That tiny over-the-air update that Droids have started receiving this week might be more important than just the Facebook issues it seemed to patch up, which really wouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering the amount of testing rigor Verizon undoubtedly put that poor update package through prior to release. PhoneArena is reporting that users are seeing significantly improved battery life — always a welcome change, no matter how good battery life might be to start — and that the new ROM also makes some unspecified changes in preparation for that Android 2.1 support that Motorola has said we’ll be getting. Let us know when you get this and keep an eye on your juice; we’ll be doing the same.
Hello all! I have finally made the smart phone plunge. The Mrs. bought me a Motorola Backflip for a very early birthday present and I got to say I love it! I plan to do a review of this nifty gadget soon. Why not an iphone or Blackberry you ask?
I don’t like the way Apple does business…iphone is out! Blackberries are intriguing but I really wanted a touch screen…so they are out. I’ve always liked Motorolas and the Backflip felt like a good fit.
That does not mean it is without issues, but I’m having a great time exploring! More to come…
If you are looking forward to purchase as truly amazing mobile phone, then it would be great to trust on a Motorola back flip. This is the HSPA 7.2 capable phone. It has been equipped with reverse flip design that makes it look really cool. The most interesting part of this phone is its reverse hinge design. It flips the keyboard back behind the screen & faces out when not I use.
The new Motorola Dext comes with a stunning user interface and a user friendly operating system. Its gorgeous touch screen can give a pleasure to use.
The various specifications of Motorola Dext are as follows:
Motorola Dext
Motorola Dext is a 3G Smartphone with a 3.1 inch touch screen which displays 262 thousand colours on a 320*480 pixel resolution.
Apart from the onscreen selections, the user can slide out a QUERTY keyboard that has a comfortable layout of keys. The device measures 1.56 cm deep, 11.4 cm tall and 5.4 cm wide making it compact enough to carry it in your pocket. It weighs 163 grams with its fitted battery.
Motorola Dext is a Smartphone supported by Android Operating system. The user can have a YouTube compatible web experience with its HTML web browser.
Along with voice mailing service, the user can also have a conference call with a small group of contacts. Motorola Dext comes with a 1 GB of internal memory storage, 256 MB of Ram and 512 MB of ROM. It can also support an additional 32 GM of external memory in micro SD memory card.
The multimedia features of Motorola Dext allow the user to communicate not only with text messages but also with audio, video and image files.
The device comes with a built in WiFi feature that helps the user to connect with the internet wirelessly from any WLAN or hotspot.
The high speed EDGE technology helps the user to have fast data transfers. For data transfers between other devices, LG GW620 can have a Bluetooth wireless connection or a micro USB.
A GPS navigation system comes with complete Google maps feature enabling the user to find accurate directions to unknown locations. The 3G feature on this phone is supported by HSDPA 2100 technology and the 2G feature is supported by a band of GSM networks. Motorola Dext comes with a 5 megapixel camera with auto focus feature that helps you capture a well focused image.
It also supports geo tagging of the pictures. Video capturing also excellent. The user can playback their favourite music tunes in various formats like MP3, MIDI, AVI, AAC, AAC+, AAC+ enhanced and AMR NB formats making it a phone complete with fantastic entertainment abilities.
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Because according to level 4 Motorola support on why I can’t install Google’s own .apk web install app to allow scripting:
due to carrier restrictions the option to enable untrusted sources has been disabled
Guess, what, due to carrier stupidity I’m returning this otherwise pretty nifty phone. I’m also looking to turning of AT&T completely and going with an android phone.
You asked for it and you’ve got it! The Motorola Devour (s mot) is the latest Android (s goog) phone appearing on the Verizon (s vz) network in the U.S. The Devour has a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a unique side-mounting battery. Motorola includes its Motoblur technology on the phone, which is a unique social network aggregator.
