Motorola teases mystery smartphone with 4G LTE

A brand new Motorola smartphone is headed your way soon from Motorola and either Verizon or AT&T, with the manufacturer teasing the shape of the device today. The final product will be revealed August 10th, but for now we have but two details: the device is going to look like a big rectangle with extremely sharp (yet rounded) corners, and it’ll have 4G LTE. Our guess is as good as yours, just as long as your guess is the Motorola RAZR HD (or DROID RAZR HD if it ends up rolling out on Verizon) – it’s almost a sure bet!

What you’ll see above is Motorola’s image showing what they want you to see thus far of this device – below you’ll find the Motorola RAZR HD, a device that’s been leaked already with features surprisingly similar to what we’re expecting here from the big M. This device will certainly have a display thats sharper than the original DROID RAZR, will have a body that’s just a bit different all around, and will be rocking some really quite square corners. If you head to the Facebook page where this device has been shown (in blanked-out gray and red) you’ll see the following text as well:

Let’s play a game, Guess the Smartphone. We’ll give a clue each day all week and make the big reveal on Friday. I have the power of 4G LTE. Which smartphone am I?

There’s nothing specifically pointing toward the idea that this device is a NEW phone, you might want to notice, but it isn’t often that Motorola plays a game like this without pushing a device that doesn’t yet exist on the market. Other options here are the RAZR MAXX or the original RAZR, as they’re both also relatively square, so to speak, but we’re banking on the following image being a pretty good match.

The image you see above comes from Android Community where they picked it up from some inside sources posting on Droid Forums. The device doesn’t quite have the same squareness to its corners like the teaser above does, but it’s pretty close. Close enough that we’ll shake on it.


Motorola teases mystery smartphone with 4G LTE is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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US Cellular brings Motorola Electrify 2 and Defy XT to the hardcore public

It’s time to get hardcore on the Motorola tip with your favorite 5th-place carrier in the United States, US Cellular. There are two new devices being revealed this week, the first being the Electrify 2, a Motorola device that takes everything that’s great about Motorola’s newest line of RAZR and ATRIX devices and puts it in a slightly different casing. The second device is a rough-and-tumble smartphone by the name of Defy XT, another Motorola smartphone that looks rather similar to the Defy, a Motorola smartphone sold by T-Mobile.

These devices reinforce the idea that Motorola has a constantly changing and churning line of devices that look rather similar but add features and more features as they’re released, month after month. This most recent line of devices stared with the RAZR, aka the DROID RAZR as it was called on Verizon, and moved on the RAZR MAXX with a larger battery and the ATRIX HD on AT&T. Now we’ve got a lot of the same features in a device ready for US Cellular as well.

This device is 0.33 inches thick and has a lovely kevlar weave coating on its back for hardcore battle. Inside you’ve got the same splash coating you’ve had with past Motorola devices, an 8 megapixel camera on the back with the ability to capture 1080p video, and you’ve got both a microUSB and microHDMI port next to one another for connection to the most recent set of Motorola devices. Connect this device to a Motorola Lapdock for Motorola’s own Webtop interface and loads of fun.

The Electrify 2 is only the second Motorola device to be released with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box, the ATRIX HD being the first. It’s also got a 1.2GHz dual-core processor of unknown origin (we’re assuming Qualcomm) and has a 4.3-inch LCD display with “Motorola ColorBoost” like the ATRIX HD as well.

BONUS: Check out our review of the original Motorola Electrify, also carried by US Cellular last year!

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The Motorola Defy XT takes on what the T-Mobile Motorola Defy offered up at the end of 2010 and brings it into 2012 with a load of new features. The Defy XT comes with a 1GHz single-core CPU, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and is ready to take on dust, drops, splashes, and a nice beating as well.

The Electrify 2 will cost you $199.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and the Defy XT will ring in at $99.99 USD after rebate. These devices will both be coming out SOON as well, expect them! UPDATE: the Electrify 2 is available online later today while the Defy XT will be up on August 3rd.


US Cellular brings Motorola Electrify 2 and Defy XT to the hardcore public is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Refresh Roundup: week of July 9th, 2012

Refresh Roundup week of July 9th, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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Refresh Roundup: week of June 25th, 2012

Refresh Roundup week of June 25th, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don’t escape without notice, we’ve gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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