I posted on this at Smartphone Thoughts as well. It seems that once again Motorola has lost its way in the mobile phone market. I say this with some sadness because Motorola always made my favorite cell phones (when we called them that). I have lost count of how many Motorola cell phones I have owned from countless StarTacs to Elites to the i60.
Each new one was different and had new features that I always appreciated. Roll the tape forward to the present day and what do we have? Pink RAZRs, black RAZRs, red RAZRs, purple RAZRs and well, you get the idea. Now they are doing the same thing with the Q. Q9, Q8, huh? How about an actual new device? What a novel idea that would be.
Jerry Raia is a full time Airline Captain when he is not playing with all the latest gadgets he can get his hands on. He is also a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI-AIM). His primary interests are with Smartphones and more recently, Photography. He was a Unix programmer in the 1980s and wrote assembly for HP proprietary handhelds like the HP71B.
His interest in handheld devices led to being a beta tester for Windows CE (Pegasus), the first incarnation of the Windows Mobile operating system. He is also a Contributing Editor on Smartphone Thoughts. Jerry’s interest in handheld computing goes all the way back to the HP25 calculator that came out in the mid 1970s and was one of the first programmable calculators.
