Moto working to restore the ‘wow’: ‘What’s next’ is a sequel with a big screen: Razr II

In Hollywood, sequels sometimes do well at the box office. But the record is mixed, leading one to conclude that sequels are typically perceived as safer bets than utterly new, original material-whether or not that’s true.
This observation can be applied to the realm of consumer electronics, where sequels also have a mixed record.
Thus when Motorola Inc. last week announced, but did not launch, a successor to the Razr-the source of Motorola’s 2004-2006 resurgence and, to a degree, the vendor’s present financial dilemmas-it might be diplomatic to say simply, “