Motorola RAZR2 V9

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• Rick
• jBR
• 27 Feb 2008

Period point blank...Its a phone not an mp3 player..It just a design feature...Do not expect it to put out 100db with the clarity of the bose speaker system....
I bought the v9m(razr2) I love the phone...No complaints as far as it being functional. The look and feel of the phone is of very good quality...I would recommend this phone to anyone...Camera quality is awesome...I have no regrets on the purchase of this phone...

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• Winura
• w9L
• 26 Feb 2008

Guys,

I'm not a fan of Motorola but when i saw this phone i got this "cant say no" feeling. How is this phone despite its gorgeous looks?

I'm more concerned about the user friendliness and are there any software problems with it? (firmware)

come on guys...gimme the big picture...

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• Anonymous
• TIE
• 24 Feb 2008

Does this phone hav a privacy lock like the ones in samsung phones?

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• Dck2109
• M@T
• 23 Feb 2008

@Terence
is this "beauty" easy to use ? i think i like it & will get one soon. 2mp camera is ok, i have a kodak anyway :) what i need is a good mp3 sound and hsdpa. one more thing, is there any trouble transfering files via BT. if no, this gonna be my next fone. thanks

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• mohan singal
• PId
• 22 Feb 2008

very bad choise??????????????

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• Terence
• ibf
• 21 Feb 2008

@RA}q

Why makes you think i didn't have the phone?and why do i have to take the hassle of making a link just to prove that i own one?
As a matter of fact i do have Razr V9.
In the external screen (touch screen), you can read SMSes, return call, watch video playback, listen to music and view the pictures stores in the phone. I buy this phone coz I'm sick n tired of Nokia Symbian OS. I previously own N73 ME.

RA}q
just give me ur email so i can post my phone picture to you if you still thinks i didn't own it.

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• j
• juan
• R0K
• 21 Feb 2008

hey guys, can anyone tell me why the battery life of my motorola razr2 v9 does not last very long, i changed the battery thinking it was a faulty baettery, but it's doing the samething, it only last me about 2 days if i dont use the phone much and 1 1/2 if i use it alot... PLEASE HELP PLEASE HELP

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• vrham
• PVa
• 18 Feb 2008

hi all......
why are we wasting time debating over phones? I read this from a book, don;t try to change people's mind, even if you are right they will not agree with you. so why dont we respect each other choices. Can we just focus on v9 on this spot, rather than talk about the company business and future (let the CEO and staff do that, that's their job). I've been using moto phones since'96 and they got plus and minus points but hey i keep using moto, after all nothing is perfect rite??? i am using v9 now and i love the phone and that's all the matter for me.
cheers......

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• Anonymous
• RA}
• 18 Feb 2008

This technology is inside Motorola Zine Series like Motorola Z12 and more Motorola Kodak Camera Phone; start produce from Q2,2008.

Kodak Revolutionizes Image Capture with New High-Resolution CMOS Image Sensor
Industry’s First 1.4 Micron, 5 Megapixel, High-ISO CMOS Sensor Combines Two New KODAK Technologies for Better Pictures from a Smaller Sensor

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 4 -- Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) is enabling a new level of performance in consumer imaging devices by redesigning the basic building blocks used to collect light and is incorporating that technology into a brand-new sensor.

The company has combined its recently announced Color Filter Pattern technology with a new CMOS pixel to create the KODAK KAC-05020 Image Sensor, the world’s first 1.4 micron, 5 megapixel device. Designed for mass-consumer camera applications such as mobile phones, Kodak’s new sensor enables a new level of resolution in small optical formats, using significantly smaller pixels. But unlike other small-pixel sensors which can produce poor images, especially under low light conditions, the 1.4 micron pixel used in the KAC-05020 Image Sensor changes this convention, providing image quality that can equal or surpass what is available from current devices using larger, 1.75 micron pixel CMOS designs.

“Camera phones and other small-pixel consumer imaging devices often suffer from poor performance, especially under low light conditions. To manufacture sensors that utilize these very small pixels – only two to three times the wavelength of visible light – we needed to challenge everything we knew about pixel and sensor design,” said Chris McNiffe, General Manager of Kodak’s Image Sensor Solutions business. “By completely rethinking the design of the CMOS pixel and leveraging our work with high sensitivity color filter patterns and algorithms, Kodak was able to develop this remarkable new sensor that will enable a level of imaging performance previously unavailable from CMOS devices.”

