| Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx HD hands-on: bigger battery, beautiful display, Jelly Bean onboard Sep 5th 2012, 19:09  Every family has a big brother and in Motorola's case, it's the Droid RAZR Maxx HD. The device, bearing a 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 Super AMOLED HD display and running Android Jelly Bean out of the box, just went official at the company's event today in New York City. And to help with the bombast, HelloMoto! trotted out Google's Eric Schmidt, giving these three Verizon RAZR amigos a hearty welcome. Under the hood, the handset sports a dual-core 1.5GHz S4 CPU, an 8-megapixel camera on back and, last but not least, the star of this show: a 3,300mAh battery. We spent some time with this Kevlar-coated phone, so follow along as we deliver our first impressions. Developing... Continue reading Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx HD hands-on: bigger battery, beautiful display, Jelly Bean onboard Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx HD hands-on: bigger battery, beautiful display, Jelly Bean onboard originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Motorola Droid RAZR M hands-on (video) Sep 5th 2012, 19:09  Motorola just took the wraps of the Droid RAZR M and, we've gotta say, the slender handset is quite the looker. The 8mm thick body is plastic and kevlar, just like its titular predecessor, but it adds some nice visual flourishes of its own, including rivets around the rim of the device. Despite its diminutive size it has a nice heft in the hand, though we wouldn't say it's built like a tank. Over all, the device is frighteningly similar to the Droid RAZR, right down to the lock/power key with its concentric circle pattern. Also carried over from the OG Droid RAZR is the screen. That means we are looking at a qHD Super AMOLED Advanced display, rather than some fancy HD panel and still saddled with a pentile pixel layout. It also, as we harped on in the live blog, means that Android has been slathered in Motorola's own skin. Though, we'll give credit to the new Google subsidiary for scaling back on the glitz and glam and letting Ice Cream Sandwich shine through a bit. Continue reading Motorola Droid RAZR M hands-on (video) Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile Motorola Droid RAZR M hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Motorola Droid RAZR HD hands-on: a 720p Android ICS update with 2,500mAh battery life Sep 5th 2012, 18:57  The curtains have finally been pulled back on Motorola's Droid RAZR HD, revealing little in the way of surprise. Abysmal attempts at secrecy aside, the Verizon-bound handset pushes the line forward with an incrementally larger 4.7-inch screen, 720p display, dual-core 1.5GHz S4 CPU and, most importantly, a 2,500mAh battery to temper LTE's juice-sapping ways. So does this less-than-wafer-thin device live up to its predecessor's legacy? Follow along after the break as we deliver our first impressions. Continue reading Motorola Droid RAZR HD hands-on: a 720p Android ICS update with 2,500mAh battery life Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile Motorola Droid RAZR HD hands-on: a 720p Android ICS update with 2,500mAh battery life originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Motorola announces Droid RAZR Maxx HD Sep 5th 2012, 18:32  Well, we weren't expecting it at today's Motorola event, but Motorola just outed a Maxx version of the Droid RAZR HD. Like its svelter sibling, the HD Maxx has a 4.7-inch Super AMOLED HD screen, 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, LTE, and an 8-megapixel shooter, but it upgrades the onboard storage to 32GB. And the main event with any RAZR Maxx is, of course, an upgraded 3,300mAh battery that promises up to 21 hours of talk time, 13 hours of video playback or eight hours of web browsing on LTE. Naturally, a price has to be paid for such longevous life, but at 67.9mm wide, 131.9 mm long and a mere 9.3mm thin -- less than 1mm thicker than the standard HD -- it's a relatively small one. Naturally, we don't know how much this beast will cost, but Motorola's telling us it'll be available for this holiday season. Folks looking to dig into the details even further can find them in the PR after the break and at the source below. Continue reading Motorola announces Droid RAZR Maxx HD Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile Motorola announces Droid RAZR Maxx HD originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  Motorola | Email this | Comments | | Motorola RAZR M official: 4.3-inch qHD display, 1.5GHz dual-core, hitting Verizon for $99 Sep 5th 2012, 18:30  Gosh, it feels like we're written this post already, huh? That's because we have. That handset you see up there is the Motorola RAZR M 4G LTE, which we've already seen in leaked photos. Well, Motorola just officially announced the phone and -- surprise, surprise -- there are no surprises. As we reported last week, the device has a 4.3-inch qHD (960 x 540) Super AMOLED Advanced display coated in Gorilla Glass. (The rear side is fashioned out of the same Kevlar you'll find on the Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx.) As you can see, the phone has nearly edge-to-edge glass with narrow bezels, which brings us to one of the phone's key selling points: it offers a good deal of screen real estate for a phone with such petite dimensions. Under the hood it packs a dual-core Qualcomm MSM8960 Snaddragon S4 processor coupled with 1GB of RAM. The handset also boasts an 8-megapixel rear camera capable of recording 1080p video, a 0.3-megapixel front-facing shooter, GSM / UMTS / HSPA+ global roaming and 8GB of internal storage, along with a microSD slot. Additionally, the phone has an NFC radio and will ship with Android 4.0. And while the other two Moto phones announced today are coming this holiday season, this guy is landing on Verizon Wireless next week for $99, though it's up for pre-order today. Continue reading Motorola RAZR M official: 4.3-inch qHD display, 1.5GHz dual-core, hitting Verizon for $99 Filed under: Cellphones Motorola RAZR M official: 4.3-inch qHD display, 1.5GHz dual-core, hitting Verizon for $99 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Motorola aiming to upgrade all possible devices to Jelly Bean, promises to give you $100 credit if it can't Sep 5th 2012, 18:26  At today's keynote, Motorola head Dennis Woodside has pledged that the company will attempt to upgrade all of its new and existing Android handsets to Jelly Bean "very soon." However, for some units, the latest version of Google's mobile OS is going to be too "compromised" to use properly. In that event, it's pledging to give you $100 credit off one of its brand new handsets, which are being unveiled today. It's not given details about how you go about claiming that credit, or when the program begins, but as soon as we're told, we'll let you know. Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile Motorola aiming to upgrade all possible devices to Jelly Bean, promises to give you $100 credit if it can't originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Motorola Droid RAZR HD unveiled: 4.7-inch 720p display, ICS, dual-core S4 for Verizon (video) Sep 5th 2012, 18:26  It's been a day of big smartphone reveals, but Motorola's not one to let the glory shine too long upon rivals. At its press event today in New York City, the Google-owned manufacturer gave the public its first official look at the Droid RAZR HD. Unless you've been living off the grid, it's hard to find much about this announcement fresh and / or exciting, as specs, photos, tutorials, FCC docs and even sample pics have been leaking since the start of April. Surprise already blown, the handset falls in line with previous reports, running a lightly-skinned version of Android 4.0.4 (upgradeable to Jelly Bean) and bearing a 4.7-inch 720p display, dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5GHz, 8-megapixel rear camera, NFC, as well as a massive 2,500mAh battery. So, what's changed in this RAZR refresh? Well, the phone's back may still be Kevlar-coated (in this case, it's pretty much fully wrapped), but a few cosmetic differences have been made to the Droid RAZR HD's body. For starters, its front face almost spans from edge to edge, with just a little bit of bezel surrounding that display. Dimensions-wise, it's 131.9mm tall, 67.9 mm wide and still pretty thin at 8.4mm. It's definitely a coup for design-focused consumers that prefer to have their devices appear as a sea of seamless black glass. While it'll be hanging out on Verizon's 4G network, we're still waiting on pricing -- but we're promised that it will arrive "before the holidays." Mat Smith contributed to this report. Continue reading Motorola Droid RAZR HD unveiled: 4.7-inch 720p display, ICS, dual-core S4 for Verizon (video) Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile Motorola Droid RAZR HD unveiled: 4.7-inch 720p display, ICS, dual-core S4 for Verizon (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Google's Eric Schmidt: 1.3 million Android activations a day, 480 million devices worldwide Sep 5th 2012, 18:15  Kicking off the Motorola event in NYC, Google's Eric Schmidt has revealed some new Android figures for its captive audience of journalists and bloggers. It's now notching up some 1.3 million activations a day, which includes around 70,000 tablets ("We were late to them", notes Schmidt) every 24 hours. In total, that makes for just shy of 500 million Google-powered mobile devices around the globe -- 80 million in just over two months. Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Software, Mobile Google's Eric Schmidt: 1.3 million Android activations a day, 480 million devices worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Apple denies giving FBI any iOS device UDIDs, raises questions over AntiSec claims Sep 5th 2012, 18:03  Hacking group AntiSec (connected to Anonymous and LulzSec) made some bold claims Tuesday that it had obtained the unique device identifiers (UDIDs) of 12 million iOS devices from an FBI laptop, setting more than a few people on edge. The FBI has already denied that anything was stolen, but Apple has gone one step further to argue that it had no involvement. Spokeswoman Natalie Kerris tells AllThingsD that Apple hasn't given UDIDs to the FBI "or any organization" -- suggesting that either AntiSec or the FBI isn't telling the whole story of what data emerged and where. Even if there are real UDIDs floating around, Kerris adds that they don't necessarily pose much danger. She notes that programming hooks in iOS 6 will provide an alternative to UDID for device-specific data, and that apps will eventually be forbidden from using the older identifiers altogether. While the truth in the situation is hard to pin down, the technical reality doesn't leave much risk that our iPads and iPhones will be compromised. At least, not after this month. Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, Internet, Mobile Apple denies giving FBI any iOS device UDIDs, raises questions over AntiSec claims originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | AllThingsD | Email this | Comments | | Source: Barnes & Noble prepping Nook Tablet followup with 'incredible display' for fall release Sep 5th 2012, 17:53  This week may belong to Amazon and whatever information the mega-retailer decides to drop on our heads tomorrow at its press conference in Santa Monica, but Barnes & Noble's apparently won't be letting the Kindle maker hog the spotlight for too long. We've been tipped off from a reliable source that there is, in fact, a successor to the Nook Tablet heading our way this fall. The device is said to be "super light," while packing an "incredible display," rocking 243 ppi. Industrial design on the apparently forthcoming tablet will be handled by Barnes and Noble favorite, Robert Brunner of Ammunition, who's already got some Nook design under his belt. All of this is said to coincide with a brand new video store from the company, in an attempt, no doubt, to take advantage of the aforementioned "incredible display." That's about all we've got for the moment, but we're told more information will be forthcoming from more official channels soon. Source: Barnes & Noble prepping Nook Tablet followup with 'incredible display' for fall release originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | |
