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To: Grashopper who wrote (15786)	10/29/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 17305

I do not know anything of Alydaar, or however it is spelled to be honest. Other than the fact that I never thought much of MOT as a stock a personal experience put me off. When their Star Tac phones were new on the market they sold for perhaps $700 each. I bought 2 through a plan from ATT which allowed me to buy them for perhaps $400 or so each. Part of the appeal of the phone is that it's designed to be worn on a belt. It's also designed with an open port on the top and an open power port on the bottom. Two days after I bought them I was playing golf and it started to rain. My son grabbed the one I was wearing and immediately put it in the bag. It had fried in about a minute. It was returned to MOT and a month later was returned to me as being unserviceable because I obviously had entered a foreign liquid into it. So my two day old phone was out of warranty. Additionally, I was locked in to a 12 month contract with ATT even though the phone was burnt. I promptly shorted the stock and made about 5 points over the ensuing month. Motorola just flat out has no concern for the consumer. The design team is at fault because the open ports should either have "flip" doors or the phone should not be worn externally. Motorola has lost enough ground in Cellular phones that it appears unlikely that they will recover in that market. I would not be surprised to find that this was the result of poor design as well as poor customer relations. I do not know what the situation is with ALYD. Motorola, on the other hand, has as much credibility as a pump and dump artist.