Motorola has signed an agreement with Texas Instruments for chips to power future mobile phones. Previously Motorola has relied on silicon from Freescale, a company that Motorola spun off in 2003. Motorola has been slow to get advanced 3G phones to the market and has made that task a major goal for 2007. However this […]

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T-Mobile USA has announced hitting the 25 million subscriber milestone. The carrier is still the smallest of the four nationals by a long shot, but is adding customers at a fast clip. Cingular, the nation’s largest carrier, recently announced surpassing 60 million subscribers.
T-Mobile made the customer announcement along with its Q4 2006 earnings statement. […]

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Motorola this week confirmed previous rumors and photos of a MOTORAZR maxx for Verizon by making a manual available for download from the company’s public web site. The manual confirms many of the features previously seen in pictures as well as revealing a few new aspects. The MOTORAZR maxx Ve is […]

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Cingular today launched Motorola’s V3xx, a 3G version of the popular RAZR. The V3xx is not easily distinguishable from other RAZRs, however it is notable in its own right. It is the first 3G phone for Cingular capable of 3.6 Mbps HSDPA. Previous handsets, including smartphones such as the BlackJack or […]

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The carriers and manufacturers who last year announced they would organize around mobile Linux officially announced their group today. Motorola, Samsung, NEC, Panasonic and carriers NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone are the first members of the LiMo Foundation. Last year this group announced they would work together to solidify a mobile focused […]

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Palm has launched an update for its latest Palm OS smartphone to allow the devices to Sync with Microsoft Exchange servers. Not only will it allow users to sync their Palms directly with Exchange, but it will also allow Windows Mobile Messaging and Security Feature Pack-like functionality, including direct push messaging, […]

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An update to Nokia’s E61 QWERTY smartphone cleared the FCC today. The E61i will be a quad-band GSM/EDGE phone with Wi-FI, and Bluetooth, like its predecessor. It is not know if the device will be UMTS 2100 like the E61 as well, as no mention of that band is made in […]

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Motorola’s Ron Garriques, president of mobile devices, recently gave anxious investors a sneak peek at the company’s upcoming handsets. The presentation has been posted online [PDF]. Look for these announcements soon.
As expected, many of Motorola’s upcoming announcements will be 3G handsets. The phones revealed in Garriques’ presentation are 3G versions of previously announced handsets:

KRZR K3 […]

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The FCC has approved what looks to be a lower-end T-Mobile Sidekick (Sidekick Lite?). The Sidekick is technically produced by Danger and is called the HipTop, T-Mobile owns the Sidekick brand. The FCC filing doesn’t reveal if this is a T-Mobile device or not. There is a confidentiality request in place so not much is […]

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AT&T’s Cingular division posted record profits for the fourth quarter of 2006. Though investors have responded positively, analysis of AT&T’s release shows that Cingular’s post-paid growth has slowed quarter-over-quarter. Counting pre-paid and MVNO customers the numbers look a lot better and actually broke records.
AT&T executives are very excited about the iPhone and remain optimistic […]

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