-all music phones equipted with Bluetooth OBEX, A2DP, and high speed data network capability.
- smaller, lightweight bluetooth headphones
- better buetooth headsets
- partnerships with car manufacturers so they make integrated hands free cellphone devices as good as Ford's SYNC (which actually works better than COMAND in my S550)
I don't believe Motorola has any of the problems you listed, it sounds more like "nice to have" items to me.
Motorola have touchscreen smart phones. If they don't market them in the U.S. or where you are, then that's a strategy problem. Not a technology problem.
A2DP is pretty standard on high end phones. I agree Motorola's low end phones were not equipped with A2DP, but that's a limitation of the bluetooth chipset they used and processing power of the baseband. All part of the "low" in low end.
Motorola does not make any of their bluetooth accessories. Moto headsets target a very specific group of buyers, those who what something fast and cheap and those who buy them with their new Moto cellphones but too lazy to research other brands.
Lithium Ion cells are the current choice for all handset makers, Motorola has not incentive to increase their cost to use a newer battery technology unless the benefits out-weight the costs. Newer technology is risky and not the answer now, better power management and lower voltage components will give immediate benefits.
In all, Motorola has just as good of a hardware set as any other brand. They use TI basebands, Broadcomm BT chipsets, cameras from Micron, same as everyone else. If ppl must compare Moto handsets with the iPhone, Moto high end phones have superior hardware feature sets. What it lacks is the gimmick multi-touch and the finely honed SOFTWARE that enables the superior feature set. The good thing is Motorola knows this.
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Flashpoint @ Nov 30th 2007 9:22AM
What Motorola needs to make it shine are:
-A touchscreen PDA.
-all music phones equipted with Bluetooth OBEX, A2DP, and high speed data network capability.
- smaller, lightweight bluetooth headphones
- better buetooth headsets
- partnerships with car manufacturers so they make integrated hands free cellphone devices as good as Ford's SYNC (which actually works better than COMAND in my S550)
- better battery technology.
holycow @ Nov 30th 2007 9:43AM
You mean MICROSOFT Sync dont you ?
bryan.chan @ Nov 30th 2007 11:13AM
I don't believe Motorola has any of the problems you listed, it sounds more like "nice to have" items to me.
Motorola have touchscreen smart phones. If they don't market them in the U.S. or where you are, then that's a strategy problem. Not a technology problem.
A2DP is pretty standard on high end phones. I agree Motorola's low end phones were not equipped with A2DP, but that's a limitation of the bluetooth chipset they used and processing power of the baseband. All part of the "low" in low end.
Motorola does not make any of their bluetooth accessories. Moto headsets target a very specific group of buyers, those who what something fast and cheap and those who buy them with their new Moto cellphones but too lazy to research other brands.
Lithium Ion cells are the current choice for all handset makers, Motorola has not incentive to increase their cost to use a newer battery technology unless the benefits out-weight the costs. Newer technology is risky and not the answer now, better power management and lower voltage components will give immediate benefits.
In all, Motorola has just as good of a hardware set as any other brand. They use TI basebands, Broadcomm BT chipsets, cameras from Micron, same as everyone else. If ppl must compare Moto handsets with the iPhone, Moto high end phones have superior hardware feature sets. What it lacks is the gimmick multi-touch and the finely honed SOFTWARE that enables the superior feature set. The good thing is Motorola knows this.