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  • Motorola selling Droids faster than it can make them, has up to four videophones in pipeline

    Motorola selling Droids faster than it can make them, has up to four videophones in pipeline

    Posted on June 10, 2010 | No Comments
    In case you're not yet convinced that video chat is the next big thing phone makers are going to push on us, let Motorola's Sanjay Jha enlighten you. Having just launched the video-centric Motorola XT720 in Europe (sans a front-facing camera), Jha is promising that his crew will deliver between two and four handsets this year with the equipment necessary to carry out video calls. Funnily enough, Moto's co-CEO describes himself as someone who's "never been a great believer" in the functionality, but clearly his company's seeing a trend it feels the need to be a part of. Speaking of trends, Moto has also fallen afoul of supply shortages similar to those constraining Droid Incredible inventory, with Jha saying about the Moto Droid, "if I could build more, I'd sell more." And if you could get Android 2.2 on them, you'd have some really happy customers too.

    Motorola selling Droids faster than it can make them, has up to four videophones in pipeline originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:34:00 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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  • BlackBerry 9670 caught trying to justify its existence on video

    BlackBerry 9670 caught trying to justify its existence on video

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Look, we'll admit that we may have gone a little hard on the BlackBerry 9670 the first time we saw it -- but seriously, could you blame us? Thanks to the 8200 series, RIM's developed a reputation for making gargantuan clamshells, and the 9670 certainly doesn't seem to buck that trend -- in fact, it's very likely even wider on account of its full QWERTY keyboard, and you can tell from this new video that it doesn't make any apologies about its thick waistline, either. That being said, the phone seems to look just a smidge sexier now than it did before, though it's still not necessarily clear why you'd pick it over a 9650 or 9700 when it's essentially the same size folded. Guess we'll know when -- or if, rather -- RIM launches this thing. Follow the break for video.

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    BlackBerry 9670 caught trying to justify its existence on video originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 May 2010 14:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • TomTom Go Live 1000 blurs the line between PND and connected tablet

    TomTom Go Live 1000 blurs the line between PND and connected tablet

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    The dedicated GPS market is slowly but steadily shrinking as smartphones gain the same abilities, but yet the major players keep rolling out new devices. The TomTom Go Live 1000 bucks the trend of a semi-smart connected device and instead adds a ton of storage on top of a powerful setup to run a WebKit-based UI along with a ton of connected apps. This just might be the PND we've been waiting for -- too bad it's a few years late.

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  • iFixit tears down the DSi XL

    iFixit tears down the DSi XL

    Posted on March 28, 2010 | No Comments
    No Tegra chip for you! iFixit tore down the Nintendo DSi XL and found, not surprisingly, a bigger DSi. It’s running the DSi’s ARM processor and the motherboard is big enough to fit in the case, but that’s about it. Click through for more findings: * Nintendo is again using a custom ARM CPU, manufactured in [...]

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  • Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus to go BOGO – sort of.

    Palm Pixi Plus and Pre Plus to go BOGO – sort of.

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Like this – except, you know, with cell phones. If you were planning on buying two Verizon Palm Pixi Pluses (or, if you’re feelin’ nutty, one Palm Pre Plus and one Palm Pixi Plus), get excited. It looks like you’ll be walkin’ out of the Verizon store with a bit more cash than you expected. Yesterday afternoon, [...]

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  • Woot! Refurbished Gateway LT3103 netbook with six-cell battery for $270

    Woot! Refurbished Gateway LT3103 netbook with six-cell battery for $270

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh Gateway LT3103, you bucked the netbook trend all the way into our hearts with the inclusion of the AMD Athlon 64 L110 CPU and ATI Radeon graphics. Now you are being refurbished and sold for just $270 with a six-cell battery and 2GB of RAM.

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  • Motorola i410 comes to Boost, catchy name doesn’t

    Motorola i410 comes to Boost, catchy name doesn’t

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    You know how you can tell Moto's new i410 for iDEN isn't really supposed to be hip, stylish, or ultra-functional? Neither Moto nor launch partner Boost bothered to give it a fresh, funky name, bucking the trend set by the Clutch and Debut. Of course, with an utterly basic black rectangular shell, tiny monochrome secondary display, and lack of even a VGA cam, it's clear that they're going for the bottom-most reaches of the market here -- which means that customers should be able to scoop it up for a song on any of Boost's prepaid plans, happily. It's not up on the carrier's site just yet, but it'll be available before the year's up -- and Motorola says that this officially "completes Boost Mobile's 2009 device roadmap," so we hope you weren't holding out for some mythical Android device in the next couple weeks.

    Motorola i410 comes to Boost, catchy name doesn't originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Palm Pre backups can be easily overwritten by a replacement device: replacers beware!

    Palm Pre backups can be easily overwritten by a replacement device: replacers beware!

    Posted on November 21, 2009 | No Comments
    We've just been alerted to an unsettling trend in Palm Pre land, where strings of replacement devices are a bit too common for comfort: some users have been losing their Palm Profile backup, or a large majority of it, once they pair up their new device. The big issue is that since this problem is rather sporadic, Palm doesn't seem to have a good way to deal with it yet -- the trend in the forums seems to be a complaint sent to Palm, followed up by word of an inability to restore data from Palm a few weeks later. Lucky for these hapless Pre replacers, a particularly repeat offender (working on his seventh Pre) has posted instructions for making sure this sort of data loss doesn't happen to you. His theory is that it has something to do with a refurbished device loaded with an old firmware trying to sync with the newer-firmware-styled backup your dead device made with Palm's servers, and messing stuff up in the process. He recommends walking out of the store before Sprint tries to trip you up, and upgrading and wiping the phone before reactivating it and syncing. Sounds foolproof enough, right? Let's hope.

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    Palm Pre backups can be easily overwritten by a replacement device: replacers beware! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • BlackBerry Storm2 hands-on and impressions

    BlackBerry Storm2 hands-on and impressions

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments

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    For a company with the most starched, buttoned-up roots of any major wireless manufacturer, RIM's venture out of its enterprise comfort zone to the consumer space went amazingly smoothly thanks to the introduction of the original Pearl, a phone that's still sold in a variety of colors, configurations, and carriers to this day. At some point, though, it became clear that the industry was moving toward touch -- a space RIM had never dabbled in -- and the trend gave birth to the Storm, a product that had obviously been rushed to market with countless software bugs and a dodgy SurePress concept that caused more problems than it solved. With prototypes floating around in the wild mere months after its predecessor's release, RIM's message was loud and clear earlier this year: "we need to fix the Storm, and we need to do it quickly." Ultimately, it's ended up taking the company just about a year to get the Storm2 to market, a product that attempts to tweak Waterloo's touchscreen strategy just enough to undo a few mistakes and send it down the right path. Mission accomplished? Read on.

    BlackBerry Storm2 hands-on and impressions originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Rumor: Verizon to extend their Buy One, Get One Free deal to the BlackBerry Storm2?

    Rumor: Verizon to extend their Buy One, Get One Free deal to the BlackBerry Storm2?

    Posted on October 12, 2009 | No Comments
    We’ll be blunt, here: after its predecessor’s bumpy start, the BlackBerry Storm 2 needs a really, really smooth launch. The BlackBerry Storm launched with handful of nasty bugs and software shortcomings, nearly all of which were fixed within the first few weeks; yet to this day, most people respond to the BlackBerry Storm with “Ack! [...]

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