Category: Motorola (Android)
Whilst it may look a little strange, Kirsty Gallagher is helping Motorola show that their DEFY handset will survive the festival season. Kirsty avoids the mud in Covent Garden where visitors have the chance to win tents, festival tickets and sleeping bags. You can also enter by visiting …
Some months ago we showed you how the Motorola Defy could easily cope with water, snow and dust. Now the Motorla Defy+ has been revealed and it’s still as “life proof” as ever. The new device, which will be available in the Autumn in Asia, Europe and Latin …
Android partners have jumped into to have their say on Google’s acquisition of Motorola. Samsung, who are currently being beaten around the head by Apple, have stated.. We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem. Sony Ericsson, HTC and …
Ok, this is big news! Google have announced they are to acquire Motorola’s mobile phone and tablet business for $12.5 billion. This puts Google directly into the hardware business, like Apple, but actually there seems to be a different motive. The tech industry has recently become rather courtroom based, …
Motorola have just confirmed that Android 3.1 will shortly be available to Xoom owners. An OTA (Over The Air) update is now rolling out and, good news, it’ll activate the SD card slot to give you up to 64GB of storage capacity. Other improvements contained within 3.1 include.. …
Packing a 3.5″ HVGA display, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and powered by Android 2.3.4, this is the Motorola Domnio+. Also known as the XT531 it also has an 800MHz Qualcomm CPU and a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. This, obviously, is the white version, but there’ll also be …
Agh. What’s this ? Another QWERTY Android ? Honestly, you wait ages for a bus and then they all come at once. We’ve seen this one kicking about for a few months now and we spotted last month that a UK arrival had been confirmed. Clove have confirmed …
We saw the rather lovely Motorola Atrix back at Mobile World Congress and had a great demo of how it worked. We’ve now had all the kit delivered to see how it works and the result is this quick video. We’ll have more later in the week..
Motorola have just given us news of an offer they’re doing on the XOOM. If you buy one during July you’ll get a free wireless keyboard and mouse worth £79.99. This offer is available in the UK and Ireland only. The keyboard and mouse will makes data entry …
T-Mobile have just confirmed via Twitter that the Motorola Defy is due to get Android 2.2 in a matter of days. We gave the water-resistant device a full review in January and even dumped it in the sink. It has an 800MHz CPU, DLNA, aGPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm …
Motorola announced during Mobile World Congress that the Motorola Pro was going to come to the UK but later scrapped the idea much to the dissapointment to Android fans who wanted to get a new phone with QWERTY keyboard. Since then we have had the HTC ChaCha and …
The Motorola Atrix is now available on T-Mobile. The device, which had a short exclusive on Orange has been floating around the T-Mobile site for some time so if you’ve been waiting, head on over and get yourself one. The handset is free on plans costing £35.75 per …
Pocketnow.com have stumbled across a page on the Motorola website which seems to show lots of new devices. The site, which was taken down shortly after, revealed part of a new Motorola XOOM 2 tablet and two new Android devices called the “Slimline” and “Zaha”. There’s also a …
So you have a smartphone. Be it Android, Apple or Windows Phone 7. Or some other platform. Now what? Smartphones are becoming more and more popular, as they become cheaper to produce and more popular, and people are following their friends and buying something similar to them. Now, …
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones is a rather lucky fella. He’s got the HTC Flyer and the Motorola Atrix on test right now and examines the threat they pose to the iPad. He makes some valid points about this… So, two innovative ways of taking mobile computing forward on …
The Motorola ATRIX went on sale just a few days ago and we’ve already detailed the pricing but, just to give you a nice graphic showing you the prices for this device, here’s a snap from the Orange launch site. As you can see, if you’re after the …
After using the iPad 2 for a couple of weeks it’s interesting to hear opinions on other new tablets. The BBC’s Marc Cieslak takes a look at the new Motorola XOOM here but seems to be fairly critical of it due to the current lack of microSD functionality …
So, the Motorola Atrix then. Orange are pushing this one quite a bit, and rightfully so. Launching tomorrow, the Atrix can quickly change from a phone to a Netbook or PC. As per our earlier story the device will be free on £35 p/m plans over 24 months. …
Since the start, Android has always been on the forefront of becoming the largest open source OS. This was to give manufacturers the chance to skin the platform. But, now it seems to be changing. During the last month, sources have provided us information that all is about …
The guys from Carphonewarehouse have clearly gone insane. Instead of just doing a simple demo or hands-on video they’ve taken the new Motorola Xoom through traffic on the back of a motorbike, on a boat down the Thames, through a field on horse-back and.. well, listen.. just watch …
