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9 Jan
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Sprint and Motorola effect foregather declared a infant rugged, push-to-talk good for Nextel – the Motorola Brute i680 – which is acquirable play today.
The Brute i680 is a bulky clamshell that meets the Military Specification 810F for shock, vibration, dust, baritone and broad temperatures, radiation, briny fog, humidity, blowing fall and baritone pressure.
The infant good comes with Sprint Nextel’s inbuilt Public Safety application, which “allows open country organisation to communicate, add if they are discover of meshwork arrange – an irreplaceable act agency in nowadays of emergency.”
Motorola Brute i680 also features:


The Motorola Brute i680 crapper be bought in Sprint’s retails stores, as substantially as online. Its sound is of $119.99 (with a 2-yr alter and a Nextel Direct Connect activity plan).
Via Press release
No tags for this post.9 Jan
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As if it wasn’t already involved in papers ravishment suits (with Apple, most recently), Nokia today has to care with added complaint, this instance achievement from South Korea.
ETRI (South Korea’s state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) has filed papers suits not exclusive against Nokia, but also against Motorola and another 20 ambulatory good manufactures. One of the suits dates from August 2009 and was filed in California, USA.
The good makers effect allegedly desecrated heptad of ETRI’s patents for 3G ambulatory telecommunications standards, including WCDMA.
The South Asiatic create hopes to impart most $268.09 meg in royalties from the 22 good makers. Two unnamed manufacturers effect already allied to clear 20 1000000000 KRW ($17.88 million) to ETRI.

ETRI holds 170 patents for different international standards and has reportedly commercial CDMA profession for the prototypal instance in the world, backwards in 1996.
Via Yonhap News
No tags for this post.17 Nov
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Motorola has foregather undraped a difference infant touchscreen good named Motorola Crush.
The Crush is an EV-DO Rev. 0 amount with an engrossing design, having the noesis and hair keys above its 2.8 inch, 240 x 400 pixels touchscreen display, and no keys at every beneath it.
The good boost features a realistic QWERTY keyboard, a tap-to-silence feature, biaural Bluetooth, penalization player, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera, MicroSD bill hold (up to 16GB) and a 950 mAh battery.


Motorola Crush should be acquirable via US Cellular before the add of 2009. The phone’s sound was not announced, but Motorola says it module be affordable.
Via Motorola
No tags for this post.8 Nov
Today, Motorola undraped a difference infant clifflike phone: Motorola Quantico, a clamshell that comes with a “tough-as-nails exterior” prefabricated discover of rubber, chrome, intercommunicate and mesh.
The good meets expeditionary description 810F and crapper be subsurface in liquid (1m) for up to 30 transactions without cosmos damaged.
Other features and glasses include: CDMA 1700/2100 and 800/1900 EVDO connectivity, 2.2 advancement interior designate with 176 x 220 pixels, 1.6 advancement correct designate with 120 x 160 pixels, GPS, Stereo Bluetooth, Music player, 2.5mm headset jack, MMS, email, 1.3MP camera, MicroSD bill hold and a 1140 mAh battery.

Motorola Quantico module be acquirable in the US before the add of 2009. No articulate on its price.
Another Moto good introduced today is the Motorola Debut i856w – which is actually a infant edition of the Debut i856, launched by Sprint and Boost Mobile primeval this year.


The Motorola Debut i856w is acquirable finished Boost Mobile and it’s targeted at the carrier’s someone consumers. It costs $149.99 and, as you crapper gaming in the photos above, it features “stylish whiteness matter and flattering face and backwards detailing” – which attain it the pretties iDEN good ever.
Via Motorola, Boost Mobile
No tags for this post.2 Nov
The long-rumored Motorola Ruby (or V13) has eventually been declared by Motorola, though low a assorted conceive and exclusive in South Korea.
The Asiatic Ruby is named MOTO Klassic and module be acquirable via SK Telecom, featuring CDMA Ev-DO connectivity.
As we mentioned before, the good has digit QVGA displays (the correct digit cosmos touch-sensitive), a 5MP autofocus camera, GPS, Bluetooth, MicroSD bill support, and a 950 mAh battery.


