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Google's Motorola Acquisition Spells Trouble for Android Partners

Google's intention of acquiring Motorola, which is pending approval and should be finalized at the end of 2011, early 2012 if things go smoothly, has a lot of implications for Google and for Motorola, of course, but it's also a big move for Android partners, phone makers that rely on the mobile operating sy...

16 August 2011
08:18 GMT

Windows Phone to Benefit from Google-Motorola Deal

Both Microsoft and Nokia believe that the recently announced Google purchase of Motorola should create new opportunities for the Windows Phone platform and for their partnership. Commenting on the proposed acquisition, representatives from both companies said that the deal should indeed help the platform and the ent...

16 August 2011
07:56 GMT

Motorola Bolsters Google's Patent Arsenal but Still Not as Powerful as Microsoft's, Apple's

The news that Google bought mobile phone maker, among other things, Motorola is making the rounds and is one of the biggest things to happen this summer in the mobile and tech space. There are a lot of ways of looking at this and many paths Google could take moving forward.The reason why Google bought Motorola is als...

16 August 2011
05:22 GMT

Carriers and Vendors React Positively to Google-Motorola Deal

Soon, Motorola Mobility will be part of Google, the two announced on Monday. The Internet giant agreed to acquire the mobile phone maker for $12.5 billion, as part of a deal that already saw the green light from their board of directors and which is now subject to regulatory approvals. The mobile industry already re...

16 August 2011
04:16 GMT

Google Buys Motorola to Bolster Android

Google has announced that it will acquire Motorola Mobility, mostly to strengthen its Android business. It's the biggest deal Google has done, by far, it will pay $12.5 billion if it goes through, and it's a very bold move for the company since it has never been in the hardware making business before.Howeve...

16 August 2011
03:30 GMT

Google Buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion

In a move aimed at strengthening the Android ecosystem, Internet giant Google announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc., the popular mobile phone maker. The two have entered an agreement according to which Google would pay $40.00 per share in cash for Motorola Mobility, which represents a premium ...

16 August 2011
01:58 GMT

Motorola XOOM Android 3.1 Update Still Running Late in Canada

Motorola's XOOM somewhat recovered from the rather underwhelming start but it appears customers might be getting a new reason to feel frustrated, at least as far as Canada is concerned.The operating system of an electronic holds a great deal of sway over how well said product runs and on the content possible to...

11 August 2011
04:35 GMT

Motorola KORE Succeeds XOOM, Has 4G

Motorola's XOOM has been around for a few months and it looks like the company might already be working on a sort of successor, one that should support next-generation broadband. There is much that can be said about the tablet market as it is today, seeing just how numerous slates are getting. Tablets com...

5 August 2011
07:28 GMT

Motorola XOOM Gets Android 3.2 Update, Courtesy of Verizon

The Motorola XOOM has definitely made some steps in the right direction, what with updates and price cuts, and it looks like Verizon has just made the latest such move, or will do so in short order.The tale of the Morotola XOOM tablet is one that was fraught with difficulty and has still not reached a conclusion.Tho...

3 August 2011
05:10 GMT

Motorola Confirms DROID Bionic for September, New Phones and Tablets

Yesterday, mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility announced its financial results for the second quarter of the year, and also unveiled some of its plans for upcoming mobile phones and tablet PCs. One of the handsets that will be brought to the market in the not-too-distant future is the DROID Bionic, the first An...

29 July 2011
02:29 GMT

DROID Bionic in New Photo, September Launch

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility and wireless carrier Verizon are gearing up for the release of a new handset powered by Google's Android operating system, namely the Motorola DROID Bionic. The handset was expected to arrive on shelves at the wireless carrier several months ago, but the vendor decided t...

28 July 2011
04:51 GMT

DROID Bionic Accessories Emerge Ahead of Official Release

DROID Bionic is one of the upcoming Android-based Motorola devices at Verizon Wireless, already official, but with no specific release date attached to it as of yet. Rumor has it that it might be launched as soon as August 4th, and there is even a dedicated page for the mobile phone up on Verizon Wireless' ...

22 July 2011
07:32 GMT

Alleged Pricing for DROID Bionic Emerges

One of the Android-based mobile phones that should arrive on shelves at mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless in the near future would be the Motorola DROID Bionic, with support for 4G LTE connectivity. The handset was announced to the world back in January and was expected to be launched a few months ago, but g...

