POSTED BY

Rob Beschizza

AT 8:18 AM
Friday July 17, 2009

Phones and Wireless

motorola

Moto bluetooth box has three days of talk time

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Motorola's T215 is a bluetooth car speakerphone with three days of talk time, designed to be compatible with hands-free car kits. It has a 2 watt speaker and noice cancellation. It is clearly intended to be more functional than beautiful.

That fact notwithstanding, it has a curiously 1990s look to it. Do you think that style will ever become cool? It seems to be between two more distinctive eras (think "square walkman" and "rounded iPod") lacking its own unique look. Stuff from the mid-late 1990s often seemed like an expression of some cheap new heat-molding technology than an explicit design choice.

Press release (PDF) [Motorola]

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12 Comments

technogeek

#1 – 8:34 AM July 17, 2009

If it's for use in the car... OK, I see the attraction of no wires, but I'd rather see it plug into the car battery and have effectively infinite talk time.

booticon

#2 – 9:37 AM July 17, 2009

Where does it say three days? The press release lists 36 hours, not 72 hours, of talk time.

rak0ribz

#3 – 10:44 AM July 17, 2009

BOOTICON #2:

Well, yeah, but the other 12 hours a day are NIGHT. :)

Mr_Voodoo

#4 – 11:17 AM July 17, 2009

I'd keep hitting it to open the garage door. If I had a garage, that is.

nixiebunny

#5 – 11:18 AM July 17, 2009

As for the styling, Motorola has built police radios for most of its 75 year history. This device looks like the institutional-customer styling department had the design job.

Halloween Jack

#6 – 12:24 PM July 17, 2009

I'd call the style more 60s/70s transistor radio, Rob. Of course, to really do it up right, the front would have to be metallic/aluminum-ish.

Rob Beschizza

#7 – 4:01 PM July 17, 2009

I wasn't alive in the 60 and 70s, they don't count.

hadlock

#8 – 5:00 PM July 17, 2009

It's designed to blend in with your car's interior. This would blend right in on the inside of any BMW, Mercedes, VW, most Mazdas and probably half of Hondas and Toyotas. "Design cred" is about as high up on Motorola's list for this item as it would be for a company that makes hairdryers.

Slurpy

#9 – 6:46 PM July 17, 2009

Personally, I love the look of it. Electronics today (phones, iPods, Zunes) all have, to me at least, the look of a design team who spent a lot more time making the damn thing pretty, rather than functional. This is focused on function, and it says it in a nice, understated, inoffensive way.

The Viking

#10 – 7:36 PM July 17, 2009

It's squarely in an era: Apple Newton, anyone?

Rob Beschizza

#11 – 4:14 PM July 18, 2009

My hair dryer is stunning.

hadlock

#12 – 9:47 PM July 18, 2009

I am eagerly anticipating the upcoming hairdryer post.

The gauntlet has been thrown down.

:)

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