
Recently, Motorola and Kodak presented a novelty in Beijing, which they will be promoting together so far exclusively on the Chinese market. The inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom, who had eaten a dog on crazy fakes-processing, seemed to the giants the most logical experimental subjects to study the reaction of buyers to a hybrid phone, which should return some of its former popularity to Motorola.
The chip news, announced last year under the name Motozine ZN5, is supposedly surpassing all the analogs of the built-in camera, to the eyeballs stuffed with the most advanced Kodak technologies. New sensitive sensors with improved color reproduction and noise absorption, clever autofocus and automatic settings should ensure the quality of the pictures, "comparable" with the quality that consumer soaps give. And Kodak seems to know a lot about soap cases.
But the “brick” form factor and the extremely dubious appearance of the keyboard (which, moreover, was made multifunctional and “smart” as far as it was possible), frankly, wouldn’t work for Motorola even 3 years ago. And this is despite the Wi-Fi available in the phone. In addition, the price is still unknown. And she can cross out all the advantages of the device at once against the background of his competitors, who flooded all possible and impossible niches with hordes.
And in the meantime, a whole generation of young techno-maniacs has grown up, in which the phrase "Motorola mobile phone" causes only an expression of skeptical surprise on their face. But it will be frankly a pity if it will be possible to say about Motrol "like this, the legends are leaving."