Motorola holding Android event on September 10, awesome new handsets in store?
By Chris Ziegler 
posted August 25th 2009 1:22PM
posted August 25th 2009 1:22PM
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It's about time. Hopefully they announce a Verizon phone.
I remember hearing 15-20 android handsets will be launching this year.
Where are they?
Sholes/Calgary is going to be a Verizon phone. Check it out here: http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Motorola-Calgary-phone-pa_3853.html
Spec sheet is nice but the phone itself is kind of ugly.
Awesome and Motorola don't belong in the same sentence.
@xtole
You and intelligent don't belong in the same sentence.
Since Windows Mobile marketshare has shrunk to a single digit, it appears all handset makers
are abandoning Windows Mobile. By next year, Windows Mobile will probably reach a new low.
I know its a novel concept, but this company needs to make a phone this interests buyers.
amen. i owned a ton of motorola phones. i love the krzr, and absolutely despised the krave. good idea, lousy execution.
It is about time. Nobody comes close to Motorola in terms of RF performance. Now maybe we will get some good handsets.
IT IS CALLED...WAIT FOR IT....
MOTO ANRD...
AHAHAHAH...
Can't be. They always have an R at the end ..
what about the MOTO FONE?
nub
Moto Roidr.
MOTOROID!
@Gerri
Fail
Moto PEBL
MOTOANDR(oid).
Bring it on, Motorola.
morrison = fail
sholes = win (depending on how verizons treats it)
agree to a point. I certainly think Sholes will do much better. But I think Morrison will sell "ok" in the tween to early college range. Maybe a replacement for the T-mobile Sidekick crowd?
I agree. I went to T-Mobile to check out the MyTouch 3G and Android 1.5 / the handset isn't enough to get me away from my 3GS/AT&T (and I really want to get away from AT&T).
If Google can make marked improvements in 2.0, Motorolla bring the Sholes out with speedy architecture and Verizon doesn't try to hamstring Android I will be making the leap to Android with the Sholes. Verizon needs to understand that there are a bunch of people looking for an alternative to the iPhone ecosystem.
Google pretty much offers the same services as Apple's MobileMe provides. My requirements are: IMAP email (push is desired but not a must), and a web interface for calendar/contacts that are pushed between my device and the web. Google's web interface is much more responsive than Apple's Mobile Me.
The people want choice!
I dunno, I checked out the Morrison's specs and it has the same cpu as the G1/Mytouch, but it has more RAM(256mb), a higher res camera(5mp, with autofocus, although I know more mp isn't necessarily better), gps, bluetooth, wifi, 3.5mm jack, micro usb, 3G, and microsdhc slot. True it has a slightly smaller screen, but root it and it's a NICE phone. And since it'll probably be marketed towards teens, it might even be cheaper than a G1/Mytouch(and probably underclocked, fixable by rooting). A lot of it comes down to aesthetics though, and it does look kind of cheap. Still, I'm gonna wait for some reviews before I make a decision anyhow.
BRING BACK THE STARTAC!!!!!
STFU old man...
stop living in the past hippie!
Even the Boost Mobile phones laugh at the Startacs now.
StarTac, SmarTac. Brick Me! You whippersnappers, why I otta...
http://www.ixibo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/first-wireless-phonemotorola-dynatac-8000x.jpg
I would not wonder if even the engadget people, and even topolosky, have grown to not be excited any more about phones, and android.
So stop trying so desperately to make it out as being such a special event motorola.
Ya, how dare they try to build excitement for their products. They should just quietly release them and be happy anyone even lets them sell things!
Yeah it's never been done before, that average products were released without some black thing with the date (which in itself is as overused as anything you can think of) to make it out as a freaking second coming.
You know that if investors are noticing desperation this won't be good for the company either, and they are a fairly cynical lot, so in that sense it's not helpful either then.
You might have noticed that the above article contains the statement:
""Save The Date," but you know what we're thinking: this is really "Save The Company." Make or break, Moto. Let's do this."
And I think that shows this is a bit contrived not just in my eyes.
P.S. I hope motorola survives this economic climate, they aren't that bad actually and they are amerian and I like there to be some american companies, even if those have grown to have too much pull in the world due to advertising money, but that should be fixed separately somehow.
