Hasta La Gadget!

Carrier rebate forms have a fun tendency to reveal unannounced hardware, since they cover several upcoming weeks when they’re published — and Verizon’s latest for the month of November is a particularly juicy one. Here’s what we’ve got:

• There are two SKUs listed for the Droid 2 Global, but only one for the Droid Pro, leading us to wonder whether it’ll actually be the Global that’s getting a cameraless version.
• Speaking of Motorola, the WX445 Citrus is in the mix for the first time.
• The Pre 2 is in the system with a $100 rebate.
• There are two new SKUs for the Bold 9650, possibly indicating the release of new versions with BlackBerry 6 pre-installed.
• The LG Cosmos Touch is in here, which we imagine will be a touchscreen successor to the Cosmos.
• There’s a Samsung Zeal listed with a $50 rebate, but we’re not sure what it is — we know that Sammy has a number of Android phones in the pipe for Verizon, and we suppose this could be one of ’em (likely low-end considering it’s not a $100 rebate).
• More interestingly, the Samsung Continuum is in here, suggesting that the November 8 event could be for this dual-screened (and Galaxy S-branded) beast. $100 rebate here.

Of course, November is a time when retailers of all types and sizes bring out new products in time for the holidays, so we’re not surprised to see the mother lode here. Who’s excited?

Verizon’s new rebate form shows two Droid 2 Globals, Samsung Continuum, and more originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As a whole, Motorola is no stranger to profit… thing is, Moto won’t be “whole” for much longer, and when the split happens, we’re sure it’d like all of its divisions to be profitable. The mobile unit, of course, has been the struggling one, trying to pull out of a multi-year post-RAZR nosedive under the leadership of CEO Sanjay Jha — and it looks like his all-in bet on Android is starting to pay off at the bank on today’s news that they’ve posted a non-GAAP operating profit of $3 million. Yes, sure, that’s razor-thin when you consider that they sold some $2 billion worth of phones — but these guys haven’t seen black ink in three years, so it’s definitely cause for celebration. Looking at the bigger picture, the entirety of Motorola posted non-GAAP earnings per share of 16 cents — handily beating the estimate of 10 to 12 cents — on sales of $5.8 billion. Not out of the woods yet, but certainly rolling toward the end of the year on a high note, we’d say.

Motorola’s mobile unit posts first operating profit in a long, long time originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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To say that it’s a contentious political season is a bit of an understatement. As we inch closer to the midterms, tempers are running high, and the slightest thing can set a candidate off. Take last night’s Florida gubernatorial debate on CNN between Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Rick Scott.

During a commercial break Sink’s aide shows her something on a smartphone–a Motorola Droid. In the video, you can see Scott becoming visible upset at the sight, making some barely audible comments.

When the debate returns from commercial, CNN’s John King briefly goes over the rules for time and then throws Scott a question about the state’s 11 percent unemployment. Scott answers with the following,

First Alex, you say you always follow the rules,” he said. “The rule was no one was supposed to give us messages during the break, and your campaign did with an iPad or an iPod.

The fact that he got the device wrong should have no impact on your final vote. Right?

T-Mobile USA’s tweet pretty much says it all — the Defy is nigh — and you’ll be able to pick Motorola’s ruggedized handset come November 3rd for a penny under $100 on-contract. It’s not the fastest handset on the block, saddled as it is with both Blur and Android 2.1, but there’s nothing quite like a handset that you can stab with a pen or dunk in the drink while it’s still turned on.

Motorola Defy makes a splash on T-Mobile this November 3rd for $99 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola is definitely tossing its hat in the LTE mobile broadband ring — it just announced this plug-and-play USB-lte 7110 modem at the 4G World conference in Illinois. It’s rated for FDD-LTE Category 3, meaning the little exclamation-point-shaped dongle is theoretically capable of 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload speeds, and it’s got a pair of omni-directional MIMO antennas to help you pull down as much of that juicy, low-latency data as Motorola’s unnamed partners intend to squeeze. Just don’t be fooled by the company’s claims that this is the “first commercial 4G LTE device” — we’re pretty sure Samsung and LG have Moto beat. PR after the break.

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Motorola prepping 4G USB modem for LTE networks, doesn’t say which ones originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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