[IxDA Discuss] Motorola Motofone User Experience

[Josh Viney]

I agree that it looks like a cool phone, but what makes it really different
from any other phone? It's great that they took the time to research the
mobile phone experience around the world, but I'm very skeptical about
whether coming up with a new display, menus, and "universal icons" is really
worth anything.

Check the specs. There are no new features, and it looks like they might be
missing a couple. There's no MMS, WAP, Web browser, email, camera, edge,
Bluetooth, music player and the list goes on.

It occurs to me that the new display technology is probably why they can't
support some of the features like MMS, a Web browser and camera. It may be
that in India people aren't interested in more advanced features (doubtful),
but what happens when they launch this phone in Japan, Korea (if they make a
cdma version), HK, Taiwan, China, Europe where advanced features do matter?

- Josh



On 12/7/06, Joshua Seiden <joshseiden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but there is almost no discussion of the way
> the software behaves. (A small nod to flat navigation...) Motorola is
> starting to pimp design, but as always with Moto, it's just about the
> static
> elements. Hardware, icons, even sound get their own shout-outs. Where's
> the
> love? More importantly, isn't this just more of the same?
>
> JS
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