“Motorola Inc. is set to unveil a mobile phone with full-motion video display and the means to play feature films on small removable storage cards, Chief Executive Ed Zander said on Wednesday,” Eric Auchard reports for Reuters.
MacDailyNews Take: Ooh, full-motion video! Amazing. On small removable storage cards, no less. How Sony-esque. Must be some sort Motorola of tribute to the ’90’s.
Auchard continues, “Speaking at the Software 2007 conference in Silicon Valley, Zander briefly described one of the several devices the world’s second-largest mobile phone maker has said it plans to announce at an event next Tuesday. ‘We are going to show a device next week,’ Zander told several hundred attendees of the business software conference, saying it would show 30 frames-a-second, full-motion video. ‘It is a media monster.'”
MacDailyNews Take: Wow, 30 frames-a-second video on a media monster? Stunning. Ed Zander gives Real’s Rob “Never Met a Doughnut I Didn’t Like” Glaser and Microsoft’s Steve “Brainwash My Kids and Elderly Uncles Not to Use Apple Products” Ballmer a run for their money in the “World’s Worst Tech CEO” race.
Auchard continues, “The new device would initially be targeted at the European market… ‘We are working with another company to deliver movies on SD cards. You can start watching unbelievable quality movies,’ Zander enthused.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Our prediction for Motorola, cribbed from the immortal Mr. T as Clubber Lang: “Pain.”
Is this the first in a series of “iPhone killer” comedy articles?
Soon to be “Third Largest”
“The new device would initially be targeted at the European market… “
“…because we’re about to have our ass handed to us in North America.”
All I can say is…
Apple worked on the iPhone for years until they got enough of it right that Steve was willing to demo it, and has taken a further six months to make sure it was done right.
Motorola has been working on their idea since what, January 9? The only question is will they deliver something that wasn’t weel thought out, just plain broken, or both?
I vote for both…
I’m so glad I don’t work at one of those pathetic companies. I couldn’t face myself in the morning.
From Chrissy One:”The new device would initially be targeted at the European market… “
“…because we’re about to have our ass handed to us in North America.”
Classic
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“You can start watching unbelievable quality movies.”
He’s right. I don’t believe it. Paul Galvin and Joe Galvin came up with the name Motorola when their company started manufacturing car radios in the 1930s. Go back to what you know.
This is what Motorola gets for screwing up in the late 90’s.
They used to be the best, now they are just pathetic.
Kiss of death by Apple.
Just what the world’s consumers need right now, yet another all new video movie format to worry about.
The removable memory bit is a plus actually, and something that would make an iPhone purchase much more desirable for me. I’d rather have a phone that supports SDHC up to 32GB and be able to carry a few extra cards around with me instead of being limited to 8GB. Have to be buying a new iPhone every year as memory sizes grow.
Perfect photo caption.
“The new device would initially be targeted at the European market..
Why? Cause you think they are stoooopider?
phone history
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“Beleaguered” Motorola? Uhhh…yeah….riiiight
Motorola calls the small, removable storage cards “sticks.” Naturally, the mobile device itself is called the “stick-it.” The user is left to determine where and how far.
On a separate front, the estate of Gene Roddenberry sued Motorola, claiming that the small, removable storage cards were an intellectual rip-off of the data cards used in Star Trek.
Make it so…
Grasping for straws because of an unreleased product, wonderful. Moto had a big hand in letting a huge market stagnate (with respect to innovation). They deserve what’s coming to them.
“The new device would initially be targeted at the European market..
Why? Cause you think they are stoooopider?
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Nope, Buster. That’s because the iPhone will take a while to make it overseas. So the Motorola Stick-It won’t look as dismal in comparison. What is the retail price of this thing? If it is even half of the iPhone, then surely people will realize that they can get a mobile phone, iPod, video player and internet device (plus all of the other functions that will eventually be available) at a better value in the iPod.
whoops…”in the iPhone.” Of course, “iPod with video” fits too.
BTW, I also want to mention my recent experience in a purchase I made. A pair of Motorola cordless phones with a digital answering base station. Total piece of junk, infuriating operation. The handsets loose comm with the base station right when you answer an incoming call, the handset says “searching” and hangs up on the call. I thought buying Moto, it would be good stuff. HMMM, let’s see: 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040, and involvement in PowerPC design and manufacturing (at the beginning). I guess the seminconductor division is a lot different than the consumer products division. Beleagered, HA!
Now Moto starts thinking (way to late Moto).
This is just like what the sony psp does (movies on a card) and I haven’t heard one mention of how sucessful that is. Again nothing original just using someone elses ideas.
Moto u run to Europe, will be right behind you…
Most phones are released in Europe anyway because the European market is more advanced than/ahead of the American market, so it makes sense.
