Inventor of the cell phone gave up his iPhone for a Motorola Droid
As if Android needed yet another endorsement, it turns out that Martin Cooper — the inventor of the cellular telephone who pretty much is responsible for all of us being here at this fine Web site today — is the proud owner of a Motorola Droid.
Source: Android Central.
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Motorola Droid – Gadget of the Year
The Motorola Droid has received the Gadget of the Year award from both the readers and editors over at Engadget. The Droid went on to earn the smart phone of the year award from the readers as well. The Droid is Verizon’s flagship Android phone, comes with a physical QWERTY keyboard and was the first Android with 2.0+ OS on board.
Source: These are the Droids
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Get Your Motorola Droid on Verizon for $50
If you are new to Verizon Wireless and fancy owning the Motorola Droid smartphone you now have the opportunity to buy the Verizon Droid from WireFly for just $50 — click on the link below for more info.
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Verizon: Use your Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio as a FiOS TV remote
Verizon posted a note on its forums that says FiOS TV customers can use their Verizon Wireless Android powered Motorola DROID or the Windows Mobile powered HTC Imagio as a remote to control their FiOS set-top box. The software allows you to control channels, pause/rewind/face forward, set parental controls, record TV shows, and even transfer photos from your phone to your television. If a phone call comes through, your TV will be automatically muted.
Source: Mobile Burn
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Motorola Droid gets official multitouch support — in Google Maps
Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One, Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom support on the Droid. Of course, it was no secret that Android 2.0 had the framework in place to support this kind of stuff — Moto enabled it all by its lonesome on the Euro-spec Milestone — but it looks like this could be the watershed moment where multitouch finally becomes a must-have feature on Android devices across the board, as Moto CEO Sanjay Jha recently suggested would happen.
Source: Engadget.
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Motorola Devours Verizon’s Droid Brand With New Motoblur Phone
jk on the run writes about the Devour and the Verizon Droid brand. Here is a highlight:
I’m glad I’m not the only one that doesn’t quite get Verizon’s Droid branding for handsets. There’s nothing wrong with the name, but it’s confusing to have a single handset share the name as a line of handsets. Perhaps that’s why the next Droid in line is simply called the Motorola Devour. Or maybe we’ll see more Droids out of the robot factory — who knows? I do know that the Devour looks a little more modern and polished than the original Droid and that Motorola also included its custom Motoblur interface for fast access to social networking. The Devour is the first Verizon phone with Motoblur.
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Verizon Makes the Android OS-Based Motorola Devour Official
After weeks of rumors, Verizon has officially announced that it will begin offering the Motorola Devour next month. Like the popular Motorola Droid, this model will have Google’s Android OS and a physical keyboard. The Devour is expected to have a lower price, though.
he Devour will be a slider, with a 3.1-inch, HVGA (320 by 480 pixel) capacitive touchscreen that can slide aside to reveal a landscape-oriented QWERTY keyboard. Next to the display will be a trackpad.
Android Powered
This model will debut with Android OS 1.6, and have the standard suite of software for connecting to Google services, like Gmail and YouTube. User will also be able to pick from over 20,000 third-party apps.
In addition, the Devour will be the first Verizon model with MotoBlur, Motorola’s software that brings together messages from a range of social-networking services like Facebook and Twitter, text messages, as well as consumer and business e-mail accounts, into a universal inbox.
Source: Brighthand
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HTC to lose #1 Android market share as Motorola sweeps in to take 2010?
- Image via CrunchBase
Wow, what a difference a year makes. It wasn’t that long ago that we were sounding the death tone for Motorola. A company that had risen so high with their popular Razr cellphone several years back and fallen into a black hole of a slump, churning out crappy and unoriginal handsets left and right. And then came Android with it’s open architecture and high level of customization that helped Motorola find their groove again when they released the Motorola DROID back in November of 2009.
As many of you know however, the DROID isn’t Motorola’s only Android device. Here in the states they’ve also got the Cliq and Backflip with many more in the wings. It is this momentum and laser focused attention on Android and Android only that is paving the way for Motorola to take over the title of #1 Android manufacturer from HTC.
Read the full story on Gadgetsteria
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Motorola Android Droid Tweak Boosts CPU Speed
A new Motorola Droid tweak created by AllDroid, lets users run the Verizon Wireless smartphone at an 800 MHz clock speed (as compared to 600 MHz) without making the phone unstable. The tweak has been tested up to 1.3 GHz clock speed, but more than doubling the speed makes the Motorola Droid very unstable.
Source: Info Sync World
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Android 2.1 spied on the Motorola Milestone (Droid)
Motorola announced during CES that their CLIQ (Dext) and Droid (Milestone) phones would be updated to Android 2.1, but we have yet to receive a time frame. Enough people have been asking Motorola about the update that they responded on Twitter:
“Guys, we’re sorry; we know you are excited about 2.1 updates to your Moto Android-based products, but we can’t comment on official timing.”
There are rumors that the latest Android 2.1 build was in beta testing and now some screens have leaked out. German site MobiFlip has posted the first screens of Android 2.1 running on the Motorola Milestone (Droid). They refer to the update as 2.0.2, but the screens show firmware version 2.1 .
Read the full story on Android and Me.
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