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wireless hdmi

Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola Agree on Amimon Whole-House Wireless HD Standard

Be happy: A new wireless HD video standard guarantees that major brands including Sony, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung and Motorola will have interoperable wireless video streaming. Amimon—the chip makers behind the "video modem" wireless HD tech we've been seeing on and off for the last few years, and most recently in Belkin's Flywire—is announcing the WHDI consortium with the above members, formed to standardize their wireless HD spec and embed it in member companies' TVs, projectors and HD video sources. The result is a network of HD components, streaming uncompressed 1080p video not just through one room like competing UWB standards, but to and from any source to any TV in your entire home, with a range comparable to Wi-Fi. Pretty impressive stuff. More »

5:00 AM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By John Mahoney
5,233 views, 20 comments

Latest by DaSmith: Oh man... do they really have to begin another f-ing format war?! Stupid companies. more »

law suits

Moto Sues Former Exec For Jumping Ship To Apple

Motorola, upset that one of its former executives might be violating a no-compete clause in his contract, has sued him for going to work at Apple with the iPhone as an executive in sales. The contention isn't just sour grapes, says Moto, but that the exec, Michael Fenger, has intimate knowledge of Motorola's "trade secrets and customer relationships". But let's be clear here: The people who settled for a free RAZR are not the people waiting in like for the iPhone. We'll see what happens. Non-compete suits are usually pretty cut and dry, but this one could get interesting, if not humorous. [Yahoo! News]

11:30 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Matt Hickey
3,711 views, 38 comments

Latest by SeventhExile: @aiisahik: ah ok thank you for the clarification, thats makes alot more scense to me now. more »

MOTOROKR E8 Review

Lightning Review: Motorola ROKR E8 Music Phone

The Gadget: The Moto E8 ROKR is a candybar music phone that makes use of a touch-sensitive, haptic feedback panel on the bottom half of the phone. It's nearly buttonless, save for a few on the side. More »

1:00 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Adrian Covert
16,537 views, 20 comments

Latest by Ypoknons: Prices can change, hardware can't. I mean, unlocked in HK this phone is $300 (us conversion). It's more a matter of how T-Mobile priced this. Why are you all expecting iPhones? Drop the price, phone becomes okay again. It is pretty more »

Napolean

Motorola's "Napolean" Q World Phone Gets Leaked: CDMA + GSM Included

Motorola's got another Q in the queue in the form of the new Napolean world phone. It's a CDMA smartphone for Verizon that does double duty with GSM, so you can use it pretty much anywhere. It also includes Wi-Fi if you're not feeling like using its EV-DO Revision A or EDGE data, runs Windows Mobile 6.1, and includes a fingerprint scanner and a 2-megapixel camera with flash. It sounds like a great phone for world travelers, but probably overkill for anyone else. [BGR]

7:30 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Matt Hickey
3,842 views, 21 comments

Latest by weatherman: The new Q is actually a very decent phone, and while Windows Mobile still isn't the best OS out there, it's very good. I run the Q9m right now and I'd say it's one of the best phones I've ever more »

rumor

Verizon and Sprint Both Getting Blessed With HTC Touch Pro and Diamond

If you're craving HTC's Diamond or Touch Pro (aka Raphael) it looks you're going be satisfied no matter what carrier you're on. Phone Arena says the CDMA flavors of both will hit Sprint AND Verizon, so there's no need to bounce to another carrier to get your hands on one. No word on the dates. In a side note, Moto's Blaze is due on Big Red by Sept. 22, if you're interested in a meh touchscreen phone. [Phone Arena, Thanks Matthew]

8:01 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By matt buchanan
30,781 views, 28 comments

Latest by jsmjr816: @TurboFool: thats the only issue for me, if its under $350 ill buy it, but if its at the $800 mark. No way more »

verizon

Verizon Gets Rhapsody Subscriptions, DRM-Free Downloads

Verizon customers with certain VCAST phones have some new options for buying music, thanks to Rhapsody. First off, the $15 per month, all-the-songs-you-can-guzzle subscription service is offered on LG's Decoy and Dare, Moto's W755 and Samsung's SCH-u550, Glyde, and Juke, and will be available for the Chocolate 3 when it's out. Also, $2 over-the-air download tracks now come with a DRM-free MP3 version that you can snag on your computer with VCAST/Rhapsody software. If you can hold your horses and wait till you're on a PC to download, DRM-free tracks are yours for a buck, which can be sideloaded onto the phone like usual. Press release after the jump. [Verizon] More »

12:01 AM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,971 views, 4 comments

