Motorola Motus shows up, specs included
First seen in a leaked Motorola roadmap which included the Sholes Tablet and the Zeppelin, Motorola Motus has now appeared in a leaked photo, together with most of its specs.
Like the already-available Motorola Cliq, Motorola Motus should come with Android 1.5 and the Motoblur interface.
The Motus has quad-band GSM connectivity and – weird enough – [...]
Motorola Crush touchscreen phone announced for US Cellular
Motorola has just unveiled a brand new touchscreen phone called Motorola Crush.
The Crush is an EV-DO Rev. 0 device with an interesting design, having the power and lock keys above its 2.8 inch, 240 x 400 pixels touchscreen display, and no keys at all below it.
The phone further features a virtual QWERTY keyboard, a tap-to-silence [...]
Verizon announces the rugged Casio G’zOne Rock
Verizon’s newest Casio phone is not the Brigade, as expected, but the Casio G’zOne Rock, a clamshell announced today by the largest US mobile carrier.
The Casio G’zOne is a rugged handset that features Triple Sensor technology and advanced G’zGear software which can operate in six modes: Earth Compass, Astro Calendar, Sunrise Sunset, Tides, Walking Counter [...]
Fring finally comes to Android, available for download now
Already available for Symbian and Windows Mobile, fring has now been launched for Android.
The fring Android app will allow you to make free VoIP calls over Skype, Google Talk or MSN, as well as to chat via ICQ, AIM or Yahoo!
Twitter is also integrated, and it looks like the fring app works with any version [...]
Will Maemo bring Nokia N-Series Mojo back? It’s all about software and services now
When Nokia first introduced the N-Series, they were all about pushing the limits of what a mobile phone should be. But it was mainly, on the hardware side, with software running the devices, taking a back seat.
A digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics (N90), music player with built-in hard drive (N91), mobile television [...]
Sony Ericsson to close four facilities, fire 2000 people
Sony Ericsson is getting ready to fire about 2,000 employees worldwide and close four of its facilities.
The affected locations will include two facilities in the US (the Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina, and a small Miami facility), plus operations in Chennai (India) and Kista (Sweden).
The Research Triangle Park facility will be closed sometime [...]
Hands-on Review of T-Mobile Samsung Behold II
My friends, we are in the middle of an Android revolution; the Google-powered OS is starting to overtake the world. Up until last month it was a slow but sure process, with very few actual Android handsets coming out over the last year. Since October, however, we’ve seen a huge spike in new devices [...]
Motorola MT710 oPhone is like a keyboard-less Droid for China
The Motorola Droid is certainly one of the hottest phones Moto ever had, and perhaps that’s why the company plans to launch a similar handset in China.
Said handset is called Motorola MT710 and it’s an oPhone, meaning that it runs an Android OS customized for China Mobile.
The MT710 resembles the Droid, but it has no [...]
Huawei M228 headed to MetroPCS. Huawei C6100 and G7002 pass the FCC
We’ve got some info about three unannounced Huawei phones – one of them being prepared for a release in the US by regional carrier MetroPCS.
Huawei M228 is the MetroPCS-bound phone, and, although its description over at the Bluetooth SIG says that it’s “designed as a mobile office for the business persons”, it actually looks like [...]
Motorola Quantico and Debut i856w announced
Today, Motorola unveiled a brand new rugged phone: Motorola Quantico, a clamshell that comes with a “tough-as-nails exterior” made out of rubber, chrome, glass and mesh.
The phone meets military specification 810F and can be submerged in water (1m) for up to 30 minutes without being damaged.
Other features and specs include: CDMA 1700/2100 and 800/1900 EVDO [...]