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Motorola has two very attractive phones out this fall — the Nexus 6 and the Moto X — but its most intriguing handset might be the Droid Turbo, a Verizon exclusive with high-end specs and a huge battery.
Good news for many Motorola smartphone users on Verizon: An update to Android 4.4 KitKat is headed your way.
Verizon is the next carrier to launch the Moto X handset. Starting August 29, customers can order it online and it arrives in stores in “coming weeks” priced at $199 with contract.
Is there still a market for higly capable Android phones with slideout QWERTY keyboards? Few besides Motorola must think so. Leaked photos of the alleged Droid 5 for Verizon indicate not everyone wants to use a software keyboard.
Want to know what’s inside the new Droids? Verizon and Motorola preferred to discuss what the trio of new handsets can do, not what makes them tick. That’s a smart, refreshing strategy when it comes to Android.
Verizon announced a new family of Droid devices Tuesday in New York, and here’s our live blog of the event as it unfolded.
HTC is going big with a stunning 1080p 5-inch Droid DNA, which will be offered through Verizon Wireless. The $199 device puts out 440 pixels per inch, sports a Snapdragon quad-core processor and also includes wireless charging.
The Razr Maxx has surpassed the iPhone as Verizon’s best-selling smartphone, according to reports. While this could be a sign that Motorola has a long-sought-after hit on its hand and is set to revive the storied Razr brand, be careful not read to much into it.
Verizon announced its latest Android smartphone: it will offer the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE in the coming weeks. This is Verizon’s 23rd LTE smartphone and appears to be a blend of the HTC One S and One X found on T-Mobile and AT&T.
Verizon customers craving a thin LTE smartphone with all-day battery life get their wish later this week. Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx launches on Jan. 26 for $299 with contract. But the battery is only one standout feature among many: Bluetooth 4.0, GLONASS and Super AMOLED.
As someone who regularly blogs about Apple, it’s a bit surprising that the iPhone 4S is the first iPhone I’ve owned. Until now, I’ve been an Android user, so here are my thoughts about the good and bad that come with going all-in on Apple devices.
Motorola (NYSE: MMI) took the wraps off two new interesting Android devices Tuesday during an event in New York, unveiling the Droid Razr an…
Motorola’s Droid Bionic is finally ready for the masses, albeit months later than expected in a delay that hurt the phone maker’s financial…
Verizon’s latest smartphone launch coincides with a move away from unlimited data plans, which goes into effect on Thursday. The Motorola Droid 3 is available for ordering online now and is in stores on July 14 for $199 with a 2-year contract or $459 with no contract.
Motorola’s Droid X2 lands on Verizon Wireless next week for $199 after contract, but you’d be hard-pressed to see the difference between it and last year’s model. Two hardware upgrades make for an uninspiring new handset at a time when Motorola’s peers are pushing the envelope.
A fast-paced year of mobile technology brought numerous 1 GHz handsets, a tablet market and new contenders for the smartphone market share crown. The seven most read articles of this year illustrate how much has changed in 2010, setting up an even wilder ride in 2011!
BlackBerry and its manufacturer RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) had a little boost of confidence the other week from some figures that indicated that in th…
Motorola has been enjoying the popularity of its Android product line, and the Droid Pro looks to take it to the enterprise worker. It starts with the Android 2.2, and adds a touch screen coupled with a keyboard that could have come from the BlackBerry folks.
Android phone owners who have taken the step to root their phone can do things not possible otherwise. ResToggle is an app for rooted Android phones running Froyo (Android 2.2) that provides the ability to change the display to higher resolutions than originally supported.
Google’s open source Android operating system has become one of the big hits in mobile technology. Many different types of handsets are…
Motorola is not content to rest with the best-selling Android phone. The Droid 2 is now available on the Verizon network. Motorola chose not to change the Droid 2 too much, while making enough improvements over the original to make it a compelling choice for consumers.
The top Android phone is still the original Droid on the Verizon network. The hot platform is definitely Android, and that is due to the number of hot phones are on the market. A real-time tracker paints a good picture of how Android phones compare.
Motorola today said it sold 8.3 million handsets in the second quarter, earning the Mobile Devices division $1.7 billion in sales and returning the unit to profitability after a string of quarterly losses. What’s the biggest catalyst for such a change? In a word: Android.
Android has become the saving grace for Motorola, which until recently, hasn’t had a “hit” device since the RAZR over five years ago. With the original Droid, and now the Droid X, Motorola is back in the game, but is Android a short-term or long-term solution?
