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Posted July 26, 2011, 5:36 AM by Michael Oryl | Filed in TechSpot, Mobile Computing With Video
The original DROID was the very first Android smartphone on Verizon, and even though its keyboard was questionable, it remained one of the best devices available for quite some time. The DROID 2, however, didn't get enough of an upgrade to make it stand out from the sea of other Android smartphones.

The new Motorola DROID 3 suffers no such fate. It's got an all-new qHD resolution 4-inch touchscreen, world roaming capabilities, and a beautifully designed 5-row QWERTY keyboard. It's an office in your pocket (that weighs almost as much as some office furniture, I might add).
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Posted March 25, 2011, 10:03 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software, Mobile Computing
Over the past nine months, Motorola Mobility has been hiring engineering talent that is well-suited to create a new mobile operating system. The company has picked up a number of experienced mobile and Web engineers from Apple and Adobe to…
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Posted February 28, 2011, 5:18 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Industry News
When Motorola first introduced its Xoom tablet, some folks were worried the handset maker might find itself in a trademark feud with the San Francisco-based money transfer company Xoom Corporation. Those concerns were well founded, as Xoom Corp. has apparently…
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Posted January 5, 2011, 7:33 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
Motorola has officially entered the tablet market, unveiling its 10.1-inch Xoom slate today. As teased in a video last month, the slate runs Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb, which is specifically optimized for tablets -- and only tablets, apparently. The device…
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Posted January 4, 2011, 12:53 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Mobile Computing
Motorola is no longer a single entity on the New York Stock Exchange: the company's split became official today, over a year after the initial announcement. Motorola Mobility Holdings now handles the company's mobile and consumer products business (like cell…
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Posted December 20, 2010, 1:10 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware, Software With Video
Motorola has posted a new teaser video titled Tablet Evolution for its CES 2011 announcements. The video shows how far tablets have come over the last few millennia, and then makes sure to attack the two companies with the currently…
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Posted December 13, 2010, 8:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Hardware
During last week's All Things D conference, Google's Andy Rubin showed off a Motorola tablet prototype running the long-awaited tablet-optimized version of Android (codenamed Honeycomb). Rubin went through some of the upcoming device’s features without giving up much detail when…
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Posted December 9, 2010, 11:01 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware, Software With Video
Andy Rubin, Android's co-founder and now vice president of engineering at Google, showed off a Motorola tablet prototype at the "D: Dive Into Mobile" event this week. The device not only featured a "dual core 3D processor" from Nvidia, but…
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Posted November 10, 2010, 9:00 AM by Mike Fischer | Filed in Microsoft
Microsoft is taking more legal action against its former partner Motorola. A new lawsuit filed yesterday in a Seattle federal court alleges that Motorola charges "excessive and discriminatory" amounts on royalty payments for technology used in Xbox consoles. Microsoft claims…
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