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Let me run through Motorola's development team idea list since it's origin:

1. Motorola Tough Talker
2. Bag Phones
3. Bag Phones with very insignificant menu and button changes
4. Brick Phone
5. Smaller Brick Phone
6. HUGE Flip Phone (DP-550 if you're curious)
7. Get Smaller flip phones and candybar phones for a few years while they try to fend off Nokia
8. Crap - fast forward about 10 years through this phase
9. RAZR
10. Pink RAZR
11. Other RAZR variants
12. ?
13. um... *MORE* RAZR variants
14. ?
15. cry
16. 8MP camera phone


Motorola cell phone's contact handling sucks. The features and applications are minimal and sucky at best. And you know what, they haven't done anything "NEW" since the RAZR. Sure, theyv'e made them shinier and longer then shorter then wider, but they are just like LAST YEAR'S RAZR but slightly different. It's like offering a station wagon last year and the same station wagon with wood grain stickers on the side this year and scratching your head why nobody wants the NEW one. Next year's station wagon has a raccoon tail on the antenna!

It's sad that the once great Motorola is choking because of the lack of effort, creativity, and understanding of the ever changing markety on their R&D team. Fire them all, hire some young phone nerds and they may have a chance. Obviously, this team has been scraping the bottom of the barrel for a while.

I recently emailed the new CEO about their phone troubles and haven't heard back. Too bad, I'm in Schaumburg all week right across the road from their office. As a side note, I noticed they have plenty of parking. ;)

-Mc
]]>Jun 23rd 2008 4:15PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/23/motorola-prepping-last-stand-8-megapixel-phone/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/23/motorola-prepping-last-stand-8-megapixel-phone/Jun 23rd 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/23/motorola-prepping-last-stand-8-megapixel-phone/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/06/23/motorola-prepping-last-stand-8-megapixel-phone/Poor execution or a bad price point could very well mean the "final nail" in the Moto coffin. (I mean, as long as we're tossing around clichés.) ]]>Jun 24th 2008 11:17AM