Archive for the ‘Motorola’ Category

Following up on the myriad of Motorola Droid issues this week, a recently leaked Technical Bulletin has surfaced that clearly spells out all of the major issues Droid owners have been complaining about since launch(speaker echo/audio problems and recent autofocus problems found on the camera) and what steps will be taken to address them, culminating [...]

Motorola has announced a late 4th quarter launch for the Motorola Crush multimedia oriented touchscreen device on regional carrier USCellular.
The device features a 2.8 inch WQVGA widescreen touch display, 3.5mm headphone jack, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, microSDHC expansion slot and speakerphone.

Amongst all of the uproar over a “silent update” that “fixed” the recently released Motorola Droid’s camera autofocus issues this morning, Android developer Dan Morrill has given an even simpler explanation for the seemingly rectified nature of the issue:
“There’s a rounding-error bug in the camera driver’s autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus [...]

The Motorola Support forums have been busy with reports of the recently released Motorola DROID having intermittent main speaker issues whereby the device’s speaker will not function spontaneously, with notifications as well as ringtones only being heard through the earpiece, causing inconvenience for some using the device as an alarm clock or using the device [...]

The FCC has revealed the currently unannounced Motorola i680 rugged clamshell.
The phone features multimedia functionality such as a media player, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder and flash, microSDHC expansion slot, Bluetooth, Push to X functionality, GPS and speakerphone.
The phone’s bodyshell is also M810F certified against shock, vibration and dust. Neither Sprint nor Motorola [...]

Following up on the announcement of the Motorola Quantico rugged clamshell for AWS CDMA networks, USCellular has launched its variant.
As previously reported, the clamshell is certified against a 30-minute dunk in up to three feet of water, extreme pressure, temperature, dust, shock, vibration and rain.
The phone is available for $179.95 on prepaid service before an [...]

Motorola has announced the forthcoming launch of the Quantico rugged clamshell phone with tri-band CDMA/AWS support expected in the 4th quarter.
The phone features a rubber-coated bodyshell with textured patterns for improved grip and it can withstand a 30-minute dunk in up to three feet of water, extreme pressure, temperature, dust, shock, vibration and rain due [...]

Verizon has launched the long-awaited Motorola DROID Android smart device after weeks of anticipation.
The complete featureset consists of the 3.7 inch WVGA resolution capacitive touch display, QWERTY keyboard, 550 MHz application processor, microSDHC expansion slot with included 16GB card, 5.0 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, autofocus and DVD resolution video recorder.
Secondary specifications include Bluetooth [...]

As expected, T-Mobile has launched the Motorola CLIQ social-networking oriented Android device for new customers after an exclusive upgrade period for existing customers late last month.
The CLIQ features an HVGA resolution widescreen touch display QWERTY keyboard with five-way directional pad, triband HSPA access, quadband GSM/EDGE, Android 1.6, MOTOBLUR social networking frontend, Bluetooth with stereo audio [...]

Motorola, and Google, have done something that no other phone has done before. They have built a phone better than any iPhone. Now it gets interesting.
First, we’ll get the obligatory iPhone boilerplate out of the way. Yes, contrary some fist shaking, iPhone (3GS) was the phone to beat, until today. Be it in the performance [...]