Comments on: Motorola Plans to Release Fewer Phones This Year, the World Says “Thank You”

By: GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™

GRAND MASTER SEN$Ei {{-_-}}™ — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:53:00 +0000

Just make the Droid 5 a Nexus phone. And NO PENTILE. {{-_-}}

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:32:00 +0000

Motorola had to release more phones than normal in 2011 to fix the problems that they released mid year. Droid X2, Bionic, Droid 3 were terrible. Their feature sets were wrong, their screens were terrible, they had to be replaced.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Motorola should have skipped the MAXX and brought the XT917 or XT928 over instead. Would have been a lot better seller. I’m still holding out for the D4, especially since they confirmed global capabilities.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:58:00 +0000

Im the counter to that. All my friends ask ME when they go out what phone to get and I always tell them Motorola. The only people I know that even know what a bootloader is…..are the ones *I* had to explain it to. Even after the fact they still dont care.

One of my coworkers needed a new phone after breaking his i*hone 4, now has a fully unlocked Atrix 1 thanks to me. His Apple buddies screamed bloody murder and tried to fill his head with nonsense. The first question he asked me the day after I suggested the Atrix was “whats this motoblur, I heard its not good”. After 2 hours of breaking it down barney style explaining Android, skins, bootloaders and rooting he agreed to get the Atrix. He’s happy with his bootloader unlocked, rooted stock ROM Atrix running GO Launcher(my suggestion).

Another coworker is about to throw his Epic “4G” out the window. Mainly because of its worse than Thunderbolt class battery life and never getting more than 2 bars of horribly slow 3G(0.49Mbps average) service. I pointed him to the D4 and unlocked his bootloader and ROM’d it as a stop gap measure until the D4 comes out. How much does he hate his Samsung? Enough to cancel his contract with Sprint and sign with Big Red to get a LTE slider that can last longer than 4 hours on a full charge. Like $350 ETF+$299 new 2 year contract is perfectly cool type hate.

For the vast majority out there, Motorola makes a phone for their needs.

Want dual core with LTE and good battery life(extended battery)? Bionic.
Want stupid thin? RAZR.
Want stupid thin with stupid amounts of battery life? RAZR MAXX.
Want the RAZR with a keyboard? DROID 4.
Want dual core, HSPA+ and unlockable bootloader and i*hone 4 quality camera? Atrix. Want that on Sprint? Photon.

Want a dual core, 4.5″ 720p HD screen, LTE, “what good is zero lag shutter when all the pictures suck?” 13mp camera beast of a phone? See you in April DROID X3.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:54:00 +0000

the xoom should’ve been priced originally at $299 or $399. i’m glad the kindle fire is driving prices down.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:54:00 +0000

the xoom should’ve been priced originally at $299 or $399. i’m glad the kindle fire is driving prices down.

By: Kat Selezneva

Kat Selezneva — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:01:00 +0000

2011 results for the mobile development world http://k-selezneva.blogspot.com/2012/01/2011-results-for-mobile-development.html

By: TC Infantino

TC Infantino — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:32:00 +0000

Yep, that is basically what I said in my email to Matt at Motorola. They promised us unlocked bootloaders and have not come through. I mentioned to him that Moto is alienating their Tech Geek fanbase (of which I am one), and that even though we represent only a small percentage of the consumer base, we are the ones that alot of people come to when looking for information about tech, like smartphones. If Moto won’t unlock their phones then alot of us will probably steer our friends to other manufacturers phones when they seek our advise.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:49:00 +0000

I don’t know about everyone else but all of my friends ask ME when they go out to get a new phone and you can bet what they hear from me is don’t go with Motorola. Then they spread it to their friends. Techies are important when it comes to advertising. Why do you think the OG Droid was so popular?

By: Dustin Casper

Dustin Casper — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Good, that means less MotoBlur will be out there making people puke.

By: burpootus

burpootus — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:42:00 +0000

Just say no to locked bootloaders on Android devices.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:16:00 +0000

yep

By: quiklives

quiklives — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:14:00 +0000

I agree, but I also think that at some point, the increase in specs is bound to plateau, at least for a while…and I think that’s what we’ve seen happen. There are better specs dribbling out now, and they will continue to get better, but there isn’t necessarily going to be the technology to make a big jump like that with every Nexus.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:02:00 +0000

I call bull s•it. I’ve already heard of at least 3 new moto phones and January isn’t even over.

By: Sk102704

Sk102704 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:57:00 +0000

Not right away but it will happen. The #1 most profitable company in the US is Apple which is able to make such high profits because they control the software and the hardware of their devices.