Talk:StarTAC

"it never became a great success in Europe." That's not how I remember it...

A moderate success would be the best I remember for the StarTAC in the UK, it was certainly trailing Nokia sales by a huge margin. I'd complain more about "its direct successors (the early Motorola V series) were a huge success, and these phones were ubiquitous in Europe until about 2003" - I'm a phone geek and I certainly wouldn't have called the V series ubiquitous - where's the figures/proof? --TacoJim 09:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Motorola says that it weighed 88 grams: http://www.motorola.com/content.jsp?globalObjectId=123-288

With no sources for any of this the editors cannot justify including information about relative success. Who designed the StarTAC? According to The Independent the phone won awards, but which ones? Ashley Pomeroy 17:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

my dad still has this and it is really old..well he doesn't use it he just has one and this is the biggest run on sentence. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.88.205.67 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 5 March 2007 (UTC-7)

In the clamshell phones today section: Someone please update this entry to cover motorola iden phones, which a number of have significant clamshell designs, especially those that activate spring loaded with a button push, much more applicable to the original Star Trek prop functionality

This article is a stub compared to the article on the MicroTAC.Should'nt It be expanded to include more info?Paul 1953 07:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

The StarTAC wasn't the first phone with Vibracall... these phones came out in 96, and the MicroTAC Elite and DigitalElite from 93/4 had the vibracall feature. Should this information be updated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.125.8.37 (talk) 03:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

i know that these are still used by some people, and telus will still activate them for you[though in a different way]. also, there are people that replace the greyscale lcd screen in these with a OLED screen from another later cell phone of similar design, to a neat effect. i have one of these i am saving to activate, if anyone wants pics of it with the modified screen.24.83.75.32 (talk) 17:32, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Some guy wrote: "The hinge was extremely fragile and electrical interconnects inside it often broke, rendering the telephone useless." I deleted this text. I'm sorry if you broke your phone, but the rest of us don't share your experience. 68.0.119.139 (talk) 06:28, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

That text DOES belong in the RAZR article, however 99.153.162.33 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 06:35, 24 January 2009 (UTC).

This article reads like an ad. There are other problems like "8mm staring Nicholas Cage" the starring part is not needed. Also, things like "one of the first phones to be popular" and "the sleek StarTac" etc.

Which of the StarTAC models can still be used, on which phone service providers? Bizzybody (talk) 21:58, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

I think AMPS and TDMA are now turned off in the US, so that leaves, at least in theory, CDMA and GSM StarTACs as still usable today.

The article is incorrect: the successor of the StarTAC was the v60, not the Razr v3. The Razr came a lot later. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.54.163.70 (talk) 07:38, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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The 1900 Band StarTAC GSM model was widely available in the USA from Telco's notably from Pacific Bell in Southern California. 2A00:23C8:3002:6B01:38F1:9964:B147:6519 (talk) 15:21, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

So the Startac is often cited as having sold 60 million by media. But as I wrote just now on Talk:List of best-selling mobile phones I highly dispute many of the figures on that Wiki article and have evidenced that it has led to misinformation that has since been picked up by other media outlets. In Startac's case, the 60 million figure seems to have appeared first in 2011, on that article (as I explained there when someone added it using 'IDC' as a source) as well as a PC Mag article from 2011 by Brian Heater.

Before 2011, it looks like '60 million' was never actually a thing. Instead we have a magazine source from 2006 saying 'estimated 75 million'.

So far as I know, Motorola never officially said how many Startacs were sold, at least I was unable to find sources and in their press releases. As for the '60 million', it remains unclear where that came from. The Wiki edit with 'Source: IDC' back in 2011 is highly questionable while it is also not clear where Brian Heater of PC Mag got that from. Unfortunately this numebr has been parroted by other media ever since in "best selling phones in history" etc lists. Knoxmann (talk) 15:19, 1 June 2025 (UTC)