Fear not, those of you who hate typing on touchscreens, because Motorola's finally given its long-awaited Droid 4 smartphone a release date. The QWERTY keyboard-equipped phone will be available on Feb. 10 for $199.99 with a new two-year contract from Verizon Wireless.
Motorola recently provided 6,200 “Xoom” Android tablets to daily deals site W00t.com and of those 6,200 tablets, about 100 of them “may not have been completely cleared of the original owner’s data prior to resale,” the company said in a statement.
As Verizon Wireless tries to push a broad lineup of 4G LTE smartphones on its customers, the company omits an important fact: LTE destroys battery life. This may improve some day, when tech companies figure out how to optimize their hardware for the faster network, but for now the only way to solve the 4G LTE battery problem is through brute force. That’s where Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx comes in.
In a private meeting with a handful of reporters during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Motorola Mobility Chairman and CEO Sanjay Jha revealed his company’s strategy to produce fewer smartphone models over the coming year.
This could be a big, busy year for Intel. While the processor giant has reportedly earmarked more advertising dollars for its ultrabook initiative than it’s spent promoting any other project since 2003 – remember Centrino? – the company also just unveiled that it’s jumping whole-hog into the lucrative smartphone market.
In a smartphone market where companies breathlessly try to outpace one another in screen size, clock speeds and pixel density, kudos to Motorola for focusing on battery life instead.
Thanks to growing economic unrest in China’s factory belt, dissatisfaction among workers has spread, leading to growing conflicts, unflinching demands and week-long protests that could begin to take their toll on electronics manufacturers like Apple and Motorola.
Motorola and Verizon Wireless are reportedly about to release the Droid 4, less than five months after the launch of its predecessor.
Today only, Amazon is selling the new Motorola Droid RAZR smartphone for $111.11 with a two-year Verizon contract. The phone normally goes for $300 otherwise. Motorola Droid RAZR 4G Android Phone [Amazon.com]
Can’t wait to get your hands on Motorola’s new Droid RAZR, the phone that’s so cool it doesn’t need lowercase letters or the proper amount of vowels? Then head over to Verizon’s website, as pre-ordering for the phone kicked off at 8am sharp today.
In a message coming straight from the horse’s mouth (via something known as “Twitter”), Motorola has promised to update its Android handsets to the newest version of the software—4.0, or “Ice Cream Sandwich”—within six weeks of its official release by Google. The promise came in direct response to a Twitter user who was concerned about [...]
