Motorola announced they will hit AT&T with the Atrix on 6th March, but something special will come alongside the handheld device. Motorola will allow users to buy a laptop dock together with the phone. Sure, it's only an option, no one will force you to buy it, but gadget users believe the dock is not very useful.

The phone can be purchased for $190 alone and for $500 together with the laptop dock, but this high price might scare off potential buyers. The phone is powered up by a 1GHz processor and the above price is available with a two-year deal. You can get a $100-rebate if you buy both the phone and the laptop dock from the internet.

The pre-order begins next week, on 13th February, but according to AT&T it might even come out earlier.

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As you probably already know, the new Motorola XT520 is also heading to China. The smartphone has been certified back in May as was first known as Motorola Greco. At that time we didn't knew too much about it. Besides a blurry photo, nothing, actually. Now there are lots of more details on the wai and we got them too. There is a 3.5mm headset jack, 5MP camera with LED flash, Wi-Fi, GPS, USB port and Bluetooth. 

There's also a 3.2 inch touchscreen with trackball, call/end buttons, capacitive function buttons for Android and 1230 mAh battery. Sure, the phone looks good, not very promising, but good. Though, we would like to know more things about it before actually buying it.

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The microUSB is winning its ways into becoming the default port for lots of mobile phone companies, letting smaller companies ask themselves if they should also adapt to the trends. Two years ago the GSMA announced to have managed to persuade a large group of mobile phone producers to move to microUSBs by 2012.

The microUSB is becoming the main port for mobile producers such as Nokia, Apple, RIM, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Alcatel - is Alcatel even on the market anymore? Didn't heard anything from their company lately.

Sure, now everybody will ask if the next generation iPhone will feature a microUSB too, but I seriously doubt. The USB port is not proprietary for Apple and it might take a longer time until we will really see it happening.

The new Motorola, called i1, will be released next month, on 20th June, as announced in an advertising at the Indianapolis 500 event. The smartphone is Boost Mobile's first Android device (and maybe the best). The phone will also iDEN push-to-talk functionality. The device will have incredible features, as it will be dustproof, shockproof and rainproof. I can't recall a new release that has all of those three features packed in.

The smartphone packs a 3.1" 320x480 touchscreen, Wi-Fi, 5MP autofocus camera, 256MB RAM and 512MB on-board storage. The processor is a 500MHz Zeus 2.0 and the storage capacity will be on a microSD slot. The phone will integrate Opera Mini 5, to help the user have a better browsing performance. 

You will have to spend $349 at BestBuy for it, if you also get Boost's $50 unlimited data/web/text plan which, in my opinion, is very expensive. I'd rather wait a little bit more before buying it with this plan, because $50 per month is an important sum that not anyone can afford paying.

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When Google announced the Android 2.2, people thought first of devices that will get the update as soon as possible and, comparing to how fast Motorola Droid got the Android 2.1 update, it was highly expected to get Froyo fast too. Now, some weeks after Motorola announced Froyo will also run on Droid, they've opened a thread on their forum to sign up for updates about when Android 2.2 will come. You will need a forum account to sign up, but I doubt that's a big problem.

Motorola Droid, which looks awesome in my opinion, is a slider smartphone powered up by a 550MHz processor, packing 256 MB RAM and with 512 MB on board flash memory. It has an 854x480 touchscreen display, 256 ppi and offers a 5.0MP camera with video capabilities (it features geotagging). The device has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, qwerty keyboard, 3-axis accelerometer and digital compass.

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Motorola DEXT just got released and it seems Bell will sell it in Canada. Known also as Motorola CLIQ, DEXT is a smartphone with Android 1.5, 528 MHz processor, 5.0 MP camera pixels, qwerty keyboard and a really nice design. It has a 3.1 inch display (320 x 480 resolution), Wi-Fi and can hold up to 32 GB of memory, supporting microSD card.

The smartphone can be bought from Bell Canada's web page and you will need to spend $79.99 on it if you want a three-year deal, and $399.95 if you want to buy it without contract. The same prices can be found at bestbuy.

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Even if Motorola didn't officially announced the release date of the new device, FlipOut, pundits are suggesting we will not have to wait too much for it now. The latest Android phone from the American producer comes with a full qwerty keyboard, 2.8 inch display, 700 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM and a 3.1 MP camera. FlipOut will also support Wi-Fi, GPS and dual-band 3G with HSPDA connectivity. There is going to be a standard USB slot as expected.

It is highly predicted the smartphone will be released in late May or June, so we will not have to wait many weeks until we will see it on the market.  Rumors suggest the phone will cost around $400. There are not photos of the phone yet, or at least we couldn't find any real shot of the device.

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Today Motorola announced their new Android device, called Milestone/Droid XT720, which seems to be a lot like the original Droid, but with an improved camera, HDMI out and, surprise, no keyboard at all. Not having the keyboard makes the device more pocket-suitable, getting it to 10.9 mm from 13.7. The camera is an 8MP auto-focus with xenon flash (!). It can also record 720p videos.

