“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.