Key to the performance of this new sensor is the KODAK TRUESENSE CMOS Pixel, a re-engineering of the fundamental design and architecture of traditional CMOS pixels. In a standard CMOS pixel, signal is measured by detecting electrons that are generated when light interacts with the surface of the sensor. As more light strikes the sensor, more electrons are generated, resulting in a higher signal at each pixel. In the KODAK TRUESENSE CMOS Pixel, however, the underlying “polarity” of the silicon is reversed, so that the absence of electrons is used to detect a signal. This change enabled a series of improvements to the design and structure of the pixel that ultimately results in CMOS imaging performance that rivals that available from CCD image sensors.

Light sensitivity in the new sensor is enhanced through the use of the recently announced KODAK TRUESENSE Color Filter Pattern, which adds panchromatic, or “clear,” pixels to the red, green and blue pixels already on the sensor. Since these pixels are sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light, they collect a significantly higher proportion of the light striking the sensor. This provides a 2x to 4x increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs, improving performance in low light and reducing motion blur in action shots.

At 5 million pixels, the KAC-05020 provides the highest resolution available in the popular ¼” optical format, and enables imagery up to ISO 3200 and support for full 720p video at 30 fps. The sensor is also supported by the Texas Instruments’ OMAPTM and OMAP-DM solutions, enabling a host of KODAK Image Processing and Enhancement Features (such as digital image stabilization, rapid auto-focus, red-eye reduction, and facial recognition) that provide digital camera-like performance in a camera phone.

“For consumers today, high resolution is required but no longer sufficient,” said Fas Mosleh, Worldwide Director of CIS Marketing and Business Development for Kodak’s Image Sensor Solutions business. “Smaller and thinner camera phones, high performance under low light, and superior video performance are the types of features that will enable the next generation of consumer imaging devices. And with this new Kodak sensor, camera designers can now put those features directly into the hands of their customers.”

The new sensor expands Kodak’s portfolio of CMOS and CCD image sensors for consumer and applied imaging applications, and positions the company to take advantage of the growing demand for high-quality image capture in a variety of devices, regardless of size.

The KAC-05020 will be demonstrated by Kodak at the GSMA Mobile World Congress held Feb 11 – 14 in Barcelona, Spain. Samples of the KAC-05020 are scheduled to be available in Q2 2008.

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• cc
• PFJ
• 18 Feb 2008

i wanna ask to all V9 users in indonesia...
what messenger can be use in V9? i've tried shmessenger n yehba for motorola, but when i finished download it and try to sign in, the connection is always failed or error.

can u pls tell me how d right setting for messenger? thanks...

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• Anonymous
• F4p
• 17 Feb 2008

Hello Moto?

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• Anonymous
• RA}
• 17 Feb 2008

@Terence

Give fact to approve you really has Motorola Razr 2 V9. Give link a photo of your Motorola Razr 2 V9 and tell me what can you do with external screen.

If you can't give fact; so you are liar.

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• Anonymous
• UDW
• 16 Feb 2008

in the era of 5megapixel phones, this is quite outdated. still 2MP? what happened to motorola? not even wifi is present.

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• Terence
• ibi
• 16 Feb 2008

I like this phone so much.Had it for a week now.So so far so good except for the battery life.Mine only lasted for 36 hours when playing songs for around 2 hours (maybe less).
The front body tends to attracts fingerprint easily. But i like its finishing though. Its kinda classy if u ask me.
The music player is also very good.Comparable to the SE Walkman with its bass boost. The supplied earphone also produces superb sound.
Couldn't ask for more. This is so far the most amazing phone i've ever had. What's more, there is no lag time between application compared to Nokia Symbian OS phone.

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• Anonymous
• RA}
• 15 Feb 2008

Motorola CEO takes charge of troubled handset unit
Mon Feb 4, 2008 12:14am EST

NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Motorola Inc (MOT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said its Chief Executive Greg Brown was taking direct control of the company's loss-making handset business, replacing Stu Reed, in a move aimed at helping speed up the unit's recovery.

Motorola announced the decision to employees in an internal memo sent on Friday, a day after it announced that it was considering options including a split-off of its mobile unit, which has been losing market share to rivals such as Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research).

Reed, who took over as head of the mobile phone unit last Summer, will stay at Motorola and work closely with Brown, spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson said on Sunday.

Motorola has been criticized for a weak phone line-up and failing to come up with a strong successor to its Razr phone.

