Jul 20

Motorola Ivory E18 luxury phone developed, scrapped

Posted in: cellphone, luxury, moto, motorola, Today's Chili

If you’re considering a luxury cellphone, you’ve probably given some thought to the Aura — either as an object of unattainable techno-lust, or as a way to lighten your wallet by a grand or two (don’t even get us started in Vertu). According to Mobile Review, Motorola wasn’t planning on stopping there: The Ivory E18 (a name which either evokes elegance or animal cruelty, depending on your POV) featured a slider with two movements (a short slide for function keys, and a longer for the T9 keypad), a small footprint, and a 3 megapixel camera. The price? Well, for the stainless steel chassis you were looking at about €2,000 (about $2,821 at the moment). Also planned were phones with gold and platinum chassis, which would take the purchase price up to “several tens of thousands” of Euros. If Motorola wasn’t aware of the sheer silliness of such an extravagant phone, at least the carriers were — apparently it was lack of interest on their part that caused Moto to sack the project. Make sure you hit that read link for the whole story — in Bulgarian.

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Motorola Ivory E18 luxury phone developed, scrapped originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 02

Motorola’s Aura Celestial Edition soon taking “giant leaps” for “mankind”

Posted in: luxury, moto, motorola, NASA, space, Today's Chili

Here’s a fact: the world really doesn’t need another mildly tweaked Aura. Sorry, it just doesn’t. That being true and all, we’re still pretty jazzed to see Motorola giving the ultra-luxurious handset another go with the moon-themed Celestial Edition. Word on the street has it that this here handset won’t deviate much from the predecessor, but it will come pre-loaded with multimedia from the original moon landing mission, a laser etched quote honoring the 40th anniversary of the journey and a price tag that’s far, far beyond stratospheric. We’re told that it’s all set to go on sale next month, but good luck finding one.

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Motorola’s Aura Celestial Edition soon taking “giant leaps” for “mankind” originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 25

Motorola Endeavor HX1 ears-on

Posted in: bluetooth, Features, hands-on, HandsOn, headset, moto, motorola, Today's Chili

We’ve been playing with Motorola’s recently-announced Endeavor HX1 for the past few hours, and we’re just going to come right out with it: this is the best Bluetooth headset we’ve ever used. Moto claims that the HX1 is the world’s first consumer headset to use “true bone conduction technology,” a veiled (but obvious) reference to the external cheek-resting sensor found on Jawbone’s devices — and indeed, the Jawbone Prime is the most obvious direct competitor to the HX1. Both devices offer decent styling, feature optional earloops and a selection of earbuds for a tighter fit, are being positioned as premium headsets, and — most importantly — pack a ton of innovative circuitry all in the name of cutting noise in harsh surroundings. Head on over to Engadget Mobile for our quick take!

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Motorola Endeavor HX1 ears-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 19

Alleged shot of Motorola Morrison for T-Mobile has us swinging wildly betwixt love and disgust

Posted in: Android, moto, motorola, qwerty, rumor, slider, t-mobile, Today's Chili

Is the world ready for a white, black, and shiny metallic blue Android phone? Well, the world may not have to be — but we strongly suspect this picture claiming to be the Motorola “Morrison” for T-Mobile USA is real since it exactly matches the thumbnail in that leaked roadmap from a while back. We can only guess from the coloration that this is likely going to be billed as a youth device — and Motorola’s said in the past that it wants to build its Android lineup around a social networking platform, which all the kiddies are into these days — so we’re thinking this could end up being positioned below the G1 and its contemporaries / successors in T-Mobile’s catalog. Would we buy it? Yeah, maybe — the keyboard looks usable, but maybe we’re still so Android-starved around here that our judgment can’t be trusted.

[Thanks, Stanley]

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Alleged shot of Motorola Morrison for T-Mobile has us swinging wildly betwixt love and disgust originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 02

Motorola debuts world’s first retail DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems

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You’ll still need the love and support of your dear cable provider, but if you’re within range of DOCSIS 3.0 service, you can bypass at least one aspect of dealing with your local monopoly ISP. Starting this week, Motorola is launching the planet’s first retail DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems, which enable speeds up to four times faster than DOCSIS 2.0. The SURFboard SB6120 DOCSIS 3.0 eXtreme cable modem will soon be cluttering up shelves at Fry’s Electronics, presumably just beside the incredibly deceiving Monster Cable demonstration area. There’s no word on price just yet, but don’t expect such a luxury item to run you cheap, okay?

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Motorola debuts world’s first retail DOCSIS 3.0 cable modems originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 20

Motorola “Morrison” rounding out T-Mobile’s 2009 Android offerings?

