Tag archive: Motorola

Intel's push into the world of mobile device processors appears to be moving forward, as a new image has been leaked of what's believed to be Motorola's first smartphone to use Intel's Medfield system-on-a-chip. A prototype phone using the Atom-based chip was revealed late last year, and although LG was rumored to be producing a device for Intel, it was Lenovo and Motorola who announced at CES 2012 they would be making… Read More

Google's buyout of Motorola Mobility has cleared two major hurdles. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced late Monday afternoon that Google's bid to buy Motorola for $12.5 billion does not violate antitrust laws, and will be allowed to proceed. Earlier in the day, the European Union also approved the deal. In addition to the Google's bid for Motorola, the DoJ also approved Apple's request to buy a cache of Novell… Read More

The world of patent licensing often seems like a maze of twisty little passages, all alike, but every so often the industry stumbles into a new tunnel — or, at least, one that seems new at first glance. Such is the case with Apple, which has asked the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to establish a set of basic principles governing so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing of patented… Read More

The Droid 4 is the latest addition to the ever-extending family of QWERTY-slider Android phones from Motorola. Rumored for many months prior to its CES 2012 unveiling, it was left down to Verizon to provide the last two pieces of the puzzle — when would it launch and how much would it cost. Last rumored to appear on February 9, Verizon has finally issued a press release confirming the Droid 4′s arrival, and it's out on February… Read More

In a nicely candid move, Motorola Mobility has come forward and admitted that it accidentally sold 100 refurbished Xoom Android tablets through Woot.com without first wiping the devices to remove previous customers' data. Motorola would like to get the devices back from any buyers, and has extended two years of free Experian ProtextMyID service to any customers who returned a Xoom tablet between March and October 2011 to protect them from… Read More

It's been a big day for Motorola in its legal battles with Apple—at least in Germany. The Mannheim Regional Court has granted Motorola a permanent injunction on the push email service of Apple's iCloud services—the injunction would also apply to iCloud's predecessor, MobileMe. Motorola's complaint dates all the way back to April 2011, and, unfortunately for Apple, the injunction is a permanent one, not a preliminary… Read More

One certainly can't claim Motorola isn't at least trying to help customers who want a Droid Razr with an unlocked bootloader. Late last year the company announced that the Razr would come unlocked, but it would be down to networks to decide whether to make the feature available. Unsurprisingly, Verizon didn't like the idea and didn't let its phones ship with the feature activated, and although some other networks around… Read More

U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard Posner has significantly narrowed the high-profile patent litigation between Apple and Motorola over the technology used in their iOS and Android-powered mobile devices, reducing the number of claims in the case that could go to trial from eight to five. Posner ruled that one of Apple's patents in the case is invalid, and that Apple was not guilty of infringing on Motorola patents for authenticating… Read More

Motorola's Droid Razr, one of Verizon's high-end 4G smartphones, now costs $100 less than it used to — but those savings come at a price. At the $300 price point, the Droid Razr came with 32GB of internal storage. Now, it's down to just 16GB, thanks to the removal of an included 16GB microSD card. The $300 package is no longer available. You might be saying to yourself, OK, but can't I just pop my own microSD card into… Read More

Is your job or lifestyle so fraught with danger that you need your phone to cope with almost any situation? Are your weekends filled with the kind of activities that even Bear Grylls would suck air through his teeth at before moving on to something more sensible? If so, then the stock Motorola Defy+ may not be tough enough to keep up. But not to worry, as construction machinery manufacturer JCB has stepped in to add their own tweaks to the… Read More

The Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone. Though there were few revolutionary new products at the show this year, in the smartphone space, we saw a number of promising new devices, many from companies that haven't been performing well in the United States in recent years, including Nokia and Sony. Huawei and Fujitsu also had impressive showings, but overall, Windows Phone may be the winner at CES 2012. While it still has a tiny… Read More

In an early victory for Motorola, an administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Motorola Droid smartphones do not infringe on three Apple patents. Although the case will now go to a full six-judge panel at the ITC for a final determination, the ruling is a setback in Apple's efforts to cast a dark cloud over Android devices as a product “stolen” from Apple's iOS and iPhone.… Read More

With a Google merger on the horizon, Motorola is playing it cool at CES this year. The Droid 4 is the only truly new product announced and it has been so heavily leaked that we thought it was going to launch on Verizon in December. After some brief hands-on, I can easily say that the Droid 4 is the phone that the Droid 3 should have been. This is the phone that owners of the original Droid have been hoping for all year (I know you're… Read More

Motorola has expanded its range of Android smartphones with the launch of two new devices, the Motoluxe and the Defy Mini. While neither astound in terms of specification, they're solid entries into Motorola's mid-level line-up. The Motoluxe (on the left in the picture) is the more advanced of the two, and sports a 4-inch touchscreen with a 480 x 854 pixel resolution, with an 800Mhz processor and 512MB RAM inside. Other features… Read More

Apple still commands the largest market share for a smartphone manufacturer, but Android manufacturers are closing in. According to new data released by Nielsen, HTC, Samsung, and Motorola are all top five smartphone manufacturers, along with RIM. Keep in mind, this data doesn't include non-smartphones. If you factor in those, Samsung is the largest phone maker in the U.S. Worldwide, Nokia leads the pack.  Smartphone market share by… Read More