Beleaguered handset maker Motorola on Thursday had some good news to offer investors, reporting a small profit for the third quarter. For the three months ended October 3, Motorola reported net income of $12 million, or a penny per share, compared with a loss of $397 million (and a loss of 18 cents per share) …

First it gave you new service plans, and now T-Mobile offers a new cell phone. We first saw a variant of the Sony Ericsson Equinox, aka the T717, at the CTIA show last April. Like its T707 sibling the Equinox has a thin design with a glossy skin, a hidden external display, and a circle design on its front face. …

Josh Miller/CNET While we’re sure there are more accessories to come, two add-ons that will be readily available when the Motorola Droid launches on November 6 are the Multimedia Station and Phone Holder for Droid. Verizon announced their official pricing on Thursday with each device costing $29.99. The multimedia dock turns the Droid into a hub where you can easily …

Motorola Droid hands-on photos +2 more See all photos NEW YORK–Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to get their hands on the much anticipated Google Android phone called the Droid. The companies officially unveiled the device at an event here. Like most smartphones of its class, the phone will cost $199 with a two-year contract. And it will be …

Asurion If the list of features added to the forthcoming Android 2.0 operating system (code-named Eclair) leaves you drooling, there is a way to get a taste of one of the goodies coming in Google’s Eclair release. No, we’re not sending you a Motorola Droid (live review). Rather, Asurion’s free AddressBook beta, newly released in the Android Market, is a …

Say Tweetie, and most folks think: “I tawt I taw a puddy tat.” But as a social-networking kinda guy, Tweetie is the name of my favorite iPhone Twitter app. Tweetie lets you access all the standard Twitter features on your iPhone. You can see and respond to the tweets you follow, post your own tweets, and search for tweets by …

Some time ago, we compared the thickness of a Toshiba TV to a fruit pastel. It seems Sony agrees that comparing food to technology is a good idea, because it’s just announced its new LED backlit TV, the Bravia ZX1, is as thin as a piece of toast. This screen achieves its amazing skinniness — 9.9mm thick, which is a …

Nothing screams “We need to make more money” quite as loudly as a tech company using a leggy model with suspenders and a whip to sell its new ultra-thin TV. It also sets off our irrelevancy radar like nothing else. Enter Sony and its ‘Thin Enough’ campaign, featuring Katie Green. For those of you with better things to do than …

We’ve been waiting a while, and now Sky Player for the Xbox 360 has finally launched after technical difficulties forced Sky to pull the service yesterday. It’s not clear exactly what the problems were, and Sky weren’t being specific, just saying they were unexpected. As of today, however, the service is back up and running. Sky Player offers both subscribers …

We’re learning a lot about Verizon’s Motorola Droid (with more to come soon), but what do we know about the Droid Eris? Also called the HTC Desire, the Eris (and the Moto Droid) will be a part of a series of Google Android devices for Verizon Wireless. According to Gdgt, preliminary specs include a 5-megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, …

Sixteen months ago I wrote in On Callthat I was not prepared to dance over Motorola’s grave. While some analysts and tech journalists weren’t sad to see Moto go, I wouldn’t savor a cell phone world without a company that had such a pioneering role. Over the following year, however, Moto has done little to step up its game. Besides …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Moment (Sprint) 2:17 In case you haven’t noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their own. Moto gave us the satisfying …

It’s not very glamorous, but this battery pack delivers iPhone power on the cheap. Meritline The older your iPhone gets, the worse its battery performs. Don’t blame Apple: it’s just the nature of rechargeable batteries that they wear out over time. Sadly, you can’t just swap in a new one–not without some warranty-voiding surgery. But you can plug in external …

As Verizon Wireless prepares to unveil its new Motorola Droid smartphone tomorrow, Google today released the SDK for the much-anticipated 2.0 update to the operating system. Code-named Eclair, Android 2.0 offers a number of feature improvements and interface tweaks. As expected, we will get multitouch support (yay!), but Google has some surprises up its sleeve. Here are the highlights that …

If news of the imminent Motorola Droid announcement wasn’t exciting enough for Android fans, it looks like Sony Ericsson is set to make a similar claim. Could it be? (Screenshot by CNET Asia) Though the message on the Sony Ericsson website isn’t Android specific, if there’s any upcoming SE handsets capable of “crossing the line” between the extraordinary and the …