Droid Dominates XMas Downloads
The Motorola Droid for Verizon Wireless is selling very, very well… there is no denying that. Exactly how well? That’s up for debate, but only a month ago there was speculation that 600,000+ Droids would be sold during the last 2 months of the year. Owners of those phones are downloading a HECK of a lot of applications: a new report by Flurry claims that on Christmas, Droid owners accounted for nearly 50% of all Android Market downloads:
read the full story on Phanaroid.
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Motorola to run Droid Super Bowl ad
Motorola is likely to run a Super Bowl commercial for the Droid, a leak indicates today. The phone maker is believed by sources of AdAge to have bought “at least one” ad during the American football game. Although the subject of the ad isn’t directly confirmed, the Droid is currently the company’s flagship phone and its most heavily promoted device, as it has received numerous ads from Verizon attacking the iPhone and pitching the Droid as more open and feature-laden than its rival.
Neither Motorola nor Verizon has commented on the ad, though it’s implied that Verizon won’t be involved in the promo spots.
Read the full story on Electronista
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Full details on Motorola Sholes Tablet (XT701)
Moto’s Chinese Web site put forth the full specs of the Motorola Sholes Tablet (XT701) (though the site’s currently down). Here are the full, official specs:
- WCDMA / HSDPA 10.2M / HSUPA 5.76M
- 3.7-inch-wide touch-screen , 854X480 resolution
- 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus, Xenon flash
- CortexTM-A8 processor
- Accelerometer, proximity sensor, light sensor.
- aGPS.
- WiFi b/g
- MicroSD
- FM tuner
- 3.5 mm headphone jack
- Support for MP3/AAC/AACv1/AACv2/AMR-NB/AMR-WB/MIDI/MIDI/WAV/Ogg Vorbis
- Supported video formats MPEG4/H.263/H.264
- Support SMS, MMS, e-mail (POP3/IMAP4) and enterprise-class e-mail
- USB 2.0
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
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Android 2.1 On The Motorola Droid
At the risk of ruining your Motorola Android Droid, here is a video that shows you how to put the Android 2.1 on the Motorola Droid:
Via Phanaroid
Motorola Android Opus One specifications
BGR got the full specs of the Motorola Android Opus One:
he Motorola Opus One will run Android 1.5 with iDEN service enhancements, make use of a “Zeus” CPU, and will feature a 3 megapixel autofocus camera.
Detailed list of full specs after the breakage!
- 3.1″ hVGA 320×480 capacitative touchscreen display
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
- Accelerometer
- Proximity sensor
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth
- microSD card slot
- 2.5mm headset jack
- Home, Menu, Back, Speaker buttons are capacitive buttons with haptic feedback
- iDEN PTT & PTX
- Android LBS which is integrated into the iDEN GPS engine
- “Enterprise email”
- Plastic-molded housing with some rubberized texture finishes
- 58mm in width, 118mm in length
- 100g weight
- 512MB Flash / 256MB of RAM
- 64k and 128k iDEN SIM card support
- A-GPS
- Motorola dual-mic technology noise-canceling for noisy enviroments
- Flash Lite v3.1.x
- Some of the preloaded apps include: corporate email client with ActiveSync support, MOTONAV navigation app, barcode scanner, and document viewer.
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3 Motorola Android phones you can’t have
Motorola is planning over 20 Motorola Android phones for 2010 and Android and Me has some details about three Motorola Android phones that aren’t coming to the US soon:
Motorola MT710
The MT710 is a stylish tablet style phone headed for China Mobile. The device runs the latest version of the OPhone platform (China Mobile’s version of Android) and will support their TD-SCDMA 3G network.
Motorola XT800
The XT800 is another China bound phone with some interesting features. A Cortex A8 processor (same as Droid) is powering the device but the speed is unknown. This phone will also capture high definition video and support 720p playback via HDMI. The XT800 also doubles as a bedside clock with built in FM radio and an optional desktop dock.
Motorola XT701
Finally we have the XT701, which many people have been referring to as the Sholes Tablet. This phone is said to feature the same specs that we saw in the Verizon Droid, with a few minor tweaks. Most notable is the lack of a physical keyboard that came with the Droid. Other changes will include an 8 megapixel camera with xenon flash and a FM radio.
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T-Mobile Motorola Android Cliq Phone Hands-On
Hands-on with the brand new Motorola Cliq, the first Motorola Android phone, coming from www.phonedog.com
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iPhone beats Droid in Manhattan speed tests
Note to New Yorkers: Carry your new Droid phone to Wall Street, Grand Central Terminal, Union Square, or Madison Square Park, and you may find AT&T iPhone users — the ones who are always complaining — are actually downloading data at four times the speed of your Verizon phone.
A new report from mid-market investment banking firm Piper Jaffray rebuts the notion that the new Verizon Droid phone gives better service than AT&T’s iPhones. The three analyst authors summarized, “While there were certainly locations where the iPhone was bested by the Droid, two-thirds of the time the iPhone had much better throughput.” They went on to rate AT&T’s stock as overweight, meaning you should buy more of it despite the conventional wisdom that AT&T’s iPhone deal with Apple has brought down the company’s value.
The Droid did better in Times Square, Central Park, and Rockefeller Center, among other locations. The iPhone failed the worst in Times Square, missing its connection on two of five time trials and crawling to an average 39 kbps, versus the Droid’s 703 kbps.
Read the full report on the Venture Beat.
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Verizon puts a bandage on the Motorola Droid’s battery door
Those of you who have a Verizon Droid smartphone are probably aware that the Motorola Droid battery cover simply loves to keep coming off which can be somewhat of a pain, but never fear because Verizon has a fix for that.
The Verizon solution to the problem was to stick a Verizon sticker over it, which was slightly the better option then suggested by the original Verizon rep who wanted to use scotch tape for this extremely high tect solution…
Source: Phones Review.
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Android’s Rapid Rise to Smartphone Stardom
Do you remember Google’s Android mobile OS a year ago? Back then, it was just launching its app store and releasing the first phone powered by Android, the T-Mobile G1.
Fast-forward to today. Two days ago, Android surpassed 20,000 apps. Not only that, but the Droid by Google, Verizon, and Motorola has made a big impression. Oh, and don’t forget about the Nexus One, aka the much-hyped Google Phone.
Read the full story on Mashable.
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