Androids like Data, a Star Trek character, have recently been
recycled into devices less humanoid but more functional – like
Motorola’s new Android phone. But when Dr. McCoy’s not around, the best
Android doctor might just be your nearest CPR.
Motorola, based in Schaumburg, Illinois, is a long way from the
spaceship Enterprise. But their newest entry into the retail consumer
market may just be the ticket to resuscitate the company’s gasping
handset division. Remember “Data,” the peculiar humanoid android
character on Star Trek who was one of the crew but never quite fit in?
Motorola’s new Android-based handset doesn’t look much like Data,
instead it resembles a smartphone, and has a different name, Cliq.
The Cliq comes with a lot of standard features, and even
quasi-innovations. It has its touch screen and QWERTY keyboard, in this
instance the QWERTY slides out from the side. Its five megapixel camera
is said to produce sharper images than most other phones like Apple’s
iPhone, which only manages three-megapixel resolution.
This widget is versatile, more so than any fictional character no
matter how well-scripted. Motorola is attempting to lure away
Blackberry loyalists from their arch-competitor. It’s a stab at the
smartphone market worth taking, that’s for sure. But warranties? It’s
unlikely that if it breaks, Motorola’s struggling handset division is
going to want to “be there” for its own.
CPR will be there though. Your most trusted name in independent
repair shops for electronic devices is not going to leave Motorola’s
Cliq lost in space. “I remember watching that show as a kid,” says CPR
expert service technician Manfred Manifold, “It starred June Lockhart
and Billy Mumy.” About saving DATA, and more recent science
fiction-like technological innovations such as the Motorola’s Cliq,
Manifold is much more succinct. “We salvage hundreds of Blackberries
every day,” he says with a kind of charismatic robotic expression
etched onto his Midwestern yet other-worldly features, “I don’t see why
we can’t make those Cliqs start clucking if they’ve become a
dummied-down smartphone all of a sudden.”
What would happen if your Cliq’s touch screen becomes untouchable?
“I’d take it to CPR before I’d use a phaser on it,” Mr. Manifold
concludes. An alternative theory may just be that certain CPR expert
service technicians watch too much sci-fi on TV when they’re not
working. As for android-based smartphones like Motorola’s Cliq, it
might be wisest to search for the nearest CPR shop so you don’t lose
any megapixels.
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