Motorola's touchscreen Blaze for Verizon in the wild
Remember that touchscreen Motorola Blaze we'd mentioned a while back that was on the hook to get Verizon's visual voicemail service? It may not be in Verizon stores yet, but it's all up in Boy Genius Report's labs with a dark red body, MING attitude, and almost limitless mediocrity on board. The touchscreen apparently requires ridiculous amounts of effort to actuate, and that problem is compounded by a lame on-screen keyboard that makes texting tricky at best. EV-DO Rev. A is cool and all -- and the visual voicemail support should be a pretty popular add-on feature -- but that giant Motorola logo up front with the red ring and three pounds of chrome leaves the Blaze with a face only a mother could love. Let's hope Verizon's positioning this one as its low-end touchscreen offering, because we're not seeing it cha-chinging many registers otherwise.





















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
CB17 @ Jun 28th 2008 8:23PM
All I can say is...ewww.
I never like the MING either, that sh*t is OOOGLY and what a waste to have a completely non functional piece of clear plastic over it.
Why is it that Verizon always decides to get all the ugly phones?
Scott E. @ Jun 28th 2008 10:37PM
Awful. A Ming with Verizon software - just what we need - another crappy, crippled phone.. My decision to cross over to at&t for the iphone is gettin easier.
MobileRoar @ Jun 29th 2008 5:00AM
If they can make this really, really cheap... like FREE with 2 year agreement... this phone could clean up on the low-end market. Think about it:
Cheapos sign a 2 year deal and want to get the best free phone they can, "OHHH," they'll say, "The touch screen has to be the best one." Cha-Ching.
http://MotorolaBlaze.com
Jay @ Jun 29th 2008 3:50PM
So, I guess Motorola is gonna die soon too since its logo has the RRoD...
tra la la @ Jun 29th 2008 5:39PM
HAHAHA that's great!!!!
motorola is currently in the "mid-range" market area right now. many of their phones have a lot of advanced capabilites, but they just aren't that groundbreaking anymore. most of them aren't even that great looking. take this one for example... looks very "eh"
tra la la @ Jun 29th 2008 5:46PM
hahah too funny!
motorola is very mid-market. a lot of their phones have advanced capabilities, but they just aren't groundbreaking or special anymore.
tra la la @ Jun 29th 2008 5:47PM
oops... double post. didn't think first one took.
Jamar @ Jun 30th 2008 6:18AM
The MING costs less than $300 no contract, so this better be free.