The phone owner’s social networks are easily configured for Motoblur, and once that is done, all status updates appear on the home screen in real time. In the video I show how my friend’s Facebook and Twitter updates all pop onto the home screen as they occur. I also show how well the phone performs with all of this activity.
Our in-depth review contains the details and lots of photos of the Devour.
Motorola Dext leaves you wonderstruck with its friendly yet powerful social networking features. Its impressive MOTO BLUR User Interface and Android OS enable you to access thousands of Google applications with ease. The user will never have to worry about getting in touch with family and friends.
The various features of Motorola Dext as follows:
Motorola Dext
Motorola Dext comes with a solid design of dimensions 58*114*15.85 mm. It weighs 163 grams making it not very light but compact enough to carry around.
Motorola Dext comes with a 3.1 inch TFT resistive touch screen with a slide out QUERTY keyboard. The layout of the keys is fairly easy to use even though the keys are some what packed at times. The touch screen comes with an impressive 262 thousand colour display with a screen resolution of 320 * 480 pixels.
Motorola Dext uses Google’s Android platform which supports Live Widgets on the desktop like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. The User Interface MOTO BLUR gives an impressive performance. The user can keep track of all his social networking updates without having to login to the websites.
Motorola Dext offers 3G services on HSDPA technology and 2G services over GSM networks. The WiFi feature enables you to access the internet wirelessly through any hotspot or WLAN. The device supports HTML browsing and apart from sending voice messages you can also make conference calls. The browser also supports RSS feeds.
With Android Operating System you can access various Google applications and also store thousands of them in your phone. The 5 megapixel camera comes with a geo tagging function and auto focus feature.
You can capture images and take videos and upload to a number of social networking sites. The video supports 24fps which is not a bad option to capture simple videos.
The GPS connection is quick and accurate and comes with Google maps feature. You can get a Street View of most distant locations. The user can send messages in various formats like MMS, SMS, IM and Emails. A Document Viewer is also one of the features.
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Motorola Milestone is a trendy phone with various web browsing features. Its Android Operating system gives you a host of great web applications.
The various specifications of Motorola Milestone are as follows:
Motorola Milestone
Motorola Milestone looks noticeably thin with 115.8* 60*13.7 mm dimensions. It weighs 165 grams but is quite compact for a phone with such features.
The TFT capacitive touch screen allows a 16 million colour display with a 480*854 pixel screen resolution. This 3G Smartphone is run on HSDPA 900/2100 & HSUPA networks.
The 2G features is supported over a squad range of GSM networks. High speed data transfers are supported by GPRS and EDGE technology. Bluetooth and microUSB support data transfers to local devices.
The front panel of Motorola Milestone slide out to reveal a full QUERTY keyboard that supports 5-way navigation keys. The phone comes with an internal memory of 155 Mb and supports a 256 MB RAM.
For further data storage, it can support a 32 GB external memory on microSD memory card. The phonebook can have practically unlimited entries. The call logs can also be practically unlimited.
Motorola Milestone comes with 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and auto focus. It supports geo tagging of images and captures videos at 720*480 pixels at 24fps.
The audio files are played on MP3, WMA, WAV, eAAC+ formats. The video files are played on MP4, WMV, H263 and H264 formats.
These features make it ideal experience of picture quality and sound quality with stereo speakers.
The GPS system is supported by A-GPS and Motonav software. Motorola Milestone provides excellent web services with Google Talk, Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook and YouTube. The built in web browser is supported by HTML which give a considerably great web browsing experience.
The user can also download games and various applications. The phone offers complete messaging services with IM, SMS, MMS, Email and Push Email. You also get the comfort of a Document Viewer, Photo Viewer and Adobe Flash Player.
