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  • Motorola is in the black and selling phones

    Motorola is in the black and selling phones

    Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
    Now here’s a turnaround I never expected. According to a recent results filing, Motorola is working its way back into solvency and is turning a profit and shipping devices like crazy. The company took a slight loss in mobile sales – about $192 million – but that’s far lower than $550 million last year. In truth, [...]

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  • T-Mobile Cliq XT to go on sale tomorrow for $99?

    T-Mobile Cliq XT to go on sale tomorrow for $99?

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    If we were to take everything the rumormill said as gospel, we'd tell you that the Motorola Cliq XT launched in all of its Android glory on March 10th. Given that it's now nearly a week later and the Cliq XT has yet to hit the shelves, we'd say that the rumormill is a dirty, dirty liar. Or, you know, something changed at the last minute. Either way, now there's a new, improved rumor to bank on! This rumor is stronger. This rumor is faster. Oh, and yeah, this rumor is most likely correct and includes updated pricing information.

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  • Motorola wants mobile phones and TV to share a stronger bond

    Motorola wants mobile phones and TV to share a stronger bond

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    You know what I was thinking the other day? “It would be so rad if I could get MOTOBLUR to work on my TV.” And now, Motorola is doing exactly that by working on a platform to get its cell phones to play nice with TV set-top boxes. To get things kicked off, MOTOBLUR, the Android [...]

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  • Motorola CLIQ update hits this week with touchscreen and GPS updates

    Motorola CLIQ update hits this week with touchscreen and GPS updates

    Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Hurrah for updates! Nothing can give your aging phone a fresh feeling like an update can, and CLIQ users can get excited about that this week. Is this the big update that we mentioned last week? Perhaps not. From its official Twitter account, Motorola says this coming update will fix battery life, touch screen and GPS [...]

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  • The Cliq XT/Quench drops, brings Android 1.5 in tow

    The Cliq XT/Quench drops, brings Android 1.5 in tow

    Posted on February 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Motorola is keeping the Android party rocking with the Cliq XT — or Quench in Euroland. The handset doesn’t bring anything we haven’t seen before including the aging Android 1.5 release along with Motorola’s social media-centric MOTOBLUR home screen replacement. A respectable 3.1-inch 320 x 480 occupies the front, while a 5.0 MP cam with [...]

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  • Android updates fly off the shelves; Motorola CLIQ up next in March?

    Android updates fly off the shelves; Motorola CLIQ up next in March?

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Android updates appear to be getting thrown left and right recently, so it doesn’t surprise me that the Motorola CLIQ may be due for a tune-up. According to Boy Genius Report, the CLIQ will be getting Android 2.1 OS sometime in March. Perhaps it’s not soon enough for those CLIQ owners who are turning a [...]

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  • Listen to FM radio on your CLIQ

    Listen to FM radio on your CLIQ

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    The Motorola CLIQ is a nice phone. That's point one. Point two is that it can actually play radio. Using a non-standard ROM, a user named Eugene found an FM radio binary and tried to run it on the CLIQ. After a little futzing, he was able to fire up the radio and listen to it right on the CLIQ. Who knew? Rest assured it's not available to the public right now. Watch AndroidGuys for further instruction.

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  • Motorola Cliq gets rooted by the Dude

    Motorola Cliq gets rooted by the Dude

    Posted on December 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Motorola Cliq gets rooted by the Dude
    Sick of Motorola meting out Android firmware updates when it chooses? Trust in The Dude -- TheDudesAndroid, to be specific, a user over at ModMyMoto who has posted The Dudes Root for Cliq (following up an earlier and similarly unkempt version for the G1). The install process looks about as complicated as you might expect, so make sure you keep Walter away while you're re-flashing lest your handset go all nihilistic on ya. At this point it's just another 1.5 ROM being installed, but the hope is for a 2.1 port coming in the not too distant future. Unless you're really pining to get full control over your handset we'd go ahead and wait for that version of the Dude to abide.

    [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

    Motorola Cliq gets rooted by the Dude originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola’s Shop4apps online Android app store discovered

    Motorola’s Shop4apps online Android app store discovered

    Posted on December 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Leave it to the gung ho gang at Android and Me to do some clever Googling and discovering Motorola's web based Android app store, Shop4apps. The store has since been removed / made hidden, but not before we got a good glimpse at the whole shebang. There's a MyLocker section to check your download history, the ability to re-download and transfer aspps to a new phone, and a special MotoAppstore client for downloading and installing the apps (which unfortunately wasn't working yet). Frankly, the images aren't too flattering, so we're hoping for some further tweaking before it's official launch. In the meantime, hit up the source link for more pictures.

