Motorola’s new SLVR mobile phone forgets vowels
Faced with stiff competition from some seriously good handsets coming on the market, and following the trend for increasingly thin mobile phones, Motorola have come up with the super-sleek SLVR. Typically Motorola in its naming, the device eschews vowels and opts for the txt-approach to English that leaves us wondering “SILVER? Er, SLIVER?” Whatever, the naming scheme may be pants, but at least Motorola (or should that be MTRLA?) do give their phones names, and it makes them so much easier to remember than the “SPH-B2300″ (you listening, Samsung?!) Note: Motorola’s naming scheme’s not quite so easy to remember after all - see after the jump.
Anyway, back to the phone. As you can see, it’s tiny (SLVR is on the left by the way, next to a RAZR and a BLLPNT PN). Not quite VK2000-tiny, but only 13.5×49x11.5 mm in size, making the RAZR look LMPY. It uses a TransFlash card (up to 2GB storage), has Push To Talk, but irritatingly only a VGA camera (VGA - in 2005? Oh come on now, Motorola!)
More details after the jump.
Motorola SLVR
The pic you see is here from BengalBoy’s fine site, a tech blog that offers much in the way of bling, and curiously the odd random lesbian snog (well, you would on a blog reviewing a mobile now, wouldn’t you?!) . I could have gone for many more fine pics from the excellent reviews at MobileBurn.com and Mobile-review.com, but somehow, BengalBoy’s site just pipped them to it! Come to think of it, BengalBoy’s pics at his ‘Wireless Gentleman’s club’ sure beat the crap out of my blog’s pictures showing my cat and a sodding Greek landscape that I took with my S700! Hmmm, perhaps a site redesign is called for….!
Motorola’s Naming Scheme
I spoke a bit about Motorola’s cheesy-but-memorable naming scheme. Turns out the names were too straight-forward for Motorola, so they’ve decided to confuse us a bit, just for a bit of fun. I mean, a brand’s meant to change randomly for maximum impact, right?! Michael Oryl at MobileBurn.com explains:
“It appears that when Motorola realized that they were going to have multiple variants of SLVR and ROKR and other “four letter word” handsets, they realized that the then current “V” naming scheme was quickly going to run out of combinations. As such, the SLVR V8 was renamed to the SLVR L7, the V270 and V280 were changed to the SLVR L2 and L6. At the same time the PEBL V6 was renamed PEBL U6, and the V1150 was renamed to the RAZR V3x. Confused yet? Nobody would blame you. “
Bless you Motorola for never making a story simple to tell :)
