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Motorola’s Unfriendly Cell Phone (BusinessWeek):

Users who just want a no-frills phone won’t be bothered too much. That is, until they flip the darn thing open and try to use it.

This is actually the most crisp, short, and beautiful description of the stupidity of Motorola phones.

I don’t know why stupid Motorola cannot manufacture a usable mobile phone. I am exaggerating? Then try using the phone book of the Motorola RAZR V3. I think it is really the most-ever-stupid phone book I’ve ever seen.

You know, Motorola really designs great looking phones - the RAZR is probably one of the most beautiful mobile phones you can have (excluding Samsung, but I don’t really like Samsung for various reasons) - but Motorola never ever managed to have good, acceptable, decent usable user interface.

How difficult can it be? I mean, Motorola, please check out Nokia and SonyEricsson. It can’t be so darn difficult to make a decent user interface…

The worst thing with the RAZR V3 was actually that you cannot enter multiple letters to search for an entry in the phone book. So, if you’d push the buttons 4-6-3 (for “IMD”) and expect it to jump to the first entry starting with “IMD”, you’d be (rightfully) suprised if the darn thing jumps to the first entry starting with “D”, because it has only one-letter searches. Now the big news: To top this most stupid user interface function I’ve ever seen in my life, Motorola has in fact built in the function for searching for more than one letter into the firmware - but switched it off in the user interface! Why? Because they are just stupid - as stupid as described in the Business Week article above!