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the Motorola Backflip will be the first Android phone to hit AT&T’s network of already superior line of phones. on March 7th (anticipated date), we will see this first of many Androids to come in stores. although im not too keen on Motorola right this moment, im excited to check it out and see how they have progressed though the years post-razr. expected price for this phone will be $200 with a 2-year contract and a $100 mail-in-rebate to bring it down to $100. now we have the iPhone, the best Black Berry, a ton of other touch screen phones, and finally an Android. next i believe we will bring back Palm. with products and services that AT&T offers, do you need to shop anywhere else?
AT&T has finally come clean with the details on their first Android device, the Motorola Backflip. The Gurus had their hands on this during CES, so we will be interested in seeing what has changed/improved. Check out the press photos and hit the read more link to see the full press release.
ShareThisAT&T* and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that the Motorola BACKFLIP ™ with MOTOBLUR™ will be available in AT&T stores nationwide and online at www.wireless.att.combeginning March 7.
MOTOBLUR offers AT&T customers a new way to connect to their favorite people, content and applications, whether it’s work or personal email, messaging or social networking. Motorola’s exclusive Android™ experience syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more — from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter®, Gmail™, Picasa, work and personal e-mail, and Last.fm — and automatically delivers them to live widgets for immediate reply, right from the home screen. And, for customers who prefer multi-tasking, AT&T’s 3G network offers the added advantage of talking and surfing the Web and accessing applications at the same time.
BACKFLIP features a unique form-factor with an original reverse flip design, spacious keyboard and BACKTRACK™ touch panel, allowing the display to be hands-free while one’s fingers work behind the screen. BACKFLIP runs on the nation’s fastest 3G network and is powered by MOTOBLUR™, Motorola’s Android-powered content delivery service created to make phones more personal and socially smart. Customers can see photos and learn more atwww.att.com/backflip.
“Motorola BACKFLIP brings together the best of social networking with the nation’s fastest 3G network,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “With the ability to ride on our newest and fastest 3G network, access to more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots, and the ability to talk and surf at the same time, BACKFLIP boasts a better Android experience.”
MOTOBLUR™
MOTOBLUR keeps track of contacts so it’s easy to keep up. Users can flip through messages and updates on the BACKFLIP and respond in a flash, without having to log in and out of applications. MOTOBLUR helps consumers keep a pulse on what’s happening on their social and news networks. Only MOTOBLUR can sync Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with phone book and email contacts, while threading status updates and profile pics through calls, messages and address book. From the home screen, consumers can update their status to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter at once.
Finally, MOTOBLUR provides users with simplicity and peace of mind, as lost devices can be located from a secure personal information portal and GPS can be used to locate them. One user name and password brings back a user’s contacts, messages and connectivity to previously configured networks and email providers.
”Motorola is proud to bring the first Android-powered device to AT&T’s 3G network,” said Mark Shockley, senior vice president, Motorola Mobile Devices. “AT&T customers will love the social media advantages MOTOBLUR offers as well as the innovative hardware design.”
BACKFLIP is the first Motorola device to feature the new and unique BACKTRACK™ feature which gives AT&T customers the ability to navigate quickly and easily through Web sites, menus and more with a touch panel located behind the screen when the device is folded open. BACKTRACK offers a new way to scroll through the Web, texts, e-mails and news feeds without obscuring the home screen. Flip the keyboard backwards into table-top mode to listen to music, watch videos, view pictures with the digital picture frame or to turn BACKFLIP into a digital, bedside alarm clock.
BACKFLIP comes with a full HTML browser that can be viewed on the 3.1” high-res, touch screen display and makes use of 7.2 HSPA 3G technology on the nation’s fastest 3G network. Android Market™ has access to more than 20,000 apps and widgets, in order to customize the device to fit each consumer’s personal style. Customers can easily shoot photos and video with the BACKFLIP’s 5 MP camera and flash, and upload them to their favorite photo sharing or social media site.
The Motorola BACKFLIP features Wi-Fi connectivity and AT&T customers receive AT&T Wi-Fi access at U.S. hotspots included as part of their unlimited data plan. AT&T’s has the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network with more than 20,000 U.S. hotspots.
