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Moto’s Last Flip Phone Ruby VE1 (RAZR3) Might Return to Haunt Us All
5:00AM Matt Buchanan | What you’re looking at is the RAZR3—Ruby—which was reportedly smothered with a pillow in the middle of the night, as Moto shifted to Android. But now we’ve got a fresh trove of press shots. More »
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First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets
9:20PM John Herrman | Yesterday’s purported renders of Motorola’s 2009 smartphone line seemed plausible, but these less adventurous feature phone renders are almost too safe to be fake. Behold, the Son of Razr!
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Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man’s Life
5:30AM Wilson Rothman | This may be the first good news Motorola’s had in a long while: A feller named RJ Richard down in the New Orleans suburb of St. Tammany Parish was on his lawnmower in his backyard when something struck him hard on the chest. When he pulled his Moto RAZR out of his breast pocket to see if it had been damaged by what he presumed to be a pebble, a damn .45 calibre bullet fell out! Having saved the man’s life, the phone fell apart. More »
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iPhone Passes the Razr to Become Best Selling Phone in the US
3:13AM Sean Fallon | Just days after supplanting the BlackBerry in customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users, Apple’s iPhone has taken down another mobile phone icon, Motorola’s Razr, in terms of total sales. According to NPD (the leading wireless research firm) the iPhone outsold the Razr in the 3Q—representing the first changing of the guard in three years. This change comes despite a higher price tag in the midst of a struggling economy. In fact, NPD notes that overall sales of mobile phones are down 15% from last year. Hit the press release after the jump for more details. More »
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Motorola Insider Blame Game: Engineers Shoved Designers Aside
1:00AM Brendan I. Koerner | These days, most in-the-know folks would sooner eat glass than carry a Motorola phone. The company has shredded its reputation by failing to address basic interface design issues: freeze-prone software, head-scratching menus, keys that demand Herculean strength. It’s baffling that such a venerable company could build such frustrating phones, considering the zillions presumably spent on development. How did Motorola make such a bollocks of its wireless division? Now that the company has annointed new wireless division chief Sanjay Jha, we surveyed former staffers for the inside scoop, as well as their advice on how to right the ship. More »
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Sprint’s New Flip Phones: Sanyo Katana Eclipse and Motorola RAZR VE20
12:40AM Matt Buchanan | As revealed in that leaked Sprint roadmap from last month, Sanyo’s Katana Eclipse and the RAZR VE20 become real phones today. The Eclipse is replacing the DLX, and it’s headline gimmick feature is that the sides light up, rave style. And the VE20 is an, um, RAZR, but slightly less loathsome than usual. More »
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Moto Sues Former Exec For Jumping Ship To Apple
1:30PM Matt Hickey | Motorola, upset that one of its former executives might be violating a no-compete clause in his contract, has sued him for going to work at Apple with the iPhone as an executive in sales. The contention isn’t just sour grapes, says Moto, but that the exec, Michael Fenger, has intimate knowledge of Motorola’s “trade secrets and customer relationships”. But let’s be clear here: The people who settled for a free RAZR are not the people waiting in like for the iPhone. We’ll see what happen. Non-compete suits are usually pretty cut and dry, but this one could get interesting, if not humourous. [Yahoo! News] More »
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Wired Editor Drops, Destroys RAZR on Live TV
11:38PM Adam Frucci | Wired Senior Editor Nick Thompson was on the Today Show this morning talking about why the N95 and iPhone are the best high-end phones and the RAZR is the best cheap phone. OK, fair enough. Unfortunately for Nick, when he dropped the RAZR to the floor to demonstrate its durability, it ended up getting destroyed in the process. It’s a sound and sight I’m sure many of you former RAZR owners are familiar with. Well, I guess it proved your point, Nick: the RAZR is cheap. Very cheap. [Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
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Alas, Poor RAZR, I Knew You Well
1:00AM Addy Dugdale | Yetro is something so unfashionable it has yet to be retro—and probably will never be. Example: my RAZR. I’ve had it for almost three years now. I hate it. Actually, hate is too strong a word. I pity it. My mobile phone with its nauseous blue-painted interface, its ability to change ring tone to the Motorola theme whenever it feels like it, and its battery, which now gives me about five minutes’ talk time before it bleeps like a demented synthetic chicken. In the video above, Jesus and I “reenact” a more joyful time, its original unboxing three long years ago. Today, I’m thinking I should bite the bullet and retire the old boiler. Is the utter demise of the RAZR finally nigh at hand? More »
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