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Droid's Week One Sales Impress, but Is Android OS the Real Winner?

Motorola's Droid smartphone got serious chunk of press coverage when it launched a few weeks back, and no wonder--it's possibly Motorola's one and only chance for a comeback. But how well did it sell? Flurry did the hard number ...READ»

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Undead Tech: the Wrist-Mounted Cell Phone

Glamour shots of this concept cell-phone wristwatch have been bouncing between design blogs, and Samsung announced recently that it would release a real-life analog in Europe by the fourth quarter of this year. But the wrist-mounted ...READ»

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Could Android Mop-Up the Entry Level Smartphone Market?

With news that LG's first Android smartphone is a pretty basic gizmo, and recalling the recent debut of the Motorola Cliq, an interesting thought's just occurred: Could the upstart Google OS corner the whole entry-level-smartphone ...READ»

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Is Motorola's Android Phone for Kids?

Today Motorola released its first Android device: the Cliq for T-Mobile. And while most Android comparisons run right to the iPhone, this thing looks more poised to steal teen approval from the Sidekick. Inside, it sports the same ...READ»

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Microsoft Building One-Mile Wi-Fi

Despite protestations from the Bush administration, the FCC succeeded last year in making a certain chunk of the nation's TV and radio spectrum--dubbed "white space"--available to unlicensed broadcasters. That meant that companies ...READ»

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Motorola to Inject Life Into Android, With Developer Program

It's becoming clear--the future of the smartphone is intimately tied with app development, and that's something Motorola knows. It's trying to promote app building for the Android platform with a new MOTODEV program. The developer ...READ»

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Why Ugly Sells

Designing universally attractive products sometimes means eschewing beauty.READ»

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Motorola Envisions the Cellphone of the Future

Hyper futuristic cellphone concepts are usually the province of student competitions. But Motorola tasked designers from its offices around the world to create a visionary cellphone replacement, and here are the results. As ...READ»

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20 Must-Have Apps -- But Not for the iPhone

Apple's iPhone isn't the only one with applications. Here are great apps for the BlackBerry, Android, and other smartphones.READ»

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Boost Mobile's Streetfight for Prepaid Dominance

In January, Boost Mobile began offering a flat-fee $50 wireless plan for unlimited minutes, texting, Internet, and push-to-talk. Consumers flocked: the little division of Sprint added almost 700,000 subscribers in Q1, after a net ...READ»

The Top Mobile Apps

Filtering 25,000-plus apps into one list? Impossible. Instead, hot apps to suit your style and phone.READ»

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Cellphone Satisfaction Study: Consumers Prefer Smartphones Over Dumb Ones

It should come as no surprise to smartphone users, but a customer satisfaction survey recently performed by JD Power has smartphones scoring higher than their limited-tech dumbphone siblings. And, of course, Apple's cellphone is the ...READ»

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Billionth iPhone App Sold, Other Smartphones Still Just Hoping You Download One

The iTunes App Store is the absolute king of the smartphone applications world. Not only has the billionth app just been downloaded, but a recent survey shows that smartphone users who don't own an iPhone simply don't ...READ»

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Green Products Expo 2009: Our Fantastic Four

Walking into yesterday’s Green Products Expo was akin to watching an episode of “Lost”: You know everything’s supposed to serve a higher purpose, but when you’re initially exposed, a lot of it just seems…awesomely weird. ...READ»

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The Gadget Jobocalypse? Tech Stalwarts are Still Downsizing

Our string of job-related stories may be very timely indeed, particularly advice on what to do if you're laid-off--Motorola, Google, Microsoft and Seagate are all about to do some staff downsizing, or take a serious look at their ...READ»

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Motorola Renew Leaked: Ditches Style For Eco-Credentials

You know, those leaks showing Motorola's 2009 impressive-looking Verizon line-up actually had me thinking Moto had turned a corner: Then this leak about the Renew turned up and changed all that. Destined exclusively for T-Mobile ...READ»

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Verizon's 2009 Hot Motorola Cellphone Line-up Leaks

"Hot" hasn't been a word much associated with Motorola for a little while, as the company that once wowed us with the RAZR has fallen behind much of its competition. But a series of leaks of the 2009 Verizon Motorola cellphone lineup ...READ»

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Beauty is Better Than Brains

When it comes to gadget-buying, looks are everything. What's wrong with us?READ»

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The Motorola Sparrow: Retail's Handheld Powerhouse

Think of the Motorola Sparrow as an iPhone for retailers. Equipped with a touch-sensitive back panel that keeps the screen free for viewing, the wireless prototype device integrates myriad existing technologies and features into a ...READ»

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Tech Watch: Ebay Bans Ivory Sales; Hulu Now on Boxee; Motorola Takes on Nokia

In a move to protect elephants, Ebay bans selling items containing ivory on its site; Hulu comes to Boxee; and Motorola launches luxury phone Aura to take on Nokia's Vertu.READ»

Sprint Launches WiMax in Baltimore

It's been a long time coming, but Sprint Nextel [S] finally flipped the switch on its long-delayed WiMax hotspot in Baltimore today, as well as revealing its first WiMax devices, made by ZyXEL [TPE:2391] and Samsung [SEO:005930]. ...READ»

Motorola Announces Hideous "Jewel" Phone

Motorola [NYSE:MOT] apparently feels that the pre-teen mobile phone market isn't being properly exploited, and has reacted in kind by releasing the MOTOJEWEL flip phone. Aside from the fact that this device has all together too many ...READ»

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Motorola's Do-Or-Die Phone Leaked

It's well known within the wireless industry that Motorola [NYSE:MOT] is perhaps on its last leg; with an abysmal balance sheet and few consumer successes of late, company board has given themsevles an ultimatum. If their next big ...READ»

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Details About Motorola MING Phones Emerge

While rumors about the Motorola [NYSE:MOT] MING phones have been leaking from the flagging phonemaker pretty readily, Moto finally got official today and announced specs for the two MING models: the A1600 and the A1800. The handsets ...READ»

Motorola Staking Company Future on "Last Stand" Phone

According to the often-reliable rumor mill the Boy Genius Report, Motorola [NYSE: MOT] is staking its future on the success of one single new phone. If that phone doesn't succeed wildly, BGR reports, Motorola will put itself up for ...READ»

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