The device will run Android 2.1, and not the latest version, but this means there may be an update soon. The display is a 3.7 inch 480x854, 512 MB on-board storage, 256 MB RAM packed, 8GB microSD card, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Radio, all of them powered by a 550MHz processor. The processor is unfortunately underclocked from an 720MHz Cortex A8. If it helps to know, then the Korean vesion of the device, called MOTOROI, will be powered up by the whole 720MHz.

Surprinsingly fast, the device is about to come out next month, and for now will be out on the market in EU only. There are not any details about the price or US release date yet.

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The Droid, Droid Eris and Droid Incredible were all launched last year and it seems Verizon is ready for another device from the same producer. The Droid X is the next-gen smartphone from Motorola, rumored to be launched on 19th July. The stores are ready to announce the launch of the new device, maybe with the new window decor coming 18th July.

We don't know anything about when the Droid X's brother, the Droid 2, will be launched. We're seeing a lot of leakage of it and this shows that it may not be too much to wait until Droid 2 will hit the market.

Droid X will be covered in metal, which means a bigger resistence for the device. There's going to be a 4.1 inch capacitive touch display, Android 2.2, 8GB of internal storage and HDMI out. It will probably run a 700 Mhz OMAP processor instead of Snapdragon and rumors suggest the new processor will be able to keep a balance between power consuption and performance.

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New Zeeland, one of the countries that had to wait some time to get the new Motorola Droid/Milestone is now ready to have the handset. The new Motorola will arive in New Zeeland on July 1st and can be bought for a recomended retail price of $999 with Telecom XT. Surprising price, isn't it? I would ask why is the phone so expensive, but I doubt there will be someone out there able to answer. The launch of the new Motorola in New Zeeland may not be such a big deal for the US and Europe residents, but there is something big for them

The Motorola Droid/Milestone is an internet and multimedia enabled smartphone running Android 2.1. It's powered up by a 550Mhz processor, underclocked from 600MHz, has a 512MB onboard flash memory, 256MB RAM and 512MB ROM. The display is wide, 854x480 pixels TFT LCD, 3.7 inch, 16:9 aspect radio. The display is a capacitive touchscreen with ambient light sensors, qwerty keyboard and digital compass. The camera is a 5.0MP with video capabilities. Some other specs include Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi and aGPS. Pretty impressive for a country like New Zeeland, isn't it? But expensive, as well...

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After we found out Motorola is going to hit O2 and Vodafone in Germany, at a 349 price, we now found out another interesting information which can conclude like that: Motorola seems to love Germany. It seems Milestone XT720 will also hit at least a carrier in Germany. We don't know anything about the price yet, but many rumors are suggesting it may be close to 540 off-contract, which is pretty much in my opinion. We don't know when is the phone going to be available, and neither the carrier that will sell it.

The Motorola Milestone XT720 is a powerhouse model, featuring Android 2.1 and an AMR8 processor. It has an 8MP camera with Xenon flash and video capabilities (720p) and has a 3.7 inch WVGA screen. The card is a microSD that can be upgraded to 32GB. It comes with a default 8GB memory card.

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If you like Motorola, then you will like this post too. We will shortly review the new Motorola Droid 2, which looks pretty similar to the first Droid/Milestone. Anyway, a difference that is easy to see is the new qwerty, with arrows like a computer keyboard instead of the joystick from the first Droid. The black body is not so black anymore, it has some dark blue colors now. The most important changes are not the physical one, though, because what they done inside it's pretty impressive.

The Droid 2 is now among the smartphones packing a 1GHz processor (TI OMAP 3630). The benchmark showed an improved performance of the new Droid, compared with the original one, which is pretty normal when you almost double the processor's speed. And not just the processor, but also the RAM. Droid 2 features 512MB RAM, while the first Droid had just half of it. The camera is not changed, is still a 5MP camera, the operating system is the same. 

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The new Motorola Flipout will be launched by Orange UK. Now it's sure, Orange released some images and a press release to announce Flipout will be soon in stores. Sure, the phone is already available in the United Kingdom at both Vodafone and O2, but Orange users will be able to have it now too. The phone will be sold at PAYG prices, but also with monthly deals.

The device features a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen, a flipout qwerty keyboard, runs Android 2.1 and the latest version of MotoBlur. It will be powered up by a 700MHz Texas Instruments OMAP processor (based on ARM Cortex A8) and is Adobe Flash compliant. The device will be available in blach, pink and white. There is a 512MB ROM memory and a 256MB RAM and a 3.1 MP camera.

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After we spotted the future new Motorola Charm in the wild, now there are more informations available about it from the same source. We knew there is going to be Android 2.1 on it, that's no surprise. The processor is going to be a 600MHz, but no informations about the architecture used. It will feature 512MB ROM and 512MB RAM, so it's going to be pretty fast comparing to other models which have just 256MB. The screen is a 2.8 inch QVGA.