The Droid X on Verizon may be the best Android phone on the market. The big-screened device, encased in a thin form with great hardware components, does not fall short in any area. The fast performance of the Droid X is shown in this short video.
Motorola’s Droid X improves vastly on its predecessor — a larger display in a comfortable package, a faster processor and much improved software. Provided you don’t need a hardware keyboard, Droid X is the Android phone to have if you’re on the Verizon Wireless network.
Verizon Wireless loaned me a Motorola Droid X, which arrived yesterday. Readers are already asking about this new handset, so here are five reader questions answered. You might be surprised by the most innovative feature offered by Droid X — I wish every phone had it.
A day ahead of the madness that will be the iPhone 4 release, Motorola (NYSE: MOT), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Verizon unveiled Motorola
Google says that 160,000 new Android phones are arriving in customer’s hands each day after announcing 100,000 daily Android activations just last month. This speedy growth has caused some fragmentation issues, but Verizon and Motorola have plans to address that — all Droids will see Froyo.
Verizon Wireless today introduces the Droid X, a successor to the popular Droid launched last October. Both Verizon and Motorola need a new Droid, but for different reasons. Verizon has no stock of high-end, new Android handsets and Motorola handset sales are slipping behind its competitors.
Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, but I’m getting a little bored with the current crop of “superphones,” as Om likes to call them. Most of the recent top-end smartphones appear to be slight enhancements over what’s currently available.
Motorola and Verizon are basking in the popularity of the original Droid, although they wish they could build them faster. Recent phones in the Droid line have been produced by HTC; it’s a return to the Motorola roots with the Droid X to be announced shortly.
Worldwide handset shipments are up 13.8 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period last year, but the rising tide isn’t helping Motorola — sales were down 42.2 percent from the year ago quarter. Is Motorola counting too much on its Droid?
After a lengthy wait and at least one delay, Verizon today began to push out the Android 2.1 update to its Motorola Droid customers. The update includes many feature I’ve enjoyed since January — multitouch and voice-to-text support just to name a few features.
Time released its list of the top gadgets of the year, and the Droid rings in on top. The Droid was chosen for being the first Android phone deemed good enough to be an iPhone competitor. Plus, Opera Mobile and Mobile Fennec are coming to Android.
The Motorola Droid (s mot) has been widely touted as Verizon’s (s vz) iPhone killer, and this Android-based smartphone has drawn hordes…
Droid launched in November 2009 and has sold over 700,000 units. It is inching towards the million mark, thanks to a strong marketing push by its backers Motorola and Verizon. In comparison, Motorola’s Cliq & Dexter appear to be slow pokes when it comes to sales.
Google today launched its popular Google Maps Navigation (beta) for older devices that use Android OS version 1.6 or higher. It debuted…
Motorola (s MOT) and Verizon (s VZ), thanks to their $100 million marketing efforts, are going to sell some 600,000 Droids during…
If you read the reviews, it becomes obvious that I am part of a small minority of folks who haven’t been blown…
A new Android phone was popping up all over the web this week, one that looks like a chubby Droid. The V1…
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The estimate that Verizon (s vz) sold 100,000 Droid phones this weekend as part of the Droid onslaught is pretty sweet for…
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Verizon Wireless (s VZ) launches the Motorola (s mot) Droid this Friday (as if you hadn’t heard), and the carrier is opening…
UPDATED Verizon Wireless is ramping up for Friday’s launch of the Motorola Droid, and the device has created substantial buzz, thanks to…
Sony Ericsson today announced its Xperia X10 smartphone, based on Android, which features a customized software layer called UX built on top…
The big announcement in the Android world this week was the official release of Motorola’s (s mot) Droid on the Verizon (s…
Our friends at BillShrink, who developed an interactive tool that lets you compare handsets and pick the best phone-plan combination, crunched the…
Motorola’s (s mot) free-fall in the mobile phone space it once dominated continued in the most recent quarter: The company’s wireless revenues…
The new Motorola (s MOT) Droid is pretty hot today. It’s a phone! It’s a brand! It’s an iPhone killer! But here…
So the Droid from Verizon just landed and we have an unboxing video. Despite all the hype, I have this to say…
After slogging through two iPhone-less (s AAPL) years, my contract with Verizon (s VZ) is up and finally — FINALLY! — I…
I just got off the phone with jkOnTheRun’s Kevin Tofel, and like every other geek, we were talking about Droid and its…
Motorola’s (s mot) Droid, the first handset running Android 2.0, was unveiled by Verizon Wireless at a press event at the W…
The Android buzz ramped up another notch this week with Google’s (s goog) release of the SDK for Android 2.0, dubbed Eclair.…
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