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I knew about this phone coming out but didn't realize it was $799.99 retail, ouch, double triple ouch, but I suppose Motorola (meaning Lenovo) are considerate enough to realize that's a chunk of funding for most people that would literally hurt them big time so, for those folks that want the Moto Z2 Force and pre-order it they're throwing in the insta-share projector mod (retail price $299.99) for free so I suppose that's something to consider for some folks.
Along with the newer phone they apparently have a bunch of new Moto mods coming too, including one that turns the Moto mod-compatible devices into something like the Nintendo Switch or whatever, it's kinda funky but for those people that play games with their smartphones (I'm not one of those people) I suppose it's cool, looks like this when it's all put together:
and of course a bunch of other mods you can look into (the moto gamepad is not available yet, sometime in the near future supposedly). More mods can be seen here:
https://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-mods
I think, like it has in the past, the pricing on the mods is going to ruin it for Motorola once again. The only one that seems worth the money is the JBL speaker one, perhaps the Incipio battery one as well but, when you look at the Hasselblad camera mod (not that great, really, and it gets terrible reviews and it's a Hasselblad camera, for Pete's sake) and the Moto 360 Camera and see that pricing it's just like "Oh fuck you, no way, the hell with that for that little amount of hardware, forget it..." and that's that.
The original Motorola Atrix smartphone was awesome, very powerful and fast and with a fingerprint reader too and I loved it to death but, Motorola was asking me and others for $499.99 for the Atrix lapdock which was:
- a plastic shell
- an LCD display panel
- a keyboard
- a battery
- a docking connector for the Atrix itself (mini-HDMI and microUSB plugs)
and that was it. $500 for a damned screen and battery, it was not a computing device, not even a dumb terminal type thing, the only circuitry in it was for displaying the the mini-HDMI output of the phone to the LCD panel and reading the keyboard input and providing power for the Atrix itself.
My god, what the hell are some of these companies thinking with such insanely fucking crazy pricing for nothing really at all, I swear they need to have something checked or whatever in their skulls.
Anyway, the Moto Z2 Force is coming, and that deal with the free projector isn't bad so, if you're interested, have a look-out for it. The email I just got about it said this in the fine print at the bottom:
Along with the newer phone they apparently have a bunch of new Moto mods coming too, including one that turns the Moto mod-compatible devices into something like the Nintendo Switch or whatever, it's kinda funky but for those people that play games with their smartphones (I'm not one of those people) I suppose it's cool, looks like this when it's all put together:
and of course a bunch of other mods you can look into (the moto gamepad is not available yet, sometime in the near future supposedly). More mods can be seen here:
https://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-mods
I think, like it has in the past, the pricing on the mods is going to ruin it for Motorola once again. The only one that seems worth the money is the JBL speaker one, perhaps the Incipio battery one as well but, when you look at the Hasselblad camera mod (not that great, really, and it gets terrible reviews and it's a Hasselblad camera, for Pete's sake) and the Moto 360 Camera and see that pricing it's just like "Oh fuck you, no way, the hell with that for that little amount of hardware, forget it..." and that's that.
The original Motorola Atrix smartphone was awesome, very powerful and fast and with a fingerprint reader too and I loved it to death but, Motorola was asking me and others for $499.99 for the Atrix lapdock which was:
- a plastic shell
- an LCD display panel
- a keyboard
- a battery
- a docking connector for the Atrix itself (mini-HDMI and microUSB plugs)
and that was it. $500 for a damned screen and battery, it was not a computing device, not even a dumb terminal type thing, the only circuitry in it was for displaying the the mini-HDMI output of the phone to the LCD panel and reading the keyboard input and providing power for the Atrix itself.
My god, what the hell are some of these companies thinking with such insanely fucking crazy pricing for nothing really at all, I swear they need to have something checked or whatever in their skulls.
Anyway, the Moto Z2 Force is coming, and that deal with the free projector isn't bad so, if you're interested, have a look-out for it. The email I just got about it said this in the fine print at the bottom:
The fine print at the bottom of the email said:* Offer valid through 10:59 p.m. CT on 10/6/17 or while supplies last. Discount applied at checkout when both moto z² and moto insta-share projector ($299.99 value) are added to your cart. Cannot be combined with any other promotions or offers. Offer does not apply to 1st generation moto z.