Product

Lenovo owns Thinkpad™️

Lenovo owns Motorola, which owns the Razr™️

Recently Motorola made some “continuity” style features that allow for easy switching between your Motorola and Lenovo devices. 

In my opinion, Lenovo should rebrand all of their consumer electronics to Motorola to take on Apple, Google, Samsung, One Plus, and Huawei.  

I’d buy a Motorola Thinkpad.

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i second buying a motorola think pad - something about the brand name makes me feel it will be great in design ( i vaguely remember them launching one of the sleekest phones ever back in the 2010s)..

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Yeah me neither. I used to have an IBM thinkpad, then I had a Lenovo gaming laptop. And my first cell phone was actually a (secondhand) Moto Razr. Plus Motorola just released a smart watch that's a clone of the Apple watch. So there is a way I could be convinced to abandon the apple ecosystem for these trademarks I have a nostalgic attachment to. 

That said, I'm not into Apple for the polish necessarily—aside from airdrop. But for a number of things on which Linux and Android struggle to compete like third party software availability, lack of an intermediary for updates (android is the fucking worst for having carriers block updates and install spyware/bloatware ota), and Windows for me is wholly off the table. Been there, suffered through that for too many years. 

So it would require good community support open-source roms (Lineage OS, ideally) and porting of all the continuity features to Linux to make it feasible for me personally.

Makes sense. I don't think the brand name Lenovo adds anything.

used to own one of the coolest Motorola phones