Motorola RAZR 2 V8 for T-Mobile caught in the wild
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 12th 2007 9:32AM
posted Oct 12th 2007 9:32AM
[Thanks, Chris]
posted Oct 12th 2007 9:32AM
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Looks ok I guess, not going to win any prizes though. I’ve had the Razor’s for years, bit bored of them now, nothing really new. Looks like there’s loads of little gaps around the edge of the keys and screen’s to catch scum and dust. Yep this type of design was great a couple of years ago but I think things have moved on.
It looks pretty sweet, but why does it look like the main screen is so small?
Because that's not the main screen. That's the screen on the outside of the flip.
I heartily retract my statement. I was looking at the wrong picture. Yes that screen looks tiny. Reminds me of my ghastly RAZR original.
That cuz the phones is REALLY big. Walk into a Sprint/Verrizon/ATT store and check it out. That sucker is HUGE! It's a 2.1" inch screen btw.
yes, as with those sony erricson phones.
weve had them in britain for a while now.
keep up engadget!
Hahaha... Who's blind? Who's doesn't know about "Motorola Razr 2 V8" but likely know about "Motorola Razr 2 V8"?
External Display: 2.0 inch (the biggest external display in the class).
Internal Display: 2.2 inch.
OS: MotoMagX (the newest "Linux Java" created by "Motorola" own).
Processor: 500 Mhz (second faster processor mobile phone; the fastest processor mobile phone is 624 Mhz on "Motorola Rokr Z6").
Other:
Touch Sensitive with Vibrate.
New Interface
Micro USB Charge (other brand already agree to using "Micro USB Charge" to be standard charge).
Soon you can watch video in external display like "Motorola Razr 2 V9M".
More detail => http://www.motorola.com/motoinfo/product/details.jsp?globalObjectId=200
Same shitty Motorola OS? How about a side button that turns the ringer off when it brushes up against something in your pocket, a Motorola staple?
Same lack of such basic items as ADDRESSES in the contacts? No to-do lists? Same abysmal handling of multiple numbers (home, office, etc.) for each person?
Same utterly incompetent and defective syncing software from Avanquest (Motorola Phone Tools)?
I'd bet YES.
New OS as it runs on Linux now (if I remember correctly). Also, the side buttons to still have that lovely Motorola 'feature', but you also have the ability to lock the external buttons so it won't go silent just as you are waiting for that important call.
Oh, and you can set it as a mass storage device if you like,a nd stick your stuff on it that way rather than using the Avanquest program.
Thanks for that info, Stephen.
So if you have to lock the side buttons, then they're worthless. So, no side buttons on the phone. Check.
Loading stuff onto the phone as mass storage is one thing, but if you're out driving around and you need to look up someone's address in your contacts, what then?
Or if you're at the grocery store and you've stored you grocery list in Outlook as a task list, what then? Or how about if you're up at a lodge with some friends and you want to make lasagna and the recipe's in Outlook as a memo? In 2007, can a Motorola phone display memos, much less sync with Outlook properly?
Motorola continues to create new garbage that not only fails to add value for the user, but can't even match the functionality of devices with 1/10 their memory. It's truly pathetic.
1. To unlock the side buttons. You just have to hold the small one on the left for 2-3 seconds to unlock (Same process to lock it)
2. Contacts can now store addresses
3. You can add an email account to the phone and receive/send emails. It also has Exchange ActiveSync.
4. Whats with the grudge against moto?
Thanks for the info. That side-button design sucks terribly.
Good news about the addresses in the contacts. It's about time.
My grudges with Moto are plenty. I got a StarTAC around 2000 and only got rid of it when it finally went bad and Verizon wouldn't activate them anymore. They nailed the UI with that phone, for its time. The side buttons did exactly what they should, when they should've. And with that limited LCD display, they managed to competently show multiple phone numbers per person; whereas on their full-color high-res screens, they list every number as a separate row by default, so two people's numbers essentially fill your whole screen. Genius. There are tons of mistakes like this.
Then there's the Razr. They finally figured out WHY people liked the StarTAC: the size. It took them years to figure that out and produce what should have been a reasonable successor. But they botched it with the pathetic UI gaffes like the ringer-canceling side buttons (on the wrong half of the phone, no less; who holds a phone by its screen?), the non-repeating voice-mail notification, the missing contact info, the lack of tasks... there were numerous others but I don't remember because I didn't buy the phone. I eventually got an E815 and a half-gig memory card. And with half a gigabyte of memory, I still couldn't carry the information from my 8-megabyte Handspring Visor. And the thing was as big as the StarTAC. And the 0 key was only 2/3 the size of the other keys.
Then there came the ridiculous "wavy" keyboard layouts. And the endless promises of the V3x, which never arrived in Motorola's home country, the U.S. That's a good one right there: Years of releasing new phones everywhere BUT the U.S.
The Slvr: There's nothing to say about this turd except that it was a turd.
Now they introduce a bunch of Razr successors that reveal that they STILL don't understand the appeal of the Razr: its thinness. They've introduced phones that are thicker but NARROWER. WTF? Only the thinness of the phone matters, as long as it fits in a pocket. No one was complaining that the Razr was too wide.
Capping that off is the insufferable offense of Motorola selling to its customers a piece of excrement like Phone Tools. They didn't write it (Avanquest did), but they tolerate and resell it.
All this is coming from a shareholder.