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by Anton D. Nagy | February 5, 2014 3:48 AMRead OnThe e-commerce player, Flipkart, is preparing to bring the Moto G to India. Both 8GB and 16GB versions are being mentioned and the prices for these will be 12,499INR and 13,999INR (around $200 and $224) respectively, which is not too far off of what Motorola is asking for the device in its home market, the USA. Look for the Moto G exclusively at Flipkart starting tomorrow, February 6. In case you need a reminder, the Moto G is the youngest brother of the Moto X, and it packs a 4.5-inch 72op screen, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor clocked at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM, 8- and 16GB ...
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by Michael Fisher | February 4, 2014 8:41 PM
Read OnOn January 30th, just one day after the surprise announcement of their impending union, I received what superstitious people would call a "bad omen" regarding the Lenovo Motorola deal. The previous afternoon, I'd been wrapping up a pretty typical January week at Pocketnow; the botched Galaxy Gear + Nexus 5 experiment had already been transferred to the more-capable Joe Levi, so I was busy working on the AT&T G Flex unboxing and the smartphone guessing game posts, and willing the post-CES funk to dissipate so I could get some new devices in the review booth. Then Lenovo announced it ...
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by Taylor Martin | February 3, 2014 2:14 PMRead OnLast week smacked us with some crazy, unexpected news we're still not quite sure how to take. Of all companies, Lenovo purchased Motorola for $2.91 billion. Let's take it back minute first, though. On August 15, 2011, Google announced plans to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Not only would Google gain Motorola as an (independent) in-house hardware manufacturer, but it would also gain Motorola Mobility's expansive patent portfolio to "help protect the Android ecosystem," in the words of Google. To no surprise at all, speculation and loaded questions filled the mobile realm. ...
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by Joe Levi | February 3, 2014 7:24 AMRead OnBack when I started getting involved in cellphones I was a Nokia guy... so was everyone. VoiceStream gave me the option to pick up any one of several phones -- all of which were made by Nokia. They could all make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and if you were really lucky you could even play Snake! At the time the phones were between $50 and $150 (on contract). Jump ahead to today and we've all but given up on the candy bar phone -- and the affordable prices that came along with them. Today we're surrounded by smartphones, but until recently they were all several ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 2, 2014 3:58 AMRead OnThe technology world is a fast moving one, and hence, there are more than 100 stories we publish on a weekly basis here on Pocketnow. Those include reviews, videos, editorials, news, and more. With this new, weekly series, we're making it easier for you to look back at the most interesting, exciting, and popular topics of the week, in case you missed anything. Look for the Pocketnow Week in Review every Sunday morning. It contains the most popular ten stories of the week printed on the portal, as well as top videos from our YouTube channel. Additionally, you can also find our Pocketnow ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 2, 2014 1:14 AMRead OnThis is for your weekend casual read, your viewing, and commenting pleasure! We were expecting stuff like this to surface after the Google-Motorola-Lenovo deal and the internet didn't disappoint. First of all, the fact that Lenovo now owns Motorola (thanks to Google) is by no means an indication that the Chinese manufacturer's American phone-maker branch will build the next Nexus. Heck, Motorola didn't build the Nexus 5 while it was Google-owned. We don't need to enumerate all the reasons why this concept is very optimistic, to say the least. Instead, we'll present you with the images ...
