Google cut more jobs at Motorola Mobility

Google to cut even more jobs at Motorola Mobility. Google continues the plan to bring its newly acquired Motorola Mobility back to profitability by optimizing the way the company operates. Unfortunately, for the Motorola employees, who still haven't been given the boot, Google plans to continue with the job cuts.

Budget Google will have to set aside for severance packages will also increase. In fact, it'll go up to $300 million from the $275 million the company initially planned it'd need.And The search giant will spend another $90 million on closing down Motorola facilities and exiting non-profitable markets.

[Android] 4.0 update for RAZR and RAZR MAXX

A useful news for android pennguna remedy the next few days. Therefore, this news certainly is in waiting.

Many users of DROID DROID RAZR and RAZR maxx, out there who have been waiting patiently for Motorola and Verizon have made Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is the official phone for the update.

Android 4.0 update for RAZR and RAZR MAXX. Motorola began granting new changes that will be taken by the Android 4.0 update for this phone. 've Seen this before but now it's text and the video was in Japanese, while this is in English and intended for U.S. audiences. Android 4.0 update does not actually driven out right now but hopefully in the next few days.

[Android] 4.0 update for RAZR and RAZR MAXX

Motorola RAZR V XT889 for China

Coming from motorola china. Front side of a thin, long and at the top and bottom with a 4.3-inch [a unit the same as the RAZR]. As well as a physical button on the front because the RAZR V XT889 runs on Android 4.0 and also use the buttons on the screen such as Nexus Galaxy.

well this is Motorola, which is now Motorola has announced a new version of the RAZR specifically for the Chinese market. This version is called V XT998 RAZR and has a completely new design than the current RAZR.

Motorola Below is identical to the RAZR mobile phone operations, except for connectivity CDMA / GSM dual-mode. On the back is the layers of Kevlar that curves upward near the top where the location of the sensor 8 megapixel camera with LED flash and the loudspeaker.

ICS-powered Motorola DROID Fighter leaks

ICS-powered Motorola DROID Fighter leaks

We aloof got a glimpse of the abutting affiliate of the Motorola Android lineup. Codenamed DROID Fighter, the yet unannounced smartphone appeared in a alive photo, alongside its Droid RAZR sibling.

There's not abundant in agreement of specs of the Verizon-bound smartphone that we apperceive at this point, but the absence of any concrete buttons at the advanced of the accessory (touch-sensitive or regular) acutely credibility to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich active underneath.

According to the antecedent of the leak, the Motorola DROID Fighter will appear with a 4.6" HD awning and a array about the admeasurement of the assemblage central the DROID RAZR Maxx. Yeap, that's 3300 mAh account of juice, which should accumulate the Fighter activity for absolutely a while.

The barrage of the Motorola DROID Fighter is accounted to appear in April so we should acquisition out added about the smartphone absolutely soon.

Motorola Realese stylish MOTOLUXE and rugged DEFY MINI

Motorola Realese stylish MOTOLUXE and rugged DEFY MINI. Motorola fabricated its aboriginal two announcements for 2012, actualization the beautiful MOTOLUXE and the asperous DEFY MINI smartphones. The two mid-range handsets run Android Gingerbread aim to bear solid smartphone acquaintance after breaking the bank.

Actually, we've already met the Motorola MOTOLUXE, which has been accessible in China for some time now, beneath the name XT615. Coming with a 4" LCD of FWVGA resolution (854 x 480 pixels) and an 800 MHz Scorpion CPU, this one will hardly top any criterion leaderboards, but its Snapdragon chipset should acquiesce it to run all advantageous applications easily.

Motorola MOTOLUXE XT615

Connectivity is accurately covered actuality with 7.2Mbps HSDPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB and a 3.5mm audio jack. For the multimedia fans, the Motoroal MOTOLUXE offers an 8 megapixel camera and DivX support. The onboard accumulator is aloof 512MB, but we accept there's a microSD agenda aperture for accretion it (though Motorola hasn't mentioned it explicitly).

Motorola XT615 MOTOLUXE is accepted to appear to Europe and Latin America starting in February, but there's no advice about its appraisement aloof yet.

The added fresh Motorola smartphone is alleged Motorola DEFY MINI and, as the name advance is a added bunched adaptation of the accepted Motorola DEFY. It comes with a 3.2" HVGA display, sitting beneath a area of Gorilla Glass and offers baptize and dust resistance.