    [Thanks, Taylor]

    Motorola's Shop4apps online Android app store discovered originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Moto Cliq gets an OTA update, still running Android v1.5

    Moto Cliq gets an OTA update, still running Android v1.5

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Upset that your Motorola Cliq is still running Android v1.5? Think the battery life stinks? Motorola’s get a patch for one of those problems, but not the other. Early this morning, Moto began pushing an over-the-air update to Cliq owners. Alas, it doesn’t look like they’ve managed to port the BLUR user interface over to Android [...]

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  • T-Mobile pushing CLIQ firmware update today? (update: yes!)

    T-Mobile pushing CLIQ firmware update today? (update: yes!)

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    TmoNews seems to have it on good authority that T-Mobile will be rolling out a firmware update over the air to the Motorola CLIQ today -- the device's first since launch -- and we've got good news and bad news. First, the bad: by all accounts, it appears that this'll still be an Android 1.5-based firmware, adding fuel to the fire suggesting that UI skins like BLUR are a huge barrier to keeping devices up to speed with Google's breakneck release pace. The good news, though, is that the update seems to be lined up to fix a plethora of issues involving Bluetooth, touchscreen accuracy (we can attest to this one), connectivity, accelerometer functionality, and -- wait for it -- battery life! Looks like the build number is 1.1.31, so let us know if and when you get hooked up, owners.

    Update: We've gotten tips from several users now that they've already been able to nab the update, so it looks like the CLIQ is definitely getting a little better today. Well, hopefully, anyhow.

    T-Mobile pushing CLIQ firmware update today? (update: yes!) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room

    Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of you whippersnappers might be too young to recall it, but trust us, it happened -- and it seems like that's the kind of frontier mentality we're getting again today in the nascent Android landscape. Just a couple weeks after launching, mobile ad clearinghouse AdMob reports that the Motorola Droid is already accounting for a whopping 24 percent of all its Android-based traffic -- no small feat, considering that the then-unreleased device didn't even move the needle in their October report (pictured in the left graph). The HTC Dream -- the world's first retail Android device, you might remember -- still reigns supreme at 36 percent, but it's amazing that the entire Android space is still volatile enough to register nearly a 25 percent shift with the launch of a single new device on a single carrier. For comparison, the CLIQ clocks in with a lowly 6 percent -- proof that Verizon's aggressive advertising has been working some magic. Question is, what'll be the next device to completely screw up this pie chart again?

    Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Bug in Motorola CLIQ’s OpenGL implementation breaks a few games

    Bug in Motorola CLIQ’s OpenGL implementation breaks a few games

    Posted on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment

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    If you've run into trouble trying to load up Hexage's Buka or Totemo on your CLIQ, you're not alone -- it seems that some wonky handling of a few OpenGL API calls on Motorola's first Android device are causing heartache for users and developers alike. It's not clear how many apps in total make use of the calls, but we'd imagine they're in line to be fixed -- and thanks to the CLIQ's support for over-the-air updates, we're hoping those fixes come sooner rather than later. In the meantime, we suppose that DROID's always an option, right?

    [Via I4U and Android and Me]

    Bug in Motorola CLIQ's OpenGL implementation breaks a few games originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola CLIQ lands in T-Mobile USA stores today

    Motorola CLIQ lands in T-Mobile USA stores today

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments

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    Motorola's Android-laden CLIQ has been available to existing T-Mobile USA users for a hot minute now, but not until today has the handset been widely available to all that care to take notice. Of course, the proper launch has been dampened somewhat by the emergence of the DROID (alongside Android 2.0), but hey, MOTOBLUR ain't nuthin' to scoff at, right? Feel free to locate your nearest T-Mob retail location, waltz in with $199.99 and get yours today.

    Motorola CLIQ lands in T-Mobile USA stores today originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Motorola CLIQ is now available to T-Mobile customers

    The Motorola CLIQ is now available to T-Mobile customers

    Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
    T-Mobile is continuing its Android parade with the CLIQ. The MOTOBLUR-running, physical keyboard-sporting phone is now available to current T-Mobile customers for $199. New subscribers will need to wait until November 2nd to get their hands on it.

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