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How I became a Motorola fanboy.

DirtyDee

DirtyDee

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Well when I first showed up on this forum last year with an lg device, I never in a million years thought I would be a fanboy of a single OEM.... Then the moto X hypebeast monster phenom extravaganza happened. And it became something magical... Dennis gave the keynote and dropped its biggest feature, "It knows" . When he said that I got the shivers and knew that I wanted their X phone. Every rumor fed itself up like it was to be the super phone to end all super phones... Then moto maker, make the X your own. Then it was released..only on att. I was tempted to jump to the death star because of that.

The buzz died down the results were in..moto X was a great phone just not the most powerful, and metro pcs was becoming GSM. I wanted to adapt early bought my first GSM device Motorola Atrix HD. S4 pro dual core one gig of ram 8gbs of storage with SD slot. That phone was my first device with an active community with boot loader unlocked... And it was glorious.. It also had the honor of being the first phone I took apart putting in a much larger droid RAZR maxx battery for that all day battery.

November rolled around moto g hit the mills.. Moto device number two, far better than my atrix in every way.. Camera, battery life and display. Too bad it wasn't bought for me...but unlocked boot loader.. Yea I tinkered on my lady's G. February rolled in switched to T-Mobile and disaster hit. My Atrix decided swim in a mop bucket of fabulosol and water ending its life, I was made to be..sad face man, a quick replacement mytouch 4g slide "shudder" eww, to which I replaced with a tl, which was good..but wasn't my beloved Atrix HD, my lady soon busted her moto g screen so I decided to spend 15 bucks on a droid 3 just cuz (an investment I would grow to love). Sony Tl died due to being in my pocket in heavy rain.. So I used that droid 3 and my touch 4g slide and replaced her moto g with a moto X.

I used that droid three for four months
While I rebuilt a droid mini, and bought a droid ultra.

Now that you have history, for some reason battery life was always good on my moto devices, and had consistent signal. I would think man I like that Sony phone, its great camera, for some reason I had Motorola and their terrible cameras. Slowly Motorola became the first oem to mind when thinking of android for android sake. They are wildly undervalued, easy peasy to take apart and put together. Tend to be solid reliable with well implemented software. Sony software is Always buggy after updates.

Honesty I know why I became a Motorola fanboy, motosheep or a moto devout, and don't care that I am. To me they are the best.

And they are just cool.
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I'm firmly in the Motorola camp, too. :) Started with a Bravo, then an Atrix 4G, then an Atrix 2. I have zero complaints with any of them. I barely even use my phone any more. (I don't get a signal at home, and I'm at home most of the time. I keep it in airplane mode, with wifi on.) I used to play games on it, but ever since I bought a tablet late last year that stopped. So my Atrix 2 is going to be my phone until it takes its last breath. Then...well, I'll probably replace it with ANOTHER Motorola phone. :D

PS Moving this to Android Lounge.
 
Might be good phones, but I won't own another. I had a RIZR and Motorola wanting $50 for the data cable was a bit much. Thanks to BitPim, got around it.
Once bitten, twice shy.

I'd like to take bits and pieces from all the phones and design what I want. I like the feel of Samsung, but don't like the excess baggage. Not too fond of LG right now - they want the right to snoop if you buy a smart TV. I don't trust them not to include that on the phones.
Sony - after the brouhaha about CDs and their copyright policy, I don't want them, either.
I'll keep my working Clies, but that's it.
Symbian - like Sony, had to use a form of KIES. Symbian dumbed that down the same way KIES did.
You also couldn't get rid of OVI maps.
 
I thought I posted it in the lounge ..oops as for 50 dollar data cable that is insane... 20 bucks should be the most.
 
Well, the only Motorola phones I had were a couple of dumbphones some years back. I guess my choice of carriers didn't help with selection at the time either.
 
Moto was my gateway into Android with the OG Droid and since then I've owned the Bionic (worst Android to date) and the Moto G. The G, I still believe to be one of the best and most underrated phones of 2013.
If only Moto could get their act together and put a decent camera (be it software or hardware, I don't care!) on their phones, I'd go for it. :)
I've seen some really good shots from my wife's Moto X but my G2 still consistently takes better pictures. Hoping the Turbo/X+1/Shamu can excel in the camera department. :D
 
Revenant Ghost said:
Well, the only Motorola phones I had were a couple of dumbphones some years back. I guess my choice of carriers didn't help with selection at the time either.
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That's the only Motorola I ever owned, a dumbphone about 12 years ago. Not seen many Motorola Androids at all, and certainly not any Droids. Might change though, seen as they're now part of Lenovo.
 
I've never owned anything from Motorola, they don't appeal too me at all.

They don't have any good stand out features, to me they're just generic and kind of boring so don't really understand the Motorola fanboy at all, must be a US thing. :confused:
 
All but one of my phones have been Motorola. Three of them were Android.

Here's an odd thing ... I think the most important thing for a mobile phone to do is ... voice communications. Motorola is the recognized leader. The quality of their product is so high I have ONE phone for business and personal use and no voice landline.

I was forced to another brand once and will NEVER own anything with their logo on it. It was in my pocket. Five of us went to a conference in two cars. I was in the car with one other person. On the way back after the conference it butt-dialed one of the people in the other car and transmitted 25 minutes of the conversation in my car to him. He told me about it the next day. Two other users of this same device reported that it happened to them also. Consider the implications.

