Technologizer

Is it Too Early to Start Designing the Verizon Droid II?

Friday, November 6, 2009

Verizon Wireless starts selling its first Android phone, the Droid (“by Motorola”) today. I’ve been using a unit loaned to me by Verizon for a week, and remain mostly impressed: The Droid couples impressive hardware with the much-improved Android 2.0 OS, and the result is the first Android phone that’s fully worthy of being compared [...]

Verizon Droid: First Impressions

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Verizon Wireless’s Droid won’t show up in stores until a week from Friday, but the company has shared loaner devices with technology journalists and bloggers, including me–PC World has a good roundup of the first reviews. After having spent a bit time with it, I’m not surprised that Verizon is trying to encourage hands-on coverage [...]

The T-Grid: Verizon Droid vs. iPhone 3GS

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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So Verizon’s Droid is official, and officially arriving a week from Friday. I’m smart enough to know it’s pointless to call any phone an iPhone killer, or even a potential iPhone killer–and that competing with the iPhone is much more about software and overall integration than it is about hardware specs. (If you could kill the [...]

Droid Arrives Next Week

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Verizon has stopped teasing us about its upcoming Android-based Droid phone and made it official: The Motorola phone goes on sale a week from Friday. It runs Android 2.0, has a slide-out keyboard and a 5 megapixel camera with flash, and comes bundled with a 16GB MicroSD card. It also has a beta version of [...]

Motorola Announces Android Social Networking Aggregator and Phone

Thursday, September 10, 2009

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I’m at Gigaom’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco, where Motorola’s Mobile Devices CEO Sanjay Jha just announced an Android-based application, Motoblur, and the company’s first Android phone, the Cliq. He spent most of his time demoing Motoblur, which is a social-networking aggregation interface designed to weave Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, e-mail, and other services into one [...]

A Blockbuster Deal for Motorola

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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Select Motorola phones will gain the ability to stream “thousands” of movies to their devices from Blockbuster’s OnDemand video service under terms of a deal announced on Tuesday. An OnDemand application would be preloaded onto these phones from the factory. Details are rather scant, and it is unclear at this time exactly which models would gain [...]

5Words for April 3rd, 2009

Friday, April 3, 2009

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Google, buy Twitter! Or don’t! Rumor: Google’s buying Twitter. Maybe. Digg launches short-url service. Microsoft alert: PowerPoint is vulnerable. Texas decides it hates Vista. RIM has sold 50,000,000 BlackBerries. EVO: Linux-based game console. Motorola’s Evoke phone: surprisingly interesting. Sweden cracks down on P2P. Ritz Camera closes 300 stores.

Yet Another Reason Not to Buy Motorola’s $2000 Phone

Monday, November 3, 2008

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You’ve just spent two grand on Motorola’s Aura, the cell phone that thinks it’s a Swiss watch. You suffer sudden buyer’s remorse. No problem–you can just put it on eBay and recoup at least part of your dough, right? Um, problem. According to the blogosphere, the Aura comes with a contract that forbids you from dumping [...]

Motorola’s $2000 Aura Phone vs. the Rolex Submariner: The Ultimate Showdown

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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In introducing its new $2000 Aura cell phone today, Motorola repeated comparisons to luxury watches. So contrasting it to an iPhone or a BlackBerry or even the Prada phone may not do it justice. How about facing it off against one of the most famous mobile status symbols of them all, Rolex’s eternally popular Oyster [...]

A $2000 Cell Phone, Motorola? Good Luck With That

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

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Swiss precision. More than 200 tiny parts. A sapphire crystal. A price tag that’s close to twice what I paid for my first car. It sounds like something from Rolex or Omega. But it’s the Aura, a new cell phone from Motorola. The Aura has the following features: –the phone industry’s first round display, with 16 million [...]

Motorola Expanding Android Team Sevenfold

Sunday, September 28, 2008

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Erick Schonfeld over at TechCrunch is reporting that Motorola is set to expand its team working on Android from 50 to 350, indicating the company may be about get really serious about devices operating on the platform. Word of the expansion comes from a Android developer who apparently has been targeted by the company. And it [...]