Cut'n'paste UK launch for cut-price Motorola Android
Company 'droids speak identical lines
Motorola's Motosmart budget Android is coming to Blighty, courtesy of T-Mobile, which will be offering the cut-price smartphone for £100 on PAYG.
That buys you an Android 2.3 Gingerbread touchscreen handset with a 3.5in display, a 3Mp camera, 2.4GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi and a wee bit of on-board storage that you'll need to add a Micro SD card to.
“Simply put, Motosmart makes life easier,” said Victoria McManus, marketing director, UK & Nordics, Motorola Mobility. “You don’t have to worry about complicated settings and hard-to-follow instructions. Just turn this smartphone on and get instant access to the people and things in your life that matter most.”
Which is EXACTLY the same quote offered by one Simone Rossi, marketing manager, Mobile Devices, Motorola Mobility Italia, when the Motosmart was released over there last month:
“Simply put, Motosmart makes life easier,” said Simone Rossi, marketing manager, Mobile Devices, Motorola Mobility Italia. “You don’t have to worry about complicated settings and hard-to-follow instructions. Just turn this smartphone on and get instant access to the people and things in your life that matter most.”
Cut'n'paste much, Moto? Or are all these now-Google employees rather more Stepford Wives than they used to be? ®
COMMENTS
Please, T-Mobile, Don't bork a good phone like Orange do
Plain vanilla please.
If you really MUST stuff it with T-Mobile flavoured apps, PLEASE, PLEASE make them removable.
If you really MUST stuff it with T-Mobile flavoured games, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make them removable.
Even more please; if you insist on stuffing it with Trail versions of paid-for apps and games, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make them removable.
Orange - are you listening?
It would be nice if you also recognised that phones sell one shitload better if they are not locked in the fist place.
Am I the only one to think of electric wheelchairs when I see "Motorola Mobility"?
But, but..
In their defence, I have to say that “Simply put, Motosmart makes life easier, you don’t have to worry about complicated settings and hard-to-follow instructions. Just turn this smartphone on and get instant access to the people and things in your life that matter most.”
Re: Please, T-Mobile, Don't bork a good phone like Orange do
So true.
Orange always seem to be the worst as well, actively removing useful things and then adding crud and trial junk everywhere. For example ever seen the number of ringtones an orange phone has, then compare it to the base vanilla release and there are many, many more. There is, however, likely to be an orange "buy ringtones" app somewhere close... I've had orange mobiles which were so chock full of trial games which took so much of the available storage space that you couldn't even download the full paid version if you did pay for it.
If branding were limited to stickers / transfers on the case and logo'd backgrounds and sounds the world would be a better place. And I'd be factory unlocking fewer Orange mobile phones. Which would give me more time at the pub. aka. a better place.
If they want to put in trial games on special deals to upgrade, then this isn't a bad thing - after all they get kick backs from the sale of the game and hopefully we get some good games. But as the AC stated, they have to be removable...
