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  • Motorola Motoroi getting Android 2.1, bound for UK?

    Motorola Motoroi getting Android 2.1, bound for UK?

    Posted on May 14, 2010 | No Comments
    There's no word yet on when the Motorola Motoroi will make it to T-Mobile (in the industry we call that "the T-Motoroiola rumor") but there has definitely been a good deal of chatter concerning this handset. The latest has Pocket-lint confirming a UK release with Moto itself. Offering similarities to Taipei's HSPA-lovin' XT701, users in Ol' Blighty (and the rest of the UK) can look forward to an 8-megapixel camera (with a Xenon flash), support for 720p video, mini HDMI, and an unspecified processor boost. In addition, Android 2.1 is likely to be part of the deal. We have neither a timeline nor a price, and the veracity of this rumor is yet to be established (although it does seem like a no-brainer), but if this all goes down as Pocket-lint says it will you can color us Yanks mighty jealous.

    Motorola Motoroi getting Android 2.1, bound for UK? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 14:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola prepping 3G module with support for AT&T and T-Mobile USA alike

    Motorola prepping 3G module with support for AT&T and T-Mobile USA alike

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    T-Mobile's oddball 3G network makes creating a device that simply supports all forms of North American HSPA a challenge for a very simple reason: even triband HSPA radios are still a bit of a novelty, and to support everything we've got going on over here, you effectively need to go quadband since AWS splits its duties between 1700 and 2100MHz. Happily, Motorola is coming to bat here, not with an actual phone but with an 850 / 1900 / AWS radio module that's intended for integration by other OEMs. We're not sure what kinds of devices this particular unit might find duty in, but if nothing else, it gives us confidence that Moto's now able to create phones that effectively straddle the T-Mobile / AT&T fence -- assuming it's got a business case to do so.

    Motorola prepping 3G module with support for AT&T and T-Mobile USA alike originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola Quantico gets rugged for AWS CDMA

    Motorola Quantico gets rugged for AWS CDMA

    Posted on November 11, 2009 | No Comments

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    Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint (well, Direct Connect anyway) have all gotten their fair shares of ruggedized Motorola love, but what about the regionals like MetroPCS? The answer to that might very well lie in the Quantico flip that was announced today, bearing support for 1700MHz CDMA in addition to 800 / 1900 with EV-DO. Besides mil-spec 810F compliance for resistance to environmental evils like water dunks, heat, and dust, the Quantico offers up a 1.3 megapixel camera (a little meager, if you ask us), stereo Bluetooth, and microSD expansion. Moto's putting nearly all of its weight behind Android right now, but alas, no Android here -- speaking of, whatever happened to the non-touch version of the platform? Anyhow, look for the phone to hit markets in this quarter; carrier partners have yet to be announced.

    Motorola Quantico gets rugged for AWS CDMA originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • BlackBerry Bold 9700 gains FCC clearance in T-Mobile trim

    BlackBerry Bold 9700 gains FCC clearance in T-Mobile trim

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments

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    You can't make heads or tails of what carrier might be getting this version of the Bold 9700 just by looking at the wireframe diagram buried in the ID label documentation, but here's an important clue: it got tested for WCDMA Band IV, also known as AWS -- so yeah, that would be a pretty solid indicator that this puppy is T-Mobile USA's version. You could spend literally hours thumbing through the hundreds of pages of RF test results here, so curl up on a cushy futon and geek out -- just do us a favor and don't actually print it out, okay?

    BlackBerry Bold 9700 gains FCC clearance in T-Mobile trim originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Two-factor authentication now available for Amazon Web Services

    Two-factor authentication now available for Amazon Web Services

    Posted on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
    gemalto tokenPasswords suck. A good password is hard to remember, and a weak password is easy to guess. There are lots of attempts at finding ways to solve the problems of passwords, like one-time passwords, biometric authentication, and more. One of the most attractive solutions is two-factor authentication, which requires that you know something (a short passphrase, usually), and that you have something. The thing that you have is most often a little token generator: every 30 or 60 seconds a new set of digits is displayed on a screen. To successfully log in, you need to supply the passphrase that you know along with the digits displayed on the token. Big businesses have been using two-factor authentication for some time. Now it's being made available for anyone with an Amazon Web Services account.

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