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) …
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29 October
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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. …
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29 October
Verizon prices Droid multimedia dock, car mount
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 …
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28 October
Verizon, Motorola unveil the Droid
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 …
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28 October
A free, social ‘AddressBook’ for Android
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 …
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28 October
Track your tweets with iPhone app Tweetie
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 …
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28 October
Sony LCD TVs: Thin as toast, smooth as silk and wireless too
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 …
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28 October
Sony sells sexy slim screens with smutty shots
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 …
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28 October
Sky Player on Xbox 360 launch suffers technical problems
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 …
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27 October
Droid Eris: Verizon’s other Android phone?
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, …
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