http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/ Engadget Mobile Comments for http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 4:45PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 4:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 4:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
so good.]]>Jun 14th 2006 4:56PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 4:56PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:01PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:03PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/i do like the keypad design though
making it skinnier makes the phone look fatter overall
it also looks like the external screen is a little bigger
i guess i would buy one]]>Jun 14th 2006 5:08PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:22PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:32PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:40PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:40PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
I can deal with finger marks. My blue sanyo has them already.]]>Jun 14th 2006 5:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:42PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/I want to see how much smaller it is?]]>Jun 14th 2006 5:46PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:55PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 5:57PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
The UI is also horrible with Moto phones like the RAZR and SLVR. Samsung's A900's UI is awesome compared to Moto's. They have some work to do, it seems cheap.]]>Jun 14th 2006 6:00PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/current RAZR UI: http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Page=8&Id=1107
(match that up to the pics)
screenshots of the new UI here: http://www.mobileburn.com/story.jsp?Page=1&Id=1876
I trust Peter Rojas to know what he is talking about.]]>Jun 14th 2006 6:02PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:04PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:05PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:12PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:14PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:29PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:30PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
"Is that a phone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" ]]>Jun 14th 2006 6:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:33PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
The missing button doesn't mean anything.]]>Jun 14th 2006 6:34PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:36PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:36PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:48PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 6:55PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
Slow to respond: press a key, nothing happnes, press again, nothing happens, press again then it happens three times. You either just lost your long text message or blew past the picture you were looking for etc.. annoying as h e you know what.

Menus are awful: menu, down, down, down, down, down, down, select, down down down..... Samsung is the ruler in fast access to all functions. How can you beat menu, 5, 1 to get to you inbox?

Combine these two and you have a combo that is only functional to the technology challenged or those who are slow thinkers.]]>Jun 14th 2006 7:10PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/> people bitch and bitch and bitch about the moto software like it's the cool thing to do. Other than the crappy phonebook (Which has been fixed in Canary), what the hell are people's specific gripes? Other than it sucks or blows or ? ]]>Jun 14th 2006 7:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
In a nutshell, the Motorola interface is a design disaster. The fonts and icons look particularly bad and dated. Like Windows 95 dated.

I agree that the Samsung interface is usually top notch, though not always. Overall it's clean, easy to get around and the icons are designed well. It also offers a decent amount of customization.]]>Jun 14th 2006 7:29PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
Things that royally suck on my Moto RAZR:
1) Unbelievably crappy phonebook. Why can't they group entries for one person like Nokia and Samsung do it? Why do I have to scroll down 4 entries to get past the 4 numbers that I have associated with one person? Really, super lame.

2) Stupid side buttons that stick out. I had the exact same problem with my Moto V60 and it doesn't look like they did anything different with the Canary. [To Motorola]: RECESS THE DAMN BUTTONS ON THE SIDE OF THE PHONE!!! The stupid phone is always beeping when I sitdown or bend over to pick something up, and it's always getting it's ringtone settings changed. I can't count the number of times I've missed a call because the damn phone set itself to silent ringer in my pocket. I'm just waiting on that life-or-death call that I miss so that I can have a nice lawsuit...

3) My RAZR has so much dust behind the faceplate that I can't read the display anymore in daylight. Do you think that maybe they could make it so that we could clean this once it a while (like the Nokia I use to have), or maybe seal it so that dust couldn't get in there (like my Samsung that I use to have)?



]]>Jun 14th 2006 7:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
Motorola needs to take a hint from Samsung (and dare I say LG?), and start fresh with a new interface... that thing is so oldskool!]]>Jun 14th 2006 7:41PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 7:45PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 7:51PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
The gripes are:
Slow to respond - What phones have you used recently? Every phone over the past year with the motoOS has been snappy (w/ excpetion of rokr w/ itunes playin)

Menus are awful - Ever hear of shortcuts on the moto OS? Nearly every operation can be shortcutted to a Menu Key + Number press
I do acknowledge some of the menu organization isn't great, but it's no worse than other phones. Just something you have to get used to.

fonts and icons look bad - Recent phones are better, but this is pretty minor...


Overall, those are some pretty lame reasons not to buy a phone. I'd have to agree if you said third party software support (moto OS really only supports midlets) compared to symbian.

Any other specifics people? Let the moto hate flow, but not in vague generalities.]]>Jun 14th 2006 8:12PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Bye-bye-moto
]]>Jun 14th 2006 8:15PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 8:16PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 8:17PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
Logic's a wonderful thing.]]>Jun 14th 2006 8:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/
and I can guarantee you that the Canary, (if it wasn't with that phone), will be using the new UI.]]>Jun 14th 2006 8:29PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 9:26PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/Jun 14th 2006 9:49PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/http://mobile.engadget.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/]]>Jun 14th 2006 9:49PM