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Motorola MOTOACTV: A capital (letter) experience for fitness geeks

Motorola’s MOTOACTV is geek fitness chic. It’s a utilitarian square piece of metal and plastic, a low-powered ARM processor and 8GB of storage; some sensors and an accelerometer; a pair of headphones and some cloud sync capabilities. It’s not going to change your life unless you let it, and just like every fitness utility, you [...]

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Telus MOTOKEY SOCIAL Review

The prepaid market is one that we don’t really broach too often, but it’s an essential component of everyday life for millions of Canadians. While the penetration rate for smartphones is nearly 40%, it’s still much more common to see someone with a cheap flip phone or aging candybar walking down the street. Smartphones are [...]

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Revisited: the Motorola Atrix

It’s been nearly a year since the Motorola Atrix was announced at CES, and ten months since it was released in Canada. At the time it was running Motoblur on top of Android 2.2 Froyo, and while the hardware blew us away, the software definitely did not. Since then, three things have happened: 1) It [...]

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Update: Motorola Atrix 2 gets leaked, could be Canada bound

Update: According to their sources, the Atrix 2 will not be LTE-capable despite previous hints as to the otherwise. Sorry for the confusion! We know that Rogers and Bell are in the process of rolling out Canada-wide LTE networks to satiate the millions of data-hungry mobile users across the nation. We also know that Rogers [...]

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Is this a Droid RAZR? Motorola looks to combine iconic brands

The RAZR. It evokes memories of a simpler time. When phones were mostly dumb, mostly fat and mostly, well, ugly, the RAZR came along and convinced us it was the hit of the party. And for Motorola, it meant a comeback, both financial and cultural, that has only since been surpassed by the iPhone. So [...]

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Motorola to change bootloader policy, release software update later this year

Motorola Mobility has been going through a sort of self-induced rebirth of late. Only a week after stating they would drop the Motoblur branding that has been doing more harm than good to their weakening public image, they may be ready to change their contentious stance on secured bootloaders. While a select view devices have [...]

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Motorola splitting into two companies January 4th (Mobility & Solutions)

Effective January 4th, 2011 Motorola will officially split into 2 separate businesses: Motorola Mobility & Motorola Solutions. According to Motorola Canada website, the official descriptions of both businesses are: Motorola Mobility focuses on cellphones and set-top-box “delivers personalised information to meet the needs of consumers both in the home and on the go” while Motorola [...]

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Motorola to offer 200 TELUS Backflip owners “early software release”, unfortunately not Android 2.1

For all the TELUS Motorola Backflip owners out there who are waiting for the next upgrade, it’s coming soon. Kinda. Motorola has posted a note on their support forum that this coming Monday 200 lucky Canadians will be fortunate enough to get the latest release before it’s officially made public. The upgrade will not be [...]

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Video: Rogers Motorola Flipout Hardware Review

Rogers released the Android-powered Motorola Flipout a few days ago. I got my hands on and in this first review I took a look into the hardware. The main reason was to test out the hinge on the Flipout. You’ll see that it’s a very compact device, everything it put into 67 x 67 x [...]

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Motorola Flipout destined for Rogers, launching next week

Ready for another Android device to hit Rogers? How about a back-to-school special called the Motorola “Flipout”. This has OS version 2.1, MOTOBLUR, a 2.8-inch QWERTY and a 3 megapixel camera with video capabilities. The dummy devices have made their way to Rogers locations and as you can see on the home screen  it’s representing [...]