The company also faces pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn, who has said he would nominate four directors for Motorola's board this year. Icahn said in a television interview on Friday that he wanted new management for the mobile division.

Greg Brown took over as CEO in January, replacing Ed Zander.

Motorola on Jan. 23 warned it may lose more market share and post an operating loss this quarter as its cellphone business is taking longer than expected to turn around.

It also backed off its forecast for its mobile devices division to return to profitability in 2008.

Motorola forecast a first-quarter loss per share from continuing operations of 5-7 cents, before restructuring costs. Analysts had expected a profit of 9 cents per share, according to Reuters Estimates. (Reporting by Sinead Carew; Editing by Jan Dahinten)

© Reuters 2008 All rights reserved

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• Anonymous
• RA}
• 15 Feb 2008

Sunday, January 20, 2008
What's on Motorola's agenda?

On Jan. 1, Ed Zander officially stepped down as Motorola's (MOT) chief executive, with former Chief Operating Officer Greg Brown taking the reins. According to Gartner (IT), in the third quarter of 2007, Motorola's market share in the handset sector dropped 7.6 percentage points compared with the same period in 2006, relegating the vendor to the No. 3 position, behind Nokia (NOK) and Samsung. The tech giant is clearly wobbling and the changing of the guard raises the question: What role will design play in the company's new era? Will Brown call on Motorola's designers and engineers to try to match the success of the Razr, the iconic product launched during the Zander reign?

Clues as to where Motorola may be headed in the next three to five years can be found in an internal document, the Motorola Technology Outlook (MTO), which is initially available only to senior managers in the corporate technology office and business units (it will be posted later on the company's corporate intranet for all 66,000 employees to examine). Compiled annually since 2004, the MTO features trend analysis from the company's Research Visionary Board, an external group of 47 design and technology experts based around the world, and a spectrum of staff members, who identify key trends and concepts in mobile devices, the Internet, and other areas. BusinessWeek received exclusive access to a detailed summary of this year's 20-page document, which has never before been released externally.

A jumping-off point

The MTO outlines six directions that the company may focus on while planning its new long-term projects. They're meant to be macro-ideas, rather than direct recommendations, and, indeed, this year's trends seem both obvious and abstract. They are: "the immersive Internet," meaning that consumers will be online constantly, including on their handsets; "hosted applications," or standardized software that's available on a Wi-Fi or cell-phone network rather than vendor-specific applications available only on one device; "video rerouted," or TV seen not only on TV but on other platforms; "virtually there," or posting the physical world online in real time via sensors, GPS, and RFID tags; "securing the bits," or making mobile phones safer against hackers and identity thieves; and "stimulating the spectrum," or the emergence of entirely new networks beyond the traditional cellular ones.

While some of these seem painfully simple, the report's overseer, Joe Dvorak, technology futurist in Motorola's corporate strategy office, argues that the ways in which trends are applied in research and development within Motorola is complex. And the report does also provide scenarios for theoretical products or potential usages.

For instance, the document proposes "snowflake devices"—customized gadgets, such as smartphones or handheld computers, that display content specific to a consumer's taste and which feature speech and gesture recognition for a more human "feel." Or mobile handsets with fast-loading interfaces for quicker video downloads. While mere sketches of hypothetical handset applications, these proposals do seem to indicate the beginnings of Motorola's response to Apple's (AAPL) iPhone. Certainly they suggest Motorola is looking to enhance its user interfaces and software, two areas that critics have often pinpointed as needing radical improvement.

Focusing on the user experience

"It's not a surprise that Motorola is having the problems they're having now, because software and user experience are the real differentiators," says William Clark, an analyst with market researcher Gartner. Indeed, despite initial acclaim for the superslim design of the Razr, which became a must-have accessory soon after its debut in 2004, consumer complaints about the phone's usability soon bubbled to the surface.

So did voluble criticism of the phone's user interface for texting and the audibility of calls. A prevailing conclusion? The Razr was a beautiful device housing mediocre software.

Clark observes that Motorola's phone portfolio, while often sleek and even featuring unique features such as live TV, lacks a clearly defined "Motorola experience" in terms of brand identity. In addition, he says, by offering so many different styles for so many different market segments, Motorola's brand equity has become diluted to the point of being nearly generic. "The Razr 2, for example, has no soul," he says, adding, "Motorola has become the Acme of phones," a reference to the fictional maker of everything from anvils to birdseed.

