Motorola is finally going forward with the Froyo update for its Bravo smartphone. However, that doesn’t mean you can already grab it (presuming you’re a Bravo owner). Rather the American handset maker is going slowly with the software update and at the moment it is inviting Bravo users to test out the new firmware before…
Motorola SocialTV lets phones, tablets interact with TV shows
Motorola has introduced a SocialTV service which will enable its smartphones and tablets to interact with television shows. The Motorola SocialTV service could best be described as a television companion. While you’re watching your stories, this service will give you access to other content. That content will include social networking elements, exclusive content, chatting (eventually)…
Verizon’s Droid X 2 and Droid Incredible 2 pictures leak out [UPDATE]
Verizon’s upcoming Android line up is rather extensive, and it’s only going to grow as the year progresses. With the Thunderbolt now the king of Verizon phones right now, some of you may be waiting for the Droid X 2, or the Incredible 2. Lucky for you, pictures of both devices have leaked out for…
Wi-Fi Motorola Xoom Launched in Canada
Starting tomorrow, Future Shop and Best Buy stores across Canada will start selling the big daddy of Android tablets: the Motorola Xoom. It’ll be going for $599.99, which might feel a little steep (especially when many netbooks cost half that, and this is the Wi-Fi-only version), but you get a fair bit for your money.…
Motorola Droid X 2 shipping with Tegra 2 and qHD display?
We’re still loving the existing Droid X from Verizon today, but in the mobile world, it may as well be the CLIQ. Ok, maybe not that bad, but technology moves fast, and we’ve been expecting a successor to the powerful handset sometime soon. With no official announcement of the DX2’s existence, we know very little,…
Deal Alert: T-Mobile offering Motorola DEFY for free today
Attention to the clumsy, klutz’s, and those with butterfingers, T-Mobile is offering the Motorola DEFY for free today, and today only. The rugged phone may not be the cream of the crop, but free is free, right? The water-resistant, dust-proof handset is one of the better looking devices of its kind, and we’d pick this…
Motorola XOOM tablet sales at 100,000 units?
The Motorola Xoom may be a pretty piece of hardware, but it looks as though the sales of the world’s first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet may be pretty awful, only selling around 100,000 since its launch in February. There’s also the Atrix 4G from Motorola, which isn’t faring too well, either. The Motorola Xoom, even…
Analyst: Motorola Xoom and Atrix 4G sales are ‘disappointing’
Analyst James Faucette of Pacific Crest said in a recent research note that sales of the flagship Motorola Xoom tablet and the Atrix 4G smartphone for AT&T are disappointing. The analyst used channel checks to verify that sell-through on these devices is less than expected. Much of the competition comes from the high-profile launch of…
Android Grabs a Third of U.S. Smartphone Market Share
comScore is showing off their survey numbers for December through February, and of the 30,000 U.S. smartphone owners surveyed, a solid 33% had an Android handset of some kind. That lines up nicely with other recent data that puts Android as the top mobile OS in America, as well as the UK. Samsung was the…
38 years ago the first public cellular phone call was placed
Motorola engineer Martin Cooper will go down in the history books as the first person to place a public cellular call on April 3rd, 1973. This historic event was arranged by Motorola to show off its new cellular calling technology to the FCC. At that time, Motorola has a vision for the cellular future and…