Apple went against this trend of releasing phones in Europe first. So Motorola doing this is no surprise.
Motorola will sell thousands, nay millions if they do one thing
Make porno flicks available for them
thats what killed betamax
Introducing … the Motorola … iPorn!
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(Super vibrating model coming soon!)
OK calm down there MDN fanboi, I welcome Moto’s stab at it. It’s good for the consumer, competition! It will keep companies sharp and on the ball towards technology. iPhone killer probably not, but we don’t want the iPhone to become the new Starbucks of cell phones! Consumers benefit from all these companies competing.
Oh! oh! Movies on my cell phone! Finally, a way to drain my cell phone battery in fifteen minutes flat! O happy day!
Sweet Mr. T photo MDN!
Going to look for a larger copy online now.
Perfect photo caption.
Actually “I piddy da fools” woulda been better!
Hmmmm, Zander – Zune, Zander – Zune, Zander – Zune. For some reason I have a hard time of taking this guy’s comments seriously.
Cubert: I met Mr. T at a Comdex show. I have an autographed photo of him in my office. He’s shorter than I thought.
Oh Gawd another company about to go belly up. Why is everyone out to kill Apple. I thought they were small and insignificant, and no threat to anyone. Apparently I am wrong.
Go Apple go go go go
the “iPorn” / Motorola vibrator reminded me of this hilarious YouTube video:
@KingMel
Good point!
I can see the board meeting now….
“QUICK thrown everything into one device! WE NEED TO DO SOEMTHING!!!”
This aught to be BETTER than the ZUNE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
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I love the sound of ‘beleaguered’ at MDN in the morning…
That Mr. T take was hilarious.
MW: ‘justice’ as in “for great justice.”
Pardon me. Since when is Motorola beleagured?
The reason why the “media monster” is headed to Europe is because they actually have the world’s most advanced mobille 3G network……Sorry iPhone…AT&T doesn’t have such a network, they just like to advertise that they do (while playing European made Oasis tunes in the background).
Oh and just wipe the dripping Kool Aid off your chin and get this….There is no deal with CIngular….Cingular went the way of Bellsouth…That’s right Apple made a deal with the 2nd incarnation of Ma Bell (my Bellsouth bills have the AT&T logo now and all that healthy consolidation..brought up my bill too!!!). That business bohemoth, that was so monopolistic, and provided such bad service that when the government broke them up the first time…it created the dynamic telecommunications market that we have now. That will make for a very ironic businesss coupling. On the one hand you have a Apple, a creative, dynamic resourceful company…on the other Ma Bell…slow moving, monopolistic, and no interest (or need) to provide good service.
My prediction: The first product change to iPhone will be the ability not to depend on Ma Bell.
Just my $0.02
P.S. Just ask the old timers how much fun it was dealing with Ma Bell type companies and ISDN lines. The internet would have never made it into our homes in the way it did if the U.S. gov’t hadn’t broken up AT&T the first time…no Vonage…no Skype..either.
God you MDN fanboys are lame. Soon as someone announces a product that will compete with the iPhone you squawk like monkeys. Your “Motorola will die” comments are no better than M$ pretending Zune would kill the iPod. Grow up and accept that Apple isn’t perfect and all other companies are not crap because they’re not Apple.
Don’t mistake the service of the old land line AT&T (“Ma Bell”) and the offspring resulting from it’s breakup (“Baby Bells”) with the WIRELESS carriers of today. Some wireless carriers have similar names, like Verizon and Verizon Wireless, but are in fact different companies. The history of AT&T/Cingular is a bit more complicated with many mergers and acquisitions forming the current company:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingular
@ Thorin
Try Panasonic cordless phones. I’ve had nothing but great luck with them.
Thanks C1! I am looking for a good phone, too and will check out the panasonic brand.
“We are going to show a device next week”
Oh, so you’re planning to show a product next week that you plan to release at some point in the future, that you plan to have some other company design video capability for… you’ll pardon the lack of excitement here, I’m sure.
Record & film executives STUPID!
Those sticks Will be sold @$29.99 or however much DVD films are sold at now complete with DRM
After all how will you download the films onto these cards? If you do it online, you will end up spending as much on calls as on the cost of the film….
Were do these people get their thoughts from?
C1 and Newton, I use a phillips DECT 225, It has a clear range of upto 15 feet. I take it outside and have very clear reception even with dorrs and windows shut. Includes an intergrated answer phone on a chip and an extra three handsets all with individual charging stations. You can use the handsets like a walkie talkie.
2 Years and haven’t had to change the batteries.
Still…. You have to try all sytems out first before buying.