Our very dear friend Ajit Jaokar at the Open Gardens blog wrote about the Myth of Mobile Design and mentioned the concept of the texting-optimized phone series for Motorola. Ajit's article is very good (about role of design) and we also had a big discussion at Forum Oxford about the idea specific to Motorola, and there the expert consensus was that this idea of mine, that a text messaging optimized series of phones for Motorola (as their T Series) is the only viable way to save the company now. If you missed my blog on saving Moto, read it here: From MotoLozr to MotoRecovery via MotoTxtr
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