Moto Droid / Milestone not coming to O2 and T-Mobile in the UK?
Motorola Milestone (the GSM version of Verizon’s Droid) has been officially announced for Germany, Italy and Brazil, and there will certainly be more countries and more carriers to announce it in the future.
If you’re in the UK, you should know that leading mobile operators O2 and T-Mobile will not offer the Milestone at all – [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Droid to get tethering in early 2010
Some may find it “stupid and unnecessary“, but tethering is clearly a feature that many users want their handsets to have.
While Motorola didn’t say anything about tethering being available for its latest and greatest smartphone – the Droid – it looks like Verizon will offer the feature, although not this year.
According to Gearlog, the largest [...]
Brazil gets the Motorola Milestone too, multi-touch included
Almost immediately after being announced for Europe, the Motorola Milestone was also announced in Brazil – obviously as the country’s first Android 2.0 smartphone.
Known as Motorola Droid in the US (where Verizon will release it on November 6), the Milestone is clearly one of Moto’s nicest handsets to date.
The highlight features of Milestone / Droid [...]
Motorola Ruby finally gets official as MOTO Klassic in Korea
The long-rumored Motorola Ruby (or V13) has finally been announced by Motorola, although under a different name and only in South Korea.
The Korean Ruby is called MOTO Klassic and will be available via SK Telecom, featuring CDMA Ev-DO connectivity.
As we mentioned before, the phone has two QVGA displays (the external one being touch-sensitive), a 5MP [...]
Verizon opens stores early for the Motorola Droid
We all know that the Motorola Droid will be available from Verizon starting November 6 (this Friday). Now Verizon announced that many of its Communications Stores across the US will open early Friday morning – some stores will open at 7 AM, while others at 8 AM.
Those who are eagerly waiting to buy a Droid [...]
WAT: Why Europeans did not get Google’s free turn-by-turn navigation on Motorola Milestone
Once in a while, after certain events, theories about the happenings in mobile industry start bouncing around my head.
Some of them turn out to be a complete BS, a few happen to be spot on, and quite a few are somewhere in the middle. I’d like to share them to get some input of [...]
Motorola Milestone (Droid) officially launched in Europe. Gets multi-touch, loses free navigation
We already knew that the Motorola Droid handset won’t featured only on Verizon network.
There were enough trustworthy sources and hints, claiming that this hot Motorola Android 2.0 handset is headed for Europe too.
We just didn’t expect to get it across the pond quite so fast. Motorola Droid was just announced by Verizon last [...]
Verizon: Our 3G Network Can Handle Large Droid Demand
Certain smartphones have become so popular in the US that the large amount of demand was too much for the data network supporting it, thus causing slower internet downloads and dropped calls. Verizon has made it perfectly clear that it is fully prepared for whatever strain its new Motorola Droid will inflict upon its network.
Considering [...]
Motorola to Launch 20+ Smartphones in 2010
So it appears the Motorola Droid is just the beginning of the company’s rebirth back into mobile phone prosperity, as indicated by a statement by CEO Sanjay Jha during the press announcement of the Droid yesterday.
At first Sanjay mentioned the number of new smartphones would be in “multiple tens”, before clarifying that at least 20 [...]
Best Buy pre-selling Motorola Droid on October 29, no mail-in rebate
If you want to buy a Motorola Droid without waiting for that $100 mail-in rebate announced by Verizon, Best Buy is the place where you can do so.
The giant American retailer announced that it would pre-sell Verizon’s Moto Droid starting October 29, offering a $100 instant saving instead of a mail-in rebate. This way, you [...]