21 July 2011
09:01 GMT

Gingerbread for DROID 2 Global Pushed Back

Motorola DROID2 Global was expected to taste an OS upgrade on Verizon's airwaves soon after the release of DROID 3, but it seems that things might have been pushed back for a later date. While some of the previous rumors on the availability of this software update pointed at a release time frame that would ...

21 July 2011
07:11 GMT

Motorola Preps 4.5'' Handset Called Dinara

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is expected to bring to the market during the ongoing year a new set of handsets based on the Android platform, one of which might sport the name of Dinara, if some of the latest reports around the Internet are to be believed. For the time being, only a few details on what thi...

20 July 2011
02:23 GMT

Motorola Gearing Up for Gingerbread on ATRIX 4G

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility might be finally getting ready to deliver the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system to the owners of its Motorola ATRIX 4G smartphone, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest. Apparently, the company is kicking off the testing of this software update, and has alrea...

18 July 2011
08:06 GMT

DROID 3 Now $149.99 at Amazon and Wirefly

If you are interested in the purchase of a new dual-core Android-based handset on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless in the United States, then you're in luck, as the latest such handset to hit the shelves, the DROID 3 by Motorola, is now available for $50 less if purchased through various retailers in the countr...

15 July 2011
07:01 GMT

Motorola Now Exclusive Mobile Partner for Spotify in the US

Spotify, the highly popular music service in Europe, has just made its official debut on the market in the United States, and teamed with Motorola for the release of its service on the North American market on mobile devices and tablet PCs. In the coming weeks, the mobile phone maker will kick off a series of ma...

14 July 2011
09:53 GMT

Motorola XOOM Gets Android 3.2 Update

Motorola's tablet has gone through some price changes recently and, now, it appears that its maker is trying to extend its prospective customer base by offering a new and improved version of the operating system.Much like mobile phones, media tablets have to make sure that their operating systems and content av...

13 July 2011
03:28 GMT

Verizon Puts DROID Bionic on Coming Soon Page

Later this summer, mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless will add to its offering a new LTE-capable smartphone, namely the DROID Bionic from Motorola, and a recently published coming soon page on the company's website confirms that. The smartphone was unveiled to the world back in January, during the Consum...

13 July 2011
03:01 GMT

Verizon's DROID X2 and ThunderBolt Only $99.99 at Wirefly

Verizon Wireless customers in the United States interested in the purchase of a new handset running under Google's Android operating system can now take advantage of a special offering that Wirefly has put in place for two of the most appealing devices at the wireless carrier, the Motorola DROID X2 and the HTC ...

12 July 2011
09:21 GMT

Motorola Gives Keyboard and Mouse for Free to XOOM Buyers

Amidst preparations to release a new tablet, and with US stores offering the current XOOM for less than before, Motorola UK has begun to give XOOM buyers a keyboard and mouse free of charge.The tablet market has, so far, proven to be a fairly bipolar environment, at least as far as product success goes.Some tablets ...

8 July 2011
10:05 GMT

DROID Bionic Emerges in Best Buy Leak

Soon, a new Android-based mobile phone will become available for purchase on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless in the United States, namely the Motorola DROID Bionic, which was unveiled to the world back in January, but got delayed by a few months. The new device should arrive on the market with support for Veriz...

7 July 2011
05:45 GMT

Motorola XOOM Tablet $100 Cheaper, Now at $499

The XOOM tablet from Motorola seems to have finally come to the point where its maker decided it really couldn't do without a price cut, so the WiFi version is now able to compete with the iPad and rival Android-loaded slates on the same footing.Now that the tablet market has reached a sort of more or less unsp...

7 July 2011
03:40 GMT

Australia Receives Motorola's Xoom WiFi Tablet

Striving to put up a fight against all the other Android tablets currently on the market, the WiFi-enabled version of Motorola's Xoom has reportedly made it into the stores of Australia. As far as media tablets go, the Motorola Xoom is one that started off on, one might say, the wrong foot, with fairly low sal...

