I was looking at the comparison pictures posted on engadget.com and I must say that phone is too big IMO. I would have a hard time walking around with that in my pocket it seems. The phone looks like a remote for a tv. There comes a point when some thing is too big for a phone and this phone seems to be just that too big. Yea its thin on one side were the CDMA antenna is but the bump on the end where the camera is well not a great form factor. Stick a case on that thing and then tell me how thin it is and how great it would feel in your hand and in your pocket. I'm not impressed.
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Motorola RAZR is back
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Doubt it. The Moto build quality is unparalleled in the Android market. I have been so happy with my OG Droid (as have a significant number of others) who likely will want to stick with Moto
Why are you complaining? It's thinner then the iPhone. The iPhone4s is 9.3 mm thin. And the budge isn't a problem since it's not covering most of the back.
Although I have no interest in this with the Prime coming out at the same damn time, I've got to laugh my ass off at all the fanboys here who defended the lack of 4G on the 4S/5 (speculating) by complaining about thickness.
Here we have a phone with 4G LTE and is thinner than your precious iPhone.
Apple apparently got out engineered big time.. well done Moto.
Here we have a phone with 4G LTE and is thinner than your precious iPhone.
Apple apparently got out engineered big time.. well done Moto.
16gb ipod nano = $179. 16gb MotoACTV = $299. No thanks.
People will always go for the cheaper more effective device. If people want to compete with apple they need to make their devices of good quality and for a good price.
4G LTE is the real deal. I recently used a few of them and on average I was pulling speeds of 20mbps down and about 12 up. It is ludicrous speed. My iPhone on 3G gets about 600k down and 160k up. It is literally like having wifi following you around.
But about the RAZR, it needs to be a flip phone like the last one, otherwise it looks like all the other Androids out there.
But about the RAZR, it needs to be a flip phone like the last one, otherwise it looks like all the other Androids out there.
16gb ipod nano = $179. 16gb MotoACTV = $299. No thanks.
People don't always go for cheaper devices. If so, people wouldn't buy Macs.
This is DOA. Why would anyone buy this over the Nexus Galaxy Prime thingie
This.
Me too. There is no shame in admitting there will be several phones that will improve on the 4S hardware. You can put down that big screen all you want, but the older you get the more you will appreciate the greater screen real estate...
What these phones will lack is the entire combination of hardware, software, and services that make the 4S experience superior. Let's not confuse apples and oranges, shall we?
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And when it works, its great. When it doesn't, as 1 year of LTE usage showed me, its crap. Plus the fact I'd have to recharge my battery every 20 minutes...
Not really 20 minutes, but I couldn't go more than 8 hours on a single charge, and that was not enough for me to leave the house and come back from work.
Not with a locked bootloader. Sure Google can push out update after update, but with a locked bootloader you are at the mercy of VZW to send the update down the pipe.
I had the Droid X before unloading it for my 4S. The Dev team is pretty good at rooting (jailbreaking) the phones so you can get the updates shortly after Google releases them. The point of this is, to get constant updates you need the Nexus line. The Nexus line is completely unlocked (so far, we'll see how VZW handles the Nexus Prime) so even if VZW sits on the update, it will be posted online. Download it to your SD card and apply the update. No root (jailbreak) needed.
Android is severely fragmented and it needs to be addressed. The carriers are mostly to blame since they want everything locked down. It's BS that my Droid X got an official Gingerbread update before the Droid X2 that came out a year later. This update cycle combined with poor battery management is what brought me back to IOS.
Some posters here are too funny, they'll claim all these phones are too big BUT when apples next iPhone comes out (which you know is going to be a size increase) and has similar size specs to all these other phones on the market, they'll swear it's the perfect size...
Yep, anybody that disagree's with you is a "fanboy". Your the only one here that is allowed to have an opinion.
It must be embarassing to be a battery engineer these days. Of all the tech that goes into mobile devices, batteries are the limiting reagent.
