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Verizon OTA fix coming to address DROID photography woes

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 4th 2009 No Comments

The Motorola DROID's bizarre date-related camera bug will apparently be addressed "within the coming weeks" according to Verizon, who are promising an over-the-air (OTA) firmware update that will prevent the cyclical "bad autofocus" issue from reoccurring. The new software will also improve voice call quality, something the DROID didn't have too much difficulty with in the first place.

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China Unicom XT701 rumored to be another Motorola Sholes sighting

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 4th 2009 No Comments

From a (fake) Motorola to another supposed Android Motorola handset. According to Androidin this is the China Unicom XT701, made by Motorola and similar in design to what we’re expecting the Sholes to look like. They’re saying the handset has a 3.7-inch touchscreen, no hardware keyboard, Android 2.1 and a 5-megapixel camera, a few megapixels down on the 8MP shooter we’ve heard will be on the Sholes.

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Motorola invest in Sensitive Object acoustic touchscreen specialists

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Dec 3rd 2009 No Comments

Motorola have invested in a French startup that uses acoustic feedback to mimic traditional touch and multitouch input. Sensitive Object use acoustics in their ReverSys system to "analyze sound waves departing from the point of a touch to precisely and cost-effectively transform any product into a touch device." For example, the system could track points of contact across the entire body of a cellphone, without requiring expensive capacitive sensors to cover the device.

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Motorola Sholes images leak: HDMI, 8MP camera and Android

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 1 Comment

It feels like rumors about the Motorola Sholes have been around forever, but the mysterious Android-based slate looks to be finally emerging from the geeky shadows. Mobile01 have acquired some images of the device, though not a full shot, together with some specifications: apparently the Sholes will have a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 touchscreen (just like the DROID) together with an 8-megapixel autofocus camera with Xenon flash and – in a first for an Android smartphone – an HDMI output.

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Motorola MILESTONE gets video unboxing

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

Shipments of the Motorola MILESTONE began in Germany a few weeks ago, so it's a little surprising that we've waited this long for an unboxing video. jkkmobile picked up one of the Android 2.0 handsets - known as the Motorola DROID in the US - and promptly opened it up on video. Video unboxing after the cut

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Motorola MILESTONE Expansys preorder confirms December 7th ship date

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 No Comments

It looks like the tipped release date for the Motorola MILESTONE in the UK really is December 7th, as Expansys are advertising that the European version of the Verizon DROID will arrive in eight working days from now. That tallies with the preorder listing spotted earlier this week, though the Expansys price is £10 higher at £449.99 ($743).

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Motorola MILESTONE hitting UK December 7th?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 25th 2009 No Comments

Motorola’s MILESTONE is yet to show up at any of the usual carrier subjects in the UK, but at least one UK supplier appears to be promising a launch date. The Euro-spec version of the Android 2.0 powered Motorola DROID (currently doing duty in CDMA form on Verizon in the US) will, according to SuperETrader, land on UK shores come December 7th.

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RIM and Motorola sued by Klausner Technologies for patent infringement

By Shane McGlaun on Tuesday, Nov 24th 2009 No Comments

Patent infringement suits are certainly nothing new in the technology industry. Over the last year, these sorts of suits are increasingly filed in a court in East Texas because the judge has a history of siding with the patent holders. The latest suit to be filed in the Eastern District of Texas is by Klausner Technologies against RIM and Motorola.

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Motorola MILESTONE gets second German carrier: Vodafone

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 20th 2009 No Comments

There’s nary a sign of the Motorola MILESTONE (the Euro-spec version of the Motorola DROID we’ve been so enamoured of) in the UK or indeed across the majority of Europe, but German buyers now have a plurality of choice should they want an Android 2.0 handset. Joining O2 Germany is Vodafone Germany, who are now listing the MILESTONE priced from €99 ($148) with a new contract.

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Motorola Motus spotted; unusual form-factor vaunted

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 20th 2009 No Comments

Perhaps we’re naive, but we’d have thought that the sort of people who get early access to unannounced mobile phones would also have a decent camera, but perhaps it’s the thrill of the unknown that causes heavy hand shake. No matter, you’re looking at a blurry image of the Motorola Motus, the company’s mid-rage Android smartphone expected to arrive in 2010, that showed up at the Motofan.ru forums.

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