That
alleged leak of Moto's 2008 lineup last year in Amsterdam is looking more and more legit pretty much by the minute. First, we
got a glimpse of what appears to be the Skarven -- a phone that'll probably become the Z12 kick slider at retail -- a few days ago, and now an alleged shot of the TEXEL candybar has turned up. As much flak as Motorola has taken recently for yawnfest industrial design, we've gotta say that we're sort of digging what they've thrown together with the TEXEL here (assuming it's real, of course). The striped keypad is vaguely attractive, the display looks plenty big, and we'll always take a few touch sensitive controls to turn up the sexy factor a notch or three. If the originally leaked specs on this one turn out to be accurate, it'll be a ROKR-branded piece with a morphing keypad in the same vein as the
E8 and should break cover in the first few months of the year. We're going to cautiously -- nay,
very cautiously say that you're headed in the right direction here, Moto.
[Thanks, deuxani]
posted Feb 9th 2008 9:03AM
I want the one on the left...in my pants.
Looks like Sony's Clié TH-55.
zOMG
I understood where the name Pebl came from, but this thing looks nothing like the Dutch island of Texel...
Shouldn't it have been called the TEXL.
Anyway, hasn't the Motorola handset division gone out of business yet? They should just pack up this stuff and sell it to somebody who knows how to put together a decent OS. Man, these Moto guys piss me off. They picked the worst time in years to make a comeback. They'll never make it back from this recession.
the two phones in the picture dont look the same
o rly?
Nothing gets past you, eh?
Is this the VGA-touchscreen device that BGR said was in the pipeline?
It's because the phone on the left is Skarven (5MP, 2.8" HVGA Touchscreen, GPS, WIFI), while the phone on the right is TEXEL (3MP, 2.8" HVGA Touchscreen, WIFI).
Where do you get the specs on these from?
All my Google searches turn up is this and other "in the wild" posts. :-/
I heard a rumor Moto might be backing outta the cell biz... hmmm
It'd be nice if the build quality is better than the last moto POS I owned.
Are you sure you owned one? Because the only people that say they broke easily were ones that didn't have one (RAZR SLVR whatever). I threw mine at a brick wall it still worked fine nothing broke several people I knew tried to break theres too. I split mine in two and it still called people? The just didn't break.
Talk about what you know...
Listen, dummy. I owned a Razr -- make that two Razrs. Very poor build quality compared to my earlier Nokia. Battery cover never fit right, the thing would squeak, and ridiculously susceptible to just a hint of dampness in the air. I loved everything about the phone otherwise (except maybe its battery life), but I don't trust moto's quality control. I almost went for the Moto Q, but I read about a lot of build quality issues there, too.
Talk about what you know . . . because I doubt you were stupid enough to throw your phone against a wall to prove a point. Or were you that stupid?
Really? In my experience Nokia build quality is rubbish compared to Motorola. I've had 3 Moto's and 2 Nokias. The Nokia's (one of which was put together in Finland) squeaked all over the place. Battery covers, opening mechanisms, everything...the Moto's were rock solid.
I live in Houston one of the most humid places in American the humidity level in the air is always above 50% is not 70 and I never had problems with the phone. I was sick of the phone and was seeing how durable it was before I got a new one.
A friend of mine dropped his RAZR off my balcony and it still worked fine after being dropped 10 stories to the concrete below, although it was pretty scuffed up.
i was riding my bike down the street at a pretty fast rate...my SLVr popped out of my pocket slammed into the ground battery cover and battery flew out. I put it back togther and it works fine...build quality didn't see that bad to me. then again SLVR is a little different than the Razr.
Ok the RAZR had EXCELLENT build quality, but you can NOT say Nokia has bad quality phones. They make the worlds most reliable phones Ever.
i had a motorola v360 (not a razr, nothing special) and it was a tank. i would text every night in the shower with it. and yea no one needs to tell me that thats awkward. it was amazing until i dunked it in the pool. thats when it died.
moto makes good quality phones, they just need some work catching the likes of RIM and Apple
I have a v360 too. It's been really abused hard for over 2 years ... still ticking!
OMG!
Oh
please don't make china and japan company's big and bigger...
its shame i am from Iran And i want save American company's but USA people don't know about that .
Motorola same as Cadillacs..........
My moto RIZR is hands down the best phone i've ever owned, and those of you who say the OS isnt any good are most likely comparing apples to oranges. A "normal" phone isnt going to have a smartphone OS... it doesnt need one. As a t-mobile dealer however, I tell people to flat out STAY AWAY from RAZR's. The latest iterations are cheaply made, and seem to have nothing but problems. So lets hope motorola steps up the quality, which from the looks of things, they are taking steps in the right direction.
Go get a recent Sony-Ericsson non-smartphone. Then you'll see what people are comparing to and how far behind Moto's OS is.
Motorola finally caught up with Sony-Ericsson's 2000-era phone/address book last year and Sony-Ericsson is of course hasn't stayed still in the last 8 years.
I just want competition. Companies don't innovate, they don't cut prices, they don't add features until they have to. Be careful of hoping any company in this merger-happy day and age disappears from the face of the earth. You always have the opportunity to vote with your wallet, until, of course, you don't. And then it's too late.
Dunno 'bout you guys, but it looks very much like the SE W960 to me - though this one looks a lot nicer (thinner and sleeker).
I think this is also based on Symbian OS.
Touch sensitive controls means the phone requires a lot more of your attention to use. You have to look at the thing a lot more to locate buttons and make sure you're pressing the right one before you contact it.
This makes it tougher to use while doing something else, like walking or driving.
No thanks.