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Motorola’s Droid more expensive to make than iPhone and Nexus One

Published on: 19th January, 2010

Some cost analysis reveals that the Motorola Droid is one of the most costly smartphones to produce among the latest devices currently available on the market. The materials cost for the Android handset is $179.11 and the assembly cost is $8.64, with a total of $187.75. Compared to the 16GB iPhone 3GS costs $178.96 and [...]

Android trying to catch up to iPhone

Published on: 12th January, 2010

A recent ChangeWave study reveals that smartphone buyers prefer Android phones as much as they prefer iPhones. The November launch of the Motorola Droid has lead to an increased demand in the United States for Android devices, from six percent in September to 21 percent in December, i.e. 15 percent in 90 days. The need [...]

Super Bowl commercials for the Droid?

Published on: 23rd December, 2009

Motorola is supposed to run a Super Bowl commercial dedicated to the Droid, that it has already bought, according to some leaks. The ad in question, although not confirmed yet, would run on the company’s flagship, the Droid, probably the most heavily promoted handset. We have to remember the campaign with numerous ads from Verizon, [...]

Time Magazine: Motorola Droid is 2009’s best gadget

Published on: 22nd December, 2009

There have been lots of iPhone competitors, most of which have gone as they have been launched. There have been made efforts in order to surpass Apples mobile device. Some examples can be BlackBerry Storm and the Palm Pre, but these can’t be compared to the best competitor, which seems to be the Motorola Droid. [...]

Motorola’s MT710 to be sold in China

Published on: 13th December, 2009

Motorola will officially begin to sell in China, this month, its MT710 Zhiling smartphone under the China Mobile Ophone brand. The handset is similar to what is known in North America as the Android-powered Droid. The Chinese Motorola version will not use stock Android, but will use instead a proprietary version of the open source [...]

Droid in front of iPhone in Time’s Gadget of the Year contest

Published on: 11th December, 2009

Motorola Droid’s first place in the Time’s Gadget of the Year contest was not a major surprise. The Android-based handset won the contest for having a large 3.7-inch touchscreen and a hardware QWERTY keyboard and also for sporting free turn-by-turn GPS using Google Maps Navigation. The iPhone 3GS, ranked fourth, has earned this position thanks [...]

Motorola Droid spotted

Published on: 7th December, 2009

On December 1st, 2009, the keyboardless version of the new smartphone from Motorola, Droid-based, has been revealed in some photos, also showing some of its technical specifications. It has a 550MHz OMAP TI 3430 processor, the same as the Motorola Droid device. The prototype benefits from the traditional 3.7-inch touchscreen, with a resolution of 854×480 [...]

Increasing Moto Droid sales

Published on: 7th December, 2009

Motorola’s new Droid smartphone seems to have been sold in several hundred thousand units in no more than a month, according to Mark Sue, RBC Capital Markets analyst. The expertise was based on store surveys; since November 6th, between 700,000 and 800,000 Android devices have been sold. Some of the most important Verizon stores seem [...]

Motorola overtakes Apple in brand loyalty report

Published on: 30th November, 2009

For a long period of time, Apple was ranked above Motorola in the brand loyalty reports. The Motorola Droid as well as Verizon’s aggressive ad campaign have pushed Motorola before Apple in YouGov’s BrandIndex latest edition. Motorola’s loyalty score among men has reached 29.3, while Apple has fallen from the initial 48.1 on the 9th [...]

Droid update scheduled for December 11th

Published on: 15th November, 2009

Motorola Droid, recently launched, will be updated on December 11th, according to a document leaked from Verizon. The Motorola Droid, launched a week ago, will support an over-the-air update that will cure a defined list of software issues The update will address a number of issues, such as adding notification icons when sending e-mails, adding [...]

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