Those that weren’t content with Verizon’s price drop will be happy to know that the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX price has dropped to an even lower price at Amazon Wireless. Last week, Verizon dropped the price of the Droid RAZR MAXX, one of its popular 4G LTE Android smartphones down to $199.99 on a new [...]
Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility is finally closed, giving Google a new hardware division. Google CEO Larry Page announced the acquisition on the Official Google Blog. As part of the acquisition Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha has stepped down. He’s replaced by long-time Google employee Dennis Woodside. The new CEO helped Google grow its business [...]
Last week we heard that Verizon might be gearing up to release a software update that will enable global roaming capabilities on several of its popular 4G LTE smartphones and today, the carrier confirmed that this will indeed be happening sometime this summer. The confirmation was given to The Verge and the carrier acknowledged that [...]
Last week, Motorola updated its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update schedule and while the news was good for some device owners, Droid 3 owners and Droid X2 owners saw their phones left off the list. In an effort to quell the storm, Motorola has explained why phones like the Droid X2 and the Droid [...]
Following HTC’s import bans on high profile Android handsets such as the HTC One X and the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE as a result of HTC’s ongoing patent dispute with Apple, the latest Android manufacturer to face an import ban is Motorola Mobility as a result of disputes over intellectual property with Microsoft. According [...]
In addition to confirming the bad news for Motorola Droid Bionic owners, Motorola has confirmed that the Motorola Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX Android 4.0 updates will be rolling out sometime during Q2. The news comes from Motorola’s Ice Cream Sandwich timeline which was updated today. Motorola says that both Droid RAZR and Droid [...]
Motorola has updated its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade page and it’s bad news for Motorola Droid Bionic owners. The manufacturer has updated the timeline for its devices and while this is more confirmation that the Droid Bionic will be getting Android 4.0, it’s going to be a long wait for owners. Motorola says [...]
Today’s leak of an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich build for the Motorola Droid 4 leaves the Motorola Droid Bionic as the last remaining big name smartphone from Motorola to see any kind of Android 4.0 information leak. And that does not bode well for a swift release. Many Android phones see versions of major [...]
It seems as though Motorola is hard at work prepping the Motorola Droid 4 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update as a build of the upcoming software has surfaced ahead of its release. Droid-Life is reporting that a leaked Android 4.0.4 build for the Droid 4 has leaked to the surface. It’s the latest test [...]
As expected, the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX price at Verizon has dropped today down to $199.99 on-contract, down from the whopping $299.99 that the carrier was charging for the phone previously. We told you yesterday that the price would likely be dropping today and sure enough, the carrier has cut the price down to a [...]
It appears that the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX price drop at Verizon, which was rumored to be in the works last week, may end up taking place tomorrow. We have received a tip from someone familiar with Verizon’s plans who states that the price of the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, one of the most popular [...]
The Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX is one of the best Android smartphones on the market right now and it looks like it might become even more appealing to those looking for a new device. Droid-Life has acquired an image of what appears to be a flyer from Verizon which clearly states that a $100 price [...]
Those in the United Kingdom who have been waiting to get a hold of one of the best Android smartphones on the market will be pleased to know that a UK retailer has outed the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX release date in the UK. Clove UK has confirmed that it will be stocking the Motorola [...]
Verizon Wireless’ Motorola Droid RAZR has been out since October but that hasn’t stopped the carrier and manufacturer from launching new versions of the device. At CES, we saw white and purple versions of the slim Android device and now, Verizon has released a blue version Droid RAZR onto shelves. The carrier made the device [...]
It would appear that there is now a fairly solid release date for Verizon’s upcoming blue version of the Motorola Droid RAZR. Earlier intelligence pegged Verizon as releasing the blue Droid RAZR on May 17th or May 18th and now, we have another piece of evidence courtesy of Droid-Life that has the carrier launching the [...]
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With a bit of a lull during the past couple of months, the Android market is once again heating up as manufacturers are finally starting to deliver the devices that they promised all the way back in the beginning of the year. That means that several of the devices that have been included on our [...]
Verizon has released a new “Droid Does” commercial only this time, it has decided to ditch the robots and the explosions and the action for some real life scenarios with actual humans using Droid devices. In the new ad, which shows off the Motorola Droid 4, Motorola Droid RAZR and Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, Verizon [...]
It appears that we might finally have some light on when Verizon plans on rolling out Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Motorola Droid RAZR, Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX and the HTC Rezound. According to an internal Verizon document, secured by a reddit user and found by Droid-Life, the carrier is currently testing the [...]