The cameras in all Motorola phones are pretty bad. I bought a phone and not a camera. The leaks for the Droid Turbo and Droid Turbo Maxx indicate a 20Mp rear camera. Maybe it is finally being addressed.

Motorola is the reason I switched from US Cellular (best coverage in my area) to Verizon.

... Thom
 
Thom said:
All but one of my phones have been Motorola. Three of them were Android.


... Thom
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Pretty much identical for me, except I've had 2 non-motorola. The non-moto devices were a Treo 700p and the HTC Thunderbolt. The HTC was bracketed by an OG Droid and my current Moto X. I don't/can't upgrade every year so I've only had 3 Android devices.
 
boathead said:
you are kidding, right?

i'm sort of wishing that moto would put out a tablet, so fine are the moto's stand out features.
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Nope.

I hope they don't, the last tablets they made weren't very good. Do you remember the Xoom? I do unfortunately.
 
Shocky said:
I've never owned anything from Motorola, they don't appeal too me at all.

They don't have any good stand out features, to me they're just generic and kind of boring so don't really understand the Motorola fanboy at all, must be a US thing. :confused:
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Probably right, most of the Motorolas these days are Droids, no RAZRs, ROKRs, or RIZRs, which are only available from Verizon. I know you don't see those in the UK..nor China. But now Motorola is a Lenovo brand, one of the largest phone makers here. Lenovo may wish to establish a presence in those markets, and Motorola is a famous brand of course.
 
mikedt said:
Probably right, most of the Motorolas these days are Droids, no RAZRs, ROKRs, or RIZRs, which are only available from Verizon. I know you don't see those in the UK..nor China. But now Motorola is a Lenovo brand, one of the largest phone makers here. Lenovo may wish to establish a presence in those markets, and Motorola is a famous brand of course.
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That's true, also the devices that do get released here are released the US first. I know it's an important market but I really don't see the logic in that.

Only Motorola device I've liked so far is the Moto X but only because of high performance due to the lower display resolution which I doubt they intended anyway, it just worked out that way due to cost and component availability.
DirtyDee said:
People loved the Xoom can't find one cheap enough to buy
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What people? I know people that hated the Xoom, me included. So many problems with that tablet.

Asus did a much better job.
 
Shocky said:
That's true, also the devices that do get released here are released the US first. I know it's an important market but I really don't see the logic in that.

Only Motorola device I've liked so far is the Moto X but only because of high performance due to the lower display resolution which I doubt they intended anyway, it just worked out that way due to cost and component availability.
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Lenovo are one of the largest mobile phone makers in the world, yet they got no presence whatsover in North America and Western Europe for mobile phones, but they're very popular in Russia though. I can't think of any other reason than why Lenovo bought Motorola, other than to buy their way into those markets. I reckon they'll probably merge the two product lines, so they'll be the same phones, but they're still called Lenovo here in China, and Motorola Droid or whatever Stateside. Kind of like TVs or something, what we call a "TCL", it's called an "RCA" in North America, and a "Thomson" in Europe. Same TV sets, all made by TCL Corporation.
 
I've been a Motorola fan boy for a long time. Though I have owned non-Motorola phones, my experience with them has only served to reinforce my fan boy-ism. Non-Motorola phones have included Nokia, LG, Blackberry and Samsung. Nokia was my first phone, and it didn't disappoint; it would have been hard to disappoint - it was a phone I could use outside my house/yard, so I was thrilled. All the others left me wanting, for either call clarity, earpiece and/or speakerphone volume, ringer volume, a feeling of durability, etc. Motorola phones I've owned include StarTAC (LED display & LCD display), i1000, i560, i580, V950, OG Droid, Bionic, Moto X. Additionally, I've purchased numerous Droid X and Droid X2 models for family members. I've never been disappointed with the performance or durability of any Motorola phone. It will take a lot to get me to defect to another manufacturer, but once Lenovo is at the helm anything is possible.
 
I fist fell in love with the Motorola Flip-Out it was my first smartphone and it was small and interesting i really liked it and i still have it today but just as a display piece. I've heard that in my country they came out with factory problems and so on.
Nice post :)
 
I've owned a couple of Motorola dumbphones, both of which gave great reception and reliability (my L7089 timeport from 1999 still works fine). But in the smartphone era they pretty well forgot that markets outside North America existed, with the result that the brand has little visibility in the UK now (a big change from the mid 2000s, when RAZRs and their siblings were everywhere).

The G has been their first real success here for a long time, and the first model in a while they released at about the same time as in the States rather than 6-12 months later. Hoping they'll make more of an effort on this side of the Pond from now on.
 
Hadron said:
I've owned a couple of Motorola dumbphones, both of which gave great reception and reliability (my L7089 timeport from 1999 still works fine). But in the smartphone era they pretty well forgot that markets outside North America existed...
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For quite a while I think that Motorola got caught up in carrier exclusives, which I don't think are a thing outside the US. They made deals with the devils, and paid for it.
 
Revenant Ghost said:
Stupid move on their part.
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It was a scary world back then, apple still had it's exclusive, droid does campaign was making moto look great.... Then slowly it was making them look terrible, the Atrix line died, Verizon started to reign in on them slow updates and kill dev communities. And moto had no capital to stop it, so tons of sub par devices watering down the droid brand making it a joke, lack of support, behind on android versions.

Then after Droid turned on us..we turned on it. The term Droid often brought flashbacks of shoddy laggy gingerbread and no ICS in sight and the new name to behold "galaxy" s3 the true iPhone killer emerged.
 
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