As you probably know, I work for Motorola – but until recently have had very little to do with the mobile devices side of the business. So it’s not shocking that when I traveled up to NYC last week for our press event in NYC, I was in store for some surprises.
Sascha Segan (gimpy from a broken toe, but witty as ever) has already covered the new IDEN phones, and I only have one minor point to add. Don’t knock the rubberized phone backing until you try it. Love the grip.
Then there’s the GPS device I saw. Yup. GPS. Don’t know much about the Motorola T815 and didn’t get a chance to play with it, but just the fact that Motorola is incorporating GPS in its portfolio is fascinating to me. Convergence indeed. (The device gets paired up with a Motorola smart phone)
Of course, no Motorola event would be complete without massive presence from the RAZR2, the new Q9 and the Z8-I’m-only-available-in-Europe-ha-ha-you-silly-Americans. Shiny toys, and again illustrative of the convergence trend. Most interesting to me is the RAZR2 “See What I See” function. You can show somebody on the other end of the phone a video of what you’re looking at. As I’ve said before, I think this is a logical first step toward full video telephony.