Today Motorola  announced the new, rugged Motorola DEFY Android 2.1 smartphone. The DEFY features a simple slab form factor that is built to stand up to IP67 certification for water immersion and dust. The DEFY sports the same 3.7-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen(INFO) display as is found on the DROID 2 (and MILESTONE 2), and manages to keep its thickness down to a relatively thin 13.4mm. The DEFY comes with Adobe Flash ... Read More

The Motorola Milestone 2 is an update to the original Milestone launched last year, and is the GSM version of the DROID 2 announced last month. Launched at the end of 2009, the original Milestone was an impressive piece of kit, but a year on it definitely needs an update, and the Milestone 2 adds a faster processor, much improved keyboard, more internal memory, Android 2.2 and full Flash support out-of-the-box ... Read More

It was back in May when we first spotted at that point still unannounced Motorola i897 Amphora clamshell and now it’s here. Actually, it’s in parts of Latin America where NII Holdings launched the phone under the name Motorola  i897 Ferrari Special Edition — Mexico and Brazil are the first markets to get this Ferrari-branded device with Argentina launch set for October of this year. Specs wise, we’re talking about an ... Read More

T-Mobile USA has announced, via its Twitter feed, that the Motorola CHARM with MOTOBLUR QWERTY messaging phone will be available to its customers starting August 25. The CHARM resembles Motorola's old Q series of phones but sports the Android operating system versus Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS, and sports a touchscreen display. T-Mobile has not announced the CHARM's pricing yet, and we'll keep you updated as it becomes available. ... Read More

The Motorola XT806 is bound for China and is one of the few remaining flip phones - but it's no ordinary flip phone. It runs Android, has dual-mode CDMA/GSM support and captures 720p videos with its 5MP camera. A feature that is very important to Chinese customers is the handwriting recognition, which suggests a resistive display. But if it's like the Motorola MT810, it might have capacitive touch functionality too. The Motorola ... Read More

The original Motorola DROID has been a significant hit in the US, and it showed that Motorola could actually compete head-on with the Apple iPhone and other high-end rivals. There have been quite a few variants of this design such as the supersized DROID X, and the GSM MILESTONE and the Korean MOTOROI and European XT720 variants, but now Motorola have revisited the original handset in the series with some useful ... Read More

Motorola Milestone owners feeling left out by the recent swarm of Android  updates rejoice; Android 2.2 Froyo will be winging its way to your touchscreen Android device by the end of September. The news comes courtesy of O2 Germany through the networks Twitter feed and will come as music to the ears of Milestone owners across Europe. The Motorola Milestone was, as the name suggests, a land mark launch for the ... Read More

Motorola is launching the Motorola Glam  this month in South Korea. The new phone runs Android 2.1 and has a 3.7 inch screen that uses capacitive touch and is multitouch. It has a decent resolution of 854 x 480 pixels. On the back is a 5 megapixel camera along with a dual LED flash to light subjects in dark lighting conditions. For connectivity it has Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and we assume WiFi although ... Read More

The next hot thing coming from Verizon is a new Motorola Android device. The Motorola Droid 2 is obviously the successor of the original Droid and the phone has been recently spied in the wild. The Moto Droid 2 is expected to arrive at some point in August with August 12 being the most likely release date. Verizon is yet to make the announcement so we'll have to wait for the ... Read More

A new Android handset from Motorola has passed through the FCC and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group bearing the model number MB508 and possibly the handsomest, most rugged name one could give a phone: Sage. This thing has a 3.1″ touchscreen, a sliding QWERTY keyboard (likely landscape), runs Android 2.1, and has Wi-Fi, a-GPS, a digital compass, and Bluetooth. FCC filings suggest the Motorola Sage is bound for AT&T with quad-band ... Read More