When a company’s brand, based on a alphanumeric character, becomes too old, it can replace it with another one. After all, there are 35 other options to choose from.So, as the Moto X moniker comes out of its third product cycle, we’re learning from VentureBeat’s Evan Blass that this year’s flagship smartphones from Lenovo subsidiary Motorola may primarily be branded as the “Moto Z”.In relation to ...
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Fasten your seatbelts — this X-wing has taken off.HellomotoHK has put up three new renders — possibly polished enough for the media — of what may be this year’s Moto X and this year’s major DROID phone exclusive to Verizon, likely to be the DROID Turbo 3.
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After listing Steve Jobs among the 100 most influential people in the American world five times, and then Tim Cook thrice, including this year, news magazine Time just bestowed the ultimate honor upon the trend-setting, history-changing and money-making juggernaut that is Apple.Credited for ushering in a “new era of flat, touchscreen phones with buttons that appeared on screen as you needed them”, the iPhone has been named the most influential gadget of all time. It wasn’t the world’s ...
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One of the best things Verizon wireless ever did was acquiring the rights to use the word “Droid” to differentiate its phones powered by the Android operating system from those available from other carriers. Not every Android-powered phone offered by Verizon has carried the Droid moniker. Some of us think this is because the Droid name implies higher-end devices. In the case of the Droid Maxx 2, that’s absolutely the case, and from what we’ve seen, it’s worthy of the name.When asked about the naming of the Droid Maxx 2, Rick Osterloh, Motorola’s CEO ...
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It used to be that Verizon’s “Maxx” variant has always been the top of the line Droid, with the added bonus of a battery that could barely fit in the chassis, and we’ve praised Motorola and Verizon for achieving this over the last few years. In today’s Verizon event, Motorola announced the new Droid Maxx 2, but the approach to this device is actually a different one. If you thought this would be the Moto X Play for the United States, you’re kind of right, but not entirely.Rick Osterloh, ...
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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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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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Earlier today Verizon, the biggest mobile service provider in the United States, announced three new smartphones from Google/Motorola under the Droid brand: the Droid Mini, Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx. The latter of which promises to bring massive battery life. Sure, sure, it’s got a 10-megapixel, 1080P-capable camera, a 5-inch screen, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, a 1.7 dual-core CPU running quad-core graphics, wireless charging, and is topped off with LTE. What ...
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I remember a couple of years ago when Brandon told me we were hiring somebody to focus on Android, whom we’re lucky to still have with us today and you all know and love – Mr. Joe Levi. Android was so small back then, that I remember acknowledging the need to consider it, but still questioning if it was going to grow enough to justify the expansion. Back then Android was the underdog, and the world was full of Palm Treos, Windows Mobile smartphones, a couple of iPhones here and there, and both Nokia and BlackBerry shared the top of the food chain. We’ve always questioned ...
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“Hey, is that the new Galaxy?” No, it’s a Android-powered Galaxy Nexus. “Yeah? I love Droids!” Those are from Verizon, and they’re primarily made my Motorola, this one’s on T-Mobile and made by Samsung. “Oh! So it is a Galaxy!” – #FACEPALM - ARGH! Face it, you’re either on the frustrated side of that conversation, or you’re the one doing the frustrating. But it’s not your fault: Android-powered smartphones and tablets are suffering from an identity crisis. I love that Android is as successful as it is! We have ...