Comments on: Motorola Announces Atrix HD Developer Edition, Unlockable Bootloader is a Go

By: Tyler Cameron

Tyler Cameron — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:31:00 +0000

Why is there a carrier logo on it?

By: MrSix

MrSix — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:06:00 +0000

The startac was the first clamshell phone and was a success for it. The Razr was the genesis of our obsession with thinness, the stars aligned and they both blew up, didn’t really matter how many variations there weren’t(at the start in the case of the Razr). You might as well expect Ford to come out with a car mirroring the success of the Model T, it just aint gonna happen.

By: mbaldwin85

mbaldwin85 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:57:00 +0000

I personally think that releasing a “Developer Edition” is a cop out to just releasing phones that are already unlockable. Seriously now. In reality only a small percentage like to tinker and flash roms (it seems larger though) and whatnot but an even smaller percentage will actually pony up for one of these which in turn gives Devs little incentive to maintain a phone like this.
Then the networks and companies can say that developer editions don’t sell well and there isn’t a demand for unlockable bootloaders, when we all know there is. /rant

By: bitpimpin

bitpimpin — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:28:00 +0000

In all fairness Samsung really cleaned up their naming act with the S3 (which again I fell like from a marketing/brand recognition standpoint really helped this phone take off)… But yeah I definitely remember the mess that was the Galaxy S2… I mean Samsung Epic 4g Touch by Sprint? Seriously? wtf lol. My girlfriend had one of those, and when it broke I had to call geeksquad a million times because they could never get the overly complicated name of the phone right… They kept on sending me the parts for different phones cause they guy on the phone never had any idea what phone i was talking about lol

By: bitpimpin

bitpimpin — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:14:00 +0000

Speaking of.going back in time, anybody remember a little phone called the startac? And it’s grandchild the RAZR (the flip phone)? Motorola really had 2 great hits with both those phones (again, using the one phone one all networks model) I feel like it isseething very doable for the… They just haven’t really achieved that in the smart phone era

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:49:00 +0000

The Razr HD was the last phone that was in development when Google purchased Motorola. So from here on out Google’s new VP of Motorola will have oversight on the newer phones

By: MrSix

MrSix — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:39:00 +0000

they’d have to teach them how to vertically integrate, and then send them back in time to do so first, to even have the kind of global market penetration to make the advertising worth doing in the first place…

By: bitpimpin

bitpimpin — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:24:00 +0000

Exactly lol… Motorola could learn a thing or two about marketing from Samsung

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:08:00 +0000

All phones coming out are slight variations of other phones. They are just using names people know because people like to buy something they recognize. I’d bet that the future GS4 would sell less if it were called something else.

By: MrSix

MrSix — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:07:00 +0000

Yeah because if there’s one company has never put out lots of similar devices under different names, its Samsung…
And no that doesn’t make updates harder to get out, you’re about a year behind.

By: MrSix

MrSix — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:50:00 +0000

everyone knows what a Galaxy S3 is because Samsung advertises the living hell out of it…

By: bitpimpin

bitpimpin — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:36:00 +0000

It also is bad for brand strength and recognition… Practically everybody on practically every network in the world knows what the galaxy s3 is (if not they can at least say they’ve heard the name)… I can’t really say the same for the RAZR, the RAZR HD, the RAZR Maxx HD, the Atrix, atrix 2, Atrix HD, et al

By: spunker88

spunker88 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:16:00 +0000

Why is there a Droid Razr M and a Electrify M, and why is there a Droid Razr HD and an Atrix HD. This is why Motorola is losing to Samsung, quit putting out slight variations of the same phone. The 4 phones I listed above should only be 2 phones. It just makes updates harder to get out.

By: jaw_shoe_uh

jaw_shoe_uh — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:23:00 +0000

The power of the mighty dollar. If there is a demand for something, who’s going to give it away for free if they can make a profit off of it?

By: Butters619

Butters619 — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:53:00 +0000

They have to play by carrier rules, and Moto execs of the past (Jha, etc) were known for bending over backwards for carriers.