Motorola seems to be suffering a condition common to many of the old-school tech giants: how to couple their huge engineering or technological know-how with what a user really needs. "The tech part is easy [for Motorola]. The social and human parts are hard. That's the part Motorola has difficulty with, because it's an engineering company," says Don Norman, the author of numerous books on design and user experience (including The Design of Everyday Things) (BusinessWeek.com, 12/5/07), and a professor at Northwestern University, who has served on the Research Visionary Board since its inception five years ago.

Clark, meanwhile, points to the company's recently released Crystal Talk technology, featuring two microphones that distinguish between the talker's voice and surrounding noise. It's bleeding-edge tech, and a potential selling point if only Motorola executives can work out how to market it to consumers effectively. And the company has added innovative design elements that might offer a more appealing user experience than even the iPhone: For example, the forthcoming Rokr E8 (an update of the disappointing Rokr MP3 phone that syncs with iTunes) features a flat, iPhone-esque touch screen along with software that offers a sensation of touch when using the digital keypad. And it has FM radio, which the iPhone lacks.

Exchange of ideas

Another Research Visionary Board member and former Motorola employee, Andy Seybold, who heads a Santa Barbara (Calif.)-based consulting firm, the Andrew Seybold Group, believes the MTO initiative might suggest the company is at last paying attention to its consumers' experiences—and also working on its internal communication. That's also been a big problem for Motorola, which observers say has led to competing mobile products and a lack of overall brand cohesion.

"Motorola has always had a problem sharing thoughts and technology across groups," Seybold says. "It's full of fiefdoms, and in the past they didn't cross-pollinate technologies. But the [MTO] document is so full of so many different ideas, it can be seen as one way of cross-group pollination."

Motorola's Dvorak emphasizes that the company is working toward synergizing its various departments. "We have a group that looks at consumer intelligence with the goal of analyzing consumer trends [vs. technology trends] in a similar time frame of three to five years, and we are now looking to collaborate more closely," he says. And although the consumer research group doesn't publish a report similar to MTO, an exchange of ideas is occurring, Dvorak concedes, "in an ad hoc way." In other words, the synergy isn't systemized, at least for now.

Whether this year's MTO, which seems to address problems that analysts and Motorola insiders are quick to identify with Zander, will spark the design of must-have phones with a distinctive Motorola user experience is yet to be seen. New CEO Brown may decide to ditch the MTO strategy altogether—it's a relic from the previous era, after all. His challenge is to capitalize on the design and technology advances already in place while waiting.

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• johndru
• GLP
• 15 Feb 2008

there's no better way in writing criticisms than what i've wrote here. you don't want to be gentle on a "dying" mobile phone manufacturer. i can't understand why it is SO hard for some people to accept the flaws and bad strategies of motorola.

you always PRAISE moto but in reality, they're having so much trouble inside. is it really hard to understand that MOTO NEEDS HELP? the company has accepted THAT FACT and i find it ironic that the some consumers can't accept it. i don't know if some people here are well aware of what's going on with motorola and just PRETENDING to know almost everything about the company.

motorola doesn't need lots of praises right now. they need HELP, ok? can't YOU understand that? suggestions are very welcome here and i dont know why some "moto fans" aren't giving any.

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• kell
• TIE
• 14 Feb 2008

iam sure there's a better way of writing to comment on the cons of motorola phones? look at ur own words, aint they full of sarcasm?

i agree this is for opinions posting but dont readers have the right to voice their doubts and clarify them? if u aint aware of, more than half of all these posts are bout ppl raising their doubts. their questions were politely replied by generous ppl. bare with me, before u comment on others, please take some time to look at urself first.

sorry people of ive polluted this forum, still, motorola certainly aint bad. =D

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• m
• mimo
• fvI
• 13 Feb 2008

is this fne a good music phone i can deal with the 2 mp camera but is it a good music phone please reply i really like this phone and i am in strong need for new cell phone thx

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• kell
• TIE
• 13 Feb 2008

please shut up if u dont know how to appreciate motorola phones, and u are respected for your choice.
and a reminder, no foul languages is part of the posting rules. Be polite if you still aint aware of. =]

anw, can anyone tell me whether changing of languages in messaging is available for v9? e.g to type chinese when it's in english mode? and is the phone laggy? cos many are telling me that it's rather lag. does it differ buying from different countries?
thanks!

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