Motorola Pushing Out a CLIQ Update This Week – Not THAT One
Motorola’s MotoMobile twitter account tweeted earlier today that an update was coming to the Cliq this week. Nope, not 2.1 just yet. That one is scheduled for the second quarter of this year. The update rolling out over the next few days is designed to address battery life, GPS, and the touchscreen.
CLIQ users: an update is coming this week w/ enhancements for battery life, touchscreen, and GPS. We’ll alert you when you can download it. – MotoMobile
Source: Android Guys.
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Could Moto’s Android go the way of Razr? Analysts hope not
Motorola unveiled its Devour Android phone, part of its Google Android portfolio. Motorola aims to launch 20 such phones this year. But will it suffer the same fate as the Razr, which was wildly successful but then suffered with overkill?
Schaumburg-based Motorola Inc. this week unveiled another in its new portfolio of Google Android smartphones. This one was called Devour, featuring a touch screen, a keyboard and its MotoBlur application to harness social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Devour follows Cliq, Droid and Backflip. They’re all with the same Android platform and MotoBlur app. But let’s hope the Android line doesn’t go the way of the Razr, offering just a variation on the same theme until users get tired of them.
Devour does distinguish itself with a new touch-sensitive navigation pad in the lower right corner to navigate widgets and the Internet.
Read the full story on The Daily Herald
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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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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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MOTOROLA DENY DROID OTA UPDATE
while some users have reported receiving an OTA (over-the-air) firmware update for their Motorola DROID this past week, Motorola themselves have just announced via Twitter that there has been no such update released. In fact they say the last update to be pushed out was back in December 2009.
Source: Android Community.
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Verizon’s iPhone alternatives: HTC Droid Eris vs. Motorola Droid
Mlive has a comparison between the two Droids:
Design: HTC Droid Eris
(But iPhone beats both Droids)
• Without a keyboard and a smaller screen, the HTC Droid Eris is much more pocketable and sleeker than the Motorola Droid. (The Eris also has a trackball.)
• Despite its name, the Eris doesn’t have the annoying “DROOOOID” sound effect and “I’m a robot from the future who is going to kill you” startup graphics that Motorola’s phone has.
• The Droid Eris speakerphone is loud, but not quite as loud as Motorola Droid.
• Like the Motorola Droid, the Droid Eris has a 3.5mm headphone jack and WiFi.
• Both Droids have a capacitive touchscreen and on-screen keyboard like the iPhone. But unlike Motorola’s Droid, the Eris supports multitouch pinching gestures for zooming in on web pages and in other applications.
• Both Droids have a 5 megapixel camera that is meh, but the Motorola Droid records video at more than double the resolution than Droid Eris (352 x 288 pixels).
• Unlike the the Motorola Droid, there is no physical button on the Eris to activate the camera.
• I had trouble with the Droid Eris screen unlocking while in my pocket and calling random people, but a software update has made the screen less sensitive while locked.
User interface: Advantage Motorola Droid
(Both Droids beat iPhone)
While both Droids handle multitasking well, the Motorola Droid runs Android 2.0 while the Eris is still running Android 1.5.
HTC chose the older operating system so it could use its Sense user interface for Android, which offers some special eye-candy widgets for such things as Facebook and Twitter. I found these widgets to be subpar to other application options on the phone, and I really missed the unified e-mail and Google navigation voice commands featured in Android 2.0.
Overall
The Droid Eris packed more of a punch than I expected. Like the Motorola Droid, I felt comfortable leaving the house without my iPhone.
While I was disappointed that the Eris didn’t have Android 2.0, rumor has it HTC does plan to push an upgrade to the phone over Verizon’s network.
While I prefer the extras the Motorola Droid offers, check out the Eris if a smaller form factor is one of your main requirements.
Read the rest of the review on Mlive
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10 Things We Love And Hate About The Droid
Business Insider has a post on the things they love and hate in the Droid. Their baseline of comparison was an iPhone 3G.
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T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ Challenge
The T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ Challenge is a competition to see which college community has what it takes to get Weezer to their local campus by voting on Facebook at youcastcorp.com.
[Source: Jake's weird blog]
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