I love good marketing, and Verizon never seems to disappoint. Unlike AT&T’s use of arachnid in the Samsung Infuse 4G commercial which was overwhelmingly met with harsh criticism from our readers, Verizon took the shriek out of their leading lady and turned her into a Lara Croft Android ass kickin’ clone. Verizon first sets the … Read more
Verizon customers holding out for the Motorola Droid Bionic can finally relax knowing that the wait is finally over. Available tomorrow at Verizon Stores and online, the Droid Bionic 4G will sell for $299.99 with a two year contract. Big Red feels pretty special with their 4G LTE hot rod network and so far have … Read more
There was lots of speculation about what the Google-Motorola Mobility merger would mean. Would they get an strategic advantages? Would other OEMs get hurt? Well we have some answers thanks to a Google internal presentation from the Oracle lawsuit. The answer is: Yes and Yes. Here is the Google document: Foss Patents speculates as follows: … Read more
Motorola is back with the third version of their very successful Droid family of devices. They kicked off the series with the original Droid that had a physical keyboard and D-Pad for easy navigation. The second version dropped the D-Pad and ushered in a larger keyed physical keyboard that still only had 4 rows of … Read more
Today comes an article that basically says that Google didn’t do its homework (do they have a Beta Legal Team too?) and spend out the nose for some pretty useless Motorola Mobility patents and a sliding business. It is interesting that every Android OEM toed the company line and basically issued a Google-penned statement of … Read more
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. This morning’s announcement that Google intends to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion makes this ring so true. The Droid line of smartphones and the XOOM tablet are the two notable mobile related items we know most about. Huge win for Google? How about … Read more
Hope everyone is having a great weekend and enjoying mobility. I thought I would through up my video unboxing on a special weekend edition of Mobility Digest Reviews. On the chopping block for today is the Motorola Droid 3 on Verizon Wireless. The folks at Verizon where nice enough to send this to me for … Read more
Wow, a budget smartphone running Gingerbread?! The new Moto XT531 has a 3.5” screen and even dual cameras, and a flash, not bad for a budget phone. The phone features 8 hours talk time and 28 days of standby. – Now there is no need to sacrifice design or function with the Motorola XT531™, the … Read more
surprise surprise, the Gingebread update is here!!! check out this WILD list of improvements. Gallery Enhancements to the picture Gallery allow you to aggregate all your photos, your friends’ photos and photo comments from social networking and photo sites like Facebook and Picasa in one place for easy viewing Music Enhancements so your Music player … Read more
A lot of Verizon customer have been waiting patiently for the Droid Bionic by Motorola to be released since first being teased by it at CES. Shortly there after Motorola delayed it’s launch on Big Red and slated it for sometime this summer status. A necessary evil for Device OEM’s is accessory manufacturers and retailers … Read more