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Motorola Milestone 2 confirmed by accident through promotional video

Published on: 2nd September, 2010

Essentially a GSM version of the Droid 2, the Motorola Milestone 2 phone has appeared accidentally in a promotional video material which has been posted on YouTube, but since then has been made private. The Milestone 2 handset will reach the German market, as well as other markets, but there is no information regarding the [...]

iPad could control tablet market two more years

Published on: 27th August, 2010

The iPad is believed to keep its strong position on the tablet market for two more years at least, as iSuppli estimates. Apple’s tablet is supposed to get 74.1 percent of the respective market this year and is predicted to still keep a dominating 61.7 percent of this market by 2012. This dominant position would [...]

Motorola buys 280 North, created by former Apple engineers

Published on: 27th August, 2010

Motorola has recently made a new acquisition by buying 280 North. The deal is rumored to cost about $20 million and gives Motorola access to a programming platform called Cappuccino, which simplifies creating deeper web applications. A company’s representative declared for “TechCrunch” that this deal would be effective in fostering the Android ecosystem through web-based [...]

Motorola’s Droid X Android 2.2 update postponed for September

Published on: 13th August, 2010

According to a Motorola post in its official forums, the expected Droid X Android 2.2 update may have been postponed with several weeks. Even if the update was programmed for launch in late August, it may be released by early September. It is still unknown if the updates will start at that point or will [...]

Launch of iPhone 4 collapsing interest in BlackBerry and others

Published on: 18th July, 2010

The approaching launch of the iPhone 4 seems to take away interest in devices like Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, Motorola or Palm, a study from ChangeWave determined. People planning to acquire an iPhone 4 have soared from 31 percent to 52 percent in a three month period beginning with March and ending in June. The [...]

Study confirms declining interest in Nokia versus Android and iPhone

Published on: 18th July, 2010

According to a YouGov new study, the demand of the customers for Nokia smartphones had shown a new minimum in the United Kingdom. The number of the customers expecting to get Nokia phones has dropped to half, i.e. 10 percent only in June versus 19 percent last year in December. While 46 percent of potential [...]

Voice over LTE to have 3G support and emergency calls

Published on: 16th July, 2010

Updated specifications of VoLGA Forum for its standard for Voice Over LTE have been released. The new specifications include mobile voice as well as SMS services over 4G and is different from the current standard which supports only data. The changes in the standard will bring VoLGA (Voice over LTE via Generic Access) which uses [...]

Motorola confirms the split of the mobile group early in 2011

Published on: 10th July, 2010

Motorola will make the planned split of the company early in 2011, more exactly during the first three months. An SEC filing specifies that the remaining core of the company will be named Motorola Solutions and will include both Networks and Enterprise Mobility Solutions businesses. The other company will be called Motorola Mobility and will [...]

Motorola’s Droid 2 to ship on August 23, with Android 2.2

Published on: 2nd July, 2010

According to an unofficial report from AndroidandMe, the Droid 2 should be launched on August 23 (instead of the rumored July 19), at Verizon. The delay could be due to the fact that the Droid 2 will be the first smartphone to ship with a preloaded version of Android 2.2; thanks to a hands-on review, [...]

Android phones sales – over 160,000 pieces a day

Published on: 27th June, 2010

With the occasion of the Droid X launch, Andy Rubin from Google said that more than 160,000 Android handsets are sold daily. This represents a huge jump compared to the 100,000 pieces sold each day a month earlier. It would also mean that 4.8 million Android devices are going online every month. Other hardware builders [...]

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