Posted in: Android, moto, motorola, rumor, t-mobile, Today's Chili

Okay, we think we’re starting to get a good picture for how T-Mobile’s Android plans for the year are going to play out (naturally, this is all subject to change — we doubt the manufacturers know precisely when they’ll be ready with this stuff, much less the carrier). That seemingly leaked roadmap has now revealed its final Android-based treasure, a Motorola “Morrison” that looks a heck of a lot like the device we’d seen leaked through some Wal-mart docs. Granted, there’s a silver bar at the bottom here that isn’t present in the earlier picture, but they could easily be different generations of rendered mockups, so we’re not putting too much weight on that discrepancy. The roadmap currently has the Morrison pegged for the holiday season, so there’ll be plenty of Android devices available to you before you get a crack at this one — which probably isn’t how Moto would like to see it work out, but hey, them’s the breaks.

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Motorola “Morrison” rounding out T-Mobile’s 2009 Android offerings? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 May 2009 15:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 11

Motorola announces W7 Active Edition for fitness and sporting enthusiasts

Posted in: cellphone, cellphones, moto, motorola, slider, Today's Chili

Sure, we were a little hard on it back when we first saw its rumored, horrifying existence but it turns out our nightmare scenario has come true: the W7 exists. The one we’re seeing above however, has had at least a little sexy added to it — ditching the three-part color scheme for blackish silver — and it also has 3G which lessens the pain a little. The fitness and sporting targeted handset sports an accelerometer, which can be used to do all sorts of things like silence the ringer and pause or restart the tunes on a run, and it also boasts a pedometer for those of you who like to enumerate every step you take. The W7 (which will be available in white as well) is going to be available by June of this year in Asia and Latin America, but there’s no word on pricing or availability elsewhere. There is one more shot after the break — if you dare.

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May 01

Motorola intros i465 Clutch, company’s first QWERTY iDEN device

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Following the seemingly unstoppable trend toward QWERTY and heavy texting in the low end of the market, Motorola has announced its very first iDEN device to ever feature a full keyboard. The rumored i465 looks just a little better in glamorous press shots than it did before, and it’s picked up a name along the way — Clutch. Naturally, Boost Mobile is a perfect fit for the thing, and the Sprint division looks to be launching this quarter. Specs include Bluetooth 1.2, a 160 x 128 display, video capture via a VGA cam (hey, it’s low-end, what did you expect?), and mil-spec compliance for shock, vibration, and all that good stuff that you might need when your phone hits the pavement. Pricing will be announced closer to launch, but we don’t expect it to break the bank.

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Motorola intros i465 Clutch, company’s first QWERTY iDEN device originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 12:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 29

Motorola’s first Android phone(s) to have sliding QWERTY?

Posted in: Android, flash, moto, motorola, rumor, Today's Chili

Motorola needed to release an Android set about six months ago, but we know these things take time — and if it’s any consolation, it sounds like the first fruits of the labor could be pretty awesome. Boy Genius Report now claims that the rumored landscape QWERTY slider Calgary will be the first Android-powered Moto device to go commercial, though it’s not clear when (or where) it’ll hit shelves; given the device’s seemingly unusual appearance and the possibility (foolish hope?) that they’ll be infusing some customizations into the UI, they might just have an angle to attack offerings from HTC and others. That’s not all for the Android department, though — it looks like there might also be a portrait QWERTY slider in the works for the third quarter codenamed “Ironman,” pictured, which will pack 3G, WiFi, and some sort of high-res camera. In other words, a solidly high-end device. Bring it on, guys.

Moving on, it seems the lovely full touchscreen Flash has been canned, along with the Krave’s successor, the Inferno — possibly further confirmation that Moto’s throwing virtually all its weight into the Android camp at this point. Finally, rumor has it that a device codenamed “Rolex” is in the labs — and as you might’ve guessed, it uses the Aura’s astonishingly awesome ultra-high-res circular display. Odds are this is another luxury phone given its aspirational name and the screen being used, but a poor guy can dream.

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Apr 28

Video: MOTO Lab’s multitouch display scalable up to 50-inches

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When the heads over at the MOTO Development Group aren’t busy outfitting E-Ink devices with Android, they can often be found looking for bigger, better, and cheaper ways to build multitouch surfaces — and they seem to be on to something. The video below shows full multitouch on a 19-inch display, although the company promises it is scalable up to at least 50-inches — and it does this without the bulky projector. The capacitive touch screen forgoes the ITO (indium tin oxide) used in devices like the iPhone, relying instead on “extremely fine” wires to conduct the signals (which are lit up here for effect — the company assures us that this will not be the case in production units). You know what this means: we may be getting that touch screen coffee table sooner than we thought! And we won’t have to buy that yacht, either. But don’t take out word for it — peep for yourself after the break.

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Video: MOTO Lab’s multitouch display scalable up to 50-inches originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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