Comments on: 2009 is the year of the Moto for Verizon; more upcoming handsets revealed

By: KEN

KEN — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:00:57 +0000

WHEN DOES THE FAIRBANKS COME OUT???

By: Paco

Paco — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:02:47 +0000

Motorola needs to get out of the stone age and create something we havent already seen before. Just have to wait to see what LG is going to bring to the table this year.

By: Johnny Smith

Johnny Smith — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:58:51 +0000

Bring on a new line of Q’s Motorola! Make the camera better in quality and you’ll make me a happy camper!

By: sayed

sayed — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:19:38 +0000

that is nice phon

By: echo5

echo5 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:40:59 +0000

Obviously they aren’t due until 2012 since the displays show Feb 29th

By: spadecrazy

spadecrazy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:19:14 +0000

Well put Likeabite. Plus will all the slamming of Moto stuff by the GSM whiners copmaring everything to the iPhone the talk IMO is garbage. With Apples design what will they be able to come up with down the road, my guess nothing worth while. However does this mean that all us iPhone haters can knock Apple for not having and ideas down the road.

Anywhoo I think Moto is doing the right thing myself so bring them on.

Oh and to the folks that say VZW will not have/use Android, WRONG it has already been stated they will. First phone with it at this point is out just over a year from now tho. So before you make a statement know what you are talking about.

By: Likeabite

Likeabite — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:34:18 +0000

Lol @ Joe the Plumber and Ari

I think people on this blog always forget that not everyone wants and/or uses a smartphone. Yes that market is growing sharply but dumphones (I hate that stupid word btw) are still the biggest seller, which is evidenced by the Razr being the best seller all this time until the iPhone recently took it’s spot. Not everyone is as tech savvy as those who visit BGR and those that are not do not always want smartphones, especially now that all these phones require a data plan. I have a Storm but honestly how many people do you know actually need internet on their phone, as opposed to those you know that don’t?

The majority of people are satisfied with cool looking phones like the dare/instinct/sidekick/decoy and whatever else you want to throw into that mix. I think Motorola realizes that there is a niche for everything, which is why they have something for the smartphone crowd, the Flash, the Calgary for the dare/instinct/sidekick crowd and then there are these phones that are shown here. There are more elderly and younger kids in America than there are any others so these phones should do just fine. It’s a start so I hope they keep trying to innovate and not rely on old successes to keep them in the game.

By: pwmccarthy

pwmccarthy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:35:03 +0000

The unknown touch key on the Harmony is most likely for enabling/disabling bluetooth. Looks to be the exact same layout as the W755.

By: lalith

lalith — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:14:19 +0000

anyone noticed the CLR button, i haven’t seen em in any of the other moto phones.

By: Ari

Ari — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:07:54 +0000

Moto was probably typing on an iphone when they misspelled NiagAra.

By: anonym

anonym — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:51:13 +0000

these look like cheap shiny Chinese toys, thanks I will pass.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:45:51 +0000

I have always liked Moto, but I will never again buy a phone without a qwerty keypad. I have become a big time texter, and think all future phones should have qwerty keypads. Texting without one is too much of a pain

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:08:30 +0000

YAWN

Moto needs to pick something and focus. Look at Apple, they make one handset and it is awesome in it’s dominance.

Moto could create one great device using the Android OS and focus like mad. Eventually they could branch out, but sometimes a focused effort is warranted instead of flailing about half-assed. (I keep telling my daughter that…she hasn’t believed me yet either)

By: mu$h da great

mu$h da great — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:09:14 +0000

the flash is still the only one that interest me.

By: DavidB

DavidB — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:57:20 +0000

I’m with David A here. Not impressed. Moto appears to have given up on trying to innovate, and like Ford/GM/Chrysler just isn’t making a product people really WANT. Verizon will sell a ton of these though, just because they are Verizon, they will be number 1, and there isn’t much choice in their lineup.

By: malkstor

malkstor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:26:31 +0000

The Calgary and Niagra actually look very beautiful to me. Hope the specs will be allright.

By: David A

David A — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:20:44 +0000

@black

I honestly don’t see verizon releasing an adroid phone. allthough they were seen at an oha (open handset alliance) conference they haven’t really shown any steps towards bringing it to end users. Sprint also didn’t show to much intrist in it either, but they are much more likely than verizon. they even dumbed down the htc touch pro on their network… moto isn’t doing anything cutting edge and their designs aren’t very cunning either. verizon ui is still verizon ui and all their phones are just shells basically doing the same thing. the razr was their last success and that was 2001.

@bg
do you think this is the end of moto? I mean they did have a cool design on the slider keyboard phone but its still a dumbphone. that with windows mobile could have been something or a gsm counterpart with andriod that would be breaking some new ground but all I see here are some more verizon feature phones with color schemes for preteens…

my opinion is motorola much like the US auto industry is just to far behind the rest to come out of the hole…

By: Black93300ZX

Black93300ZX — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:16:50 +0000

Honestly I just hope their Android phone comes to AT&T; I preordered an Agora Pro, but I want a capacitive touch screen! I have a feeling I’m screwed, seeing all of these VZW-only Moto handsets.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:48:39 +0000

only calgary and flash stand a chance. they’re ok, but all the others are straight garbage. too bad i’m not hearing about android on those 2 tho…

By: David A

David A — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:51:36 +0000

All i see is a bunch of redesigns of the razr again. they wont win any awards with these phones.

By: tony

tony — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:41:03 +0000

The vzw ui is different on almost every phone. It’s not like it used to be. And I don’t care what service you have, you can’t beat vcast.

By: TopBanana

TopBanana — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:40:20 +0000

For anyone that will only use gsm and lives in north america, you are an idiot! There are more cdma users in NA than gsm so that market calls for unique devices which is why CDMA gets more variety in NA and gsm gets european/asian models from last year instead of the great cutting edge models

By: topbanana

topbanana — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:33:37 +0000

For anyone that will only use gsm and lives in north america, you are an idiot!!! There are more cdma users in NA than gsm so that market calls for unique devices which is why CDMA gets more variety in NA and gsm gets european/asian models from last year instead of the great cutting edge models

By: gadgetchic

gadgetchic — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:30:15 +0000

whats the point if its going to have that piece of shit ui verizon puts on everything. its like serving a 5 course meal on a trash can.

By: The Boy Genius

The Boy Genius — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:29:33 +0000

@Mike

Or is it LG Chocolate PLUS Space Mountain?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:14:32 +0000

Is it me or do the Calgary and Niagra have a “Space mountain” feel to them. I don’t know why but that’s the first thing that popped into my head when seeing them, and I think it’s pretty dead on.

By: jorGeorge

jorGeorge — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:53:01 +0000

Well to be fair, the Moto phone is missing a third “a”. (Niag_ra) so it’s not EXACTLY the same.

lol

By: cwcanty

cwcanty — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:35:43 +0000

@jorgeorge

My thoughts exactly. Except the BB Niagara will be much sweeter! Geez, moto isn’t even creative enough to get their own codenames, lol

By: Mr.Tecjunke

Mr.Tecjunke — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:24:37 +0000

Just can’t see motorola digging themselves out the hole w/ CDMA units…maybe I’m GSM biasis but it’s just something about being able to switch back & forth from my unlocked HTC pro & Nokia N85,lol!

By: jorGeorge

jorGeorge — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:58:07 +0000

so there will be two Niagara’s for Verizon in 2009?