It's possible the phone will also feature some social networking integration, so don't be surprised if the rumors will be confirmed. T-Mobile is probably going to be hit first by the phone, so if you are one of their million users and like the new Charm, be happy! It's possible you will have it too.

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The new Motorola Droid X is going to be launched this week, on thursday, at Verizon. Everything just fine until here. Well, not fine anymore. It seems Verizon will not have as many devices as they would like to. Some of the stores will have around 60, but some other will have only 5 on thursday, so that's not going to be very nice if you want to buy it. Some leaked screenshots showed how many handsets will several stores have, and there is an average of around 30. That's not much. Not much at all.

Motorola Droid X has a 4.3 inch screen, an 8MP camera, Wi-Fi (and hotspot possibility), runs Android 2.1 and is considered to be very fast on the internet. It will have a 1GHz processor and 512MB RAM.

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Motorola Charm, which we talked about last week, seems to not be launched as expected. The phone's launch date might be pushed because they seem to have battery problems. We knew about the handset, which will be released by T-Mobile, that there is going to come with a very good battery life. Anyway, a bettery life that wouldn't force the user to recharge it day by day. Anyway, pundits suggest Motorola is not able right now to launch the phone because the battery life is not as good as expected.

When is the phone going to launch? Well, maybe in late August, maybe in late July. We don't know anything sure about it, but the original release date will not be reached, that's for sure. We've also heard Motorola is going to offer extended batteries upon selling the handset, but not any official words yet.

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A leaked summer catalog shows the new Motorola Droid 2 will be there alongside the Motorola Droid X. If we were almost sure about Droid X, then we didn't knew anything about Droid 2. Well, now we are more than sure the smartphone will be launched by Verizon. The successor of Motorola Droid was seen in a leaked summer catalog of the carrier and the release date is in the following weeks.

Some of the specs weren't sure, but now we know them. Droid 2 will be powered up a 1GHz processor, 8GB internal memory, with 512MB RAM. There's a microSd memory card of 8GB in the retail package, and the support is probably until 32GB. The camera is a 5MP, the phone features a side-sliding qwerty keyboard and the phone will be able to be a Wi-Fi hotspot. All that remains is to hear an official release date from Verizon, which may come soon.

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We have waited a lot for this moment. The improved Motorola Droid X is now available to buy at Verizon on different monthly plans. You can buy it from Verizon's online store. You can also buy it from stores (probably starting tomorrow), but I doubt it would be easier for you than just some mouse clicks. You'd probably have to stay in line tomorrow in the store.

On a two year deal, the phone can be bought for $199.99, after a $100 online discount (another reason for buying it online). The full retail price is $569.99, so to buy it so cheap you just have to access Verizon's webpage. Cool, I must say!

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It may come as a surprise for some of us, or not, but Motorola cancelled the Android 2.1 update for the Cliq XT, which was planned to happen soon. The update was announced few months back and was even showed in the media. The community manager of Motorola stated in the press that though they tried their best, over the last months Motorola's developers did just not managed to create the perfect OS version for the Cliq XT. It's just not doable.

Motorola users became pretty annoyed and went in on the official forums ragging around about not buying a Motorola device again. Total understandable considering the fact that some bought a Motorola because of the Android 2.1 update promise.

Source: MobileCrunch

After Motorola announced the FlipOut, a weird phone in my opinion, Nokia didn't wanted to lose ground and announced another giant: Nokia X5-01. The phone was announced at the annual Nokia Connection event in Singapore. The phone has a square form, a 4-rows qwerty keyboard, and for listening to music in a shuffle mode you will have to spin the phone in a circle. Wow, that's something! Unfortunately it's difficult to do it with your headphones connected on.

An other weird new feature is the ability to shake the phone so you can "feel" how many messages you have. That's smart too, hide the phone under the desk in a meeting and do it. But for reading the messages shouldn't you actually look at the phone? That's probably going to help you just when you are going to check for messages, and you don't have any. You won't have to look at the phone to see that you don't have any new SMS.

The phone will come in 5 colours (blue, pink, purple, black, green), will have a 5MP camera with LED Flash, 200MB internat storage with microSD possible extension until 32GB. The phone will be powered by Symbian S60 3rd Edition and will cost around $200, but we don't know when or where it's going to be released.

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It was rumored some time agon, but now it seems more and more the new Motorola Milestone XT720 will be available at T-Mobile when it will come to the United States. Besides this Motorola, Samsung Galaxy S and myTouch 3G Slide will also be available at T-Mobile, and they may want to promote those three mobile phones as their highest products. Having those three smartphones available soon, it seems T-Mobile becomes an important player on the Android-based-smartphones market.

Motorola Milestone XT720 is a high-definition video recording device, with HDMI and Wi-Fi connectivity, with a 3.7 inch touch screen and also packing an 8MP camera with Xenon flash, all included in a thin, elegant design. It's one of the world slimmest Android phones, supports 3G, has a standby time up to 320 hours, includes a 3.5mm headset jack and a Webkit Full HTML5 Browser.

Via PhAndroid