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drexappeal said:
OMG! If Motorola manages to accomlish this, as the rumors are saying, I think that's definitely #Winning

Motorola X to be a flagship brand with customizable hardware [RUMOR]

In the words of LL
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out - YouTube
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I think this is what most here have wanted all along.If it pans out to be true,it could be a game changer.

But,in light of recent news of even more staff reductions @ MOTOROLA,I doubt the depth of the a la carte model is gonna run very deep.Most likely limited to memory/color options,perhaps a QWERTY & size option as well.Not much different than what we have today,including the "promise":rolleyes:of one upgrade during the life cycle (read:not NEXUS).

More than likely,this "rumor" was started by MOTOROLA to attempt what the others did yesterday,steal some of SAMSUNGS' thunder & hold potential customers @ bay until they get their phone to market.

I do hope someone can deliver on this model,but,I'm not waiting around for it,as no matter what comes out,something is ALWAYS left on the table,keeping us coming back for more next time.

If BURGER KING can do it,so can the phone manufacturers:;)

Burger King Have it Your Way 1974 Commercial - YouTube

Sorry,I couldn't resist,in light of last night's SGS IV event.:D
 
KOLIO said:
I think this is what most here have wanted all along.If it pans out to be true,it could be a game changer.

But,in light of recent news of even more staff reductions @ MOTOROLA,I doubt the depth of the a la carte model is gonna run very deep.Most likely limited to memory/color options,perhaps a QWERTY & size option as well.Not much different than what we have today,including the "promise":rolleyes:of one upgrade during the life cycle (read:not NEXUS).

More than likely,this "rumor" was started by MOTOROLA to attempt what the others did yesterday,steal some of SAMSUNGS' thunder & hold potential customers @ bay until they get their phone to market.

I do hope someone can deliver on this model,but,I'm not waiting around for it,as no matter what comes out,something is ALWAYS left on the table,keeping us coming back for more next time.

If BURGER KING can do it,so can the phone manufacturers:;)

Burger King Have it Your Way 1974 Commercial - YouTube

Sorry,I couldn't resist,in light of last night's SGS IV event.:D
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Remember what I told you, bro? At minimum 1 year from when the merger was finalized and they could right the ship. An "a-la-cart" phone, even if the different selections are somewhat limited, would be a game changer for sure and definitely a move in the right direction. That said, I'd still give it a whole year to see how it sells and performs, prior to saying that type of offering will do well. Price point is still a factor, as well as usability on CDMA providers.

EarlyMon said:
And yet, a few weeks ago a Google exec downplayed their upcoming offerings.

Wish I knew who to believe. :(
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Yup...it's hard to not get caught up in the rumors, especially when the rumors are "game changing." I'm SO glad that I've been extremely happy with the Note 2 because the X phone rumors have been the most intriguing out of all the rumors I've heard, including the ones about the Note 3.

The only other rumor that would make me just as curious as this "a-la-cart" x phone rumor, would be flexible screen to make a "true" phone/tablet w/ HD output....that would trump the "a-la-cart" for me.
 
It's called saber rattling.

I'll give you long odds that something happened behind closed doors.

And I doubt that Samsung will move away from Android. Inventing a winning phone OS is hard. Ask Apple, RIM, MS and Nokia. Samsung software? C'mon, seriously not great. TouchWiz is ok, but after that - no no no.

Rather than move away from Android, if I had to bet, I'd bet that Samsung tried to threaten them that they might, to win some concession or the other.

Remember the history - it's important. The day that Google said they were buying Motorola, Samsung came out in Korea and said, don't worry workers, we'll never trust a foreign power and their stock shot up.

Then Google said, don't worry, we won't hold Android back from you when we buy Motorola (as if they ever would except in some deranged fantasy) - and Samsung announced, ta da, we really put it to Google. And the home crowd cheered.

That actually happened already.

Motorola was going under. If they did, we'd have lost our only domestic Android producer of phones. Google couldn't afford that, they couldn't afford to not buy them.

Ever since, we've been hearing that Samsung could be the injured party, Samsung needs to go to their own os, Samsung is going to their os. Baloney sausage.

Maybe someday - but not anytime soon.

Meanwhile on that year by year thing - the Google CFO said that they needed to clear an 18 month pipeline before doing their own thing. If true, and if we count from when when the deal started, that puts us out at November to see anything.
 
EarlyMon said:
It's called saber rattling.

I'll give you long odds that something happened behind closed doors.

And I doubt that Samsung will move away from Android. Inventing a winning phone OS is hard. Ask Apple, RIM, MS and Nokia. Samsung software? C'mon, seriously not great. TouchWiz is ok, but after that - no no no.

Rather than move away from Android, if I had to bet, I'd bet that Samsung tried to threaten them that they might, to win some concession or the other.

Remember the history - it's important. The day that Google said they were buying Motorola, Samsung came out in Korea and said, don't worry workers, we'll never trust a foreign power and their stock shot up.

