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Motorola CLIQ XT for T-Mobile gets reviewed

By Chris Davies on Friday, Mar 12th 2010 No Comments

Room in your heart for another Motorola Android smartphone running MOTOBLUR but stuck on Android 1.5?  The T-Mobile CLIQ XT by Motorola is set to hit the market imminently, and we’ve got our full review over at Android Community.

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Motorola open to Windows Phone 7 and MOTOBLUR on other devices

By Shane McGlaun on Friday, Feb 26th 2010 No Comments

Motorola has been struggling more than some phone makers with the poor economy. The fact that before Android Motorola hadn't had a popular device since the RAZR didn’t help things. When Android became popular Motorola pretty much abandoned WinMo and clung to Android the way a drowning man clings to a bit of driftwood.

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Best Buy confirms $99 Motorola Devour for Feb 25th, reprices Moto Droid/HTC Eris

By Paul Fang on Monday, Feb 22nd 2010 2 Comments

After first being confirmed for $99, then afterwards being confirmed for $149, Best Buy has finally reconfirmed pricing back at $99 for the Motorola Devour via its official Facebook page, and will be available starting this Thursday, February 25th.

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Motorola QUENCH/CLIQ XT hands-on [Video]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Feb 18th 2010 No Comments

Motorola weren’t first out of the gate with Android, but they haven’t let that stop them.  The company are now up to their eight handset running the open-source OS, with availability spread across North America, Europe and Asia, and next in line is the Motorola QUENCH with MOTOBLUR.  Set to hit T-Mobile USA as the Motorola CLIQ XT, we grabbed some hands-on time at MWC 2010 this week.

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Video demo after the cut

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Motorola DEVOUR coming to Verizon

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Feb 3rd 2010 No Comments

Motorola has announced that the cool DEVOUR slider phone will be landing on the Verizon Wireless network. The handset is the first Motorola device for Verizon to feature MOTOBLUR, the company’s Android social networking aggregator service.  Packing a slider form-factor similar to the DROID, the DEVOUR has a smaller 3.1-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen along with a hardware QWERTY keyboard, 3-megapixel autofocus camera and EVDO Rev.A.

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Motorola Backflip official; CLIQ getting Android 2.1; DROID getting Flash 10.1

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 6th 2010 No Comments

SlashGear is at Motorola’s press conference at CES 2010 today, and the company has just announced the Motorola Backflip.  While they’re not mentioning carrier partnerships today, it’s worth noting that the Backflip image shown now is the same as AT&T showed earlier today.  Meanwhile Moto also confirmed that the CLIQ (aka the Motorola DEXT) will be upgraded from Android 1.5 to 2.1, and that Adobe Flash 10.1 will be pushed out to the DROID in future releases.

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AT&T confirm five Android phones in 1H2010 from Dell, HTC and Motorola UPDATE: Two webOS phones too!

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 6th 2010 No Comments

So far AT&T have been pretty cagey when it comes to Android on their network, but it looks like 2010 is the year when it all kicks off.  The carrier has just announced that it will be pushing out five Android-based handsets in the first half of this year, complete with models from HTC, Motorola and Dell.  SlashGear is at AT&T’s CES 2010 press conference this morning, and will be bringing you all the details as they arrive.

Update: AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega just confirmed that the carrier will offer two Palm webOS device in the first half of 2010 too.

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Motorola MB300 Backflip/Enzo leaks: MOTOBLUR, odd form-factor and AT&T

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Dec 17th 2009 No Comments

More detail – and some far better photography – has emerged regarding one of Motorola’s next Android devices, the Motorola MB300 variously known as the Motorola Backflip, the Motorola Enzo and the Motorola Motus.  As was speculated, the smartphone has an unusual form-factor in that the QWERTY keyboard folds back against the screen section, leaving both exposed; the 5-megapixel camera with LED flash is embedded into the left-hand side of the keyboard, and there’s a trackpad on the back of the display.

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Social networking and the mobile context

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 1 Comment

There’s a growing call to deliver desktop experiences on mobile devices, and in general that’s a good thing. I don’t want to be limited to cut-down, plain-text “mobile” versions of websites when I have a large smartphone display and speedy 3G connection that could readily handle the full version, and the push for full-HTML browsers (and things like Flash support) has already trickled down from a must-have on smartphones to a common feature-phone element. What’s lagging behind, it seems, is an understanding of how mobile device use differs from desktop use, and nowhere is that more evident than in social networking integration. Several devices promise to bring your online social life to the screen that’s always with you, but the experience is patchy at best.

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Motorola CLIQ and MOTOBLUR review

By Vincent Nguyen on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 1 Comment

As Motorola have found over the past couple of years, it’s taking an increasing amount to get geeks and gadget lovers to stand up and pay attention to a new cellphone. Right now, one sure-fire way of doing that is by launching an Android device, and so that’s what the ailing mobile giant has done in the shape of the Motorola CLIQ (aka the DEXT outside of the US). Not only does the CLIQ promise to make a splash among Android handsets, it also marks the debut of Motorola’s attempt to corral social networking into a mobile device. In our review we’ll not only be looking at the CLIQ hardware, as Motorola’s first-generation Android smartphone, but at MOTOBLUR and its potential beyond the CLIQ. Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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