Pricing and Availability
The Motorola BACKFLIP will be available March 7 at AT&T retail locations nationwide or atwww.wireless.att.com for $99.99 after $100 mail-in rebate. (Pay $199.99 and after mail-in rebate receive $100 AT&T Promotion Card. Two-year agreement and smartphone data plan required.)
For more information on the Motorola BACKFLIP, visit www.att.com/backflip or join the conversation on Facebook at www.facebook.com/att.
For the complete array of AT&T offerings, visit www.att.com.
1 AT&T imposes: a Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge of up to $1.25 to help defray costs incurred in complying with obligations and charges imposed by State and Federal telecom regulations; State and Federal Universal Service charges; and surcharges for government assessments on AT&T. These fees are not taxes or government-required charges.
2 3G coverage is not available in all areas.
3 Coverage not available in all areas.
4 AT&T Promotion Card: Price before AT&T Promotion Card & with 2 year contract is $199.99. Allow 60 days for fulfillment. Card valid for 120 days wherever major credit cards accepted. May be used to pay wireless bill. Not redeemable for cash and cannot be used at ATMs or gas pumps. Some restrictions and other charges apply. See terms at store or at att.com/wirelessrebate. You must be customer for 30 consecutive days to receive Promotion Card. Offer expires April 5. 2010.
5 Limited-time offer. Other conditions & restrictions apply. See contract & rate plan brochure for details. Subscriber must live & have a mailing addr. within AT&T’s owned wireless network coverage area. Up to $36 activ. fee applies. Equipment price & avail may vary by mrk & may not be available from independent retailers. Early Termination Fee: None if cancelled in the first 30 days, but up to $35 restocking fee may apply to equipment returns; thereafter up to $175. Some agents impose add’l fees. Offnet Usage: If your mins of data use on other carrier’s networks (“offnet usage”) during any month exceeds your offnet usage allowance, AT&T may at its option terminate your svc, deny your contd use of other carriers’ coverage, or change your plan to one imposing usage charges for offnet usage. Your data offnet usage allowance is the lesser of 24 MB or 20% of the KB incl’d with your plan).
6 Sales tax calculated based on price of unactivated equipment.
7 Standard usage rates apply to text messaging and Internet browsing, depending on your plan.
8Largest Wi-Fi network claim based on non-municipal company and owned and operated hotspots. A Wi-Fi enabled device required. Other restrictions apply. See www.attwifi.com for additional services, details and locations. Wi-Fi Access not included with AT&T WorldNet service.
*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
Mobile and home devices to be separated from the rest of the company.
By Mobiletoday.co.uk
Motorola will split into two companies in the first quarter of 2011, separating its mobile phone and home devices business from the rest of the company.
One company will focus on mobile devices and home devices while the other will include its corporate business and wireless network equipment business, the company said yesterday (11 February).
Both businesses will use the Motorola brand name. However, it is expected that the mobile devices and home business will own the Motorola brand and license it royalty-free to the enterprise mobility solutions and networks business
Sanjay Jha, co-chief executive officer of Motorola, will take on the role of CEO of the mobile devices and home businesses, effective immediately. This company will offer a portfolio of mobile converged devices, digital entertainment devices in the home, and end-to-end video, voice and data products.
The company will also enable more advanced personalized services that use the capability of wireless and fixed-line broadband availability, Working with operator partners.
The company had said last month that it planned to separate its handset business, which has been struggling to win back share. However, executives had also said they were looking at alternative structures.
Everyone knows that there’s a select demographic that just watches the Super Bowl for the commercials. I’m not one of those because I really enjoy the game, but there were some choice commercials. The first one is the Snickers ad featuring Betty White, the concept here is brilliant. I won’t go into any more detail, just enjoy it. I’ve also got more of my favorites after the jump.
This is a Parisian Google search ad, which I really enjoyed also. It gives you that nice warm feeling inside. So, to get rid of that my friend is deciding on a parody which I hope to see very soon.
