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Motorola Reinvents the RAZR
zacharye writes with news that Motorola has reinvented their popular RAZR clam-shell phone as an Android smartphone. The new device is 4G LTE-capable and 7.1mm thick, and it contains "a 1.2GHz dual-core TI OMAP processor, a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, 1GB of RAM, an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture, an LED flash, an HDMI-out port, noise cancellation capabilities, 16GB of built-in storage and a 16GB microSD card pre-installed." iFixit did a teardown of the phone, finding that the construction necessary for such thinness will make repairs problematic.
I have an el-cheapo motorola flip phone w/ camera, and if I leave it powered on for an extended period of time, it locks up. It locks up in the most annoying fashion however. It appears to be working, the display is still lit, the screen goes on/off when you open/close it, but it doesnt receive messages or phone calls, and then when you finally look to see if you have messages, it locks up. Annoying as hell.
Sound quality is good when it works tho.
Anyone else have stability issues to report ? Any wonderful praises of no problems whatsoever ?
Seems to me that as the software gets more complex, the phone gets less reliable. (try hard to not accuse me of making a broad sweeping generalization)
You know what I hate? I hate motherfuckers who listen to music out loud on their phones, polluting my serene environment with their cacophonous garbage. I understand the concept of instant gratification as well as anybody else, but you should not be allowed to be in public if you're too stupid or too weak to stand listening to yourself think for a few minutes.
Additionally, your phones are not audiophile-grade stereo systems. They have a shitty, scratchy-sounding little speaker with the frequency response of a chalkboard screech. So when you're forcing those around you to listen your 50-Cent garbage, the shrill quality of the already-stupid audio is adding injury to insult.
Do you know that scene in Star Trek 4 when Spock nerve-pinches the punk on the bus? Do you know that scene in Star Trek: TNG when Worf snatches the lute out of Geordi's hands and bashes it against a tree? Well, I want to beat the shit out of you, the annoying asshole playing music out loud, on your cell-phone, in public. You are truly scum.