Motorola was founded in 1928 and started off making mostly radio related products. They have since evolved into one of the largest mobile phone brands around. In 2005, the company's RAZR line of phones sold over 120 million units making them the second largest mobile device company at the time. Motorola currently makes Android smartphones with their own Blur UI. Thier DROID series of smartphones, which launched in October 2009 has become very popular. Read on for the latest Motorola news, reviews and videos:
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 7:53 PMVerizon started-off the week by confirming the upcoming arrival of updates for the Droid 4, RAZR, RAZR Maxx, and Rezound that would allow those phones to roam internationally on GSM/UMTS networks, despite their CDMA pedigree. We'll be seeing those updates come out sometime this summer (with a good chance that global roaming and Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive simultaneously for at least some of the models), but if just the news of this forthcoming feature has you thinking about picking up one of the models early, Amazon Wireless has some pretty nice deals ready for you. Subscribers signing o...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2012 5:16 PMYesterday, we saw Verizon clear up a few things about upcoming updates for some of its Android lineup that would bring these CDMA phones the ability to roam globally on GSM-based networks. All told, the carrier committed to getting this feature out to the Droid 4, RAZR, RAZR Maxx, and Rezound sometime over the summer. Today we get a hint of just how this roaming might arrive, thanks to a recently-leaked ICS ROM for the Droid RAZR. While it's not clear exactly what software build we're looking at here, the takeaway seems to be that the update that will enable global roaming will likely be th...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2012 11:08 AMGoogle first announced plans to acquire Motorola Mobility all the way back in August of last year, and the time spent since has seen the company seeking out approval after approval in order to finalize the deal. That's included everyone from Motorola stockholders, to the European Union, to the United States Department of Justice. Just over this past weekend, China's Ministry of Commerce gave its nod to the purchase, marking the last obstacle on the road to see this become a done deal. As such, Google and Motorola have now announced that Google's acquisition effort has closed, and the company's...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2012 5:56 PMLate last week, we started hearing some new rumblings about Verizon's plans for bringing global roaming to some of its Android lineup. We already knew that both the Motorola Droid 4 and LG's Spectrum would make the cut, and Verizon would activate their roaming abilities at some point in the future. The new leak that brought the issue back to the forefront last week concerned HTC's Rezound, with an in-store display advertising the pending arrival of global roaming as one of the handset's features. There were also rumors accompanying that find that Motorola's Droid RAZR (Maxx) would join this gr...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 20, 2012 3:08 AMWith Motorola and Google being so close to each other lately one would except Motorola smartphones to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich updates quickly, and to all capable devices. While the phone maker has a pretty neat list in place (check source) for you to follow every movement regarding a platform refresh for a specific phone, they made a statement addressing those who can't find their phone names and Android 4.0 mentioned on the same page. The wording is simple and needs no explanation: "obviously we want the new release to improve our devices. If we determine that can’t be done—well...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 18, 2012 7:03 PMSoftware patents are the absolute worst. Instead of rewarding innovation, they've instead become a kind of ammunition used by the smartphone heavyweights, trying to chip away at each other's success. If you're wondering why you don't have an HTC EVO 4G LTE at the moment, you can blame just the kind of legal shenanigans these sort of patents enable. The latest unfortunate victim is Motorola, which just got slapped with an import ban on its Androids which violate a Microsoft patent. The United States International Trade Commission has now backed-up an earlier ruling which found Motorola in vi...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 18, 2012 4:05 PMMotorola has a fantasist list available for users who are interested in learning when Ice Cream Sandwich should be coming to their smartphone or tablet. Two months ago, we saw the company update that list with its latest data, advising that the international RAZR would be seeing ICS arrive sometime in Q2 2012. We already knew that ICS was a lock for the Droid RAZR on Verizon, as the carrier had published its own list of confirmed ICS updates just a few days prior. On Motorola's list, though, progress on that update was marked as still being in its "Evaluation & Planning" stage, without any...