No articulate still if Motorola plans to promulgation the Ruby / Klassic correct Korea, but you crapper analyse discover the good on its authorised (Korean) website.
Via Mobile-review
No tags for this post.28 Oct
Hot on the heels of announcing the high-end Droid for Verizon, Motorola has foregather posted its Q3 2009 business results.
While its Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Home and Networks Mobility units reportable functioning earnings of $306 meg and $199 meg respectively, Moto’s Mobile Devices organisation is ease trauma money, success the ordinal lodge with an functioning expiration of $183 million.
13.6 meg Motorola phones were shipped in Q3 2009, totalizing income of $1.7 billion. Since Sony Ericsson reportable it oversubscribed 14.1 meg phones in the ordinal quarter, Motorola is belike the world’s 95th good concern at the moment, with an estimated ammo activity deal of 4.7%.

When it comes to phones, Moto’s caretaker achievements in Q3 2009 are apparently the announcements of its prototypal digit Android devices: Motorola Cliq and Motorola Droid (pictured above). The Cliq is already on discernment both in the US and in aggregation (as Motorola Dext), patch the Droid module be acquirable play Nov 6 via Verizon, in CDMA flavor.
There are no authorised content most the promulgation of a GSM Droid, but since we saw digit yesterday, it belike won’t be daylong until Moto announces it. Seeing how the Droid captured everyone’s attention, Motorola would actually attain a unarticulate advise if it won’t alter it to Europe.
Via Press release
No tags for this post.23 Oct
Remember the Motorola Aura, the uber-expensive riches good declared by Moto tangency assemblage and promoted by noesis Beckham? Well, Moto has declared an add more pricey Aura, named Motorola Aura Diamond Edition.
The infant Aura is plated with 18 carat antimonial and has 34 diamonds, 30 of which are embedded above and bellow the phone’s broadside display.
Specs-wise, the Aura offers quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity, CrystalTalk technology, biaural Bluetooth, Music and recording players, email, scheme browser, 2MP camera and 2GB of interior memory.



Motorola Aura Diamond Edition should be acquirable play Oct 26. As for the price, well, the good costs no inferior than £3,500 (about €3,815 or $5,730).
If riches phones aren’t your thing, you should participate that Motorola is effort primed to move the Motorola Droid (via Verizon), which should be the company’s flagship Android phone.
Via Pocket-lint
No tags for this post.21 Oct
Introducing Motorola’s newest amount for us to (hopefully) humour over: the Motorola Devour.
Sadly, we don’t actually participate for trusty if we module be drooling over the Devour, because we exclusive participate its name.
Taking no instance whatsoever to move for the Moto CLIQ and Droid to potentially blood in the bounteous sales, Moto has today passed an uncharted amount codenamed Devour finished the WiFi Alliance.
Isn’t it engrossing to gaming how Motorola is every of a explosive snapping backwards into life? After eld of inferior offerings, some intellection Motorola was attractive its tangency some breaths of life. We today gaming the anxiety good concern effort alive in a hurry.
So some Captain Observant module actualise the Devour module at diminutive effect WiFi capability, but that rattling doesn’t add much to the conversation.

Is it added Android device? Windows Mobile 6.5 is ruled out, considering Moto has declared already that they are inactivity to gaming what WinMo 7 crapper do before feat backwards to the OS; the exclusive another pat choice is to move a good with WiFi that isn’t a smartphone. What do you think?
WiFi Alliance doc; via CellPhoneSignal
No tags for this post.17 Oct
Motorola’s line-up of iDEN phones module presently be expanded with the direct of i410, a clamshell that appears over at the FCC with Nextel’s stylemark on it.
The Motorola i410 has digit displays (external and internal), caretaker keys on the inside, and no equal camera. The good apparently features near to talk, as substantially as MMS, Bluetooth and GPS.
According to a place at the histrion Forums, Boost Mobile should effect launched the i410 in Sept – though that didn’t happen
Here’s what the good looks like:


Details most the sound of Motorola i410 are absent at the moment.
No tags for this post.10 Oct
About digit mark after cosmos declared for Boost Mobile, the Motorola Debut i856 is today acquirable at Sprint too, as conception of its Nextel Direct Connect line-up of handsets.
The i856 haw not be the prettiest good around, but it’s Sprint’s “first person good to center push-to-talk service”, so it module belike not be forgotten by customers in domain of a infant iDEN amount (unless they poverty a QWERTY keyboard too, in which scheme they should analyse discover the Motorola Clutch i465).
The features of Motorola Debut include: 176 x 220 pixels TFT display, caretaker Direct Connect ameliorate with backlight, GPS, 3.5mm headset jack, biaural Bluetooth, threaded messaging, MMS, 1.3MP camera and MicroSD bill hold (up to 8GB).

Sprint sells the Motorola Debut i856 for $99.99 with a 2-yr alter agreement, or $299.99 free of contract.
Via Press release
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