RSSMotorola Begins Selling RAZR 2
By the Betanews Staff | Published September 6, 2007, 11:47 AM
While the now $399 Apple iPhone will dominate the news Thursday, Motorola has chimed in to remind everyone that its RAZR 2 is now available through wireless carriers across the United States. But its $299 to $349 price tag won't likely bring out long lines.
The RAZR 2 V9 is offered by AT&T while the CDMA V9m is sold by Verizon, Sprint and Alltel. T-Mobile will likely sell the RAZR 2 V8, but the phone is not yet listed on the carrier's Web site. Motorola is hoping to bring back the glory days of the original RAZR by adding features such as Windows Media Player, 2GB of on-board memory and a full-HTML browser. But the company faces stiff competition from LG, Samsung and now Apple.
I just want a phone. Dials, answers, and you can talk into it. I don't want it to play videos, MP3s, or anything else. I'm far from techno-illiterate, but I like to keep tech sparsely situated in my life so it doesn't take over. You saw Blade Runner, right?
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|Yeah I made the mistake of buying the V3c before the Chocolate for Verizon came out. Worse yet, I bought it for $200. A few months later they were down to like $50. I'd never buy a phone that has such a horrible battery life, nor a phone that is completely featureless. That, btw, is Verizon's doings, but instead of Motorola saying, "Uh you need to take it and get a fair cell phone for once in your corporation's life, or we'll go elsewhere", they said, "Thank you sir, may I have another." Meanwhile I feel like I've been bent over, holding my ankles, (you know the rest) since I CAN'T do any kind of computer syncing, Bluetooth or otherwise, without their OH so useful $30 piece of software ... AFTER spending $200 on it. Right.
Never again, motorola. You can keep your sucky battery life, your easily scratched inner screen, crap for camera, difficult/impossible to access MicroSD slot, and your completely disabled phone and shove it.
LG's where I'm going to land next, I can almost guarantee it.
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|There's nothing that makes this phone stand out of the crowd, makes it special or revolutionizes anything. Why are they being so stupidly hopeful?
Not even the RAZR naming will make it sell. There's nothing to this phone, just a nice secondary screen.
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|Man, Motorola is almost embarassing in their phone development lately. The best they can do is rehash the Razr repeatedly.
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|$299??
wow... why WOULDNT someone be willing to just buy a pocket pc or something just few a couple hundred more
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|Moto phone suck. Limited functions and hard to use. Do they even have a QA dept? If they do, they need to replace that person.
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|Just wait a few months, they'll be giving them away like the v1.
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