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A third party company has created an unauthorised clamshell version of the iPhone for sale in China, whoever said clams and apples wouldn’t mix.
One of the most interesting leaks of late came to us from the mobile phone news website site shanzhaij, with images that are truly amazing and we hope are for real.
They’ve compared [...]
Later on today we’re at the launch event of the new handset from Moto, the AURA.
If you weren’t already aware, and you will be by the end of reading this, it’s their designer mobile phone par excellence.
We’ve been told it’s the world’s first 16 million colour, circular display with a 300 dpi resolution, and a [...]
I paid the 500 quid for the StarTac back in 1999. It was a brilliant, revolutionary handset. My favourite feature was the fact it carried a credit card sized sim card. Not that useful but I liked the concept. Of course the form factor was simply amazing.
I was the coolest kid at [...]
Isn’t it about time Motorola dumped this MOTO theme and evolved a bit?
Continue ReadingI’ve taken some video footage of my piece-of-shit Motorola Q9 trying to make a call.Â
My mistake was to answer the phone, you see.Â
A chap called me with a story and all was good. I hung up and tried to make a call.
Mistake. Stupid, stupid mistake. What the hell was I thinking, trying to make a [...]
Way back in March, I left the States with my Motorola Q9 on Sprint. Obviously Sprint, being a CDMA network, isn’t a lot of use in the UK so I switched off the Q9 and never used it again until yesterday.
Strangely enough it still had half the battery charge! That’s about 6 or [...]
And here we go again, back in the States. Back in the land that loves Motor-sodding-rola.
Everywhere I walk, there are all kinds of Motorolas, Samsungs, Sanyos and … well, let’s group them under the term ’shitphones’.
Each time I see someone sporting one of these devices, I little mobile fairy snuffs it, I’m sure of [...]
Okay, so we’ve all seen all the phones that are coming up from Motorola lately, right? Earlier today, they have unveiled another ‘MOTOsomething’, the MOTOJEWEL here in the UK.Â
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Motorola is targeting the ‘female fashionista’ with this phone. In an effort to attract the ladies, the company is bundling a mini clutch bag that has just about enough [...]
I wandered over to Victoria this evening take a look at what would be big for Christmas this year from Carphone Warehouse (silly name, good shop). It ranged from the ‘meh’ to the ‘wow’ so here’s a quick overview in pictures. The event was organised as a ‘home’ with each vendor in a different room…
Netbooks [...]
Continue ReadingIt looks like rumours of the death of Motorola have been greatly exaggerated. According to those whose jobs it is to pontificate on companies’ state of health or otherwise - the analysts - struggling Motorola has turned a corner and things are looking up.
Citi analyst Jim Suva said in a research note quoted by AP [...]
The industry is teaming with leaked images for iPhones. Naturally the Nokia iPhone, uh, sorry, Tube, was placed into the amazing Dark Knight batman movie. And now Motorola has leaked images of its iPhone. Honestly, you’d think this cloak and dagger stuff was easy.
The web is now teaming with countless images of the Motorola Atila, [...]
If the latest figures from industry watchers Strategy Analytics (via The Financial Times) are anything to go by, it’s all change in the US market when it comes to mobile handsets. There are two notable big winners: LG, which has leapfrogged Samsung to take the number two spot, and RIM, which has seen its share [...]
Continue ReadingSo who’s getting the poison chalice of the top job at Motorola’s handset division (well on its way to be being rechristened Motorola’s ailing handset division by practically everyone in the media)? Step up to the plate, Sanjay Jha, former COO of Qualcomm.
Jha, as well as being head of the devices business, will become the [...]
While it’s still mulling how to make a must-have handset again, at least Motorola is doing some new things with its services business. According to the Guardian, Moto it’s launching its very own movie store, after teaming up with Paramount.
For between £5.99 and £8.99, users will be able to get their hands on a selection [...]
Motorola’s struggling handset business could soon have a new head. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal quoting people familiar with the matter, negotiations are underway with two candidates and are currently at a sensitive stage.
Of the two potential CEOs, the WSJ names one as a ‘telecoms exec’ but gives no more details, [...]
The folks over at LG must be popping a few champagne corks right now - according to analysts Gartner, LG phones are now more popular than their Sony Ericsson counterparts: in the analysts’ latest set of quarterly figures, LG has jumped ahead of Sony Ericsson for the first time to take the number four slot [...]
Continue ReadingAfter flirting with mobile VoIP for a while, Skype looks like it’s about to get properly stuck in. The company’s announced that it’s brought out a beta version of the Skype client for “50 of the most popular Java-enabled mobile phones from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson”.
All the usual features are enabled - chat, [...]
It looks like things are getting worse before they get better chez Motorola. It’s just put out the latest set of results for its mobile devices division and there’s all the bad news expected plus a bit more for good measure - sales were down 39 percent year-on-year, losses were up and the company sold [...]
Continue ReadingAccording to PC World, today will see Motorola join a list of investors which includes Cisco, Intel, Cisco and Texas Instruments by funding mobile virtualisation company VirtualLogix.
VirtualLogix lets a user can access two separate operating systems on the same handset - allowing them to share some resources like memory, but also keeping other areas, such [...]
The ongoing “will they, won’t they” saga of Motorola’s handset division spin-off has taken another turn today. According to Financial Times partner mergermarket.com, some companies have stepped forward to begin talks with Moto.
The site reports that “many leading Asian telecommunications equipment and device manufacturers” who have previously denied interest in taking over the unit but [...]
Motorola is getting some love from 3 once again after spell out in the cold, with the operator reintroducing its handsets to its network for the first time in 18 months. The first device off the block will be the HSDPA-enabled RAZR2 V9,
According to the company, 3 has decided to welcome Motorola back into the [...]
While all the ongoing specultion about where Motorola is going with its handset business trundle along in the background, the company is still laying down some cash for mobile investments. Motorola’s investment arm, Motorola Ventures has revealed its put some money into Quantum, a company that makes devices and software for DVB-H mobile broadcasting, although [...]
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