Motorola DEFY MINI XT320

The Motorola DEFY MINI is powered by a 600 MHz CPU and has 512MB of RAM. It offers a abundantly geared connectivity apartment - dual-band 3G with HSDPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS and a 3.5mm audio jack. Camera enthusiasts apparently won't accept abundant to adulation about the DEFY MINI as it offers a bashful 3 megapixel capital snapper and an unimpressive VGA front-facing camera.

Angry Moto locked bootloaders

iD-Gadget Today's --> Unlocked bootloaders are a hot affair in the Android association and Motorola is yet addition aggregation to appear beneath abundant blaze from admirers who absolutely like the abandon to do with their phones as they please.

         It's not the aboriginal and it apparently won't be the aftermost aggregation (ASUS appear that it will be unlocking the bootloader on the Transformer Prime). What seems to authoritative users decidedly cantankerous with Motorola is that in aboriginal 2011 Moto promised to alleviate the bootloaders of its smartphones and while it did alleviate a few larboard the majority locked.

        A appointment cilia over at XDA-Developers has started Operaition: Make Ourselves Heard (a.k.a. #OPMOSH), which calls for a aggression on all accessible channels - FCC complaints, emails to Motorola Mobility's leaders, Twitter and Facebook and an online address too.

Angry Moto owners start a petition over locked bootloaders

Such organized outcries by the users accept had an aftereffect absolutely often, but again not all succeed.

Motorola DROID 4 hands-on images leak

            iD-Gadget Today's --> Motorola DROID This is not the aboriginal time we're seeing the Motorola DROID 4, which has been a continued time coming. Aboriginal it leaked through some hands-on images and again we saw an official columnist angel leak. Today we accept article different; hands-on pictures of a copy assemblage of the smartphone.

 
          These copy units are the aforementioned ones you acquisition in food and congenital to calibration and move and behave aloof like the absolute thing, except you can't absolutely use it.

          With the copy unit, TechnoBuffalo noticed that the accessory has a soft-touch artificial surface. The keyboard on the DROID 4 is beyond than the one on its predecessors and was begin to be a lot added comfortable. As for the blow of the design, we already knew that the DROID 4 had a hardly blubbery RAZR attending to it.

Motorola RAZR gets a new firmware update

Motorola RAZR users in European countries can attending advanced to an over-the-air firmware amend for their accessories soon. The fresh firmware will amend thecomputer application from adaptation 651.73.15/16/17/18 to adaptation 651.73.30.

The account of changes in the fresh firmware include:

1. Pre-installed Evernote application
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3. Camera achievement improvements
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5. New Smart Rule trigger: Motion detection
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7. Added aegis features
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9. Improved alarm and Bluetooth connectivity performance
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11. Localization improvements
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13. Improved Wi-Fi connectivity

The amend will be fabricated accessible in the afterward countries for now: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, SFR, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, T-Mobile Germany and the UK.

Motorola wins injunction Apple in Germany

Motorola wins injunction against Apple in Germany,
Apple has been accepting a lot of acknowledged headaches afresh and now there's a fresh one. Now, it's Motorola that's causing the Cupertino-based aggregation agitation as it won a basic admonition adjoin several Apple articles in Germany. It's not the aboriginal time either.

Anyway, today's admonition affects about all Apple accessories with GPRS connectivity - the iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, iPad 3G and iPad 3GS accept been named, but the 4S is anarchic on Motorola's apparent as able-bodied (it came out afterwards the clothing was filed so it's not mentioned explicitly).

Motorola hasn’t won the case yet, but if they accept they can accomplish that admonition in Germany. To do that, they charge to accommodate a €100 actor bond. That's a accident for the aggregation that alone afresh chock-full its abatement - if they end up accident the suit, the money will accept to be paid out to Apple. Also, Apple ability address this accommodation and win a break of the injunction.

It's adamantine to say how things will go. Motorola's apparent is apparently basic for GPRS and Apple can't do after it. Motorola ability be affected to action a authorization to Apple, but for now Moto's attorneys accept managed to abstain that, at atomic until Apple pays for accomplished amercement (starting from 2007).

Apple doesn’t appetite to pay for accomplished amercement - that can about-face out to be rather pricy - and is gluttonous to invalidate Motorola's apparent and break its botheration (in this accurate case) outright.

A additional audition is appointed for February, we'll see how things advance then. By the way, Apple is sued for that exact aforementioned apparent in the US, too, but things assume to be activity more good for the iPhone maker there (that case hasn’t been bound yet, either).

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