http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/ Engadget Comments for Motorola Capri, a.k.a. the RAZR slider, previewed http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/But I likr the blue color
Hope Verizon has it- when its out]]>Jun 22nd 2006 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/I have a SLVR and see absolutely no scratches on the screen. I'm more afraid of breaking the glass than scratching it.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/


THE ****ing 2GB MICROSD CARD IN THE PICS!!!!!!

WOOHOO!!!!

The phone looks nice. Sad to see the new UI won't be in this iteration. Guess that'll be in the rokr 2 :(

Looks nice. Can't wait to get my smudges on it :p]]>Jun 22nd 2006 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/

SCHWING!

(hopefully they don't put iTunes on it.)]]>Jun 22nd 2006 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
Just a thought, but Motorola should lay off on realeasing all these new technologies and work on the things that they've left people stranded with.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
Motorola came out with an update for the v710, it's called the v815. Brilliant huh? Why waste money fixing something when you can just make people buy the new replacement model (aka, the Steve Jobs IPOD business model)

To bad Verizon users will never see the new Motorola UI. By the time they release it 6 months after other providers get it, they'll have lobotomized the phone by forcing their own UI onto it.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
I know about the new v815, but its a shame that I bought my v710 2 weeks prior to the new release of that phone. I talked to verizon and they won't give me an update so I'm stuck with my current one.

This still doesn't explain why Motorola has not fixed the latency issues with the RAZRs, these phones just get more and more expensive you'd expect that the quality of these products would go up, not down.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
I think the latency issue with the RAZR had to do with the Verizon UI, not Motorola. I just got the new RAZR V3m model and there doesn't seem to be any issues, but only time will tell.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
I don't know if it is the fact that Verizon's user interface had something to do with it because one of my friends' is a Cingular RAZR, straight from the store. It could be that it was just a faulty phone.

My personal opinion is that Motorola really doesn't need to keep making phones if they keep on releasing, for lack of better words, crap. My opinion is formed on just the experiences that I've had with their phones and what I've seen with others phones, but it just may be because I have bad luck. XD]]>Jun 22nd 2006 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
The latest v710 software 8700_02.03.00R seems pretty stable.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
How come sliders are so much thicker than flip phones? You'd think that the top part (housing the screen) could be thinner than the top half of a flip phone, since you only have one screen on there, and no camera. And the bottom part is thicker too!

Case in point: Samsung's Ultra Edition 12.9 slider is almost twice as thick as their UE 6.9 candybar phone. Two complete phones are about the same size as their slim slider! Admittedly, they don't say it's the world's thinnest slider - only the world's thinnest with a 3 megapixel camera - but you get the point.

The Capri looks distinctly un-RAZRlike. But maybe that's just because of the close-up.]]>Jun 22nd 2006 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
I have an original 5GB Brick iPod - Apple has released firmware updates for it over the years to address any lingering issues. Each model subsequent to the original has added a very specific hardware based feature (non mechanical scroll wheel, then buttons, bigger hard drives, color screeens, video playback) I don't really see this as a valid comparison to Moto releasing a new phone instead of addressing serious flaws with the one that preceded it...]]>Jun 22nd 2006 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 22nd 2006 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jun 23rd 2006 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
Jobs said in an interview a few weeks ago that if you wanted to have the latest innovations, you needed to buy a new iPod every year. Thus was exposed the iPod business model -- fix the flaws in the old versions by releasing a new version. No one is saying that they won't put out software updates, then no one would even bother to buy the new stuff. It's the dead batteries that make us replace them so frequently. For your perusal:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/26/jobs-you-have-to-buy-a-new-ipod-at-least-once-a-year/

CJ]]>Jun 23rd 2006 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
http://www.motorola.com.cn/z1/]]>Jun 23rd 2006 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/
I had a Capri for a few days. The UI was still quite slow and all, but it was a prototype. That's to be expected.

Anyway, some nicer photos can be found here:

http://www.mobileburn.com/gallery.jsp?Id=2513
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http://img.engadget.com/common/images/3060000000053263.JPG?0.8835739543779841]]>Jun 23rd 2006 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/my v551's VGA camera makes print-quality pics on the highest setting at 1x zoom, so moto cameras aren't so bad. if you want a digital camera, get a digital camera. if you want a handy compromise, get a camera phone.]]>Jun 23rd 2006 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jul 4th 2006 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Jul 6th 2006 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/motorola-capri-a-k-a-the-razr-slider-previewed/Oct 17th 2006 8:05PM