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While we can sit here and have an argument about how useless it is to have a physical QWERTY keyboard on today’s modern smartphones, we’re just going to sidestep that debate and acknowledge that there is a sizable minority of people who will never, ever, give up the sensation of feeling a plastic key depress…
Take a stroll to your local Best Buy and walk down the wireless aisle. Notice how most every smartphone on the market today looks the same? Hard angles, giant slabs of glass, no real differentiation until you hit the power button and see what sort of horrific changes the operators and handset makers put on…
NTP launched into a patent lawsuit frenzy last year, suing giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Motorola, LG, HTC, and major U.S. carriers like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint. The seven patents in question revolved around mobile e-mail, and though the U.S. Court of Appeals sought to invalidate the patent for being unreasonably broad, the…
We mentioned two days ago that the DROID Bionic might be coming this September, and Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed it yesterday during Motorola’s Q2 earnings call. The DROID Bionic will be coming to Verizon some time this September, so those who have been waiting for it since CES won’t have to sit around watching…
Motorola Mobility had a somewhat disappointing second quarter, as the company posted a net loss of $56 million. Its smartphone sales were pretty good but its tablet sales are not even close to what the market leader is doing. Thanks to solid handsets like the Droid X2, Motorola was able to ship 4.4 million smartphones…
If you happen to want Sprint’s Motorola Photon 4G badly and can’t wait for the very end of July, nothing stops you from pre-ordering it. Up until this point, the Android-powered device was available from Walmart and Wirefly, and now RadioShack is joining the ride, too. Their price is also $179.99, which is $20 less…
Sprint is one of my favorite wireless carriers in the U.S., and it has an excellent selection of smartphones. It all started with the HTC EVO 4G, which was the first 4G WiMax device for Sprint. It was also a beast of a phone with a four-plus-inch screen and a 1GHz processor running Google’s Android…
The DROID Bionic was a hot announcement during CES, and we really couldn’t wait to get our hands on one. However, we didn’t realize that the spec-packed Android handset would take several months to hit the market. We’re now hearing that the DROID Bionic isn’t going to arrive until early September – what gives? Droid-Life…
Verizon Wireless and Motorola have released the so much needed Gingerbread update for the Droid X2. Before you “push the button,” make sure your most important data (i.e. contacts and calendars) is backed up and that your battery is fully charged. If that’s on place, you’re ready to go. Here’s the list of improvements the…
The Motorola Xoom, the very first device to run Google’s tablet version of Android known as Honeycomb, hit store shelves on February 24th of this year. When Verizon announced it, they said that at some point in the future, most likely during the summer, customers will be able to get a free hardware upgrade that…