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[fujifrontier]

Originally Posted by andy

My room mate's Motorola cell phone crashes most of the time when he plugs it into the charger. It often takes him 5 minutes to get it to start charging.

mine does too. it also is horribly slow when deleting text messages. You can be typing a message and if one comes in there's a 2-3 second delay while it "thinks"

[peverett]

FYI, Motorola does not make chips, transistors, etc any more. This was either sold to On Semiconductor or spun off into Freescale Semiconductor(which was just purchased by a private equity firm).

That said, I too have a simpler and older Motorola phone that gives me no trouble. However, as far as older TVs are concerned, it has been my experience that their TVs were never the quality of RCA, let alone Zenith, even back at the begining. They always seemed to take shortcuts, using Selenium rectifiers in transformerless sets with the cheaper, wafer type tuners. They never became as bad as GE with some of their sets, but they were not the highest quality.

Motorola began as company in 1928. One of the first products was an automotive radio dubbed a "Motorized Victrola", hence Motorola.