Pick me up a six-pack of tablets, willya? | Pocketnow Weekly 166

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Update: Now with more silicon than ever.Hey, do me a favor? Next time you go on down to the Piggly Wiggly, see if they’ve got them there tablet six packs? I won’t have ’em all, I promise; I just want a couple for the road.Yep, things got a little craaaaaazy in mobile technology this week. In the midst of our comprehensive Moto X Pure Edition review and a boatload of hands-ons from CTIA in Las Vegas, we’ve seen Nextbit announce a cloud-based smartphone, Apple allow an ad blocker into the App Store, and Amazon release, yes, tablet six-packs. And on top of all ...

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The Moto X Pure Edition goes like hotcakes on Best Buy

Posted on by Jules Wang

Michael Fisher is just getting his hands off of our review for the Motorola Moto X Pure Edition (check back for our text edition), a smartphone that’s already had some tribulations in the carrier department. Fortunately, those have been solved and we’re onto focusing on consumer reception. It was just yesterday that Best Buy ...

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Lenovo “Lemon X” a last gasp before Motorola-ization?

Posted on by Jules Wang

In the face of Lenovo’s and subsidiary Motorola’s major cuts in workforce and a redoubling of the latter’s brand on the mobile division’s output, this development came without warning. Yet, we’ve come to start relying on leakers who have begun building their credibility with us. Then again, a leak is a leak, so we should all be taking the grain of salt we’ve been ...

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Good luck getting your Verizon Moto X Pure Edition activated

Posted on by Jules Wang

Perhaps that check mark needs to become a full-blown crosshatch. Verizon is one of the major US cell service providers using the CDMA standard instead of the more open and cross-compatible GSM standard. In short, it means that taking a non-Verizon phone to Verizon is more difficult than a similar case for AT&T or T-Mobile. Verizon had this problem when activating SIMs for the iPhone 6 and Nexus 6, both phones containing antennas for all four major US networks. It’s the same case for the Moto ...

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Five techies walk into IFA 2015… | Pocketnow Weekly 164

Posted on by Jules Wang

It might as well have been a bar. Or a dance club. Full of EDM, feathers and psychotic playhouses. Really, when you walk into the Messe Berlin around this time of year, you should expect and receive everything. Buzzed-about wearables from Huawei and Samsung made their ways to the fray. Sony wore its Xperia lineage with its sixth coat of paint. ZTE splashed more of its truer colors onto the newest Axon smartphone. And then the trunk of the show irreparably branches into something else.We’ll enjoy the climb as we head inside Mobilegeeks.de’s tech.lounge at IFA 2015 and join ...

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Moto X Pure Edition reaches pre-orders in the US

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Motorola hasn’t necessarily struck a home run with the Moto X over the last few years, but that’s only if you consider sales figures. The company has managed to launch some of the most iconic products of the last few years, and we continue to see that. So far our first impression of the new Moto X lineup is rather positive, and now you an get your hands on one.Motorla has just announced that pre-orders for the Moto X ...

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The gift of the Nexii | Pocketnow Weekly 160

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Update (8 Aug, 2:00pm Eastern): “Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.” – Charles DickensThe latter ain’t the case this week. Enjoy.Sometimes the news comes not in a solid column from a single direction, but as a scattershot shower-spray from every corner of the space. Today’s podcast reflects just such a week in mobile technology, with tech news as far-flung and varied as the menu items on an appetizer mixer from Applebee’s.All that (plus a larger-than-normal helping of your listener mail) is waiting for your ears on episode 160 of your ...

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Motorola has lost its way with the new Moto X models

Posted on by Joe Levi

It wasn’t that long ago when Motorola was bought and later spun off from Google. Motorola is now held by Lenovo. Thankfully for us, much of what Motorola was before the Google acquisition has survived. Motorola’s biggest strength has arguably been it’s great hardware – and its direct-to-the-customer ability to customize those phones – to an extent. However, in 2015, that’s all changed – and the 2015 Moto X makes it look like Motorola that we used to know may have lost its way.In recent years, Motorola highlighted three phones: The Moto E, Moto ...

