Comments on: Forget the iPhone, Can Droid Top the RAZR?

By: J. Kreigan

J. Kreigan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:35:47 +0000

hahahaha what a dumb fucking "article". "Can this phone compare to these other phones? Let's see! lists four or five completely superficial things Welp, there you have it, bye".

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:53:36 +0000

Are there a million iPhones in NYC yet? Seems like it. Of course the lucky owners (who wouldn’t want one of those pretty things?) have the misfortune of being on ATT’s network, meaning dead spots all over town where Verizon works. Works.

By: Karthik Chandramouli

Karthik Chandramouli — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:12:07 +0000

For what it’s worth, the RAZR OS is known as P2K, an internally-developed platform for numerous Motorola feature phones.

Keep in mind that you’re comparing newer smartphones to pre-smartphone era phones, so, regardless of what software was stitched together, it is still a platform — much the same way older PC operating systems were platforms (with many cross-licensed elements embedded into it).

By: Kelley Mitchell

Kelley Mitchell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:28:47 +0000

Yay! to the RAZR. I still have and love my pink RAZR. I was glad to see an article that show just how popular the RAZR was and perhaps still is.

By: DistortedLoop

DistortedLoop — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:46:19 +0000

Does the Razr really deserve the title of “world’s first slim phone”? I just pulled out my late 1990′s Motorola Star Tac cell phone, and it’s not much thicker than the Razr, and considering the bulkiness of the phones the Star Tac replaced, I think it’s clearly a “slim phone” for its day that significantly predates the Razr…

By: hortron

hortron — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:13:57 +0000

There’s only one way for a non-iphone-smartphone to become a classic: drop the price of the phone into the $50 range, enable users to get great applications quickly and easily, drop the price of data plans i.e., go all Hyundai on AppleT&T.

Otherwise, what the heck are they going to compete on? Here’s the deal: the RAZR was coveted for a while because it had really nice design and feel. The iPhone has prototyped the touch-screen candy bar; while other competitors are beautiful and similar, they are still derivative of the iphone, droid included.

Verizon has reliability (although who knows what would happen if their data network really gets stressed). They need to compete on price if all other things are equal. Otherwise the only compelling reason to buy the droid is that it’s not an Apple; that hasn’t worked well for non-iPod personal media players.

I’m a happy Verizon user. I’d switch if there were a really compelling reason to. Hmm AT&T vs Verizon data prices: similar. $50 iPhone vs $200 Droid: no contest. Android vs Iphone apps: no contest. oooh.. but make the Droid effectively free and maybe only a minor bump in my current price plan (b/c t-mobile offers unlimited data / family plan CHEAP) then Verizon may have a winner…

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:09:01 +0000

We decided that a true OS makes a smartphone rather than simply the feature set, so by that definition the RAZR, which ran platforms such as Java and Brew had no OS in today’s sense of the word as we apply it to smartphones. But obviously it’s a point that can be argued by others who feel differently.

By: david robins

david robins — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:45:38 +0000

Can Motorola compete against Apple? Nah!

By: Mr B

Mr B — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:51:10 +0000

Nokia’s 1100 has outsold the RAZR- it’s never been as newsworthy as the moto but they’ve shifted over 200 million of them…

By: absolutgcs

absolutgcs — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:13:03 +0000

no kidding, between the razr and razr 2, moto shipped a handful of different operating systems =)

By: texvc

texvc — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:10:16 +0000

glad to see people are hopping on my RAZR bandwagon when trying to set a banchmark to measure phones against….

By: ronald

ronald — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:03:00 +0000

May I suggest:
Change:
Touchscreen/browser

To:
Multi-touch/browser

By: Till

Till — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:02:10 +0000

“OS: None, it’s not a smartphone”

Really, this has got to be one of the stupidest things ever written on a major tech blog.

By: Economyst

Economyst — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:42:19 +0000

No.

There will be no single Android based phone that will top the sales of the Iphone.