Rafat Ali of Paidcontent.org points to a BloomBerg article that talks about the success, or shall I say lack of success, regarding the new Motorola ROKR phone. According to the article :
As many as six times more customers are returning the Rokr phones than is normal for new handsets, according to American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin
I can’t help but feel sorry for Motorola. But of course the new ROKR probably did not cost a whole lot to manufacturer. As several readers pointed out in one of our Talk Back articles, the Motorola ROKR is basically a rebadged Motorola e398 phone. The problem is that the phone simply does not look like an Apple product. Add to that a storage limit of only 100 songs, and the phone is pretty useless. People are not fools, and they are not always as easy to trick as some of these executives might think. People want a phone that doubles as an iPod, simply throwing iTunes software on an existing phone won’t do. Its a waste of money for Motorola and they need to axe it now.
Rumors have it that Apple will be developing their own cell phone, the question is whether they will include Motorola in the big picture or not. Should they?