When you purchase the Motorola Dext (aka Droid) handset from Orange UK, it comes with a PC Suite which is entitled 'Motorola media Link'. When Motorola Media Link offers you the chance to 'Upgrade to Premium', don't. The resulting download is actually an earlier version of the software.
[Note: Nero is the ultimate author of this package which is why you switch away from Motorola to the Nero site.]
Once again that page contains the phrase ' Highlights of MOTOROLA MEDIA LINK PREMIUM Upgrade: Comprehensive multimedia features'. So naturally you'd expect to upgrade the softwware.
However, if you click on the link it takes you to the purchasing page where you receive the file NeroMML 1.0.11.0 as a result. When you open that file it says, "A later version of Motorola Media Link is already installed on this machine. The setup cannot continue."
The reason why this happens is pretty obvious. The free version of Motorola's Media Link that comes with your Motorola Blur phone is 1.0.28.4. Blatantly a newer version than the one Nero sells you.
I've contacted Nero's customer services and this was the response ... "The upgrade doesn't refer to the version`s number but to the feature set of the codecs."
So the codecs are better but they only work with an earlier version of the software. Which is fine except that in order to enjoy them you need to 'downgrade'.
There must be people who would pay to downgrade if certain facilities where genuinely better - say the package resolved graphics files more swiftly.
But more than once the product is labelled an upgrade, which is at least misleading and at worst illegal advertising in certain territories.
Natrually I'm awaiting Nero's response.
Nice find
Posted by: MobileBroadbandTech | March 16, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Nice find
Posted by: MobileBroadbandTech | March 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM