrading the PDA suite, after five years. Who knows?

By: Klaus

Klaus — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:57:23 +0000

BTW: isn’t that interesting that the Motorola RAZR V3i is outselling its own successor the Motorola KRZR K1 even when the two phones priced at the same level.

poor Moto !

By: Klaus

Klaus — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:36:22 +0000

This platform will not save Motorola, they are at least 6 Months behind competition – and that means they cannot demand premium prices.

The RAZR V3 was such a great phone, unique design and great build quality. It was a big mistake not to keep the design and squeeze in a QVGA display and 3G functionality.