Posts Tagged “Motorola”
Leaked Photos of Motorola ZN5 Suggest Kodak Camera Partnership
Touchscreen Linux Motorola A810 Smartphone Hits FCC
Linux smartphones from Moto aren't new tricks, but they've mostly graced international markets while we get barraged with RAZRs, RKRS and Qs. That might change with the A810, a Linux-based touchscreener that zoomed through the FCC. Few hardware buttons, with onscreen keyboard and handwriting recognition, along with an FM radio. Usually FCC field trips indicate a request to board the starship USA, but it's missing the GSM 850MHz band used in the US market, so it's a little iffy. [FCC via MobileBurn]Skype Makes Java Client For Sony Ericssons, Samsungs, Nokias and Moto RAZRs
Mobile Skype was previously only available on Smartphones like Windows Mobile, but they've just ported a Java version for all kinds of non-smart phones. Be aware that this isn't like the previous iterations and even Skype to Skype calls cost money (or use up your minutes), so there's no huge reason in using this to call someone you can easily call already. What it is useful for is calling overseas, since you use up regular minutes but only get charged SkypeOut rates instead of your exhorbitant cellphone international call rates. [Skype via Crunchgear]Fewer People Than Ever Buying Motorola Phones
No surprises in Motorola's quarterly checkup. They're still bleeding out marketshare (and money) like an anemic guy who fell into a people-sized blender, down to just 9.5 percent of the global market with a half billion dollar loss. Worse, everyone expects them to plummet even further next quarter. A little over a year ago, they owned 23.3 percent of the market. What's this mean to you? Well, since the handset division will be its own company, they're increasingly ripe for a cheap buyout, if anyone actually wanted to burden themselves with Moto. [Yahoo]Alas, Poor RAZR, I Knew You Well
Yetro is something so unfashionable it has yet to be retro—and probably will never be. Example: my RAZR. I've had it for almost three years now. I hate it. Actually, hate is too strong a word. I pity it. My mobile phone with its nauseous blue-painted interface, its ability to change its ring tone to the Motorola theme whenever it feels like it, and its battery, which now gives me about five minutes' talk time before it bleeps like a demented synthetic chicken. In the video above, Jesus and I "reenact" a more joyful time, its original unboxing three long years ago. Today, I'm thinking I should bite the bullet and retire the old boiler. Is the utter demise of the RAZR finally nigh at hand? Not for Gizmodo readers who obviously have moved on long ago, but for trailing edge late adopters too? More »New Motorola Actually Making Cellphone Software and Hardware People Work Together
One (sorta) promising tidbit about Motorola's handset division being cut loose to fend for itself: It's being restructured so that the software and hardware people actually work together. What a radical idea! New phones will come out faster, if not necessarily better. [Unwired View]Motorola's 2008 Cellphones Leaked (Guess What They Look Like!)
If you were hoping Motorola's 2008 cellphone lineup was going to turn around their "slump", we've got good news and bad news for you. The bad news is most of their phones are pretty much retreads of old devices, and there aren't any great new form factors—not even an iPhone clone—to speak of. The good news is that the upcoming ZN5 actually does look halfway decent with its 5-megapixel camera, Xenon flash, 2.4-inch display, 500MHz Freescale processor and Montavista Linux. It's somewhat sad when the best of your lineup is a Linux phone, but we weren't really expecting much from Motorola at this point anyway. [IT168 via JAMPB via Uber Phones]AT&T Ex-Chief Comes to Motorola, Probably Ax in Hand
Motorola's Smart Rider Car Phone: Just In Case You Were Expecting a Call From 1992
Hands On Windows Mobile 6.1 (Update is Skin Deep)
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Up Close and Personal With the AT&T Motorola Z9
Another Motorola Insider Points Fingers to Incompetent Execs
Here's a follow-up to Numair Faraz's "Damn You All" letter to Meteorola's Greg Brown, with the perspective of one of Moto's ex-European Product Line Managers. Reading the alleged account of the whole Dilbertian mess is quite dramatic and sad:
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Motorola MING A1800 Comes Out With Both SIM Card Slots Blazin'
Embedded Phones Will Cure What Ails Ya, Says Father of Cellphones
Martin Cooper, credited at Motorola with the invention of the first cellphone—2lbs with 20 min battery life—says the next 10 to 15 years will bring embedded phones that will:• Call and answer using thought controls
• Stay powered by the movement of the body itself
• Diagnose and cure disease by remotely communicating body issues with hospital computers
There are, as you might expect, some obstacles... More »
Letter from a Moto Insider: How Stupid Execs Ran Moto Into the Ground
I've always considered it Motorola's dirty little secret that the strategy for their entire profit machine was run by the company's CMO—not the rest of the company's executives, who are as inept now as they have ever been. Many close to Geoffrey believed Ed Zander worked him to death, putting the pressure of the fate of the company in his hands.That's just a touch. More »





