Review of the Motorola RIZR Z8 - third party applications and final thoughts

[slitchfield]

In the fourth and concluding part of his review of the Motorola RIZR Z8, Rafe Blandford looks at the third party application scene, demonstrates potential areas of incompatibility, assesses the Z8's potential and then concludes with his verdict on this stylish and different (smart)phone.

Read on in the full article.

[hargs48]

Great work Rafe with the 4-part review of the Z8,I dunno if its been mention but,how much free RAM is there after the device boots up & how is RAM management compared to the P990 and company?

Also what size microSD card is bundled with the sales package?

[stuclark]

The bundled MicroSD card is 512MB

[ares]

From the swiss manager screenshot you can firgure the RAM ammount...

Anyone tried fring on the Z8?

Try first tapping yhe "#" key and then the shortcut number.
e.g. "1" for Open URL, "2" for bookmarks...

Have fun

[krisse]

Great review. The Z8 is definitely good for Symbian, it needs as much variety and as many rival manufacturers as possible, not just to give existing users more choice but also to attract more people to the Symbian world.

Unlike the games console world or portable music world, the phone world is built on providing customers with a huge range of very different models, even from the same manufacturer. Hopefully Motorola will follow up the Z8 with some more Symbian models.

[bills2north]

Great article Rafe, thanks.
I´ll need to re-read the whole report. Please keep it posted a while.

Looks like (as you wrote..) Z8 is good for symbian, and bad for SE and Nokia.
I still believe that Motorola is the sleeping giant in the phone world. The big comeback will come sooner or later.