Motorola's i9 gets shown off on video
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
vanboy @ Feb 12th 2009 9:10PM
If this is consider the high end model phone from Motorola, then Motorola is going to fail.
If it is being put on as a mid range or even a low end price phone then Motorola is back in the ball game.
black @ Feb 12th 2009 11:22PM
Its a Boost Mobile phone. Honestly, outside of the Ocean, has any flagship phone or smartphone premiere on a budget brand like Boost?
alex @ Feb 12th 2009 10:04PM
to make this phone good it would be on att or verizon and the front would have to be all touchscreen not just three buttons like on the v9s. and a larger internal screen, otherwise good phone..
ekimagem @ Feb 12th 2009 10:22PM
Pretty Decent phone....Doesnt Need to prove anything being on At&T or Verizon..thats not gonna make a difference. Its on Boost(Sprint Basically) and the Sprint Version is due soon as Well....
You can always take the Sim Card Frum T-Mobile Or At&T if it means that much and put it in..This is Typical from Motorola as far as i know but the Additional buttons on the side are nice touch..
Most of the upcoming boost phones are okay......BUT LEMME SEE A VIDEO OF THE I465!! Lol....the final version looks way better than the Pre-Finalized One and with boosts unlimited plan and that phone at $109? Thats gonna fly off shelves
Kirkland Signature @ Feb 13th 2009 12:39AM
What makes you think you can put a GSM SIM in here and have it work?...
AT&T/T-mob is GSM, Boost/NEXTEL is iDEN...
ekimagem @ Feb 13th 2009 1:33AM
Cuz i Dual Sim'd A Boost and a T-Mobile...
m3nphls @ Feb 13th 2009 12:11AM
seriously....the reason motorola is failing is because they haven't even released anything new....all these phones coming out with V3 Razr shape its getting old....hopefully they'll die soon to end their misery.
BruceWayne @ Feb 13th 2009 6:25PM
LOL! You dual sim'd? Hod did you get the phone to work on iDEN and GSM networks at the same time? Putting in a GSM sim in a iDEN phone will never make the phone use GSM bands
emaildejan @ Mar 13th 2009 7:01PM
Precisely! The phones built today are hardwired to look for a specific frequency based on the network that they are supposed to operate on. That's why you can port any AT&T phone onto T-Mobile and vice versa...because they both use GSM as their operating network base. Same is true if you take any phone from Verizon or Sprint...you can use them (after getting through all of the code breaking mess) on any CDMA network.
iDEN phones, such as this i9 Stature, are NOT going to work on any GSM network (nor on any CDMA network for that matter). This phone will ONLY work on an iDEN network, like Nextel, NII Holdings, or Telus Mobile's MIKE networks. Just because all iDEN phones (save the original few, like the i1000plus) come equipped with SIM cards does NOT mean that they will work on GSM networks. They just aren't designed to look for GSM frequencies, let alone operate on them...they only work on iDEN frequencies.
Now, if we one day opt to go to where the handset's own software modulates the frequency that the phone will use, THEN you could swap out your phone from one network to the next regardless of what technology that carrier uses. But for now, it's all hardware based, and hardwired...so the i9 (for better or worse) is stuck on iDEN and iDEN only!