You also forgot to mention that Ron Garriques wanted to be the #1 handset maker (measured by giving even Tom, Dick and Harry and Jane, and Mary a RAZR) at any cost, by cutting the margins down to nothing if not negative. Ergo Motorola going in a downward spiral since then.

Great choice Dell!

::Grumbles on her Motorola issued laptop and sighs longingly and her purdy aluminum Macbook...::

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Because the most important aspect of this article is the office he worked in right?

And Greg Brown (CEO of the BMS side of Motorola aka, the side that is not bleeding money) met with Obama today. Along with a boatload of other CEOs.

And Greg Brown works of of Schaumberg. Oh and did I mention that cops luvvv our products? And our hand scanners are oh so popular in jails.

But really, I'd do anything to make Motorola succeed. Well errr... almost anything. I already work 18 hour days by choice. I'm a glutton for punishment.

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Their website [generalmobile.com] doesn't seem to be active, which is not a great sign, considering the buzz this particular phone seems to be generating.

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I'm in the "physical keyboard" camp, as touchscreens, interesting as they may be, just don't give me much satisfaction. The lost of screen real-estate with a virtual keyboard, as just one example, is a major detractor. The added size potentially required for a physical keyboard isn't a big deal to me.

I don't require a phone to be wafer thin in order to love it. In fact, quite opposite, the thinner a phone is, the more I tend to see it as fragile; less of a practical device and more of a lame attempt as a fashion statement.

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Throwing a bigger more bad-ass battery at a phone isn't improving technology, it's a stopgap measure.

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I've seen batteries this size last quite a while with proper stepping, so I'm not surprised at all. Assuming Android can act accordingly, this will work well.

Others mentioned the thickness might be for a keyboard... I seriously hope so! I passionately love touchscreens, but I do feel better typing on the keyboard on my MDA.

My 'most wanted' feature is something new and found on the Palm Pre: the touchscreen shuts off when you bring the phone up to your ear. How f'n great is that? Why doesn't every touchscreen phone have this? Maybe we'll get lucky and the developer of this phone will hear my pleas and add it to this phone, thus making me buy it with or without a keyboard (but, really, at that thickness, it better have one).

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I agree re: the keyboard. The lack of physical keys is a turn-off for me, as touchscreens don't always cut it for rapid typing, or typing in near dark, etc. With actuall number keys I can dial in the dark if need be, speed dial, call 911, etc. A phone with only a touchscreen leaves me unimpressed, for the most part, as it seems to be mostly gimmick (battery eating gimmickry, at that), with little actual practical necessity.

The LG Voyager also has the handy feature of deactivating the touchscreen when you dial a call, or accept a call. Sadly, that is its only redeeming feature, as everything else about it was subpar, underpowered and poorly implemented for touchscreen use (having been based off the Env).

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