Motorola x Megan …. hmm, what could go wrong here? Probably nothing.
Keep yo hands off MY mama and keep yo hands off MY Doritos! I really wish he added a biiiiaaaatch at the end, but you get the point.
I love Coke commercials, they’re always just classic. No big fireworks, just classy.
the Best Fans ad just because it’s one of the most ridiculous plays by Reggie Bush, check it out!
Doritos was on point last night! It’s the freakin Dorito Samuri! They were on point last night, well done
Motorola Devour official. Coming to Verizon next month. Running Android 1.6, First Motorola Phone to use Motoblur on Verizon, a pre-installed 8GB microSD card, Bluetooth, and a 3.1 inch touch screen. No multi-touch announce, after Google announced multi touch update for the Nexus One. We’ll keep an eye out for all Android phone in regards to a multi-touch update.
Palm isn’t the only company who thinks quality games are an important part of a mobile platform. Android has jumped on the GDC (Game Developers Conference) wagon and will be working with developers at the show in San Francisco on March 9th and 10th. They will be giving demonstrations and working with developers on developing Java and C++ games for the Android platform. Google says that 7/10 of their 20,000 applications are games and that they are very excited to support the growing trend by helping developers create some games. We don’t know just yet if this means we will see EA or any other big mobile developers showing off any 3D games, but it is a possibility. No one thought Palm would do it, we have seen Apple hold the 3D game flag for some time, and now it is Google’s turn to show us just what Android can do. Also Google will be offering up some rewards for developers in attendance!
If you sign up before February 4th for the All Access or Tutorials and Summits passes then you will receive either a Motorola Droid or Google’s Nexus One from HTC. Show up to help out Google and in return Google will give you one of the two hottest Android phones available today!
Look, I totally get what Senator Juan Ponce Enrile wants to do for the country. The dude is all for protecting the rights of prepaid SIM cellphone users. That much is clear. I’m cool with it, conceptually. It’s a completely relevant, practical cause to champion.
But the man may want to consider hiring new copywriters for his propaganda.
Spotted this on the back of a bus, while driving over to SM Mall of Asia this morning.
A few minor quibbles first.
There’s a lot to be questioned on the art direction side.
I’m not a tremendous fan of the shade of orange he chose, although I will concede that it does project a fair sense of kinetic energy and enthusiasm on his part (a little bit of Gaussian blur and judicious use of the ‘clone’ tool on his wrinkles might have helped too).
His pose itself is less than meaningful – at first glance, it looks like he’s shilling some new Chinese knockoff cellphone brand (NOKLA, anyone?), and I fail to see how it reinforces how he’s supposed to be the “Sipag at Talino ng Senado” – although considering how complicated it can be to use today’s generation of cellphones, I suppose they do take a fair amount of “sipag at talino” to operate. I mean, gosh, have you even tried using a Motorola phone lately? I feel like I need three thumbs and an intricate system of finger gymnastics and smoke signals just to type out “WRU N?” or “HUS DIS?” on one of those bad boys!
He won’t be winning any awards for Most Breakthrough Use of Outer Glow on Photoshop In The 21st Century either. But at least they had the restraint not to Lens Flare the hell out of this either.
But let’s get to the point.
Here’s what the copy says.
Patuloy na naglilingkod upang pababain ang cellphone ‘charges’ at ‘load’ natin.
Wait, what?
Part 1 makes a lot of sense. He wants to lower our cellphone charges. I dig that. I hate hidden charges as much as the next person. That’s one of the main reasons I’m switching from Smart back to Globe when my contract holding period is up in April.
But part 2 – I’m not the greatest Tagalog speaker in the world, but just to continue the logic that he so neatly set up in part 1 of the line, is he saying that he’d like to lower our cellphone load too?
Patuloy na naglilingkod upang pababain ang cellphone ‘charges’ at ‘load’ natin.
