Just when you thought things were looking up for Motorola, another Motorola misstep. At least they are doing the right thing and recalling the v710 because the camera shoots out of alignment pictures. (the same thing was wrong with the Nokia 7650, but they never did this).
but really, Moto - strap on a pair with some of these carriers. Improve your UI and get some of those good phone designs through QA a little faster!
The carriers do not like Motorola, so Moto does whatever they can to get carriers to use their devices, such as:
1. preventing 3's subs from installing external applications on the A920
2. Not allowing signed third party J2ME apps that access the network to be installed on their J2ME devices. yes that's right, if you write a J2ME application that accesses the network - all the other manufacturers allow you as the developer to get verified by Verisign and "sign" the application allow you to access the network. The carriers strongarmed Moto into locking their phones down so that either Motorola or the carrier has to sign the application. This is like buying a Dell, and having them approve everything you install on it (thanks to dick for the analogy). I have email responses from Moto customer support that verifies this if anyone wants to see them. Nokia and SE told the carriers "yeah, right". Seriously, a customer support email came back to me that said "the carriers made us do it."
3. Locking down Bluetooth on the V710 for Verizon so that the file transfer APIs are disabled.
Business is tight, they gotta do what they gotta do to get these carrier deals in place- but a very rough road to hoe for Moto here on out...probably the last straw for Verizon - they are already pissed at Moto's BREW implementations.
Posted by Steve at October 21, 2004 10:47 PM | TrackBack