So I posted my immediate thoughts after having my Motorola Xoom WiFi only a short period earlier in the week. If you missed the post, you can have a read here. With so much chatter around debating the strengths and weaknesses of Android’s latest OS on the Xoom, …
Picture the scene….. A phone call…gently vibrating on my work’s desk. After 3-4 rings I pick it up to hear the voice of my wife say the immortal words – “Guess what I’ve got?”. Could it be? No surely not…I’m sure the delivery would be delayed by longer than …
The Motorola Atrix will arrive on Orange in early May for free on £35 per month plans over 24 months. This deal includes 600 minutes, 750MB internet allowance, 50 MMS and unlimited texts. If you buy the Atrix Orange will also offer a “Work and Play” kit which …
One for your lunch-time viewing today – Rory Cellen-Jones has just added a video on the BBC website comparing the iPad, Motorola Xoom and Blackberry PlayBook. In the video Mike Lazaridis, from RIM, shows some of the features of their new tablet and how it stacks up against …
Remember when we first saw the Motorola Xoom priced up for £449.99? Remember how it then shot up to £499 ? Well, now it’s down to £479.99 on the PCWorld website. If you’ve got stacks of cash washing around your bank account, give it some consideration. Link – …
The picture says it all really. The Motorola Atrix, a phone we snapped and filmed at Mobile World Congress, is now sitting proudly on the Orange shop and will be arriving in shops soon. It has a 4″ capacative touchscreen with Corning Gorilla glass and a 960×540 qHD …
T-Mobile now have the Motorola Atrix as coming in June on their website as of a few minutes ago. If you saw our MWC coverage you would have seen that the Atrix plugs into a wide range of accessories including a rather handy laptop dock allowing you to use the …
It’s sometimes difficult to think that the tablet that has spawned so many imitators this year, Apple’s iPad, was only released last year. At this year’s MWC there were tablets everywhere – Samsung, Motorola, HTC and HP to name but a few are all coming out with their …
We took time out last month at Mobile World Congress to get a hands-on with the new Motorola Xoom. It packs a 10.1″ screen, dual cameras, HD / HDMI, dual-core 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM and 32GB internal RAM. After a few ups and downs the WiFi-only version appeared …
Right, stick with me on this one. Earlier in the week the Motorola Xoom appeared on PC World for £449.99. All was well until, after disappearing for a few days, it re-appeared £499.99. Now there’s 10% off on all “computing hardware” products over £299. The 10% reduces the …
Just a couple of days back we revealed that PC World had slipped out their Motorola Xoom pricing. At £449.99 it didn’t seem to bad for the Wifi-only version, but shortly after the pre-order page we’d spotted vanished. Luckily the pre-order page is now back but.. err.. guess …
Carphone Warehouse looks set to be the exclusive supplier of the Motorola XOOM in it’s 3G clothes. You can pre-register here. Expect to pay a little more than the £449.99 price-tag revealed yesterday. No exact pricing for this model is available as yet and it is expected to …
PC World have just added pricing for the Motorola Xoom. Are you ready ? It’ll cost £449.99, which is actually a bit less than we were expecting (it’s $799.99 in the US for the 3G version). You can pre-order the sexy 10.1″ tablet now or, if you want …
PC World are to be the first retailer to sell the recently announced Motorola Xoom and they have setup a page over on their website giving more information about this new tablet device. Smarter, faster and packed with everything you want. The Motorola XOOM is the World’s first tablet PC …
We managed to get hands on again with the Motorola Atrix during Mobile World Congress and I was lucky to have arranged some time with a member of the team to give us a quick walk through the Motorola Atrix and the docks which are available and also how they …
The Motorola XOOM tablet runs the all new version of Android which has been specifically designed for tablets, Android Honeycomb. It measures in at 10.1″ and has a 2 megapixel front and 5 megapixel HD rear facing camera with LED flash. You can play back recorded videos in HD …
Whilst this was not announced at MWC, The Atrix was still in attendance and considering this device has attracted a lot of attention due to the additional extras you can purchase like a laptop dock or a desktop dock for using the Atrix as a computer it was …
Great news from Motorola today and that is the Motorola Droid Pro is heading to Europe which personally I am really happy about. The Droid Pro is a touch screen with full BlackBerry style QWERY keyboard running Android 2.2 FroYo and a 1Ghz processor. We will be …
The Motorola FLIPOUT had only just appeared when we reviewed it and, although we had the odd reservation, it’s definitely an interesting looking thing. The handset has also had an update recently (details here) with the Orange device getting better data roaming across the Everything Everywhere joined networks, …
We’ve never had anything like this before. A phone that’s water-resistant, dust proof and scratch resistant. In theory this should be life-proof. Inside there’s Android 2.1 with the tweaked graphical user interface called “MOTOBLUR” to bring your social networks together and make navigation a little easier. A 5 …
