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I never would have guessed a year ago that the iPhone would ascend to dominance so fast.

not only that, some are offering rebates that PAY YOU $30 to take the RAZR, and I guess they're still not biting:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/11/10/razr-vs-iphone

now, how's Zander going to deal with that?

Of course you had to know the economy was going to tank when the Wall Street Journal published the shot of Paulson sporting a RAZR. All that coin, and he's slumming it.

I loved my razr, and upgraded to a 3G iPhone from it.

Razr phones weren't the best as far as being sturdy goes. Mine was replaced under warranty FOUR TIMES in two years for screens going out, reception going south, etc... and I never once dropped it or slammed it into anything.

Of course, most of my friends have replaced their iPhones under warranty too, so it may just be the nature of the beast so to speak.

Nov 10, 08 - 04:14 pm Comment from: chaz

That's assuming they adults can figure out the compelling reason to buy an iPhone. The majority sure aren't discerning PC buyers!!

Nov 10, 08 - 05:05 pm Comment from: jjjj

that blackberry storm commercial looks interesting. maybe RIMM has learned a thing or two...

oh wait, apple doesn't do enterprise.

Nov 10, 08 - 05:09 pm Comment from: jtc

I hated my razr. battery life was horrible and my screen died on me so needed to get replaced. Finally got the iphone as a company phone and tossed the razr.

"How do they deal with us?"

Does any body knows if Zander have already responded or no? I know he was fired from motorola.

The V3 RAZR is alright, although I find the one I purchased more recently to be of subtly lesser quality than the original one I had.

The sole reason I use it is to make phone calls, I have an iPod touch for every other use. The only reason I don't have an iPhone is that I don't want to pay a monthly voice charge. If I could pay $30/month for data and have the voice plan be pay-as-you-go, I'd go for in in a heartbeat. Doing anything more than making voice calls with the RAZR I find to be very painful, but it's small and I like flip phones. I don't want or need text messages, I don't use voice calling a whole lot, but I would like the ability to use 3G data anywhere rather than being restricted to WiFi.

Hopefully at some point in the future the iPhone will become a bit less restrictive and I will be able to just buy one and pick the plans I want for it. I wouldn't mind paying more up front just to have the freedom to have pay-as-you-go voice rather than a monthly voice plan. There is no point in paying another $30-40 a month for a bunch of services I don't need, whereas right now I pay exactly nothing a month for my cell phone (more like about $50 for 250 minutes a year).

My business partner just got rid of his Verizon Razr, it was constantly running out of battery life, and got an iPhone.

I just bought two iPod Touches with my AMEX points, to give as Xmas gifts to my mom and sis. They can use them to call me thru Fring, over their Skype accounts. If you have wifi the Touch is great.

Nov 10, 08 - 10:33 pm Comment from: Greg L

Odd. I’ve got a RAZR and I bought my wife a 3G iPhone. #1 & #2

Nov 10, 08 - 11:19 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

You know moto is kicking themselves for letting Jobs walk out of that initial meeting.

Do you suppose Jobs' sales pitch for a Moto-made phone resembled anything like the one that's burning up the market right now? I guess Moto couldn't bring themselves around to think different.

Moto is a lesson in what happens when you believe there is no room for product improvement or more than one way of doing business. But, they loved their razor didn't they?

Actually, it's a fitting lesson for the entire telecom industry who learned from Apple that you can't continue to suppress technological advancements just because your software is incapable of utilizing all of the features the manufacturers were developing.

It blew up in their faces and their five-years behind the power curve. Makes you wonder what Apple will be doing in five years...

Nov 10, 08 - 11:22 pm Comment from: G4Dualie

That's "they're five years behind" not their... doh!

Well, duh!!!! The last time I was in a phone store, I asked the sales clerk if they had any RAZR handsets, and the guy told me that they aren't selling them anymore, so yeah, I guess that the iPhone is surpassing RAZR sales. It's easy to surpass something that's no longer being sold.

I still love the look of the RAZR. A nice thin flip phone with a very different look that was out there. I loved that Motorola made an iTunes RAZR that worked even better with your Macintosh, although you only had a small amount of space for music.

Unfortunately, I've heard many horror stories that the "RAZR's curse" was that it was fashion before form. Sound familiar? The RAZRs thin design made it easier to brake in many ways. It was so thin that you could actually bend the phone. The cool, flat button design made it difficult to text message. The sound, battery life, reception, screen cracking, and buttons stop working, was always sub-standard than with other phones. Plus there was that whole Motorola OS that was so complicated to use.

But, it was so damned cool looking. I was hoping that with all of the new versions that the basic design could continue and maybe they would make the RAZR more sturdy, but maybe not now.

Congratulations, iPhone. Now if iPhone could make a flip phone, that would really be cool.

Nov 11, 08 - 02:08 pm Comment from: twilightmoon

Jacob: "I would like the ability to use 3G data anywhere"

That would require 3G data coverage to be everywhere. That's currently far from the case. Maybe you live in a heavily 3G saturated area, in which case good for you, perhaps you should buy a 3G iPhone, but most Americans still don't live in a 3G area. And that's not likely to change very quickly.

Nov 15, 08 - 02:40 am Comment from: Lisa P

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