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.
@jgp 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.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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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.
@jgp
razr, anyone?
@jgp
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.