One of the best Android smartphones on the market, the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX, will be making its way to the shores of the United Kingdom in May. Motorola, in an official press release, announced that the Droid RAZR MAXX will be hitting shelves sometime during the middle of next month. The company declined to [...]
A new Verizon leak hints at some of the phones we can expect from the carrier in the summer and fall of 2012, including the Galaxy S III, a new Galaxy Note competitor, and the iPhone 5. According to sources talking to BGR we can expect to see a lot more Android on Verizon in [...]
Motorola has found a new way to show off the battery of the Droid RAZR MAXX: GPS navigation. In a short promo video, Motorola compared the battery life on the RAZR MAXX to the battery life found on iPhone 4S and LG Spectrum, when using the phones as GPS navigation systems. Motorola charged each device [...]
When Google and Motorola announced the Xoom in early 2011, the search giant expected to sell 10 million Android tablets in the year as well as another 10 million in 2012. According to The Verge, the numbers come for a presentation given by Google’s senior vice president of mobile, Andy Rubin in 2010, when the Xoom [...]
In February, I said all eyes should be on Verizon this quarter to see if the Droid refresh could push back the iPhone’s advance. Well, it helped but iPhone still beat all other Verizon smartphones combined. Good news for Apple, not so good for Android.
With the Now Network beginning to roll out its 4G LTE network and LTE-based devices, it appears that Motorola will be releasing a Photon successor for Sprint this year. The device, rumored to be called the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE, will follow Sprint’s naming convention for the Motorola-made smartphone similar to what’s being done [...]
The HTC Rezound Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update that was rumored to be out earlier this month now has been pegged with a new release date in May. In addition, it appears that the Motorola Xoom 4G LTE may be getting its upgrade to Android 4.0 in just a few days. According to an [...]
The Motorola Droid 4 is poised to receive its first update since the device first launched on Verizon’s 4G LTE network back in February of this year. The update, first discovered by Droid-Life, is set to bring a number of enhancements and fixes to Big Red’s iconic smartphone. Chief among them is improved battery life, [...]
After having had a successful partnership with Texas Instruments with the company’s ARM-based OMAP chipset and dabbling with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 ARM CPU on the Atrix and original Xoom, it looks like Motorola may be branching out and turning to Qualcomm where it comes to ARM processing power. The 2012 lineup of Motorola smartphones may [...]
It looks like we now know a little bit more information about a device that has been leaked many times before as the Droid Fighter. In a newly leaked photo, we now are seeing that the Droid Fighter may in fact be coming to market, or at least to Verizon Wireless’ shelves, as the Motorola [...]
With buzz around new Motorola smartphone such as the Motorola Droid RAZR HD (formerly referred to as the Droid Fighter), Motorola wants to still innovate on the ecosystem that differentiates its hardware from other competitors in the Android camp. The soon-to-be officially acquired company by Google gave a technology talk at the University of California, [...]
A new, unconfirmed rumor has Google potentially selling Motorola’s handset business to Chinese company Huawei. In fact, Google has apparently already offered to sell its newly acquired asset to Huawei for a “high price.” The rumor comes from Dennis Berman of the Wall Street Journal and while it’s the first time we’ve heard of such [...]
It appears that the Motorola Droid RAZR Android 4.0 update should be rolling out in the near future as Motorola has told its Motorola Feedback Network that a soak test for the software should begin soon. Droid-Life is reporting that the company has told members of the MFN, who test updates for the company, that [...]
Last week, a Best Buy document seemingly outed the Android 4.0 dates for the HTC Rezound, Motorola Droid RAZR and the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX. Today, another document from Best Buy has surfaced indicating a delay in the release Ice Cream Sandwich for the Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX while the date for the [...]
Starting on April 8th, Best Buy will start accepting old smartphones in return for $50 towards a new Motorola smartphone. The deal applies to three Motorola handsets including the Motorola Atrix 2 for AT&T, the Motorola Photon 4G for Sprint and the Motorola Droid RAZR for Verizon’s 4G LTE network. Verizon’s Droid RAZR is a [...]
Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page has been vocal about some of his favorite Android tablets and his company’s public image with Apple in the era of Apple late CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs. In a recent interview with Businessweek, Page opines that Apple’s war with Android is overblown. In Jobs’ biography written by Walter [...]
Today is April 4th, the date that a leaked Best Buy document said would be the day that the Motorola Droid RAZR and Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX would be getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Owners of both devices have yet to see any new software roll out but Motorola, for its part, says that [...]
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When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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