Motorola may drop mobile phones

[back to the drawing board]

i had 3 motorola cell phones. i had
problems with them all. you kind of
wonder about the rest of the stuff
they make. i like to buy american
whenever i can. its shameful about
motorola not producing quality
equipment.

[Tom]

Eliot wrote:

If Motorola phones are so good then why is Nokia kicking their as-sses?
Because there is little demand for the junk Motorola makes these days. All of the Jap phones work better and have better ease of use in their menus and operating systems. Motorola needs to go buy some Jap phones ,open them up and learn a few things about engineering cell phones. They are losing money on cell phones for a reason. They stink and the consumer knows it.

You are a real GENIUS. You must have done some research to find Nokia in Japan. It's a half a world away....in Finland......where Nokia phones are made.

[Sure]

Common Sense wrote:

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Then explain to me how a razor vs. a samsung using the same carriers namely Sprint and Verizon both perform differently in the same area of town. The Samsung phone gets a call out every time and the Razor shows no signal. This occurs with both Sprint and Verizon throughout Broward and Palm Beach county.
Motorola builds a sh--ty phone admit it!! Ask the sales people at any Sprint store or any Verizon store which phones get the best signals and reception and they all say the same thing. They love Samsung ,LG and Sanyo. Its just the way it is.I bought two razors and could not believe how they didnt work anywhere!! Razors are garbage.

You're still not getting it!

Here it goes, one final time... RF signal strength varies over short distances in a metropolitan area and is affected by interferers, fading, and multi-path among other factors. The only real way to compare the RF performance of two handsets is to run tests in a mobility lab under conducted RF and alter the inbound signal until a drop occurs. The RF reception abilities of the current generation of handsets varies so little between manufacturers that it is statistically irrelevant compared to the network. However, if you're still not convinced, then you can continue to rely on what the "cell phone gurus" at the store are telling you.

[Apock]

The problem Motorola has is that they do not have a good variety of models. Most business people carry Blackberry, and kids want phones with text messaging features.

I like my RAZR V3 a lot, but the design is dated and the camera is terrible. The only other option is the V9, but there is no way that I am plunking down $300 for it.

Motorola has to get some younger designers in who can come up with features and style that people really want.

[Eliot]

Tom wrote:

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You are a real GENIUS. You must have done some research to find Nokia in Japan. It's a half a world away....in Finland......where Nokia phones are made.

Nokia may come from Finland but LG, Sanyo and Samsung are Jap brands you moronic simpleton.You are a dimmwitt and Motorola phones are junk- PERIOD.

[Ignignokt]

Have had several Motorola phones as well as a couple of Samsungs and a Sanyo (stay away).
The happiest I have been with is the Samsungs , although a couple of Motorolas I had were tough (yes , I owned a brick once too).
Stay far away from the Sanyo Katana .

[Mike Hunt]

Moto phones will continue to be a player in the wireless mobile market, what will change is the engineering functions currently in the US will be sent to China just like all the manufacturing. Then Moto will increase their margins not needing to worry about fair wages, patent infringement, law suits, health care for employees, or eco laws. It is not just Moto, it will be all industry in the developed countries trying that are trying to live up to Wall Street's expectation. This won't change until the people of China decide they have had enough of being the world's dumping ground and low wage provider, but then it will be on to India, Africa...