Seriously all they need to do to make me happy is release a refreshed and Andriodized version of the Q9 series. I would be in heaven.
Seriously.
Is anyone else tired of hearing about expensive android phones? I thought the point of android was to be free, open source, and simple for a manufacturer to slap it on some hardware.
There's more to open source than being no-cost.
No kidding.
I hear that Mikey.
please no more qualcomm 528 mhz crap, it has been done to death
Ditto that!
+528000000
Thank you. For christs sake, somebody just release one single android phone that runs on a Cortex A8, preferably one that isn't under clocked(the 600mhz cpus in the iphone/pre are actually 800mhz).
I know the n900 is going to be amazing hardware-wise, but I want android. Its too bad that the 900 and the sholes are coming to TMO and VZW and not Sprint.
im on ATT and i would really like an android phone to come to ATT eventually as i have never tryed but from wat i have seen they look cool so i would love to be able to try one out
tried and what.
Save The Day
STD
im just waiting to see which phone they'll model the dev phone 2 off of
Its astonishing how bad the mobile landscape is right now. All the new stuff is one of the following:
1) Cheap touchscreen junk that does nothing well.
2) QUERTY slider fashion accessories that are rubbish as an actual phone, and sometimes terrible for texting as well.
3) Expensive and capable smartphones that would be highly usable if the carriers didn't cripple them utterly.
Wow, I thought Motorola abandoned the handset business.
I wonder when the official follow up to the G1 will be announced and unveiled? Its like everyone has forgotten that there is supposed to be a follow up a next gen. I wonder it it will look and feel like the hero w/ a keyboard and maybe some more ram and processing power? But I am looking forward to seeing what the sholes will be like.. even though I would never leave the big T for the big V
I don't think there will be a successor to the G1/Dream. The MT3G would have been called the G2 if Gatorade never released the G2. And in the UK, since T-Mobile UK can't acquire the Magic, they had to go with the Hero and call it the G2 Touch. There is a possiblity that HTC will make a Dream 2. But I doubt it. Especially those will HTC fansites that constantly post "The G2 will have Tegra, this and that, blah blah blah." Rumors are only rumors, or as people here would say, "Pic or it didn't happen"
I love the save the company remark, what does your cable box say on it? What brand of 2-way radios do your police/fire/ems dept use? Ever hear of TETRA or MOTOTRBO? Check the motorola website. I'm pretty sure for the last 4 years they haven't been staying afloat with handset profits.
+1 for George. Moto has carved out a very profitable niche for themselves providing public safety communications gear with hefty government contracts and fat-daddy margins.
It pays to be one of the few truly all-American companies in the telecom equipment market.
I can't wait for this on the vzw network. The google/moto apps will blow away anything on the iphone.
uhhh won't the google/moto apps be the same ones that already exist on android marketplace??
It's good to hear more and more phone makers are seeing the light and are dumping WinMo as their platform. Motorola is switching to Android just like Sony Ericcson and Samsung excreted WinMo away from their business. Even better, HTC, the company who built 80% of all WinMo phones, has officially announced plans to ship half of its phones next year using Android.
In addition, thanks to the fantastic phones made by RIM, Palm and Apple, more and more nails get hammered into WinMo's coffin and its inability to compete in the market. Microsoft's project Pink will then kill off WinMo's remaining partners just like they did with their PlayForSure partners. Unavoidably, when Pink reveals the WindowsPhone, it will end up in the same black hole as the Zune players. Lastly, opening MS stores in an attempt to push these 2 products will be rejected by customers and will do nothing to improve their stance or marketability.
WinMo's suffered enough, let's let it die in peace.
I think I'd wait until Windows Mobile 7 comes out to declare it dead or not. Way too early to call that right now. Plus, you don't know what Motorola's doing (if they're dumping WinMo or not), Sony Ericsson hasn't said they'll get rid of WinMo (and if I recall, they only made one), and Samsung is still coming out with WinMo phones (I believe). Also HTC is probably indicating that they'll make more phones overall, and not less WinMo phones.
I don't like WinMo as it is right now, but I think version 7 will change my mind.