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This week marks the U.S. launch of the SLVR, Motorola's attempt to revolutionize the candy bar-style phone in the way that the RAZR forever changed clamshells. There is certainly no candy-bar style phone sold in this country that's as slim, and packed with as many features, as the SLVR. Still, I'm still on the fence about...
...SLVR L7 has iTunes. Many people have criticized Motorola's forays into Mr. Jobs' neighborhood, and the pattern may well continue: Like the ROKR before it, the SLVR has a low-speed USB connection, meaning it could only load a little over two songs per minute. It also has the famous 100-song limit, though that's part of the deal with Apple. A couple of hobbles still in place, yes, but for the time being, these Motos are the only phones that will play your iTunes purchases directly...
...SLVR is lacking a few things that would benefit customers. For instance, although "speaker independent" voice recognition software - an excellent safety feature if you're using a phone while driving, because it dramatically reduces the need to look at or touch the phone - can be found in many Motorola handsets, the SLVR isn't one of them...
...Also absent is a news ticker feature that Motorola and Cingular introduced in the V557. Right there on the phone's home screen is a little ticker of weather and news headlines, pulled down at regular intervals. If a feature like that is ever going to gain popularity, it's going to have to grace a sexier phone...
...just that Wall Street types, as usual, were hoping for even better, and their disappointment whipped up a tornado of selling that they may soon regret. Consider last week's big earnings so-called "misses." Apple Computer's net income rose 92%; Yahoo reported an 83% profit gain; Motorola's profit was up 86%. Not too shabby. Yet the stocks were trashed. Arguably, these companies should have done a better job of managing Wall Street's expectations, but they could hardly be managing their businesses better...