Motorola RAZR and A1000 Win Mobile News Awards 2005
Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:51 pm
Last Thursday, March 17, 2005, it was a double whammy for Motorola at the mobile phone industry's most prestigious award show, the Mobile News Awards 2005, where Motorola won Most Innovative Product for the RAZR V3 and Technological Advance for the A1000.
It was a suitably glamorous affair held in London and Motorola collected not one, but two of the coveted awards, the only company to do so on the evening.
The stunning and stylish RAZR V3 was awarded Most Innovative Product - beating off some very stiff competition. Judges referred to the handset as "quite simply the sexiest mobile phone ever!" The judges heralded the RAZR V3 as, "the new benchmark for mobile phones", and, "a visionary piece of kit. Style and functionality all wrapped up in a must-have, iconic, sleek design."
Storming ahead of competitor's handsets, the Motorola A1000 was crowned the winner in the Technological Advance category for its truly fantastic 3G functionality. The judges believed the handset was, "the best 3G phone on the market - big design advance. A small, usable phone that utilises all 3G features."
Commenting on the double win, Ron Garriques, Executive Vice President, Mobile Devices Business, Motorola Inc, said: "As pioneers in 3G technology and with a history of delivering revolutionary innovations around mobile phone design, Motorola is extremely excited about winning these two particular awards. It's great to receive recognition for Motorola's hard work especially from our colleagues within the mobile industry."
Mobile News is one of the UK's leading mobile magazines and the awards are now in their eleventh year. This year's panel of judges was a hand picked collection of respected dealers, industry veterans and other mobile industry specialists.
IMO the RAZR is overhyped and overrated. Aside from its thin exterior, its just a repackaged V600. Sure its thin, but give me substance.
2. Posted by PunkRock
Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:40 pm
Substance-wise it may be so-so. But aesthetically, the RAZR deserves the award. It's been awhile since something so striking has hit the industry... and the sales should speak for themselves.
3. Posted by knutars
Sat Apr 16, 2005 1:22 pm
I can't speak for RZR which I haven't tried yet, but the A1000 that I use daily has been thouroghly scrutinized by me at this point.
What I can't understand is how designers seem to try to even out the advantages in a new 'improved' model by adding some disadvantages compared to the old, replaced model.
First and foremost, the nav key was better on the old A925, who in its place replaced the ancient A920, that was equipped with an even better nav key. Strange as it seems, on the looks of A1010, that model will have a decent nav key.
The second most important disimprovement is that you need to take out the battery to replace the memory card. On the A920/5 the card was hot swappable. Why Motorola, why do you do this to us? Haven't we suffered enough?
The bronze medal for dishonourable deterioration of design goes to the strange stylus and its awkward placement. How could anyone put the stylus slot in the bottom of the phone? With the phone in its cradle you can't access the slot.
Anyway, having said this, the A1000 is still quite a piece of art. It fits in your pocket, sounds great with the built in stereo speakers, lasts a whole working day on a full battery charge and browses the Internet with style through the great (battery consuming) screen. The agps is a really helpful tool with an OK accuracy. The camera may deliver fair quality images on a sunny day, however with an annoying delay between 'shutter release' and actual exposure.
The UIQ OS on the other hand has only been improved since A925, no drawbacks here.
Best of all software novelties is the Opera Internet browser. What an improvement!
I don't want to be unfair, but even if this is the best phone in existence right now, which I agree it is, it's still not good enough. There are some really annoying flaws and I hope that Motorola will employ me to beta test their future models before deployment. Hell, I'll even do it for free, just to be able to get my hands on the Perfect Phone.
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