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The Motorola Razr Could Return as a $1,500 Foldable Smartphone (techcrunch.com)
The iconic Motorola RAZR might be making a comeback as a $1,500 foldable screen smartphone, and it could launch as early as February, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. From a report: The price point puts the handset north of even Apple and Samsung's flagships, at $1,500. Of course, there isn't really a standardized price point for the emerging foldables category yet. The Royole FlexPai starts at around $1,300 -- not cheap, especially for a product from a relative unknown. And Samsung, the next on the list to embrace the foldable, has never been afraid to hit a premium price point. Ultimately, $1,500 could well be standard for these sorts of products. Whether or not consumers are willing to pay that, however, is another question entirely.
If I could get an old razr with a slightly larger screen that will do music, podcasts, and cat pictures, I would be good to go.
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What marketing person came up with that? Royole FlexPai? Terrible.
NO cellphone is worth $1500!
Does it include Star Trek Beaming or Time Travel? No? Then it isn't worth its weight in gold!
Jesus, that is getting into the price point where you could buy one hell of a desktop machine.
People and their damn phones. No way I'd spend anywhere near that on a phone. Then again, I don't understand why people are so obsessed with their phones as I don't use a smartphone.
I can't tell you how often I see a family of 4 in a restaurant, and absolutely everybody has their face buried in their phone -- there's some "quality family time" for you. Great way to show your kids how to be capable of having a conversation, spend your entire meal reading work emails.
I've also seen way too many managers who can't listen to an answer of the question they just asked in a meeting they called. I've pretty much reached the point where I say "if you pick up that phone again, I'm walking out because I'm tired of repeating myself because you have the attention span of a child". Honestly, you called the meeting for us to give you information, if you can't get through the meeting without asking everyone to repeat themselves half a dozen times, call me when you're willing to focus on one thing for more than 30 seconds. I walked out one time, and I'm told it took almost 10 minutes for the manager to notice.
Smartphones make people idiots. Smart phones that cost $1500 make them bigger idiots.
”Whether or not consumers are willing to pay that, however, is another question entirely.”
A foldable phone might be handy... but not THAT handy.
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If the pricing works like any of the older Motorola phones, the phone will only cost $1,500 for about three months and the price will quickly drop after that.
Within a year, the phone will be "free" if you sign up for a 2 year contract extension.
Can I get the Royale with Cheese?
or the T-Mobile Sidekick with the modern network bands. That phone had an even better keyboard than the Blackberry
Gemini PDA by Planet Computer is trying to bring back the hardware keyboard to PDA/Smartphone. Okay, it's more Psion-style (clamshell) than slider, but it's something you can buy right now.
(with a choice of different OSes, too - if you don't like being a lollipop for Google to suck).
Livermorium is currently working to bring a slider keyboard smartphone on the market soon-ish. With some patience you could have the slider formfactor you would like. (Some leaks here and there seem to point to some of the designers that had contributed to Nokia's sliders have been helping that too)
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When you pulled one out everyone saw you had one. It was the iPhone of it's day. A bit of expensive kit to show people how much money you had to throw around. I'm not sure they can recapture that. Apple tried with the X line and failed.
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I have a Razr in a drawer at home I'll only charge $15 for if you want one.
Considering there are more than 1000 laptops in the $1250-$1500 price bracket alone on NewEgg, not to mention thousands more cheaper than $1250, I fail to see the utility of a laptop-priced clamshell device (so innovative) that doesn't have a keyboard and has a dinky screen. How many people can there possibly be with that much stupid money to spend on a non-Apple product?
what's inside that damn box.
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It will be entertaining to see how quickly this new company goes under.
They seem to be under the same delusion that TV manufacturers had with 4K, in that they think just having the technology is enough to have a successful product.
Technology for technology's sake is not good enough. There has to be a great enough value proposition to make the product worth buying. And I can't think of anything that would be valuable enough for me to justify spending $1500USD on a phone, regardless of how fancy the display is.
It's an Egg MacGuffin!
So, hey! Motorola! How about a big ol' boring slate phone with a replaceable battery? Headphone jack? I've got $1500 with your name written all over it.
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Apparently no one has told them how well Apple is selling iPhones at the ~$1k level.
If you have any Motorola stock, I would probably get rid of it now.
Set it on Vibrate... start saving.
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On bigger computers, we learned that you need to avoid proprietary dependencies so you don't get utterly fucked. Then everyone got a proprietary handheld PC, where they are perpetually fucked.
On bigger computers, we noticed the prices just kept falling. Then everyone started buying handheld PCs, where the prices go .. up?!
It's like phones are desktops for retards.
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...It's amazing how little I have ever cared or wanted to be able to fold my phone.
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