We're not going to recapitulate the whole torrid history of Nokia and Qualcomm, we'll just say that the two have buried the hatchet and moved on. As a sign of perhaps good faith, we noticed (and wondered) what the "Q" logo was during the Sea Ray's boot sequence (0:46). MonSmartphone was sharp enough to make the connection that it's Qualcomm's "Q" meaning that indeed, Nokia and...
Back from the dead, the Motorola Napolean has made it into the hands of a PhoneArena reader [via], and with Verizon branding to boot. As it stands, the Napolean will have both GSM and CDMA radios, along with a QVGA display, 2MP camera and WiFi, as well as a fingerprint sensor. Whether any of that would survive the Verizon cutting-room floor, or whether the Napolean actually will see...
Oh, Moto, say it ain't so. Word on the streets (that'd be the EverythingQ streets) is that the foundering Motorola has given up the ghost on the Q line and replacing it with ... well, that remains to be seen.EverythingQ is confident in its sources, but this is still unofficial news, so anything's possible. But consider the following: The lackluster Q11 (lackluster as in minor cosmetic...
What what?! The Boy Genius has a gallery up of a Motorola Q9 - a GSM version nearly identical to the Motorola Q9h / Q9Global, only this puppy has WiFi built-in. No word on whether or not it retains GPS, but it won't retain the “Global” as the bands on board are 850/1900 MHz- that'd be US only. A perusal of the screen shots does show that the device keeps all the extra apps that AT...
Qusers has a nice little roundup of Motorla's announcement yesterday. Here's the skinny: the Q9h is coming to Italy, the GSM version of the Q is going to be called the Q8, and both sport WM6. Basically, the "announcement" doesn't bring us anything we hadn't already expected and will do little to help with Moto's recent woes. The Q9h still looks pretty good to me, but I expect it will...
Everything Motorola Q notes that Motorola is sponsoring a survey about the Q, the questions look to mainly be about whether or not you feel the need to pimp it out and how good a job the Q does at, uh, being pimped. There is a "general feedback" section, though, which I suspect will be filled with comments about the battery life and the creaky plastic. Or at least that's what I put in...
No surprise here, but it's nice to see it officially: Amp'd (yes, we're sweet on them) now offers the MotoQ. One interesting bit: they've customized the wazoo out of it, including a snazzy interface: Amp’d is the first US carrier to utilize Adobe’s Flash Lite technology as the main user interface. With this technology, consumers will experience Amp’d Live’s robust broadband content...
I've been using the YAQKWMS (Yet Another Qwerty Keyboard Windows Mobile Smartphone) tag for awhile now as a sort of inside joke - well, if a joke that only I get counts as "inside." Anyway, the punchline to this interior humor is that these phones are pretty tough to distinguish from one another. They all share Windows Mobile 5 with few (if any) software enhancements, they all have...
Today was supposed to be the day for Windows Mobile 6, but after the embargo on was was broken late last week, a lot of the details are already widely known. However, that doesn't mean that there isn't a bunch of new info that you'll want to know about today. The most exciting bits: photos of WM6 running on a bunch of old and new devices - photos after the break. It appears that T-...
Here you go, Verizon users, a black MotoQ for a $50 premium. Looks like it's got that "soft-touch" paint that's popular with the kids these days. Nothing special in terms of hardware or software improvements, though. Just black. They should watch out, though, looks like RIM is suing anybody who puts the word "black" in their product title. Verizon Wireless today announced a...
Looks like Canada will be first out of the gate with the Black MotoQ. Specs are identical, though it might be worth mentioning that they're using a "soft-touch paint" that's seems to be popular ever since Palm put it on their 750v. No word on what the frozen climes of Canada will do to the MotoQ's battery life. *Motorola Canada Ltd. today announced the global launch of the Moto Q...
C|Net Asia pits the now-venerable (my, how quickly phones become "venerable" these days) against newcomer DoPod C720W/HTC Excalibur/T-Mobile Dash (my, how quickly I get tired of HTC allowing their devices to get 300 different names). Both are WM5 Smartphone Edition QWERTY slabs, both are thin and pretty good looking. I think they're right to give the Dash the win, though - I likes me...