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(thank you sir. Best burn I have had in a long while)]]>Feb 6th 2010 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
wow. the post I was commenting on got ripped at the moment I posted and the comment went here.

(oh BTW, t-t-t-triple post!)]]>Feb 6th 2010 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
They must have pulled it because it was off topic or because of the link to another site. Who knows. I do know that Motorola phone render could actually be worse (if true) than the see through screen SE phone. Who are the R&D people at these companies and why are they not fired?]]>Feb 6th 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
What else should they use? WiMo is expensive and awful, WebOS is in its infancy and may not be available to third parties (almost certainly not for free), and the iphone OS isn't available at any price. What's left, Symbian? Please.

As you said, Android is free and open source, and I'd add that it works really well for most things. So why would Moto pay for an inferior OS when the best one going is free?]]>Feb 7th 2010 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://bit.ly/moto-backlip-details-best-worst
]]>Feb 7th 2010 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/]]>Feb 7th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/its like typing on a touchscreen keyboard without being able to accidentally hit the other buttons surrounding it. seems pretty usable to me.]]>Feb 6th 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
But you have to poke the keys with a pen!]]>Feb 6th 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
Its just a render, this isn't official. No worries my friend. ]]>Feb 6th 2010 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/the last time i checked the very tips of my fingers were not square and had 1 square in of area.]]>Feb 6th 2010 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
Exactly. If they wanted to they could program a capacitive layer to be so sensitive that you only have to hover over the keys to type. That could actually create a faster typing experience than physical keyboard (though all applications considered a physical keyboard would still be best). ]]>Feb 6th 2010 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/good for you! but their appears to be a pretty standard arrangement (3rd phone down from the right). as long as the backflip processor isnt true then im sold.]]>Feb 6th 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
So because it comes to AT&T, it looks like complete crap?

What if it went to Sprint or Verizon?

Is it fabulous then?]]>Feb 6th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 6th 2010 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
Also, Qualcomm CPUs suck -- all of them, even snapdragon.
Moto had the right idea with the droid; going with TI's OMAP.
OMAP > * :)]]>Feb 6th 2010 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/ guy with clown hat on? I think you brokesded it. The clown hat is scary.]]>Feb 6th 2010 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Good one...if you're going to be performing in a club somewhere let me know so I can buy a ticket before they're sold out!]]>Feb 7th 2010 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/also experimenting is always good, of course maybe that's not in a vocabulary of profit maximizing strip down to functionality kind of western mentality]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/Feb 7th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
Seriously, I've never seen a company screw up hardware that badly so consistently over so many years. Smartphones, dumbphones, everything--Motorola has no sense of either build quality or design. Motorola is almost singlehandedly responsible for the general public's belief that phones are disposable, because they build their devices like disposable cameras.

I still remember a friend of mine who posted a lengthy review of one Motorola dumbphone a few years ago, tearing the device a new one piece by piece. The sections were titled "psuedo-clamshell design", "shoddy construction", "cheap, short-lived battery", and "unstable and buggy firmware". All my experience with newer Motorola hardware shows me they've not learned a single thing since they made that POS years ago.]]>Feb 8th 2010 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/
razr, anyone?]]>Feb 8th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/motorola-motosplit-to-have-dynamic-key-labels-lame-processor/As impasse said, you don't know what you're talking about. Motorola's hardware design is its strong suit. Of course there are going to be some low end handsets that are more cheap feeling when you're in the emerging market entry level territory. But that's the way with Nokia and other global handset manufacturers that cover all tiers of phones (as opposed to Apple who has a different strategy and only focuses on the middle/upper).

You can't both yawn at "boring" repetitive designs and also complain when companies try new things. You'd never see the side slider (or the downward slider for that matter) if companies stopped making new designs in the 90's with candybar and flip phones.]]>Feb 8th 2010 4:44PM