Am I the only one getting mixed messages here?
(Although considering how much money people waste on sending all sorts of craptacular jokes and allegedly inspiring quotes, perhaps they do deserve to have their load taken away from them…)
Flurry, which monitors usage of over 10,000 developers, has published some (projected) sales numbers for Google’s and HTC’s new flag ship smart phone, the Nexus One. According to Flurry, only about 20,000 Nexus Ones were sold in its first week on the market. It was outsold by Droid by more than 12 times, myTouch 3G by 3 times and iPhone 3GS by 80 times.
“To estimate first week sales totals for the Nexus One, myTouch 3G, Droid and iPhone 3GS, Flurry detected new handsets within its system, and then made adjustments to account for varying levels of Flurry application penetration by handset. Flurry additionally crosschecked its estimates against Apple actual sales, released for iPhone 3GS, which totaled more than one million units over the three days, June 19 – 21, 2009. Flurry first week sales estimates can be found in the table below.”
Nexus One was a highly anticipated mobile phone, but Google didn’t spend millions of dollars advertising it, opting for a sort of a soft launch for the device. Verizon and Motorola, on the other hand, had spent close to 100 million dollars advertising the Droid, and if Flurry’s numbers are correct, it definitely shows the difference a good advertising campaign can make.
via Estimated Nexus One Sales: Only 20,000 Units in the First Week
Since November 6th 2009 I have been a Proud owner of the Motorola Droid. I was very excited to receive this phone even though I had to return it a week later because it had a strange rattle in it. I had already downloaded and installed over a 100 apps on it and was very disapointed that I would now need to return it. I thought what a pain in the butt, now I gotta find all the apps I put on it. Well to my pleasent surprise after I got it and put in my e-mail account about 2 hours later I pulled my phone out of my pocket and Viola all my apps were there. I didnt have to go out an download them all over again they were just there. Since this day I have been a Fan of the Droid.
That leads to what this Blog is going to be about, it will be about all things Droid and Android, as well as all smartphones and devices that will have the Android OS on them. I would like to deliver all the exciting things I learn about the droid and what is to come. This is my first blog site to bare with me as I am new to the whole blog scene.
Thanks to anyone who reads this and stay tuned for more about the DROID…
AT&T’s news press room is giving anyone who will listen the scoop on 2010. AT&T will be offering a new SDK for developers and a few Android phones in their new ‘Bring apps to all‘ initiative. Today AT&T announced they will be offering 5 new Android handsets in the first half of 2010 from Dell, HTC, and Motorola. They don’t say specifically which but we will do our best to venture a guess. The Motorola handset will feature Motoblur and what AT&T says is “a unique new form factor”. So they must be talking about the rumored Motorola Backflip which was expected to come sometime in 2010. As far as Dell goes I think it is safe to assume this will be Dell’s Mini 3 which launched in China earlier last year. Hopefully it will come with WiFi and no dumbing down of features. HTC is the trickiest, we could see the rumored Hero 2, the Dragon, or even the HTC Legend which looks to be a successor to the Hero. Whatever it ends up being we are expecting some Android on AT&T which is currently the largest GSM carrier in the United States. Once this happens Android will be on all 4 major carriers leaving behind iPhone who is stuck with AT&T and Palm witht he Pre/Pixi who is stuck on Sprint but rumored to arrive on Verizon soon. Anyone else excited to see if Android phones work better or worse then the iPhone with AT&T’s 3G?
The Web giant is an obvious winner in its latest wireless scheme. Not everyone benefits, though.
Now that the world knows Google’s big announcement–a new “Nexus One” phone and an online store to sell it directly to consumers–see “Google’s Nexus One Revolution”–it’s possible to determine who will benefit and who won’t from the Web giant’s latest move. Here’s a list of Nexus One winners and losers.
