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  • Motorola Droid 2 stars in its first video, touts 1GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM?

    Motorola Droid 2 stars in its first video, touts 1GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM?

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    It was inevitable, really, that a phone as widely leaked as the Droid 2 would end up caught on video. Doing the honors for us today are Android and Me, who've compared the new Droid to the classic variant. Funnily enough, they didn't find too much deviation from Motorola, describing the two handsets as "virtually identical," with the major physical change being the replacement of the previous keyboard's navigation pad with arrow buttons. The front end's soft buttons have also changed to Moto's Blur options, but otherwise you're still looking at a 3.7-incher with a 5 megapixel imager. The big improvement seems to have been under the hood with a new 1GHz TI OMAP3630 processor and 512MB of RAM (PowerVR SGX530 graphics unit remains the same) driving the Droid 2 to some robust benchmark scores. Of course, we don't see the handset booted up in this hands-on video, so treat these specs and results as provisional until we hear from the official horse's mouth in a couple of days.

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    Motorola Droid 2 stars in its first video, touts 1GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Metro PCS to join Android game with a Motorola QWERTY slider

    Metro PCS to join Android game with a Motorola QWERTY slider

    Posted on June 6, 2010 | No Comments
    A four-row sliding QWERTY keyboard? Check. Metro PCS splash screen? Check. Motorola insignia? You better believe it. The folks at AndroidGuys have obtained what very strongly appears to be Metro PCS' first Android phone, and along with a handful of pics there's some alleged specs, too. From the man (or woman) behind the curtain: a 600MHz processor, 3 megapixel camera, and Android 2.1 with Motoblur dressing. An EVO 4G combatant it is definitely not -- nor ever intended to be -- but we wouldn't be surprised if the price turned more than a few heads. Any indication of price, release date, or even official name is, however, still a mystery.

    Metro PCS to join Android game with a Motorola QWERTY slider originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola Droid Shadow / Xtreme pictured again, powered by Ninjablur?

    Motorola Droid Shadow / Xtreme pictured again, powered by Ninjablur?

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Because we can't seem to get enough Motorola Droid Shadow / Xtreme teasers in our lives, here's a few more with which to tide you over. First on the docket is a pair of pics from Droid Life, with the screen-saving film intact (and a still-visible Verizon logo underneath) and a cleaner side shot of its bulbous derriere. If that wasn't enough, the clue-dropper wnrussell of HowardForums -- who gave us the vast majority of the previous leaks -- is back showing off a 1500mAh battery and claiming a name for that monochrome Motoblur-esque skin we saw earlier. In his words, "Ninja Blur is Blur running without the user knowing. For those who don't like Blur." Translation: it's an Android skin that does very little but make aesthetic differentiators and probably slows down the processing speed a bit. Any chance the ninja can go into hiding in lieu of a vanilla robot experience?

    Motorola Droid Shadow / Xtreme pictured again, powered by Ninjablur? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola Flipout spotted: an Android 2.1 / Motoblur device with a twist

    Motorola Flipout spotted: an Android 2.1 / Motoblur device with a twist

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember "Square Motorola Android slider?" Ah, those were the days. The little twister's returned, this time with much greater clarity and a new name. Meet Flipout. According to Gizmodo Brazil, we're looking at Android 2.1 with a dash of Motoblur thrown into the mix, a 2.8-inch display, full QWERTY keyboard, 700MHz processor, 512MB ROM / 256MB RAM, GPS, and a 3.1 megapixel camera. The HSPA phone is expected in the states this June in at least three different colors -- black, green, and pink. Backflip, Flipout... one can only hope Motorola keeps the trend alive with a Soundgarden-themed solar phone, the Outshined.

    Motorola Flipout spotted: an Android 2.1 / Motoblur device with a twist originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 01:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Motorola CLIQ review

    Motorola CLIQ review

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments

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    Palm and Motorola have taken very different paths to get where they are today; one began life as a scrappy Valley start-up founded by a tablet computing pioneer, the other traces its roots to all the way back to the early days of consumer electronics and the automotive industry. Yet somehow, through years (decades, even) of adventure, success, and misfortune, they've found themselves in exactly the same situation here in 2009: it's do-or-die time. Palm, of course, has elected to try its hand at resurrecting the very thing that took it to superstardom in the first place -- an elegant, tightly-controlled software platform of its own with hardware to match -- while Motorola has thrown virtually all of its remaining weight behind Android in the hope that it can catch a little mojo from Google's ecosystem.

    For Motorola, it's the wireless equivalent of stepping up to the roulette table, putting what's left of your depleted life savings on red, and letting it ride just as you see security guards off in the distance coming to throw you -- penniless -- off the premises. It's a gamble of the highest order, but it's also a gamble Motorola's painfully aware that it needs to take. North America's only top-five handset manufacturer needs nothing less than magic (and a little luck) to earn its way back into the world's wireless elite -- and that risky play starts right here, today, with the CLIQ / DEXT.

    So does the CLIQ pave the way to a New Motorola, or did the RAZR's checkered legacy ultimately dig a hole too deep to escape? Read on.

    Motorola CLIQ review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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