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Review of the Motorola RIZR Z8 - third party applications and final thoughts
Published by Steve Litchfield at 5:55 UTC, July 11th 2007
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. Thanks to the open nature of the UIQ software platform, the Z8 is capable of running native third party applications (written in C++). This allows for compelling programs to be added to the phone. Shozu, as discussed in the previous part of this review, is an example of this. Applications can be installed either from the phone or from the PC Sync software.
The Z8 also has good support for JME (Java) including the ability to run multiple Java applications at the same time. The Java applications I tried worked fine, although, as with other phones, this is not necessarily guaranteed.
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Also what size microSD card is bundled with the sales package?
Anyone tried fring on the Z8?
e.g. "1" for Open URL, "2" for bookmarks...
Have fun
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.
IŽll 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.
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