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The importance of Verizon to Motorola
While iPhone 4 sales on Verizon have been steady and not quite astronomical, Motorola can’t be all that pleased that Verizon now has a brand new darling child in its smartphone lineup. In a regulatory filing made last week, Motorola stated that sales to Verizon last year accounted for 28% of the company’s revenue. And […]
Continue reading...Motorola teases Super Bowl Xoom ad, paints Apple users as drones
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Well lookey here. It appears that Motorola is really planning to stick it to Apple this Super Bowl weekend with a commercial painting Apple users as emotionless drones draped in white. In the video excerpt below, provided to Engadget by Motorola, a nice looking fellow with flowers is reading 1984 on the forthcoming Motorola Xoom […]
Continue reading...Motorola jabs Apple in new Super Bowl commercial teaser
Monday, January 31, 2011
For as much as Apple critics like to complain of proprietary technology and closed-off systems, millions upon millions of consumers vehemently disagree, and indicate as much with their pocketbooks. Still, if you’re a company with an inferior product, it makes a lot of sense to attack a strong competitor like Apple in the abstract with […]
Continue reading...Apple makes more money per handset sold than RIM and Motorola combined – and here’s why
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Much like the iPod before it, the success and vision of the iPhone forced a slew of companies to step up their game in a serious way, but in the end, no competing device has yet been able to hold a candle to Apple’s offering. From a business standpoint, Apple’s success with the iPhone is similarly difficult, if not impossible, […]
Continue reading...Motorola hypes up upcoming tablet, criticizes iPad for being a “giant iPhone”
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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In an effort to hype up (and we use the word loosely) the CES 2011 unveiling of their upcoming Android tablet (rumored to run Android 3.0), Motorola released a video teaser chronicling the evolution of the tablet, comically going all the way back to the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Tablet. With each successive tablet, the video explains […]
Continue reading...Motorola Droid 2 phone explodes, bloodies up man’s ear
Saturday, December 11, 2010
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A Texas man named Aron Embry was reportedly using a brand new Motorola Droid 2 when the device spontaneously exploded, causing his ears to bleed. Not surprisingly, Embry is now looking for an attorney and might decide to sue. Check out the news clip below. Did anyone else notice that this dude sounds exactly like […]
Continue reading...Apple expands Motorola lawsuit to include 12 additional patents
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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There’s so much patent litigation involving Apple these days it’s really hard to keep up and devote sufficient attention to each particular lawsuit. Matters are only compounded when each case seemingly involves an endless number of patents at issue. And if things are already a bit tricky, why not make em’ even trickier? That clearly […]
Continue reading...Motorola CEO seems worried about the iPhone coming to Verizon
Monday, December 6, 2010
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While speaking at the Credit Suisse conference last Wednesday, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha strongly hinted that not only was the iPhone coming to Verizon in 2011, but that Motorola would be affected finacially as a result. There’s no denying that Motorola has experienced a resurgence as of late, largely thanks to Android, and while Jha […]
Continue reading...iPhone 4 is the most reliable smartphone, just don’t drop it!
Monday, November 15, 2010
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SquareTrade is an independent US provider of warranties who recently compiled data from over 50,000 incidents of smartphone failure reports. As laid out in the chart below, the iPhone 4 has the lowest percentage of reported non-accident related malfunctions, coming in at just 2.1%. The iPhone 3GS lags slightly behind comprising 2.3% of reported malfunctions. […]
Continue reading...Steve Ballmer envisions Microsoft collecting royalties on every Android device sold
Monday, October 4, 2010
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Late last week, Microsoft sued Motorola alleging that it’s lineup of Droid smartphones, which make use of Google’s Android OS, infringe on a number of Microsoft’s patents pertaining to synchronization of data such as email and contacts, along with patents which cover how applications are notified of changes in signal strength and battery power. Microsoft, […]
Continue reading...Microsoft files suit against Motorola over Android
Friday, October 1, 2010
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Nokia’s suing Apple. Apple’s suing Nokia. Apple’s suing HTC. And now Microsoft is suing Motorola. Boy, the smartphone market sure is a legal minefield these days. The WSJ reports: Microsoft Corp. accused Motorola Inc. of violating its patents with smartphones that use Google Inc.’s Android operating system, firing a legal salvo in a market where […]
Continue reading...Google looks to Motorola for upcoming Android tablet
Friday, August 20, 2010
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With the iPad already out to a significant head start, it’s only a matter of time before a slew of competing tablet devices start to hit the market. That said, Digitimes reported earlier today that Google is working on an Android tablet of its own, and the company is reportedly looking to work with Motorola […]
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
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