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 3:24 PMA little earlier this week we got to see a leak that seemed to reveal the coming arrival of a new color variant for the Motorola Droid RAZR, with a blue version of the handset tipped to launch on May 17. It seemed a little odd to be hearing about a new color option this long after the phone's initial launch, but it sounded good all the same; the more choices, the better. Today that new blue model gets officially confirmed by Verizon, and we get to see a new leak that hints at a nice price break on the horizon for the RAZR Maxx. It turns out that you may be able to get the blue RAZR even soo...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 7, 2012 7:13 PMSo far, if you've wanted a Motorola Droid RAZR,you've had the option of the standard black model, as well as both purple and white variants. Sure, Verizon employees could get a special edition of the phone with red accents, but as far as readily-available choices go, we're left with really just three color options. We keep hearing rumors about a new HD RAZR that may be about to drop, and who knows what colors that handset will come in, but in the interim it looks like there's one more color choice for the original Droid RAZR about to make its debut, with a leak showing the Android available in...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 4, 2012 7:00 PMA little earlier today, we heard that a soak test was ramping-up for the Motorola Droid X2 and Droid 3 on Verizon, with e-mails going out to owners who had been invited to participate. Now, we get a better sense of what to expect from the new software for the Droid 3, at least, with Verizon updating its support pages for the phone to include the changelog for this new release. As Droid 3 owners are all-too-aware by now, despite being under a year old, the handset didn't make the cut for the official list Verizon has published of which phones on its network it expects to see upgraded to Ice ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 3, 2012 5:35 PMIt's been well over a year since Motorola released its Cliq 2 for T-Mobile, making it positively ancient in the fast-moving smartphone world. We heard back in February of this year that the Cliq 2 might be getting a bit of a new lease on life, with news of an upcoming Gingerbread update for the handset. Quality testing that update sure took some time, but nearly two-and-a-half months later it's now time for that release to see the light of day, with the Cliq 2 finally making the jump to Android 2.3. If you're still rocking a Cliq 2 after all this time, you're going to have to be proactive a...
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by Stephen Schenck | April 27, 2012 7:56 PMIce Cream Sandwich ROMs have been leaking for the Droid RAZR for months now, and ever since March we've seen a real uptick in rumors about soak tests and possible scheduling for the official update to finally arrive. It's not here quite yet, but a newly-leaked ROM may just represent the final update, as it will go out OTA. Earlier this week, a Verizon doc surfaced which showed the carrier's expectations for the distribution of ICS updates to a couple phones. For the RAZR and the RAZR Maxx, the document indicates Verizon's already involved with testing the update, and that it could start goi...
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by Stephen Schenck | April 24, 2012 5:09 PMIt sounds like we're going to be getting another variant of the Motorola Droid RAZR, already available as the original model and the extended battery-life RAZR Maxx. This next RAZR would supposedly offer users a 720p display, instead of the qHD screen on existing models. There have been several names attributed to this rumored handset, including the RAZR HD and the Droid Fighter. Today, we've got some new imagery to look at that may show some Motorola hardware that reflects the same changes that we'll be seeing in the Droid RAZR HD. The phone we're looking at here is Motorola model MT887, a...
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by Evan Blass | April 23, 2012 4:04 PMLast year Motorola introduced its first flagship Android device for Sprint, the Motorola Photon 4G. It was a dual-core, qHD handset with similar specs to the Atrix 4G and latest Droid-branded phones. Well now we've gotten wind of a sequel to that device, which will supposedly come to market as the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE. Besides being quite a mouthful of a name for consumers to remember, it sounds like it will be yet another high-end offering from the Now Network: very likely Moto's first LTE handset for the latest 4G network to go live. Full specs -- or even partial specs -- aren't yet ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | April 19, 2012 3:47 AMWe first heard of the 6.12.181 update for the Verizon Motorola Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX at the beginning of April but shortly after rumor had it the manufacturer was dropping the refresh in favor on a possible Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich soak test. It seems that either the reports were faulty or Motorola changed its mind because the full changelog for the upcoming 6.12.181 refresh has been made public. It will be applicable to both the Droid RAZR and the RAZR MAXX and it will bring, as usual, bugfixes, improved battery life, accurate 4G indicator plus the rest which could be seen...
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