Motorola A3300c coming to China Telecom with WinMo, 3G?
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Aug 26th 2009 4:09AM
posted Aug 26th 2009 4:09AM
[Via motorolazine.biz]
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What's with that Moto logo in the corner? That's ugly. The old-style "Motorola" stylized text logo would look so much better on that phone.
That's their brand style now. I'm pretty sure they've ditched the shiny multicolor Motorola text on their phones.
yeh its quite distracting isnt it, just like the Nokia "tab" logo on the N97
You know, I just sigh sadly, every time I hear a new phone is released sporting Windows Mobile...It's really the worst mobile platform ever. And don't call me an Apple fanboy, yes I have an iPhone but I really like the Android OS and webOS a lot too.
WinMo isn't that bad. It's more usable than 90% of dumbphone OSes.
Yes of course it is. But we aren't talking about dumbphones are we? As far as smartphones go, it's clunky, ugly and difficult to use. Not to mention buggy. Where I work in retail, we put our sales through a PDA running Windows Mobile. It crashes 4-5 times a day, easy.
WinMo 6.5 has made a lot of improvements and 7 will probably be great. It's not like the WinMo team is still sitting on their asses, they're actually working to make it better. I've tried 6.5 on my friend's HTC Tilt and I definitely like it, and I like it better than iPhone OS, which I have used every day for the last year and a half.
Unfortunately anyone who says WinMo is bad is labeled an Apple fanboy. I had have WinMo phones on and off for the past 6 years.
Ive used 2003SE Win5 Win6 Win6.1 and Win 6.5
They never advanced the UI and added the least amount of features they possibly could.
Its an outdated piece of crap. It might have allthe features in the world but its like pulling teeth trying to use them. I NEVER used the mp3 player, video player, camera or web browser on my last phone, HTC Touch Cruise but now i have an iPhone and im finding im using them quite alot.
Some people love fiddling with their phones, trying new things, editing the registry or finding that "diamond in the rough" program. I was one of those people, i made a heap of skins and themes for the dialer, touchflo etc but after awhile i had had enough, i just wanted my phone to work, and even with all the cooked roms it didnt just "work".
You can have all the flexability and features in the world but if its not easy to use there is no point. The spec list can be a mile long but when youve got to deal with the shocking WinMo UI....
WinMo 6.5 is a stop gap release, they need to go ALOT further. I wont consider another WinMo phone until 7 is released.
I fail to understand the whole deal with WinMo. Yes for touchscreens without stylus it isnt (yet) the most ideal OS yet all other mobile functions it does exactly what it should. Work without questioning. I wonder though people who complain about slow, crashing and difficult to use weather they actually used it. Hence that the smartphone market is rather new while windows mobile has been around for years especially on PDA´s. I started myself on an ipaq 38xx´s and it did exactly what I expected. Open my excel sheets, let me work on it, fiddle with my cad drawings (small screens aren´t everything but to take a peek its enough), play my mp3´s on the background and back then the ICT department could handle them easily. What amuses me most is that such an old piece of software already understood what multitasking, copy/paste and "open" in a way that everybody could develop for it without being stamped like a bag of hurt.
I always enjoyed WinMo and sure on the whole touchscreen with your fingers it isnt everything yet but that will come soonish.
I love my HTC touchHD with its win mob and TF3D, I have had it for nearly a year and I planned to sell it but I simply can't live without it.
I also have an HTC Hero wiith Android and Sense UI, which I managed to get in exchange of the disappointing iPhone3GS, and also a Nokia N97, which now after more than one update A DAY and 2 new ROMs , in less than a month from Nokia, has become a real powerhouse and a thing of beauty too (this thanx to 3d party themes, not to nokia) , but the TouchHD with its win mob tweaked by HTC is as least as good, practical and smart as anyone of these 2 new so called flagship smartphone.
I will dismiss it only when I'll be able to buy the HTC Leo with win mob 6.5.
WinMo marketshare has shrunk to a single digit and has become irrelevant.
As far as market is concerned, WinMo has demised although Steve Ballmer won't
admit this.
I find it disappointing when people come to any post about a Windows Mobile phone, just to complain about the OS.
WinMo has its limitations, but it is also incredibly flexible too. No other OS allows you to swap or cook your own ROMs. No OS allows you to tweak the UI, or use as many shells either. And the amount of useful freeware apps is probably second to none. I am optimisitc for Android, but it is still nowhere as developed as WinMo.
Sure this variety does not appeal to everyone, and arguably the walled garden approach is better for most, but I have not had any deal-breaker problems with usability. The depth to which you can tweak and customize the OS appeals to the geeky side of me.
Gee, do you think the software will be as smooth as and as relatively un-buggy as iPhone OS?
Oh wait, what am I thinking? It's a Motorola! Of course not!!
I thought Motorola was getting out of the cell phone game anyhow?
Motorola wanted to sell their cell-phone division, not shut it down- I guess they haven't been able to find any buyers. (Not surprising, I doubt there are any banks that would finance such a sale in the current economy)
ooh... looks like a good replacement for my A3100...
that windows button means it'll have winmo6.5?
Change the name to "KIRForola"
A Motorola phone that takes design cues from the Nokia N97? All they need to do is make it a CDMA phone and it'll have the whole shit trinity.
Motorola never getting out the cell phone game. No Motorola no cell phone. No Motorola no iPhone. No Motorola no Nokia or Samsung or LG or Sony Ericsson or BlackBerry. The success of iPhone background is from Motorola workers. Motorola support by US Goverment and Israel. US Army communication technology support by Motorola.