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  • Video: Hands-on with the Motorola Droid 2

    Video: Hands-on with the Motorola Droid 2

    Posted on June 21, 2010 | No Comments
    You love Motorola, don't you? You've been rockin' each of their models before even the RAZR was cool. So you've no doubt been excited by the upcoming sequel to the brought-moto-back-from-fiery-doom Droid: the Droid 2. Yes, the Droid 2, not X. I know it's getting a litle confusing remembering which Droid is which, but let me remind you: the Droid 2 has a physical QWERTY, the X doesn't. But anyway, Android and Me have posted the world's first* hands-on video with the device, as well as run the device through a few benchmarks. And what did they find? Follow the read link to find out.

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  • Motorola expects Android 2.2 update to hit Droid ‘in the near future’

    Motorola expects Android 2.2 update to hit Droid ‘in the near future’

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Hearing Google say that Android 2.2 would be filtering out to the Nexus One in short order was no huge shock -- after all, it's Google's first smartphone. But for those who purchased Motorola's first heavy-hitter since the RAZR, it looks as if they'll be close behind in enjoying the spoils. According to a Motorola spokesperson quoted at Slashgear (full statement is past the break), the company is expecting the original Droid to get Android 2.2 "in the near future," though he / she wouldn't go so far as to provide specifics beyond that. Better still, the same person stated that Motorola is excited about Froyo in general, and it's "looking forward to integrating it on [the firm's] Android-based devices as [the software] is made available." We hate to read too deeply into anything, but "devices" sure gets our digits tingling.

    [Thanks, Alex]

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    Motorola expects Android 2.2 update to hit Droid 'in the near future' originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 05:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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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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  • LG Lotus successor LX610 seeks to look even stranger than the original

    LG Lotus successor LX610 seeks to look even stranger than the original

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    We've heard rumors in the past that Sprint is looking to replace its Lotus with an upgraded model, a testament to the fact that the bizarre mega-wide form factor must be doing relatively well at retail. And how, exactly, do you outdo a phone like the Lotus? One obvious answer is to add a huge display on the front, which is what the upcoming LX610 seems to be doing if the shots over on PhoneArena are legit. Without any obvious input method, we're not sure what good a big external display (QVGA, if we had to guess) does -- but then again, it sorta worked for the RAZR 2, so we suppose it could work here, too. Anyhow, time to start taking bets on the third-generation model -- twice as wide and a Dvorak keyboard layout is our best guess.

    LG Lotus successor LX610 seeks to look even stranger than the original originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T

    BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments

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    That successor to AT&T's wildly popular LG Shine that we spied back in August has finally popped official today, becoming the Shine II (surprise, surprise). It's a very evolutionary set -- if you squint, you can't see much difference from the original -- but this might be a situation where it's in AT&T's best interest not to mess with success just as long as they don't end up pulling a RAZR over the next several years. It's got a 2 megapixel cam, a mirror-finish 2.2-inch LCD, GPS, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, and microSD expansion to 16GB; look for it on November 22 for $119.99 after rebate on contract. Perhaps more notably, the BlackBerry Curve 8520 has migrated from T-Mobile over to AT&T today with the same EDGE data and optical pad as its cousin; it'll be hitting in the "coming weeks" for $99.99 after rebate. Of course, the Bold 9700 hits on the 22nd for a hundie more, so there'll be some soul searching among AT&T-based BlackBerry lovers over the next few days, we suspect.

    BlackBerry Curve 8520, LG Shine II coming to AT&T originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:46:00 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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  • Review: Motorola CLIQ

    Review: Motorola CLIQ

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The Short Version Motorola has released the phone it should have released a few years ago to compete with phones like the Helio Ocean and feature phones from LG and Samsung. Android brings this phone into the 21st century and the QWERTY keyboard and BLUR UI tweaks will please those looking for a keyboard Android phone with social networking features. The Long Version This last half-decade has been hard on Motorola. It launched the RAZR in 2004 and essentially riffed on that ground-breaking clamshell for another four years. Now it's 2009 and it's time to move in a different direction. Can this creaky ship of a company take up the line, hoist the mizzen, and tack to starboard? Is the Motorola CLIQ the answer to their deepest, most secret prayers, prayed in anguish under a stifling cover of imminent collapse? How many more metaphors can I use here and still sound like I'm writing for a business magazine? First, I finger wag. Motorola, you have been very bad. You squandered your massive lead (110 million RAZRs sold by 2005) on a strategy that included, but was not limited to, trying to copy the magic of the RAZR while the rest of the industry was going the way of the smartphone. Then you tried to build out some Windows Mobile phones that no one wanted and, in the end, lost out to just about every rival you've ever had. This is bad. So here's your hail Mary pass, your Radio Free Europe, your return to four-letter naming conventions. I present the Motorola CLIQ.

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  • Motorola classes it up with the Android-powered Sholes

    Motorola classes it up with the Android-powered Sholes

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Alright Motorola, I’ve got to hand it to you. After seeing the Morrison rock that DayGlo Playskool look (and let’s not forget that hideous black and purple Rival), we were all a little worried that all you guys had forgotten all about a little concept called “subtlety”. Alas, as it turns out, our fears were [...]

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  • The Evolution of Cellphones, Russian-Doll Style

    The Evolution of Cellphones, Russian-Doll Style

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    From Motorola Dynatac to Apple iPhone, Kyle Bean’s amazing matrioshka models detail the history of cellphone design from 1983 to what looks like 2007 (that’s a first-generation iPhone if we’re not mistaken). In between are some of the most influential and popular handsets from the intervening 24 years. Without looking at the Google, I’m going to [...]

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  • Palm Pre promises to explode into a supernova of suck

    Palm Pre promises to explode into a supernova of suck

    Posted on June 3, 2009 | No Comments
    The Internet - a barren wasteland full of haterage and pain and woe betide the company who wanders into its unblinking eye of malice. After saying that the Pre was an also ran last week, other interested parties have started to come out of the woodwork to predict a fiery demise for Palm's savior-phone. William Hurley, for example, writes in BusinessWeek that Palm's efforts to court developers failed early on and that the Palm's efforts will all be for naught. Here's the kidney jab:

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