Comments on: Now available: Motorola Karma QA1 from AT&T and HTC Ozone from Verizon Wireless

By: phone101

phone101 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:31:12 +0000

I have the ozone from verizon and it is great. wifi cdma and I have unlocked the gsm and put an at&t sim card in it and it works! Never been able to do that before, plus I got. it for $21 with a 2 year upgrade and new every 2 discount. Great buy.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:07:42 +0000

Is the motorola Karma qa1 has wifi??

By: because i said so

because i said so — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:02:03 +0000

Could we agree it is the best Verizon smart phone so far this year? Or, you know, you could just fuck off…

By: Biggest Plus

Biggest Plus — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:41:19 +0000

@ i said so

No. It may be a great deal, but that wasn’t what you said. It’s a good deal yeah, but it’s not the best phone out this year. May not even be in the top 10.

By: Castro

Castro — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:32:07 +0000

I’ve never owned a WM phone and not sure how tech savy you have to be to make this phone worth while? I currently have a touch VZW dumb-phone and want more from a phone. Mainly I want to be able to listen to MLB games and XM radio. Any advise would be nice…

By: because i said so

because i said so — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:36:09 +0000

Really? I haven’t seen another phone with these features at this price. The Curve is close, but is also over two years old and you still can’t gps, wi-fi, and 3g in the same device. For $50, it will sell like RAZRs, especially if VZW still doesn’t require a data plan on WM phones (they didn’t on my Q/Q9). It isn’t the game changer the Pre is, or an uber device like the N97, but outside the comments section on BGR, this is a very solid device. Oh and QWERTY is always a winner.

The haters are just pissed that they can’t bitch about Verizon being overpriced and locking out key features anymore.

By: Biggest Plus in Mobile

Biggest Plus in Mobile — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:20:17 +0000

Wifi on a Verizon phone? Woooww.

Also, “I said so” best smart phone this year? Really? You’re that dense?

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Augusta United States

By: because i said so

because i said so — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:56:41 +0000

HTC Ozone FTW. Best smartphone this year.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:27:07 +0000

Wow, so there are cell phone companies out there that release phones without 4 months of “in the wild” shots and a month for pre-orders.

Take notes T-Mobile jackasses.

By: rodt

rodt — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:59:08 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. I mean what happened over there. I find it hard to believe not one person at Moto had the balls to come out and call this thing too ugly to make. From the Razor to this. Oh how the mighty have fallen

By: Cranemachine

Cranemachine — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:49:32 +0000

I noticed Verizons website said the Ozone had 192mb RAM NOT 128mb.

By: ~Phel

~Phel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:42:55 +0000

while I don’t like the HEAVY weight of the karma and it’s overall styling, I will give the keyboard a thumbs up, very quick to type on…

By: red014

red014 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:26:57 +0000

@ notHTCkid:

Also no mention of the Sprint model NOT having WiFi, OR world bands, and still costing 3X as much…

By: grrr

grrr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:07:31 +0000

@brewhaha

i’m getting the TOUR for $85, and that extra 35 is worth it. my eyes won’t bleed from looking at winmo standard screens.

@joeTOUR

another month of waiting would be TOURture. at least you won’t be paying full retail.

By: JoeTour

JoeTour — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:42:53 +0000

was this post meant to be a head to head matchup of the 2 ? if it is, you know who wins it hands down.don’t ya?
@ grr
im getting my coveted Tour on the two weeks after release date. with a ‘early upgrade’. anytime before that date means a painfull FRP which could mean $599 or more.

By: Rollins

Rollins — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:41:05 +0000

The Ozone is definitely a great deal for the money. You know, before Verizon put it up on the site, there weren’t really any good shots of the back of the phone. I think the silver back makes it look significantly less cheap than it did before. The 360 view also shows just how thin it is.

If Verizon markets it well, they’ll have a winner on their hands. If you can look past WinMob (or if you happen to like it), it’s a great value. I hope this represents a sea change in Verizon’s smartphone pricing.

By: notHTCkid

notHTCkid — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:30:12 +0000

what?\
no frantic LOVE for wifi on a verizon phone or unlocked GPS?

wierd that is ALL You idiots gripe about, and it is available on a lot of phones, but nobody cares now?

wierd, didn’t see THAT coming at all

By: AW

AW — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:25:18 +0000

Any word on GPS for the Ozone? Is it unlocked? There have been grumblings but there has yet to be anything more definitive.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:50:11 +0000

grr I agree with you. If the release date is right that means I will have pre-ordered the TOUR 2 days in advance…come on Verizon…let me pre-order!!!

By: BrewHaHa

BrewHaHa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:42:29 +0000

@Dusty….they are showing you what all the alerts look like

@grrr….uh, $150 more for a Tour…no thanks.

By: grrr

grrr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:38:21 +0000

i want to buy a TOUR today, not the ozone.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:29:35 +0000

I for one find the demo screens on phones for the PR campaigns kind of amusing.

Never do I let my phone out of my site for so long that I look at the screen to find my missed calls, voicemails, text messages, and emails lit up with numbers all over the place

By: Champs

Champs — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:13:59 +0000

That’s about enough with this QWERTY-on-a-grid layout. Adjacent rows should not line up, I don’t care how much you have to adjust to a phone’s keyboard anyway.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:04:52 +0000

Motorola still makes cellphones ???

By: Chuckie

Chuckie — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:04:21 +0000

What does Motorola put out such crap???

By: jk

jk — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:59:32 +0000

that moto phone is butt ugly.