The Insanity Of The Razr V3C

SMS <[email protected]> wrote:
> Don't blame Motorola for the crap Verizon pulls. Actually do blame them,
> since they should tell the carriers to shove it when the carriers come
> to them with requests to de-feature the handsets. It hurts Motorola's
> reputation to de-feature phones.

There is a minuscule percentage of the populace that realizes that this
harm is being done to Motorola's reputation. I think that means that there
is no perceptible harm to Motorola's reputation. Verizon customers
probably accept the limitation and think no more of it.

> of course only a fraction of a percent of users will know how to do the
> hacking.

I use Bluetooth to connect to my Motorola, and don't have the USB cable
required to do any hacking. It bugs me that I have half a dozen devices
that all come with the standard min-USB cable in the box, but the one
device that uses a goofy cable doesn't come with a cable in the box.

> It would be nice if MPT were included with the phones, but that means
> that the carrier would be expected to support the application, and no
> way that any carrier would want to support a piece of crap like MPT. It
> decides whether to connect to your phone based on lunar tides, it's the
> most unstable modern application that I've seen.

MPT is a gigantic multi-media extravaganza. This thread reminded me that I
haven't done a sync in a while, and there was a photo that I hadn't
downloaded yet. I fired up MPT, it connected with no problem, and I did
the synchronization. Then I used the Multi-Media studio to copy the one
photo, which I normally would have done with OBEX, the default Bluetooth
feature. OBEX presents me with something roughly resembling a single
Windows folder. I locate my photo, open a Windows folder where I want the
photo on my hard drive, and drag it over there. MPT wants to open a
multi-pane adventure, complete with editing tools. Given that i can't
start MPT without a phone attached, I am unlikely to fall in love with it
as a graphic editing environment.

I don't know where it started, or how it became the only Motorola offering.
It certainly is poorly written.

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SMS wrote:
> Somehow I don't think that the other carriers will be willing to tell
> people that they don't have to sign up for a multimedia package in order
> to get photos off their phone. OTOH, the revenue from photo sending has
> proved to be a huge disappointment to the carriers. The cameras are so
> poor that few people want to waste money on sending photos.

Not to mention that a lot of phones also allow photo storage on
removeable memory cards. I've sent a few photos from my E815, but
transferred many more off of it by the MicroSD card and a card reader.

But then again, most people aren't that smart of shoppers when it comes
to this stuff. I definitely think a smaller carrier could score some
points by comparing what their uncrippled phones can do against VZW's
offerings.