| jgrove24@hotmail.com 2006-10-27, 10:33 pm |
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Ann wrote:
> The smart phone and other converged type phones work all day whether they
> have calls or not by synching email. This places an unprecedented demand on
> the battery which leads to less battery life. I've tested 3 converged
> phones at my company (Moto Q, Treo 700w, and Cingular 8125) and all have
> less than desired battery life ... but where else can you get your email
> over the air from an exchange server real time? Don't compare your
> converged device to other technologies ... compare them to similarly capable
> devices and see how they stack up.
>From Crain's Chicago Business:
"Motorola Inc. cell phone chief Ron Garriques promised investors in May
that the company's new Q smartphone would follow the same trajectory as
its smash hit Razr cell phone, selling 750,000 units in the first 90
days and 5 million in the first nine months.
But early returns suggest that his forecast was optimistic, and that
Motorola missed a chance to connect with the fast-growing smartphone
market before rivals piled in with a slew of new offerings. Motorola
sold 150,000 Qs in the second quarter, amid complaints about its high
price, clunky software and tendency to freeze up.
"I went through three of them and had problems with each. I would go to
make a call, and it would say 'dialing' and stay there forever," says
Tracy King, a lease manager at a Ford dealership in Detroit.
A Motorola spokesman calls the complaints "isolated" and says, "We're
getting good feedback on the Q."
But Sam Barhoumeh, manager of Presidential Wireless in Chicago, which
sells a variety of smartphones, says customers returned about 10% of
the Qs his store sold in the first month, a return rate he considers
high. "It left a bad taste in people's mouths," Mr. Barhoumeh says.
.....
"Basically, they blew their big opportunity," says Todd Kort, an
analyst at Connecticut-based research firm Gartner Inc. "Motorola did a
lot of advertising for the Q this summer, and it wasn't ready for prime
time."
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