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iPhone beats Samsung Galaxy, Bill Gates leaving Microsoft rumors, GS4 Black & more – Pocketnow Dailyby Jaime Rivera | January 31, 2014 11:23 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about how the iPhone currently dominates the smartphone market in the US. We then talk about Samsung's surprising launch of a black-edition Galaxy S 4, though with some setbacks. Then we talk about Microsoft, its possible new CEO, and even a new Chairman to replace Bill Gates as well. Google is next as we talk about the company's plans to still build a smartwatch, aside from Asus and Acer. We end today's show talking about how Lenovo's CEO claims that his company can defeat Apple and Samsung with the purchase of Motorola. All this and more after the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 31, 2014 11:46 AMRead OnLenovo's purchase of Motorola has been dominating smartphone news for the past couple days, and while we fully expect to see things start calming down in the near future, for the moment there are still new aspects of the deal worth discussing. We checked out an interview Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang gave to The Wall Street Journal yesterday, where he talked about the lack of any significant business plan just yet for how to revitalize Motorola. Today, we're looking at another interview he gave – this time with Fortune – that perhaps provides some insight into why no plan has taken shape. ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 31, 2014 11:00 AMRead OnWord of Lenovo's Motorola deal is still so very new that we're not quite used to thinking about Motorola as something other than a Google company – even if that role itself is also comparatively new. Despite the recent changes, we've already found ourselves talking about what might be next for Motorola, including the idea that the company might end up producing a Nexus device (and one of the very last, if we're to believe those rumors). For the longest time following Google's own acquisition, we discussed how Motorola was still working through its old pipeline of devices, releasing ...
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iPhone 6 with sapphire, Galaxy S 5 fingerprint scanner, Microsoft CEO dates & more – Pocketnow Dailyby Jaime Rivera | January 30, 2014 11:44 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Facebook Paper, and how it plans to revolutionize the way you interact with the social network. Google is next as we go through its quarter results and learn why it sold Motorola, aside from other rumors of the color-options for the Google Nexus 5. Then we talk about the Galaxy S 5, and new rumors claiming that the phone will include a fingerprint scanner. Microsoft is next as reports have the company naming a CEO next week. We end today's show talking about Apple's plans for the iPhone 6 with its new sapphire glass facility in Arizona. All ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 30, 2014 4:57 PMRead OnWhen you can kick off a tech podcast with a string of expletives taken right from your publication's teamwide chat records, you know it's been a crazy week in the news. The Lenovo Motorola deal, announced late yesterday afternoon, threw our whole week -and perhaps our whole world- into disarray, and we're grateful for the chance to sit down and talk it through on today's show. But the news doesn't stop there. Galaxy S 5 speculation is still coming fast and furious, with details like Samsung's rumored fingerprint scanner beginning to take shape; we're starting to catch wind of Nokia's plans ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2014 3:14 PMRead OnYesterday's Lenovo news was shocking enough, but it wasn't the only Google story to cross our path this week that came off as really difficult to accept on face value. We got the week started with a rumor that Google was winding-down its Nexus series of hardware, which thus far has been a fixture of the Android landscape. The argument was that a growing selection of Google Play edition devices would provide enough of a Nexus-like alternative to do away with pure Nexus models, and in an attempt to rationalize the idea, we argued that maybe affordable Motorola phones like the Moto X and Moto ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2014 1:08 PMRead OnReacting to yesterday’s news of Lenovo's acquisition of Motorola's smartphone business from Google has felt a bit like going through our own five stages of grief. We've had shock, confusion, rationalization, and maybe even acceptance. In the time that's followed we've learned some more specifics of the arrangement, like what it would mean for Motorola's modular Project Ara design, and now we have the opportunity to get some answers straight form the horse's mouth, as a couple Lenovo execs sat down with The Wall Street Journal to discuss the purchase. Once again, Lenovo delivers ...
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by Jaime Rivera | January 29, 2014 9:36 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Apple's market share growth in the tablet space, which hadn't happened in years. We then talk about LG and the leaks of the G Pro 2 for a probable launch at MWC in Barcelona. Samsung follows the news as we go through the leaks of the 16MP ISOCELL shooter being used, aside from the other rumors of Samsung keeping 1080p displays for an extra year. In additional Samsung news we also go through the rumors of the company ditching the Magazine UX that we saw at CES, due to some pressure from Google. We end today's show as we go through the shocking ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 29, 2014 6:56 PMRead OnWe're still reeling a little bit from this evening's wholly unexpected news of Lenovo acquiring Motorola's smartphone business from Google. Shortly after first hearing it as a rumor, confirmation swiftly arrived, and we've had some time since to reflect on just what all this means. One question that we noticed popping up quite a bit in your comments following this news has been what this sale might mean for Motorola's Project Ara, that cool modular design that may just change how we look at smartphone hardware. In what sounds like good news, Ara will be sticking with Google, rather than ...
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