Posted: July 16th, 2010 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: android, Droid X, Hack, Linux, motorola, Self Destruct, smartphone, Stupid, Trap | No Comments »
Motorola has recently released the Droid X. The 4.3-inch behemoth has made a lot of reviewers wet and excited. The problem is, Motorola has a dirty little secret and it isn’t a good one.
Motorola have added a self destruct function that is activated when anyone attempts to tamper with the OS. When tampering is detected the phone instantly bricks itself, becoming unusable and a relatively expensive paper weight.
Motorola is basically taking a device, which hacker emthusiasts would have loved to ‘tamper’ with, and made it the least hacker friendly device released this year. What does Motorola gain by locking the phone down? Maybe stopping hackers from porting Motorola’s dead ugly MOTOBLUR UI additions to other hardware?
Did they forget that the OS they are using is Open Source? The same hackers that you are locking out, are also the same ones making Android better! It is a damn shame, as the Droid X is one impressive piece of hardware.
Via [MobileCrunch]
Posted: July 3rd, 2010 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: 4G, android, Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, HTC, motorola, smartphones | No Comments »
Motorola has done an incredible job of coming back from certain death to now ruling the Android handset market. AdMob have run a review of the 12+ million handsets in its database and the Motorola Droid is king of the pile with a 21% market share. Together HTC and Motorola control 83% of the market, which is mostly made up of US and China residents.
With the Droid 2 coming soon, and the Droid X now available, it is a great opportunity for Motorola to regain much needed market share. Congratulations Motorola for staying relevant for a little bit longer.
Via [Wired]
Posted: June 11th, 2010 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: android, Milestone, motorola, smartphone, TI OMAP3440, XT720 | No Comments »
Motorola’s Milestone and general Droid series has been a huge success when they needed it most. Today, we have find of a new member of the Milestone series, with the announcement of the Milestone XT720.
While the name sounds boring performance gets a kick with a (TI OMAP3440) 720mhz processor and 512mb of memory. Not quite the 1Ghz we come to expect to new Android devices, but not bad nevertheless.
No word on US release, but you can expect it to reach European shores by the end of this month. The last thing remaining is the price, which while we don’t know, we hope is cheap.
Via [Engadget]
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: android, AT&T, Backflip, google, motorola, Yahoo | No Comments »
Lately it seems a lot of people are attempting to bring down the juggernaut that is Google. Starting with Apples move to rid all things Google from the iPhone and then the recent push for antitrust lawsuits (that are possiblity coming from Microsoft). Now it seems Android, its very own OS, is kicking Google out for Yahoo.
It is only AT&T doing it at the moment, but how interesting it is. Spend millions to make an OS that is pretty much free, hoping and dreaming that one day you will make money from the services rendered on the device, and then someone comes along and strips those stinking services out.
This is AT&T’s first Android handset (Motorola Backflip), so after it is a gigantic flop, they may just realise that people only buy Android because of the included Google apps. Then, even if AT&T are too arrogant to do it, some enterprising hacker will re-add the Google goodness.
Via [Android And Me]
Posted: February 13th, 2008 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: sideblog | Tags: buyout, carl icahn, Dell, handset, motorola | No Comments »
It appears that the rumour may have been squashed about the Dell buying Motorola’s handset department, that was recently circulating. Motorola have come out screaming they are “fully committed” to staying in the mobile handset market. The company is under pressure from investor Carl Icahn, who believes breaking it up could create more money for share holders (he said value, but we know what that means). It isn’t happening yet it seems, but don’t doubt it won’t happen.
For more info, click over to Reuters.
Posted: February 11th, 2008 | Author: Daniel Georges | Filed under: Technology | Tags: android, buy out, Dell, google, motorola, nomura, richard windsor | 1 Comment »
The rumour says that Dell is planing on buying Motorola. After last years $US388 million operating loss, Motorola has been visited by a whole lot of people. To heat the rumour up to a further extent (and to almost volcanic levels), Dell and Google are going to partner with android.
My opinion on the matter is this is a good thing. Motorola hasn’t really done anything exciting since the Razr came along, and even that was a overrated piece of rat poo (it was really really slow don’t you know?). If Dell and Google was to input some of their development skills and technology know-how into a new Motorola handset, we could get an iPhone and N95 (or 96) competitor.
The rumour originally came from Richard Windsor, from Nomura International (some financial services group), who has said that Motorola’s probably going to let go of its mobile arm, and stick to doing enterprise and government work. He also said that it wasn’t the hardware, but the software and the platform (the hardware wasn’t fantastic though).
It is still only speculation and no one really knows if Dell has made an offer. Will try and keep you updated if any more news comes out.
For more info, visit PMPToday.