Then Google said, don't worry, we won't hold Android back from you when we buy Motorola (as if they ever would except in some deranged fantasy) - and Samsung announced, ta da, we really put it to Google. And the home crowd cheered.

That actually happened already.

Motorola was going under. If they did, we'd have lost our only domestic Android producer of phones. Google couldn't afford that, they couldn't afford to not buy them.

Ever since, we've been hearing that Samsung could be the injured party, Samsung needs to go to their own os, Samsung is going to their os. Baloney sausage.

Maybe someday - but not anytime soon.

Meanwhile on that year by year thing - the Google CFO said that they needed to clear an 18 month pipeline before doing their own thing. If true, and if we count from when when the deal started, that puts us out at November to see anything.
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Before Google's CFO even made that statement, I was singing that tune to many of the Photon users that were losing confidence in Motorola. Many were expecting "instant" changes that would not only help Motorola, but the many consumers that had faith in Motorola's product (myself included). I had faith, but at the same time became a little disillusioned when Motorola retracted their early promises of upgrading the Photon to ICS (along with some other Motorola phones from non-Verizon providers). That was the point when I figured it'd be best to step away, until Google was really able to dig their paws into righting the Motorola ship (assuming that was even possible). Even November would be before my projected 2 year timeframe (w/ a 1 year minimum), so if Google does manage to pull off the "a-la-cart" phone by that time, I'd be amazed that they were able to act that quick.
 
Let's see if it's just me -

HTC released versions of the One last year and everyone screamed bloody murder that they were doing it wrong.

Samsung has more variations of the Galaxy S3, including different names and just as many as HTC, and people actually believe that they're doing it right because "Samsung only makes one model of the 3!" I repeat, people actually believe that.

Now - the Motorola X is CLEARLY going to be several actual models, but they're not even going try to hide that the emperor has no clothes. They'll simply claim that they can call several different models by the exact same name, tell people that's called a la carte, and already the blogosphere is buying it hook, line, and sinker.

Isn't that about right?

Gosh I'm glad that HTC is finally building one model like everyone else.

Too bad it's not a la carte like the incredible Motorola X.

You can't make up what this industry gets away with in broad daylight.
 
drexappeal said:
Before Google's CFO even made that statement, I was singing that tune to many of the Photon users that were losing confidence in Motorola. Many were expecting "instant" changes that would not only help Motorola, but the many consumers that had faith in Motorola's product (myself included). I had faith, but at the same time became a little disillusioned when Motorola retracted their early promises of upgrading the Photon to ICS (along with some other Motorola phones from non-Verizon providers). That was the point when I figured it'd be best to step away, until Google was really able to dig their paws into righting the Motorola ship (assuming that was even possible). Even November would be before my projected 2 year timeframe (w/ a 1 year minimum), so if Google does manage to pull off the "a-la-cart" phone by that time, I'd be amazed that they were able to act that quick.
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The PHOTON fiasco is still fresh in my mind.Perhaps not as bitter or vocal about it,but,very mindful of their handling of it.The locking it down w/the 2.3.5 update & playing dumb/amnesiatic episode/history revision,etc...whatever you want to call it,was an immature & downright deceitful move.

Even though they've "cleaned house",MOTO will have to "show me the $",talk is cheap.

Until they prove that they're gonna actually support a phone in a relatively timely manner,as good as the MOTOX sounds like it can be,I'll take a pass on it.

They'd better roll out something before SAMSUNG steamrolls 'em w/the SGSIV & NOTE III.

Don't get me wrong,I think MOTO will be around for the long haul,whether they gain market share or not.

As EM eluded to earlier,GOOGLE is in this for the long haul, w/MOTO being the sole US manufacturer.

I really liked my MO'PHO & perhaps in a couple years,MOTO will be sailing along just fine.I'll take a look @ 'em then.
 
EarlyMon said:
Let's see if it's just me -

HTC released versions of the One last year and everyone screamed bloody murder that they were doing it wrong.

Samsung has more variations of the Galaxy S3, including different names and just as many as HTC, and people actually believe that they're doing it right because "Samsung only makes one model of the 3!" I repeat, people actually believe that.

Now - the Motorola X is CLEARLY going to be several actual models, but they're not even going try to hide that the emperor has no clothes. They'll simply claim that they can call several different models by the exact same name, tell people that's called a la carte, and already the blogosphere is buying it hook, line, and sinker.

Isn't that about right?

Gosh I'm glad that HTC is finally building one model like everyone else.

Too bad it's not a la carte like the incredible Motorola X.

You can't make up what this industry gets away with in broad daylight.
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Difference between the variations of the S3 vs. the variations of the One (last year) is that the high end models of the S3 were all physicially the same. The high-end variations of the One last year, were not.

