Jan 29, 2010

Steve mentioned in his iPad preso yesterday that he was pretty confident the company would have international data deals locked up by June or July of this year — but since the thing uses some wacky new micro SIM standard, carriers that intend to support it are going to need to get the new chips in stock after having used traditional SIMs for nearly twenty...

Jan 29, 2010

A few extremely lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it) CLIQ owners were blessed with a new firmware update today, it seems, before the goods were unceremoniously yanked just minutes later. Phone Scoop reports that software version 1.3.8 — which still runs Android 1.5, by the bye — was available for just 15 minutes before Motorola took it...

Jan 29, 2010

Moto appears to be continuing its long, arduous road toward recovery on news of its financial results for the fourth quarter of ’09 — or, at the very least, it’s not losing any ground. Overall, the company posted a meager profit of $142 million for the quarter on revenue of $5.723 billion, $14 million better than a quarter prior and a...

Jan 28, 2010

Earnings calls tend to be about as exciting as a stale piece of white bread, but every once in a while something juicy falls through — and morsels are filtering out of the earnings call that Motorola held this morning. Here are the biggies: We hope you like Blur, because it’s not going anywhere. CEO Sanjay Jha says that “the majority of our...

Jan 28, 2010

You could accuse Samsung’s first production Android device, the Galaxy, of many things — but you couldn’t really accuse it of being pretty. Maybe that’s about to change with the phone’s replacement, though, now that Androphones has scored a render of a device that appears to be an Android-powered Sammy that’s looking a lot...