Latest by roflwaffles: Awesome, im already a subscriber, so hopefully my phone supports this. more »

motorola

Motorola Blaze Adds Another Touch Screen Handset to the Pile

The Boy Genius Report has a first look at Motorola's answer to the "Touch Screen Wars," called the Blaze. From the looks of the branding, this touchy-feely handset is coming to Verizon, complete with a special Verizon-only operating system. BGR says the touch screen is decent, and the mobile browser is "OK," but nothing to write home about. Email and texting functionality are also lambasted by BGR, as is the crush-the-screen-to-make-it-work haptic touchscreen feedback. Specs include a 2 megapixel camera, EV-DO Rev. A support, GPS, and Bluetooth. They didn't sound too keen on the Blaze, but they didn't write it off completely. Thoughts? [Boy Genius Report]

5:49 PM on Sat Jun 28 2008
By Jack Loftus
13,177 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: I had the Ming, CompuUSA was selling them for a little while, thought it was a good phone with a different look than anything else, got a lot of attention everywhere I went. But overall I enjoyed it until more »

cellphones

T-Mobile's Motorola Rokr E8 Gets Official Launch Date, Price

We've been keeping you updated about the morphing-screen Rokr E8, and now T-mobile has officially announced its version. Available from July 7, it'll cost $199.99 and that's on a two-year service plan. [PCMag]

4:07 AM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,106 views, 5 comments

android

Wired: How and Why Android Came to Be

You might already know that Google bought Android for $50 million in 2005 after Danger co-founder Andy Rubin just asked them for an endorsement of it. But did you know that Google feared Windows Mobile? Yep, that one, Wired's massive top-to-bottom Android feature (with awesome art) reveals. Google thought Microsoft had beat it to mobile—it had a quickly growing platform, tied to Microsoft's ends. Google, on the other hand, was having its apps, like mobile Picasa, shot down by carriers who wanted to extort users to do the same thing Google offered for free. More »

6:40 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By matt buchanan
9,936 views, 23 comments

Latest by Zlevee: @Brian Lam: I can't fault you too much. I love Wired, and the stories are worth covering. It was just conspicuous since there were 3 Wired stories in the space of 4 posts, or something like that. more »

motorola

Motorola's Secret Alexander Cellphone : If It Fails, Moto Is OVR

Boy Genius has the details on a mystery Motorola phone codenamed Alexander, which is supposedly Moto's last-ditch effort: Word is that if this special ops phone doesn't light the world on fire, Motorola goes up for sale. Personally, the phone described by these specs (though way beyond today's ZN5) is not one I would base the entire future of my company on: 8-megapixel camera, an Nvidia chip for video and 3D jujitsu, GPS, touchscreen (possibly) and the UIQ OS. Due date is around October. Again, it seems strange to tip a whole company on the success or failure of a single phone (why not build several good phones in a row?), but it's not like Moto hasn't done it before. [BGR]

2:20 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By matt buchanan
8,964 views, 39 comments

Latest by SneakerFiend: @HeartBurnKid: same exact reaction i had when i saw nividia chip. IDC if its 3D because 90%+ of nvidia's products that kick ass and all of the nvidia products i have gotten from nvidia have been the best out of all. I more »

motorola

Motozine ZN5 Camera Phone Now Official

We've been talking about this cellphone for a while, but today Motorola and Kodak officially spilled the beans. As we thought, the ZN5's a phone that's as much camera as phone, with a 5-megapixel Kodak unit on its back. This is quick-launched by sliding the lens cover, and has a Xenon flash, auto-focus and even auto-stitches panorama shots. The phone itself has CrystalTalk for high sound quality, Bluetooth, full browser and Wi-Fi (for photo transfers, and the web.) Due out in China in July at first, then globally through '08. Press release below. More »

4:01 AM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,497 views, 18 comments

Latest by n/a: Very attractive, looks like a black rubber brick. more »

sprint

Most Sprint Phones Getting Exchange and Lotus Notes Corporate Email

Sprint really does want the Instinct to be the best iPhone clone in the land, 'cause they're adding corporate email (Exchange and Lotus Notes) to it and a slew of other consumer phones through Sprint Mobile Email Work. The corporate email setup comes gratis with their Everything plans, or $9.99 separately. The other lucky phones receiving this blessing "in the coming weeks" are LG's Rumor and Fusic; the RAZR, RAZR2 and KRZR; Katana I and II and the 8400; and Sammy's A900, A900M and M500. More phones will get it later—all the details below. More »

3:32 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By matt buchanan
4,741 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: Whoa, wait. People still use Lotus Notes? more »

rumor

Visual Voicemail Coming to Verizon... For a Price

Rumor has it that Verizon Wireless will be joining AT&T and Sprint in offering visual voicemail, in this case on four upcoming phones: LG's Chocolate 3 and an updated Voyager (possible software update but more likely hardware refresh), along with the mysteriously code-named "Blaze" and "Utopia" from Motorola. That's more phones than any other carrier to date, though there's no mention of it on the iPhone wannabe LG Dare. The catch is that the optional service will cost $2 a month—annoying when you consider other carriers offer it for free, though totally expected when you consider that even Verizon's email app costs an extra $5 per month. Look out for this to arrive in late July or early August. [IntoMobile]

11:19 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,909 views, 28 comments

Latest by Avielus: @Git Em SteveDave thinks a friend with weed is better: Have you tried creating a new contact using *86 instead of 1, and inserting pauses into that? That's what worked for me. more »

motorola

Motorola Patents Biometric and Touch Sensitive Bluetooth Headsets

A series of Motorola patents recently made public reveal that the company has given some thought to incorporating biometric monitors into Bluetooth headsets and adding touch sensitive controls to the ROKR S9. Actually, there are two different versions of the biometric Bluetooth headset, both of which utilize a watch-like device to measure heart rate, temperature and other vital signs then transmit them to a cellphone and on to a distant server. More »

3:30 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Sean Fallon
1,682 views, 5 comments

gadgets

Now the Gear Will Start: The Gadgetry of World War II

Granted, there isn't much in the way of recognizable gadgetry in my new book, Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. Most of the action takes place in the Indo-Burmese jungle, circa World War II—long before the advent of the integrated circuit. But that doesn't mean American GIs were entirely without nifty gear, much of which helped spur the development of our beloved modern toys. Read on for a rundown of three vital gadgets that took shape during the epic Allies vs. Axis throwdown, when geeks saved the world and my yarn's (anti-)hero went on the lam. More »

11:59 AM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Brendan I. Koerner
10,611 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: Ever since I've been informed of the marvel that is the Curta calculator, and after watching the retrocalculators.com video, I've added the Curta on my "to do" list of projects involving my newly acquired knowledge in the use of both more »

cellphones

Boost Drops the Motorola i335 Off a Building, Runs it Over With a Car for Your Amusement

The Motorola i335 is coming to Boost Mobile, and it's a tough little phone. To demonstrate, Boost dropped the thing off a building, ran over it with a car and gave it to a bunch of idiotic klutzes who tried to talk on the phone while skateboarding and other such activities. So if you're the kind of person who just can't manage to hold onto things without dropping them, this is the phone for you. If you have decent control over your body, perhaps other features will be more important to you. Different strokes for different folks, right? The i335 is available now for $60 from Boost. Hit the jump for the full press release. More »

11:45 AM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Adam Frucci
2,172 views, 20 comments

Latest by Preyfar: I thought the commercial was really well put together until... the end. Boost's mental "WHERE YOU AT?!" ruined the moment. That and the guy stealing her cellphone. more »

motorola zn5

Motorola + Kodak's 5-Megapixel Cameraphone Leaked Shots

We've been hearing about a 5-megapixel cameraphone from Motorola and Kodak for more than a year now, but we've only recently seen leaked photos of the actual device. Boy Genius says it's running on Motorola's MOTOMAGX Linux platform and has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 100MB internal storage and a ROKR touch wheel. The problems? The camera isn't autofocus (ruh roh), and there's only EDGE. Someone's going to have some good times uploading blurry pictures over a slow connection when this is released. [Boy Genius]

1:00 PM on Sat May 31 2008
By Jason Chen
4,014 views, 26 comments

Latest by Trance-Addict: well the center button my rizr was like a sticker. it peeled off. the z9 looks the same but im not positive. more »

sdv on tivo

TiVo Switched Video Tuning Adapters Appear at CableLabs

At long last, the SDV dongles that TiVo promised would arrive this year from Motorola and Cisco have been submitted to CableLabs for formal testing. For those unfamiliar, these little devices allow for two way communication between CableCard boxes and Cable Companies, so that only the needed programming data is sent, and bandwidth is conserved. Dave Zatz says its a good start to fixing the whole CableCard HD Programming debacle, even if its widely unsupported and a bit clunky. A shot of the Cisco box below. [Zatz Not Funny] More »

7:16 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Adrian Covert
3,715 views, 13 comments

Latest by Geist420: Awesome idea.. but it's useless until everybody has it. They still need to send all the channels to everybody that doesn't have one of these, which is the vast majority, and to every device that can't use them...again, the vast more »

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