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Moto X Play and Style are winners, except for people who buy the other one

Posted on by Adam Doud

Motorola’s highly anticipated smartphones were finally revealed last week, but it wasn’t quite what we expected. Yes, we did get the Moto X and the Moto G, but it didn’t stop there. Motorola decided to give us, not two, but three smartphones, breaking up the Moto X family into the Moto X Play and the Moto X Style. It’s enough to make you say, “wait, what?” when you take a gander at these two phones. Because after that gander, you start to see something a little distressing.I won’t rehash the specifications for you; you can read about those

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Flagship-killing phablets and Windows to a new world | Pocketnow Weekly 159

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Update: The podcast has been updated with audio from our Motorola event editorial roundtable. Enjoy!The flagship killer might’ve just gotten killed by a killer flagship! A new phablet might make former phablets obsolete! Windows Update just updated its last Windows! And your gaming tablet’s so hot it’s about to catch fire?! You can’t get much … hotter than that. Amirite?The news of the week in mobile technology is up next, from OnePlus to Windows to Motorola and beyond –plus your listener mail– on episode 159 of the Pocketnow Weekly! So say your ...

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4 reasons I’m excited about the Moto X 2015, and 1 that’s got me worried

Posted on by Joe Levi

For those of you keeping track, until a few weeks ago my daily driver was the Motorola-made Nexus 6. For the time being I’ve switched to the LG G4 with the Qi wireless charging hack Michael Fisher told you about. What you may not know is that I almost didn’t purchase my Nexus 6 – at the time I felt it was simply “too big”. At the time, the next runner up was the Moto X. I went with the Nexus, and after a week I was convinced that I’d made the right choice.But

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Motorola rumor roundup: Moto X, Moto G, and more? What to expect tomorrow

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

We have got a busy day ahead of us in the smartphone world, with major launches from two Android OEMs just hours away. OnePlus may be first on the agenda with the launch of the OnePlus 2, streaming live in VR tonight starting at 10pm EDT, but just hours later Motorola is broadcasting an announcement of its own, and while the company is keeping a tighter lid on things than OnePlus, we’re almost certainly about to see the launch of a new Moto X and new Moto G model. Come with us as we take a few minutes ...

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Moto X 2015 hardware rumors describe one hell of a big battery

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Tomorrow’s Motorola event will be here soon, and before that announcement even gets here (bright and early tomorrow morning), we’ll be stopping back in with all the rumors and leaks we’ve heard so far to bring you up to speed on  what to expect. Prior to us getting to that rumor round-up, though, we’ve got at least one more fresh entry to share with you, as some new details arrive about new Moto X hardware.Considering how many leaks have focused on the new Moto G rather than the Moto ...

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This is the 2015 Moto X with selfie flash. What about that fingerprint scanner? (Update: gold version leaked)

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

Update: A couple of pictures (renders) surfaced showing off what appears to be a gold/champagne and white color combination of the 2015 Moto X. Find it at the bottom!Motorola has a special event scheduled for July 28, and, while we know to expect an announcement, we don’t really know how many phones there will be. The more optimistic claim we’ll see the 2015 Moto X, 2015 Moto G, and a ruggedized version of the Moto X, while the skeptical believe that only the 2015 Moto G will see the light of day, judging by the low count of 2015 Moto X leaks. For the latter, we present you ...

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Smartphones just got cool again | Pocketnow Weekly 157

Posted on by Michael Fisher

Update: Warning – peaking audio levels at the beginning and end of this podcast. Enjoy!Yo dudes. This week was gnar, dudes.First we get word from Commodore that they’re (sorta) back and they’ve got a fleshtone phone to prove it. Then we hear that some kind of modern-day Iron Man is building a phone out of a material called “liquidmorphium.” Then we go hands-on with an all-metal, super-stylized ZTE phone, before hearing that Samsung’s new smartwatch is gonna have a digital crown and a rotating bezel control. And that’s not even half of ...

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