The variations of the S3 that were released were all mid-range w/ lesser specs and were not necessarily available to the countries that would garner the most sales of the higher end models. I don't know any variations of the S3 that had at least the same specs, if not better. That wasn't the case with the HTC One. Arguments can be made that there were certain aspects of the HTC LTEvo that were much better than the originally announced One, but LTEvo was a variant of the One. Then, there was the One X w/ higher specs.
 
drexappeal said:
Difference between the variations of the S3 vs. the variations of the One (last year) is that the high end models of the S3 were all physicially the same. The high-end variations of the One last year, were not.
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With differences in processors, radio transceivers, memory (type and amount), modems, glue logic and antennas - basically, everything except the case, screen, digitizer, camera, sensors and buttons - the variations of the S3 were hardly physically the same. And the S3 with LTE in the US was not the S3 LTE, that was the Australian model.

The US One XL came out and everyone cried foul. The US SGS3 came out with the same exact differences than the international model as the relationship of the One X vs One XL, and Samsung simply didn't bother to honestly rename it - and everyone praised Samsung for not making two different models, not like that bad HTC.

That was pure marketing hokum, and had nothing to do with physical reality.

One S, oh, the horrors, they broke their promise for just one model! SGS3 Mini, brilliant!

Cheers. ;) :)

PS - I therefore stand by my remarks about the so-called Motorola X a la carte.
 
EarlyMon said:
With differences in processors, radio transceivers, memory (type and amount), modems, glue logic and antennas - basically, everything except the case, screen, digitizer, camera, sensors and buttons - the variations of the S3 were hardly physically the same. And the S3 with LTE in the US was not the S3 LTE, that was the Australian model.

The US One XL came out and everyone cried foul. The US SGS3 came out with the same exact differences than the international model as the relationship of the One X vs One XL, and Samsung simply didn't bother to honestly rename it - and everyone praised Samsung for not making two different models, not like that bad HTC.

That was pure marketing hokum, and had nothing to do with physical reality.

One S, oh, the horrors, they broke their promise for just one model! SGS3 Mini, brilliant!

Cheers. ;) :)

PS - I therefore stand by my remarks about the so-called Motorola X a la carte.
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Bottom line though...

Were 3rd party manufacturers able to make accessories specifically tailored for S3's, that would work across the board for majority of the world?

Was that the same with HTC?

So, while I understand your argument EM, from a marketing standpoint...much easier to justify saying Samsung made the same phone available worldwide vs. HTC's One, despite the internals not being the same.

If you asked the general consumer about all of those things you brought up, they'd look at you with a blank stare. If you showed them the differences physically between all the S3 variants vs. the differences in the One series variants...which series do you think the general consumer would say are different phones vs. the same phones?
 
Christopher583 said:
Really curious to see what HTC have in store. They have been quiet lately.
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Might wanna look here:

HTC

and here.:)

HTC One - Android Forums
 
Great straw man argument.

Did you see the video of the iPhone 4S owners, handed an iPhone 4S, told that it was an iPhone 5, and every single one of them couldn't get over how much bigger and high definition it was compared to their existing phone?

So while the hypothetical "general consumer" comes up often, that can mean whatever you like for any results you choose, in my opinion.

None of which addressed my point - that multiple X models, masquerading as one a la carte model, is the height of folly.

And Samsung started it while another maker didn't get a fair shake. ;)
 
EarlyMon said:
Let's see if it's just me -

HTC released versions of the One last year and everyone screamed bloody murder that they were doing it wrong.

Samsung has more variations of the Galaxy S3, including different names and just as many as HTC, and people actually believe that they're doing it right because "Samsung only makes one model of the 3!" I repeat, people actually believe that.

Now - the Motorola X is CLEARLY going to be several actual models, but they're not even going try to hide that the emperor has no clothes. They'll simply claim that they can call several different models by the exact same name, tell people that's called a la carte, and already the blogosphere is buying it hook, line, and sinker.

Isn't that about right?

Gosh I'm glad that HTC is finally building one model like everyone else.

Too bad it's not a la carte like the incredible Motorola X.

You can't make up what this industry gets away with in broad daylight.
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That was what I was thinking.

Now ..if the design is that i can upgrade the different parts of the phone as needed.

Example ..I had 1gb ram ..to save money then at first ...then wanted to upgrade to 2 ..I can. Or replace the screen with a higher resolution

That would be a game changer
 
EarlyMon said:
Great straw man argument.

Did you see the video of the iPhone 4S owners, handed an iPhone 4S, told that it was an iPhone 5, and every single one of them couldn't get over how much bigger and high definition it was compared to their existing phone?

So while the hypothetical "general consumer" comes up often, that can mean whatever you like for any results you choose, in my opinion.

None of which addressed my point - that multiple X models, masquerading as one a la carte model, is the height of folly.

And Samsung started it while another maker didn't get a fair shake. ;)
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LOL...Yeah, I remember that video. Couldn't stop laughing.
 
If the rumors of the Moto "X" device are true, I would love something like that. I would even consider doing the TMo prepaid route for that.
 
NYCHitman1 said:
If the rumors of the Moto "X" device are true, I would love something like that. I would even consider doing the TMo prepaid route for that.
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Look at you... Swearing never to own a Sammy, or a Motorola, and now having one and considering the other ;)
 
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