12-21-2005, 05:38 PM
jahcs,Dec 21 2005, 11:34 AM Wrote:Don't forget the massive amounts of add-hype that make the Razr a "better" phone, just because some add execs say it should be.
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Motorolla makes more money selling the RAZR, and has hyped it for all it's worth - celebrities are using the RAZR, it has appeared in music videos, etc. It's really not that special. It is, however, indicative of what we're going to continue to see in the next few years. 18 months ago, you could choose between a basic phone for free or near free or you could upgrade to a flip-phone with a colour display, camera, MP3 ringtones and other extras. Now you can get a phone with all of those extras for free anyways, and companies have discovered that people are more likely to spend more money on a phone for its looks and hype than its features. The V635 versus the RAZR is just such a choice (side note: Deebye, I'm pretty sure the RAZR only has a VGA, or 0.3 megapixel camera, not a 1.3).
I'd much rather have the V635, but I wouldn't take that one, either. I'm not a fan of the interface on motorola phones. I've played around with a number of motorola phones at work, and while I can figure out how to do everything I've tried, it never seems to make as much sense as on a nokia phone.
gekko
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