Today the Motorola VE440 became available for sale from MetroPCS. This monoblock-style phone is billed by Motorola as a music phone and has dedicated music keys, a 3.5mm headset jack, stereo Bluetooth, and support for microSD cards up to 8GB. The VE440 is a tri-band 800/1700/1900 CDMA device that is limited to 1x data but [...]

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Today at the Mobilize Conference, Motorola and T-Mobile announced the Motorola Cliq, a new Android handset. They call it “the first phone with social skills.” It is a touch-based handset that has Motorola’s new MOTOBLUR service on board. The Cliq is a sideways slider that has a full QWERTY keyboard and 3.1-inch HVGA touch-screen display. [...]

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Verizon looks set to offer a new Android handset from Motorola sometime in Q4 later this year, but it remains to be seen whether it will be the Motorola Calgary or not as seen in the image above. Word on the street has it that the Android-powered phone will come with a full QWERTY keyboard, [...]

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Motorola announced the iDEN Clutch i465 on May 1st. Now Sprint announces to carry the Motorola Clutch i465.
The Motorola Clutch i465 is a rugged device in a slender candy bar form factor, and the first Nextel Direct Connect messaging-centric device that brings the strength of a full QWERTY keyboard to the iDEN line. Motorola Clutch [...]

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If you follow mobile concept designs, you might remember a rather interesting concept for a new Moto phone by Kelly Bremer. If you don’t, that’s the phone in the photo above, the Motorola Nest, a back-to-back touchscreen phone with an elegant but odd design.

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Thanks to a leaked AT&T rebate sheet, we now have the confirmation that the largest North American GSM carrier will release the following phones: Motorola QA1 Karma, Sony Ericsson C905a and Samsung Jack i637.
Appeared over at BGR, the rebate sheet doesn’t disclose the exact release dates of said phones, but we know they should come to AT&T between May [...]

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Today Motorola introduced a new iDEN phone, the full-QWERTY equipped i465 Clutch. The Clutch is semi-ruggedized and offers PTT, threaded SMS and MMS messaging, as well as POP3 email support. It has Bluetooth 1.2, VGA camera with video capture, and uses microUSB for charging and data transfer. The Clutch will become available during the second [...]

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Troubled Motorola has more bad news for industry analysts as its first quarter results don’t look too rosy. The manufacturer fell just short of its goal of $5.62 billion in sales with sales of $5.4 billion. Motorola’s handset division accounted for $1.8 billion of that figure with 14.7 million handsets having been shipped, which gives [...]

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The Motorola A4500 for Verizon has been revealed in documents on the FCC web site. This slab-style smartphone is similar to the Q9m/Q9c, but with numerous upgrades, including quad-band GSM world roaming, Wi-Fi, fingerprint scanner, and a 2-megapixel camera. Features in common with the Q9m/Q9c include EVDO data, stereo Bluetooth, memory card slot, voice command, [...]

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David Beckham is to feature in a new global ad campaign for Motorola inspired by 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Terminator.
The campaign, to launch the new Aura phone, breaks internationally from the end of April.

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Alltel Wireless on Thursday announced it is now offering the new Motorola Evoke QA4 touchscreen handset that was released and tested at the recent CTIA Wireless show. The slider handset has a 2.8-inch capacitive touch display that hides a 12-button keypad and is a first for Motorola. The phone also has a 2-megapixel camera and [...]

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Matt Richtel of the NYTimes notes that Motorola’s Co-CEO Sanjay K. Jha was paid $104 million dollars last year, putting him at the highest end of of salaries for the 200 largest public companies that filed proxies by March 27th.
Wikipedia reveals that Jha worked at Qualcomm, where he helped develop satellite phones, among other projects.

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“I’m not sure Moto should compete with the Apple iPhone at this point in time, but looking at the home screen of the Motorola Evoke QA4, it’s undeniable they want to take a piece of the iPhone market share, specifically that segment that needs navigation features on their phone. The Motorola Evoke QA4 has a [...]

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Documents seen on the FCC site provide details about an unannounced Motorola phone. The QA4 is a slider that also features a touch screen for user input. It has tri-band 850/1700/1900 MHz CDMA radios, including EVDO, aGPS and stereo Bluetooth. A camera of unknown quality is visible in the pictures of the QA4, and the [...]

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Today Motorola announced the latest addition to it highly rugged roster of enterprise digital assistants, the MC55. This smartphone runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and has quad-band GSM/EDGE, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios on board. Other features include a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus, 1D/2D scanners, and 3.5-inch touch screen. One version of the MC55 (MC5574) has [...]

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