RETROMOTO: a look back at Motorola’s golden oldies

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As we prepare to say goodbye to the “Google-ified” Motorola we’d only just gotten to know, it bears remembering that the brand hasn’t been issued a death warrant. Motorola under Lenovo may well flourish, after all, so it’s premature to start planning the funeral. Still, two ownership changes in two years is a lot for any company, and from the inevitable brain drain of personnel losses to the unpredictable nature ...

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Pocketnow Throwback Review: Motorola i930 (Video)

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At the halfway mark of the last decade, the Motorola i930 was a beast. It packed a 180MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, a VGA camera, and Windows Mobile 2003 into a 167g casing more than 30mm thick. It was a hard-core, ruggedized device built at a time when rugged feature phones still commanded a premium, and durable smartphones were practically unheard-of. It also packed the fastest walkie-talkie in the industry, and a carrier label that, at the time of the phone’s release in 2005, was among the most-respected brands in the United States:

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