1 July 2011
02:42 GMT

Motorola Intros MOTO MT870 for China Mobile

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility and wireless phone carrier China Mobile have just announced the release of the first dual-core TD-SCDMA 3G smartphone in the country, the MOTO MT870. The new device will arrive on the market with Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board, as well as with ...

30 June 2011
14:21 GMT

Motorola VIP1853 Set-Top Box Is Easy to Upgrade

Motorola may be best known for its mobile devices, but there is nothing stopping it from showing its cards on the multimedia market, in this instance a set-top box with upgradeable features. HDTVs have been gaining PC-like capabilities like web connectivity and even their own storage devices, be they of the optic...

28 June 2011
07:55 GMT

Motorola Xoom 2 Tablet Possibly Exposed Prematurely By Verizon Video

It looks like these are times when, regardless of how cautious one is, some slips just happen, in this instance in the form of a Verizon video which, though no longer available to the public eye, was around long enough for attentive web entities to start speculating.The tablet market is definitely cementing its stat...

17 June 2011
05:14 GMT

Motorola Televation Is A New Sort of Live Streaming Device

Motorola may be mostly known for its activities on the mobile electronics market, but this doesn't mean it doesn't have or doesn't want to have a stake in other areas, such as, in this case, the multimedia segment.When it comes to live streaming of multimedia, especially TV broadcasts, set-top boxes a...

14 June 2011
07:29 GMT

Verizon Readies Android 2.3 Gingerbread for DROID 2 Global

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is getting ready to release a new software update for DROID 2 Global by Motorola smartphones on its airwaves, providing users with the latest version of Google's Android operating system, namely 2.3 Gingerbread. The new update will be delivered to handsets as Version.4.5...

14 June 2011
03:19 GMT

DROID 2 Global Now only $149.99 at Verizon

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has just powered the price tag for one of the popular devices on its airwaves, the DROID 2 Global by Motorola. Previously available for purchase at $199.99 upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement with the carrier, the mobile phone is now for sale at only $149.99 on con...

8 June 2011
14:51 GMT

MOTO XT882 Triple-dual Smartphone Arrives in China in June

In June, Motorola should launch a new smartphone on the market in China, the MOTO XT882, which is a triple-dual device: a dual-core, dual-mode, dual-standby Android device. The new device was unveiled only a few weeks ago, and should hit the shelves in China on the airwaves of China Telecom, featuring a price tag of...

6 June 2011
19:01 GMT

Motorola's Roadmap Leaks: Pearl, Slimeline, Targa, Zaha, and XOOM 2

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is hard at work with the designing and building of new mobile phones and tablet PCs, and some of them have just leaked into the wild, courtesy of a slip from the handset vendor. Apparently, the company is working on redesigning their website, and unannounced products were listed ...

1 June 2011
04:16 GMT

Motorola DROID Bionic Appears on NenaMark Website

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has three 4G LTE-capable smartphones available for purchase of its customers at the moment, but more of them should be released soon, one of which would come from Motorola. The mobile phone was already unveiled to the world, as Verizon and Motorola introduced it back in Janua...

28 May 2011
06:25 GMT

Motorola and Sprint to Launch the Photon 4G/Sunfire on June 9th

Wireless carrier Sprint and mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility have just announced a press event set for June 9th, during which they promise to unveil to the world the latest result of their collaboration. According to rumors, that would be none other than the already spotted Motorola Photon 4G, a dual-core smart...

26 May 2011
01:34 GMT

Motorola Confirms Gingerbread for DROID Devices

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is expected to offer its Android users the possibility to enjoy the latest enhancements that the platform includes, through delivering updates to the new Gingerbread flavor of the OS. The company's DROID series of handsets would be included in the update schedule as well, an...

24 May 2011
12:41 GMT

Future Motorola Devices to Sport Laptop Docks

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility has just confirmed plans to release on shelves new mobile phones that would have the ability to easily connect to laptop docks, just as the recently launched Motorola ATRIX does. The idea of pairing mobile phones with laptop docks was a great one, though some see it as a failure ...

2 May 2011
12:41 GMT

Motorola to Plan New Form Factor for DROID Bionic

Motorola's first 4G LTE-capable smartphone, the DROID Bionic, might still be set to make an appearance on shelves at Verizon, though it seems that not in the form factor we've seen it before. It seems that handset was not axed at all, but that Motorola has decided to delay it indefinitely to make a series ...

28 April 2011
13:51 GMT

Motorola Confirms Unlocked Bootloaders in New Handsets

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility has decided to launch on shelves new handsets and tablets that would pack unlocked bootloaders, some of the latest reports around the Internet suggest. We already knew that the company was considering this possibility, but nothing was officially confirmed until now. However, i...

27 April 2011
02:01 GMT

Alleged Photos of Motorola Quad-Core Prototype Surface

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is reportedly gearing up for the release of new, highly appealing devices, being ready to once more conquer the mobile market.Among the handsets that would help the company do so, we can count quad-core-packing smartphones, which should make an official appearance sometime toward...

26 April 2011
05:27 GMT

Motorola's Quad-Core Smartphones, Bullet and Jet

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is expected to be among the first companies in the world to come to the market with quad-core application processors inside, some of the latest rumors around the Internet suggest. According to the news, the new devices should arrive on shelves as Motorola Bullet and Jet, whil...

23 April 2011
12:01 GMT

Motorola Extends iDEN Agreement with NII Holdings

Recently, mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility, Inc. and NII Holdings, Inc. announced the extension of their supplier agreement through which Motorola will provide iDEN handsets to NII Holdings through 2014. The two companies have been working together in this area for the past 14 years, and the new agreement shows ...

22 April 2011
08:54 GMT

DROID X2 Makes Another Video Appearance, Gets Benchmarked

Mobile phone maker Motorola is gearing up for the launch of new Android-based handsets at Verizon Wireless, and the Motorola DROID X2 is reportedly one of them. The new device was rumored quite a few times before, but nothing was officially confirmed on it as of now. However, following a wide range of leaked p...

16 April 2011
04:03 GMT

Android Tablets Not Selling Well, Motorola Xoom Falters

If anyone were to say that Apple is not really giving other tablet makers an easy time, they would be right, as it seems Android 3.0 slates, or some of them, are far from selling as well as their makers might like.Some time ago, it became apparent that, indirectly, Apple was leaving the CEOs of other companies witho...

7 April 2011
08:42 GMT

Leaked Gingerbread ROMs Available for DROID X and DROID 2

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility is working on the delivery of Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform upgrades for its handsets as well, and two official ROMs for the company's DROID X and DROID 2 smartphones reportedly leaked into the wild.The leaked software emerges shortly after a similar ROM was leaked for an...

28 March 2011
03:51 GMT

Motorola Readies Software Update for AT&T's Motorola ATRIX 4G

Mobile phone maker Motorola is gearing up for the release of a software update for one of the most appealing smartphones it brought to the market during the ongoing year, namely the Motorola ATRIX 4G, currently on sale in the United States in the airwaves of wireless carrier AT&T. No official release date for this s...

24 March 2011
16:21 GMT

ASUS, Acer, Motorola and LG Tablets Priced Online

After all the tablet unveilings at MWC and CeBIT, a sort of silence fell upon the market, but it seems some information on several models, pricing details in fact, have now made it to the web.The thing about tablets is that they are one of the most surprising product type in the recent history of the IT industry.Ori...

18 March 2011
10:35 GMT

Motorola Rolls-Out Android 2.2 for Milestone

Mobile phone maker Motorola has just announced via its Facebook account that it started pushing out a new software update for its Motorola Milestone users, bringing the OS on this device up to Android 2.2 Froyo.This is a long-awaited software update, which landed on the US version of Milestone, also known as the Mot...

15 March 2011
11:05 GMT

Alleged Photos of DROID 3, DROID X 2 and LTE-Based Targa Emerge

Motorola's future roadmap should reportedly include a nice range of new devices headed for Verizon Wirless' network, and the DROID X 2, which was spotted before into the wild, along with a new DROID 3 model would be among them. Last year, Motorola and the wireless services provider launched the already pop...

15 March 2011
07:31 GMT

Motorola XOOM Hardware Costs Just $360, Will Rival Apple's iPad 3G

The Motorola XOOM tablet has garnered less than sparkling reviews upon its introduction on the market and it seems that it is, so to speak, in tune with what iSupply found after checking the price of its hardware.End-users may remember that, during MWC 2011 (Mobile World Congress), many tablets were unleashed upon t...

2 March 2011
08:28 GMT


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