http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/ Engadget Comments for Live from Motorola's Mobile Experience event with Ed Zander http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/I don't think he realized how creative the Apple Team really is, everyone is
talking about the iPhone. One of the Most Exciting Product Launches of our Time!
Sorry Motorola, you had your Chance, R.I.P. Razr.....]]>May 15th 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
LOL, okay guy. ]]>May 15th 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/Talk to myself Alot! LOL........]]>May 15th 2007 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
yeah, because they have an iphone to test hahahaha]]>May 15th 2007 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
How the hell did they manage to test speeds over the iPhone :P]]>May 15th 2007 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
-- and, if you're in the US, and you're on HSDPA, you *are* using Cingular.

Not that I mind. I'm paying $30/mo. for unlimited data, at speeds better than I can get over DSL (granted, I live 12,000 feet from the CO, so my DSL is *really* slow).]]>May 15th 2007 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 16th 2007 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
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Also, whenever I say 'Moto LAZR' am I supposed to do the finger quote sign like Austin Powers?]]>May 15th 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/Motorola's products as well as the iPhone are weak-sauce in comparison to either the N80i or the all-in-one Nokia N95.
The only reason Apple's iPhone is going to do well in North America is because Nokia has all but abandoned that market. Two "flagship" stores does not make a dent, Nokia.
But I will give it up for Moto though...that damn RAZR is EVERYWHERE in Europe now.
Of course, once folks see what my N80i can do that their RAZR cannot, they tend to sniffle, shed a tear, and ask me how much it costs.]]>May 15th 2007 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/Touchscreen? Been done a hundred times before.
Size? It's bigger than most "thin" phones!
Only one button? Big whoop. Most people LIKE keypads.
Bigger screen? It's been done before.
Closed OS to third party devs? That's weaker than even the weakest Windows Mobile platform.
Non-replaceable battery? Let's hope it's not coming from the same source as Sony's batteries or from the same place they're getting their swollen Macbook batteries from.
4GB or 8GB of storage? Again, it's been done before by other companies, particularly Nokia as noted earlier.
Cell provider "exclusive", i.e. "lock-in"? You see that everyday across the planet.
A phone that just "works"? Ha! My N80i "jsut works" and so does every single cell phone I've ever bought.

Three key things the current iPhone does NOT have that it SHOULD have in order to even come close to "re-inventing" anything:

Built-in GPS and free maps and navigation (partner up with Google dammit!)
VoIP capability over built-in wi-fi (including a proper SIP stack in a wi-fi enabled phone is not rocket science!)
Proper 3G (UMTS/HSDPA...yeah, Apple? The 90s called and they want their EDGE/GPRS back.)

Now, for the record I own 2 iPods, a Macbook Pro, and a Mac Mini.

I hate the Mighty Mouse and prefer to use a Microsoft Notebook Optical Mouse 3000 for everything...go figure.
I also detest the AppleTV since a Mac Mini is much superior in capabilities.

So please, go ahead and enlighten us all as to how much the Apple iPhone is supposed to "re-invent" anything?
The iPhone as it stands now is pure crap when you add up all the costs ($600 + 2 year noose with AT&T).
Whatever happened to NOT drinking the kool-aid and looking at things from a proper cost-benefit analysis?

If Apple wants to impress me, then they should bring back the Newton, not some hack-job of a ]]>May 15th 2007 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 15th 2007 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/Please, a decent WinMo flip phone!]]>May 15th 2007 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
I don't know if Zander is the cause of Motorola's downfall, but the company is sure killing current investors. I can't see how all this mobile video stuff is gonna save Motorola if the interface is lousy and only people with a lot of money to throw away on expensive monthly broadcast video plans can use them. Zander's such a blowhard and probably uses a Blackberry when he's alone. He thinks every Motophone is so COOL. He must be the only one, considering the dropping stock price. Nokia and RIM are kicking Motorola's ass and this guy Zander is getting incentives and bonuses. Crap.]]>May 15th 2007 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
Still, an hour of talk time is pretty ridiculous. I wonder if my wife would be willing to move to Europe just so we can have decent phones? ;-)

I didn't realize the RAZR V3xx had HSDPA. Um...yeah, there it is. Cingular's overview page for it says "ultra-fast UMTS", so I skipped it.]]>May 16th 2007 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/You might like it, and my battery might just be screwed up somehow, but based on reports on places like cnet and pc magazine, my experience isn't that far off the mark.
I'd get an N95 if that sucker had HSDPA frequencies for the US market... as it is, I might cave and get a RAZR2 in July]]>May 16th 2007 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/
I suppose I can see the retail division targeting their phones to particular markets—no sense letting them gather dust in Ohio while they're out of stock in San Francisco—but the online and phone systems have no such excuse, since they serve the whole country.

I think I'm going to return my Sync (despite the $50 restocking fee); it's ludicrously limited. It won't play music in my Bluetooth headset (I suppose it'd work with a stereo version, but those are just too big); it won't even play MP3 ringtones in the headset. And its battery life isn't all that hot, either; I charged it Monday night, and this morning it ran out of charge before I even got to work. (Granted, I've been doing a lot of 3G use, but that's what I *got* it for.)]]>May 16th 2007 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 21st 2007 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 25th 2007 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/15/live-from-motorolas-mobile-experience-event-with-ed-zander/May 27th 2007 3:15PM