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Motorola takes another shot at the iPhone 4, says Droid X is ‘no jacket required’

Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Well this is getting good. Motorola was one of the first to take a subtle swipe at Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna dilemma with an ad saying you could hold the Droid X “any way you like,” Apple came right back with a video purportedly showing the Droid X suf…

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Android 2.2 upgrade for Droid X may already be trickling out, other Droids shortly?

Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

We’ve already gathered that Verizon, Moto, and HTC all seem to be pretty well committed to bumping most of their Droid models to Froyo (as well they should), but things are starting to get real — really real. First off, we’ve been fed a shot of a tip…

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Apple keeps antennagate alive with Droid X’s ‘kill switch’ (video)

Posted on 23. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

We had a feeling Apple wasn’t done showing off the apparent reception woes of its competitors — after all, the company already updated once this week with the Nokia N97 mini. Now it’s going after Motorola’s celebrity of the moment (and known iPhone 4…

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Droid X can now be counted among the rooted (update: video!)

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

It’s recently come to our attention that Birdman over at the AllDroid.org forums has rooted the Droid X. By all accounts (which, at the time of this writing, consists of two forum posts that exclaim “it works!”) things are going beautifully, so what d…

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Droid X users gobbling up 5x the data of other Verizon smartphones

Posted on 22. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Been wondering why Verizon would seek to curb its unlimited data plans with bogus restrictions? Wonder no more. Jennifer Byrne, a business development executive director at Big Red, has shared with us the shocking stat that early data usage from Droid…

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Droid 2 and Android 2.2 fated to be together from the start, according to latest leaks

Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

You know, some people get married with less information about their partner than we already have about the Droid 2. Today, we have a pair of independent leaks seemingly confirming that the second coming of Moto’s QWERTY-sportin’ Doer will be running A…

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Verizon confirms Droid X screen issues, but says they’re not widespread

Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

We just got word back from Verizon regarding those flickering Droid X screens, and sure enough, the ghastly images are not a side effect of your assimilation into the Droid collective. Verizon and Motorola have owned up to a genuine problem with a smal…

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Some Droid X handsets have defective screens? (video)

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

All’s not well in Creepy Red Eye land, if reports out of several cell phone forums can be believed — a number of early Droid X adopters are documenting serious graphical or possibly electrical problems with the handset’s giant screen. While we don’t k…

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Droid 2 being prepared for launch, set to arrive August 23rd?

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

The Droid 2′s been leaking out all over the place in the past few weeks, but it looks like it’ll be another month before it officially hits shelves — we just got these shots from a packaging facility that’s handling the phone, which puts it right…

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Motorola mini Droid slider caught by Mr. Blurrycam

Posted on 19. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Okay, this one’s a complete and very welcome surprise — some extremely blurry pictures and a quick video of what appears to be a smaller Motorola portrait QWERTY Android slider for Verizon just popped up on the Chinese Hiapk forums — and yes, it’s g…

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First official Droid 2 pictures spotted in teaser site code?

Posted on 18. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Astute reader Dominic was just minding his business, hunting for hints in the Droid Does website source code, when what should he allegedly discover but an entire Droid 2 spread inside a Shockwave Flash file. To our knowledge these may be the first of…

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Droid X sold out online and scarce at retail

Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Verizon told CNET the company had “done everything possible” to ensure adequate supply of the Droid X, but there’s apparently no anticipating the demand for a top-tier smartphone — like the Droid Incredible before it, the giant 1GHz Motorola handset …

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HTC fires back at Apple antenna demo with percentage pew-pew

Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Apple’s Friday press conference may have left a bad taste in some rival handset manufacturer’s mouths, but not all of them are taking Cupertino’s derision of their devices seriously — HTC’s Droid Eris was arguably the most affected by the grip of doo…

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Motorola responds to Droid X bootloader controversy, says eFuse isn’t there to break the phone

Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

There’s been a lot of chatter going around the interwebs in the past 24 hours about the Droid X’s exceptionally well-locked bootloader — a situation that is going to make running custom ROMs considerably more difficult (bordering on impossible) compared to your average HTC. Specifically, the culprit is said to be a technology known as eFuse — developed by IBM several years ago — which allows circuits to be physically altered at the silicon level on demand. Thing is, the term “eFuse” has taken on an unrelated meaning this week, with My Droid World claiming that some chip inside the Droid X is commanded to “blow the fuse” if it’s unable to verify the stock bootloader, which permanently bricks the phone. It amounts to a really, really hard slap on the wrist for anyone trying to hack, say, Sense or stock Froyo onto it.

Considering IBM’s historically non-nefarious usage of the term “eFuse,” we suspected something was amiss here, so we reached out to Motorola for an explanation. Read on to see what we got back.

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Apple and HTC lead charge as smartphone market looks set to grow and grow

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

A recent survey of 4,028 US consumers by ChangeWave has thrown up a number of illuminating statistics, which you might consider as predictable as they are informative. The chief takeaway is that people are keen on buying smartphones like never before,…

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Droid X available to buy now

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Yes, the Droid X has joined the Kin… in being available to buy on Verizon’s online Wireless store. No shock or awe here, it’s a cent under two Benjamins with a two-year deal and you can give it the shopping basket treatment right now. Either that or…

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Motorola Droid X gets cinematic ‘See You Tomorrow’ trailer (video)

Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by IBM. 

Yeah, we said trailer. The Droid family has seen its fair share of atypical ads, and while this one won’t tug on your heartstrings, it’ll definitely captivate. Unless you’re already three sheets to the wind and well on your way into an early weekend. …

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