Comments on: Motorola Sholes (Motorola Tao?) Slides Through FCC

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:49:36 +0000

I think you are all idiots if you think motorola is behind. They hit a slump for a while, but this droid platform has way surpassed apple and all iphones. Apple comes out with the same damn crap over and over,iphone after iphone. It’s all the same just one little new thing after another, its nothing special at all, and the all touch iphone is old. Keyboards are the new thing along with touch, all touch will never be 100% sure fire, thats a fact, there are always going to be flaws with pixels and touch sensitivity.

By: marleyinoc

marleyinoc — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:49:05 +0000

I didn’t know what sholes meant, really. Which meant I was ignorant using their mods… til the last week and they’ve went mainstream. BAD IDEA! Wow, farging sholes… whatever it means, get it free at sholes.info… Horrible idea.

By: queenofspades585

queenofspades585 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:45:50 +0000

okay, when looking at the photos of the Droid and the “Sholes” — it is being said that they are in fact the same phone, but they are not! The only information on the VZW site is about Droid, no Sholes, and the two phones are seriously different — so where is the Sholes going to be sold and when will it be released?

By: tke789

tke789 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:14:13 +0000

The Moto Morrison passed FCC on 8/30 and eleven days later the Cliq was announced at the conference in San Fransisco. The Sholes passes FCC on 9/28 and thirteen days later is the Motodev summit. Coincidence? Maybe, but I hope note.

By: StephenSaurusRex

StephenSaurusRex — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:51:50 +0000

@Crypto
Whoa, whoa, whoa… so motoblur is just a package of (3) widgets? I guess I missed the memo, b/c rumors labled it as a user interface. Hmmm…
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I knew the sholes was supposed to be the fastest Android phone upon launch (soon to be leap frogged by Acer’s & then Sony’s phones). But I guess I just wanted it to look as attractive as the hero, software-wise. Despite your excitement (& trust me, i’m excited about sholes too), I dont see why your explanation would want to deter me from running a sexy looking rom like hero. Please explain, I’m an eager learner.
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Androidn 2.0 IS exciting… And dont get me wrong, i’d rather have stock android than no android (ie, iphone), but I’d rather have Sense UI so much more. especially if Shole’s hardware will help it run fast.
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So if Sholes isnt going to have blur, any sense of what Motorola is going to do to differentiate it from android (in software)?

By: Crypto

Crypto — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:44:31 +0000

@StephenSaurusRex

(1) There is no such thing as “Blur UI”, read more about it at Motorola’s site, you will be surprised. You can have any, all or none of their three active widgets on any of your five home screens. There is no “ugly” mess unless you decide it.

http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/MOTOBLUR/Meet-MOTOBLUR

(2) Sholes/Tao will not have Blur on it and will be the fastest Android yet, with an OMAP3430 – 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 + PowerVR SGX 530 GPU + 430MHz C64x+ DSP + ISP (Image Signal Processor)

It will have support for OpenGL ES 2.0.

(3) It will have Android 2.0 (Eclair), actually Motorola are driving this work and working closely with Google.

….. So you want to do what ?????

By: StephenSaurusRex

StephenSaurusRex — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:07:17 +0000

I’m afraid Moto Blur UI is too ugly for me to get into (just my taste), however, I’m afraid that the Hero’s 528MHz processor is barely making the cut despite firmware updates. Consequently, I’ve been checking out Sense/Hero roms on youtube and I’ve liked what I’ve seen.
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Anyone know if it would it be difficult to port those roms to the Moto Sholes/Tao? One challenge is that the G1 & Hero have the same display size (3.2″) while the Tao/Sholes is considerably larger (3.7″). I know the latest versions of Android will support different display sizes, but I don’t know what this means for roms.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:33:05 +0000

Verizon is probably one of the least important markets for phone manufacturers. If you make a phone for Verizon’s CDMA network that’s the *only* market you can sell it in (afaik), whereas if you make a GSM phone you can sell it more or less anywhere:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GSM_World_Coverage_2008.png

By: Weber

Weber — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:15:21 +0000

1: Virtual keyboards will always have latency issues. It has nothing to do with tactile keyboards, the software just can’t keep up with the speed at which some people can type (read: me).

2: Verizon & Sprint/Nextel are the ones that didn’t follow global 3G standards, but that’s about to change, seeing LTE is considered a 3G technology, probably becoming a 4G technology once the standards are hammered out in the ITU-R

3: I left at&t/iPhone for VZW/Storm and can’t WAIT to get back to a Moto product, which I swear by, and an open based OS.

By: ShivaFooL

ShivaFooL — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:11:03 +0000

I was born in the USA and my parents were born in Europe, so which is more important my DNA or my epigenome? ;-)
I think I’ll want to get this phone if Verizon doesn’t cripple it.
Cheers.

By: Crypto

Crypto — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:04:45 +0000

@vincent,

Or you could wait for the Tao Tablet on AT&T ????
(Pure Speculation)

By: vincent

vincent — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:12:46 +0000

There are 650 millions of people in the EUropean Union. Around twice the amount of population in usa. The UE economy is slightly larger than its counterpart. That said, per capita usa peeps have more cash to spend…

Or is it overevaluated by a speculative economy / culture ? I am a bit at a loss these days and am waiting to see how it plays out. Oh one thing i am sure of: real estate speculation is a monopoly game, almost nobody can afford prices raising faster than purchase power. Every nation needs a law to reign in.

/mode offtopic 0

Sholes/Tao has been on my radar for quite some time. I might be interested in the samsung bigfoot and the successor of the htc g1/dream if it ever comes out. Keyboard is useful when using modded roms or chatting during a game.

If i settle for a keyboard less mobile, i might wait for the sony ericsson x3 or archos phone.

By: Domino

Domino — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:14:06 +0000

Motorola has been having some trouble lately so it’s nice to see they are still trying to stay in the market. I actually think their MotoBlur service is going to be really big. It seems very handy, and no one else out there (except for Palm and their synergy) seems to be doing anything like that.

I like the interface, I like the widgets, and I like Motorola’s design. If it turns out they release this thing in a reasonable amount of time, I’ll be hard pressed not to go with it. I’m a die hard Windows Mobile user too, and it’s hard for me to say this… but Windows Mobile has really let all their customers down. My relationship with Windows Mobile is probably going to be limited to the Zune HD from now on. Android seems very capable, very awesome, and is something I can totally get behind.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:13:16 +0000

While China Mobile has more subscribers than the entire United States, I would doubt if their disposable income is near large enough on average for massive quantities of smart phones to be sold.

I’m pretty sure you can argue that since the USA has the highest GDP/capita, they have the highest disposable income. Thus are more inclined to by luxury goods, like overpriced cellphones with expensive data plans. Sounds like a good reason to me.

By: Rehnhart

Rehnhart — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:00:34 +0000

Can’t wait to see when the “Tao/Sholes” hits. If the other chatter is true, about HTC releasing some Android phones on VZW, then the Holidays will be real good at my house this year.