Comments on: Motorola Still Missing The Point? http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/09/motorola-still-missing-the-point/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Moto Says Z8 Isn’t A One-Off at MobHappy http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/09/motorola-still-missing-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-102419 Moto Says Z8 Isn’t A One-Off at MobHappy Wed, 16 May 2007 15:14:57 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/09/motorola-still-missing-the-point/#comment-102419 [...] I’m here in San Francisco today for the UIQ Fast Track developer event (give me a shout if you’re here too), and a Moto VP is giving a talk right now. He’s talking up the Z8, the company’s UIQ handset which was announced at 3GSM a few months back — and looks pretty fantastic. Now, with an eye on tomorrow’s product announcements that MOTOCEO Ed ZNDR mentioned last week, a couple more points on the Z8. First, it will apparently begin shipping mid-June, but more interestingly, the exec says the Z8 isn’t a “one-off” device, and that Motorola has invested too much in the platform to simply create a single product with it. [...] [...] I’m here in San Francisco today for the UIQ Fast Track developer event (give me a shout if you’re here too), and a Moto VP is giving a talk right now. He’s talking up the Z8, the company’s UIQ handset which was announced at 3GSM a few months back — and looks pretty fantastic. Now, with an eye on tomorrow’s product announcements that MOTOCEO Ed ZNDR mentioned last week, a couple more points on the Z8. First, it will apparently begin shipping mid-June, but more interestingly, the exec says the Z8 isn’t a “one-off” device, and that Motorola has invested too much in the platform to simply create a single product with it. [...]

]]> By: Jim Hughes http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/09/motorola-still-missing-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-102374 Jim Hughes Thu, 10 May 2007 11:53:58 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/05/09/motorola-still-missing-the-point/#comment-102374 El Reg's coverage of Zander's (or should that be ZNDR?) keynote indicate that he's a long way from having a clue about Mobile tech. But, he does appear to grasp the concept that Moto's luck-lustre phones will continue to struggle against the competition, even if the competition has never released a phone before... El Reg - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/09/software_2007_zander_keynote/ El Reg’s coverage of Zander’s (or should that be ZNDR?) keynote indicate that he’s a long way from having a clue about Mobile tech.

But, he does appear to grasp the concept that Moto’s luck-lustre phones will continue to struggle against the competition, even if the competition has never released a phone before…

El Reg – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/09/software_2007_zander_keynote/

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