Motorola's promised $100 Jelly Bean compensation isn't easy to get

Several months ago, Motorola said that people who own devices manufactured in 2011 and 2012 that will not get updated to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean would receive $100 as a form of compensation for their troubles. Two months later, the details of that program have finally solidified. You have to go to MotoTradeUp.com, select your phone, and here's where things get nasty: You have to pick a new phone you want to buy. That's right, Motorola will give you $100, but only if you're going to buy another Motorola phone. And that $100, you'll get it in the form of credit which you can use to either A) Pay your phone bill, or B) Buy accessories for your new handset.

So let's recap: Motorola is owned by Google, yet they can't seem to figure out how to update their phones to the latest version of Android. To make people happy, they said they'll give them $100, but there are some serious strings attached. You need to buy a new phone, and the money you get isn't actually money, it's more like store credit.

Seriously, this is incredibly uncool.

What would we have liked to see? Easy, for Google to offer some sort of program whereby anyone with a Motorola device could send it to a repair center, one that's run by Google themselves, and then have them flash said phone with a custom ROM. It would piss off the operators, but who cares about what they think? Just look at the HTC Droid DNA. It's not only loaded to the gills with Verizon crapware, but it's also got a giant Amazon widget out of the box. Do operators care about Google? Not in the slightest. That more than anything else should be on the company's mind.

What do you think, did Motorola screw this one up?

Rumor: Verizon X Phone candidate discovered, to pack dual-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor

by Chris Smith, 1 day ago

A new report says that Verizon may release in the future a Motorola handset similar to the XT1058 (rumored AT&T XFON), suggesting that a CDMA Google X Phone may be launched alongside a GSM version…

Comments

MasterMuffin

If that’s real, I can now safely say that the X phone isn’t Nexus, but rather a slightly skinned Motorola phone (if that screenshot is true) because the “droid blast” icon doesn’t follow the design line of the other holo icons
Fievel

“Droid Blast” sounds like something you’d need to take Imodium to prevent from happening again.
- Justin Kos
  
  Makes me think of robots doing cocaine
etiggy

It was nice while it lasted, well, back to waiting for the next nexus in november.
chris pinkston

Love the way the render looks.
Ryan Behmanesh

The concept picture looks pretty sweet but the specs are a year old. If this is true, I’ll pass.
http://twitter.com/Space_0001 No name

Google should give Motorola chance with next nexus device or make multiple Nexuses with more then one manufacture.
Main problem in my point view with Motorola is slow update I hope after Google acquisition it will be faster I will skip this device if it is not Nexus and I will C if Motorola getting better in updating wise or not.
702Mike

Hate to kill the excitement here, but just by seeing the “droid blast” option we know it’s Verizon exclusive and that kills the possibility of it being a nexus. It would be cool to see software from all the different oem’s directly available for nexus devices or even all phones. For example, what if you like the build quality of a Motorola but the Samsung touch wiz software. Or you like HTC sense but want a removable battery and expandable storage options of Samsung Galaxy phones. This would also grant the ability to turn any hardware capable phone into a nexus style device as well.