<![CDATA[Gawker: Razr]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: Razr]]> http://gawker.com/tag/razr http://gawker.com/tag/razr <![CDATA[Obama's cell phone sparks last-minute controversy]]> We knew there would be last-minute dirty tricks in this campaign — but who knew they would include attempting to turn the powerful Apple fanboy vote? iPhone Savior has revealed, with suspicious timing, that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama uses a desperately uncool Motorola Razr, not the iPhone spotted in his hands back in May. Then again, maybe Obama's trying to appeal to America's industrial heartland; Motorola is based in the suburbs of Chicago, where Obama has his campaign headquarters. Or, possibly, he just wants to make phone calls. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5076064&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Former Motorola insider slams company's incompetence, reapplies for employment]]> In what amounts to a public job application to Motorola CEO Greg Brown, Numair Faraz, former assistant to Razr creator Geoffrey Frost, slams the company and former CEO Ed Zander for astounding ineptitude. Catch the full story over at Gizmodo or see our 100-word version below.
After making repeated attempts to contact you via your office, I am forced to write this open letter to publicly air my grievances concerning Motorola.
Faraz continues: More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=373128&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Why it's splitsville for Motorola]]> Motorola, mortally wounded, is spinning off its handset business in slow motion. CEO Greg Brown expects the deal to go through next year. There's no Razr on the horizon to spur sales, thanks to former CEO Ed Zander's overreliance on the model. In San Francisco cofeeshops, the popular theory is that Apple's iPhone killed Motorola. Nonsense. Motorola killed Motorola. The population of the Bay Area is 7.2 million; despite the appearance that every man, woman, and child here now has an iPhone, Apple will be lucky to have sold that many by now. More »
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=372473&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Why You Bought the RAZR, and Why It Sucks Ass]]> Think back, if you will, to October 2004. It was an innocent time, a time when to have a cell phone typically meant one of those Nokia bullets or a Motorola V60 (hey, remember those?), or if you were all fancy, a big-ass Blackberry. We bring this up for one important reason: to trace just how you, and we, got suckered—yes, suckered—into buying possibly the worst phone on the market today, the Motorola RAZR. More »
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