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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/18/08

    In reply to First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets
    Lindsay...if you're out there, I beg of you.


    Smite them. SMITE THEM!

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    Image of surfer88 surfer88
    12/18/08

    In reply to First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets
    I wonder... were Motorola phones ever really THAT good, or did we just think they were because of their popularity in the early 90's? I have a Slvr candybar model and other than making phone calls, it really doesn't do anything else convenient for me.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/18/08

    @surfer88: Motorola actually builds decent hardware,....unfortunately, gives the consumer end the short end of the stick. If you ever looked at their government equipment, it's actually top notch. Excellent build, reliability and usability....but then you look at their consumer line and think WTF WHY DID THEY DO THIS?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/18/08

    In reply to First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets
    I can see the headline already:


    "NIAGARA FALLS!!!"


    C'mon, that's too easy. Not to mention it looks like a garage door opener.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/18/08

    In reply to First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets
    Yeah. Motorola needs the vowels for this one.


    You can't have a phone with an "N", a "G", and an "R" and hope that people will pronounce it right.

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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    12/18/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: I'm sure even with all the vowels in there, some redneck coming into the store still isn't going to be able to pronounce it right. If people can pronounce RAZR incorrectly, Niagra doesn't stand a chance.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/18/08

    @ceilingFANBOY: It's better than naming your product I Beat Blaxx.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/18/08

    In reply to First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets
    Niagara Phone. Slowly I turned....


    Away from Motorola.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/18/08

    In reply to First Smartphones, Now Feature Phones: Motorola Leaks More 2009 Handsets
    Maybe the Niagra will be the Viagra Motorola needs to stay afloat...
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    11/23/08

    In reply to Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
    FYI.... St. Tammany Parish is not a suburb of New Orleans. A "parish" is Louisiana's equivilent of a County. So I doubt that a county could be a "suburb" . Since St. Tammany is across the lake... I am going to say he is from either Slidell, Covington, Mandeville, or one of those other Klan Infested Areas.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    11/23/08

    In reply to Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
    Yah, big deal... I heard from a friend of a friend who is deployed in Iraq that the 3G iPhone stopped a 120mm mortar round and saved an entire platoon.


    /sarcasm

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    Image of Skorpius Skorpius
    11/23/08

    In reply to Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
    Its always fashionable for people to rip on Moto all the time, but their build quality is incredible. I'm still using my StarTAC which I bought in 2000. Still works.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/23/08

    @Skorpius: I have to admit I'm jealous. The StarTAC was a brilliant phone.
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    Image of Scazza Scazza
    11/23/08

    @Skorpius: ask anyone who has owned, worked with, or repaired razr phones before, and they will tell you that looking at a razr the wrong way usually kills it. And nowadays Moto are no where near as good as they used to be, a starTac could EASILY take a bullet from closer ranges, that phone and all the original moto phones were built to last forever.
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    Image of TBM-Fan TBM-Fan
    11/23/08

    In reply to Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
    and what can we learn from this story

    always keep your phone close to the heart

    but if the bullet was fired @ the max range that's still deadly he wouldn't have survived
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/24/08

    @TBM-Fan:
    If it was fired at the maximum possible range where it could have still penetrated to his heart (assuming it missed the ribs), smacking into a cel-phone should have ablated enough of the force to save his life. He probably would have either still had penetration (just not deep enough to be lethal), or he would have felt like he'd been kicked by a mule and had an impressive bruise to show off.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    11/23/08

    In reply to Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
    The guy still used a RAZR, eh?


    *shakes head*


    It's truly sad the way New Orleans has struggled to comeback while the rest of the nation continues to ignore the plight of its people.

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    Image of mycintosh mycintosh
    11/23/08

    In reply to Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
    There is no way, that the RAZR would have stopped that bullet.

    The bullet would have been way more deformed, left alone the phone.

    Mythbusters busted this already with an iPod.


    Its just a lie or an ordinary news story, you can decide

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    Image of reefdog reefdog
    11/23/08

    @mycintosh: the pic of the bullet is stock footage, not the actual round. I saw a pic of the real bullet and yes, it was properly deformed by the impact. It's been said multiple times already, from far enough away, even with a ballistic trajectory, the bullet will lose enough of it's stopping power for this to occur. Also take into account that the phone was in a shirt pocket, not tight against his body so there was room for the phone to move and deflect the round, like a trampoline, which is coincidentally the idea behind kevlar fiber in bullet proof vests. Flex and give are the keys to energy absorption and dispersion of a projectile.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    11/23/08

    @reefdog: Did you watch the video? They said "THIS was the bullet". Here is another pict, albeit blurry, and you can see the bullet is not deformed
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/24/08

    @mycintosh:
    Bullets lose speed as they push their way through yard after yard of air, and given enough height and distance would eventually reach a point where they're just falling straight down with the force of gravity (the easiest way to achieve this is to fire straight up, and once gravity and wind resistance overcome the ballistic force, it will reverse direction and simply fall back to ground). There's also the possibility that the gun malfunctioned in some manner, and the bullet never really achieved any real speed. Regardless, it most definitely _is_ possible for something as flimsy as a cel-phone to stop a bullet once it's lost enough speed. The trouble is, hitting a target that small at sufficient distance for that much loss of velocity would be damn near impossible. It'd be much easier to recreate the experiment by firing rounds that have had most of their gunpowder removed.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/23/08

    In reply to Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
    Looks like the Hatfields and McCoys are at it again!
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    Image of RobotVampire RobotVampire
    11/10/08

    In reply to iPhone Passes the RAZR to Become Best Selling Phone in the US This Quarter
    WOW! The iphone really outsold a 5 year old phone that VZW, Alltel, US Cellular & Sprint don't even carry in my area!!? That is immpressive! What's next, a post about how that new-fangled water actually gets stuff wet?
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    Image of sos10 sos10
    11/10/08

    @RobotVampire: No, the iPhone outsold the phone that was bestseller for the last few years.
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    Image of efenili efenili
    11/10/08

    In reply to iPhone Passes the RAZR to Become Best Selling Phone in the US This Quarter
    How that RAZR ever sold so many is beyond me, I always thought it was the biggest POS phone ever made.

    The title is a bit misleading, I thought you were talking about total sales which I felt was impossible...and was right. But I guess it makes for a better headline
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    11/10/08

    @efenili: It was one of the thinner, sleeker, phones when it came out. I still have my RAZR and it works fine. I didn't get one when it first came out though, and it came free with my plan.... I only do free phones :c)
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