The Web giant can’t seem to lose. Though selling its own phone appeared destined to alienate its manufacturing and carrier partners, the company’s Android-centric consortium, the Open Handset Alliance, continues to grow. Thirteen new companies recently joined the OHA, including China Telecom, NEC ( NIPNY – news – people ) and Freescale.
According to Google, there are now more than 20 Android devices on 59 carriers in 48 countries, with more to be announced at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. Plus, Google has the satisfaction of having built a phone to its exact specifications. As Google’s Android chief, Andy Rubin, said at the company’s Tuesday press conference, “This the best possible Google experience.”
Call the handset maker a surprise winner. While sales of the Nexus One are likely to cannibalize those of the Droid, the Android phone Motorola released with Verizon ( VZ – news – people ) in November, Google has moved quickly to keep Moto a close ally.
Google not only invited Motorola’s mobile devices CEO, Sanjay Jha, to speak at its press conference, it also agreed to promote the Droid in its online store for the next few months until Verizon begins carrying the Nexus One. Motorola appears to approve of Google’s new plan. Judging from comments made at the event, Motorola will be the next manufacturer to make an Android phone especially for Google. http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/05/nexus-one-motorola-technology-wireless-google.html?partner=alerts
After Mobilize, I asked T-Mobile for a Motorola CLIQ review unit, but this Sony Ericsson TM717 (Equinox) arrived instead – oops
So I’m not the target demographic for this device, but I have to admit that the Equinox is quite sexy for a flip phone! It’s surprisingly compact, and features some interesting touches like a secondary OLED display and a programmable notification light…
Unfortunately once again, T-Mobile crippled messaging and Java on the Equinox (like on the Memoir and the ZINE) – it’s getting ridiculous how many of their devices are crippled considering how affordable their unlimited data plans are.
Also, when is Sony Ericsson gonna to give up on its proprietary Fast Port connector and Memory Stick format? It’s just FoF
Device pictures and video:
Pros:
- Attractive design
- Small, thin, and light
- Nice, bright primary screen
- Decent 3 megapixel camera
- 3G (T-Mobile compatible) and GPS
- Good battery life
- Bluetooth ObEx (file transfer/sync), and A2DP (stereo audio)
- USB 2.0 mass storage support
- Google maps pre-installed
Cons:
- No camera auto-focus, macro, or flash
- No multitasking other than music
- No gapless music playback
- Crippled default messaging client (uses MMS for emails and SMS for IMs)
- No configurable POP3/IMAP/IM client
- Crippled Java support (impossible to install unsigned applications)
- No iSync support (but vCard support)
- No Bluetooth DUN (tethering)
- Proprietary audio/USB/power connector and memory card slot
- No data cable, earphones supplied with device
- No memory card supplied with phone
AT&T’s news press room is giving anyone who will listen the scoop on 2010. AT&T will be offering a new SDK for developers and a few Android phones in their new ‘Bring apps to all‘ initiative. Today AT&T announced they will be offering 5 new Android handsets in the first half of 2010 from Dell, HTC, and Motorola. They don’t say specifically which but we will do our best to venture a guess. The Motorola handset will feature Motoblur and what AT&T says is “a unique new form factor”. So they must be talking about the rumored Motorola Backflip which was expected to come sometime in 2010. As far as Dell goes I think it is safe to assume this will be Dell’s Mini 3 which launched in China earlier last year. Hopefully it will come with WiFi and no dumbing down of features. HTC is the trickiest, we could see the rumored Hero 2, the Dragon, or even the HTC Legend which looks to be a successor to the Hero. Whatever it ends up being we are expecting some Android on AT&T which is currently the largest GSM carrier in the United States. Once this happens Android will be on all 4 major carriers leaving behind iPhone who is stuck with AT&T and Palm witht he Pre/Pixi who is stuck on Sprint but rumored to arrive on Verizon soon. Anyone else excited to see if Android phones work better or worse then the iPhone with AT&T’s 3G?
