Motorola's Krave ZN4 acquired, photographed
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 12th 2008 12:54PM
posted Oct 12th 2008 12:54PM
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posted Oct 12th 2008 12:54PM
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Do bad I have ATT....otherwise looking pretty slick!
nope. played with one and its garbage. the touch isn't exactly inaccurate, but its very slow to respond. texting is awful because with the flip open there is no way to comfortaably hold the phone in landscape mode. that coupled with how slow it is makes texting painful.
Your opinion is different from over at HowardForums where they are saying the screen feels more responsive than the Dares. Not that the Dare has a impressive touch screen to begin with as it's pretty sloppy.
The sideways typing is a bit strange though. I always assumed that flap would be able to move completely back to lay flat on the back of the phone when open. That's just strange if it can't do that since when sideways your hands naturally hold the sides of the phone when typing.
Ugh I wish the Storm came out this month instead of that. Need a new phone so baddly. I'm on a freaking Windows Mobile 2003 phone right now.
I agree with you 100%,..more or less took the words right out of my mouth. We played around with it at work for awhile and everyone thinks it's a neat idea but the execution is poor. As a righty it was unbearable to text with on QWERTY mode, and even the lefty had trouble finding a good position. The touch itself is responsive but the menus are extremely laggy and the phone itself is even slower than the Glyde.
Many of the positives on this phone are really just things that make you say "wow, cool" and have no real point at all. The fact that you can use the touch from the outside without flipping it open is kind of neat, but you really can't do anything on the shortened menu they give you...
Another gripe I had was that when you're holding the phone up to your ear, it's extremely long and just doesn't fit right compared to the usual thin and long flip style phones most people are used to (Razr, LG 8600/8700, etc.). Everyone that's seen it at our store thinks about the same thing...an unusal gimmick phone from a company that's drowning without a life preserver.
That's funny, I got 10 good minutes goofing off with this bad boy and came away quite impressed (mainly because when I first heard of it I didn't expect much). The touch screen is very responsive, NO lag at all (no clue where in the hell other people got that from), and my right handed self had no problems at all texting with it. I'd still take a Voyager over this but this seriously aint bad.
Just read the forums over there and see it has a glass screen apparently. Was not expecting that at all. I'd be all over it if it were not for the Storm coming next month.
This is nowhere close to the Storm...it's not even really anywhere in the league of the Voyager or Dare. It seems like it'll probably compete with the Glyde in the lower cost touchscreen segment, and give people another choice in a more familiar form factor.
utterly VZW, you can't add makeup to a pig (VZW's UI).
There is an interesting talk called "Global Mobile" at Stanford Univ. on Oct 21st, where Device Anywhere, MoBlast and KPCB's Cyriac Roeding are on the panel. This may be a good venue for some of you to ask them questions about how to build and test applications on mobile platforms that can run anywhere in the world. Goto www.vlab.org for more details.