Motorola and Microsoft have announced that they have struck a deal to include Bing and other Microsoft services on Motorola’s Android-powered smartphones.
Apple COO Tim Cook’s warning from early 2009 wasn’t the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week.
We aren’t sure what took so long, but we’re very glad that the wait is over. Google’s Android operating system has made an indelible mark on the smartphone market segment, and it’s the first major OS to rival the iPhone in a serious way.
Smartphone sales have skyrocketed, led by Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s (“RIM’s”) Blackberry Storm devices. Among the major players in the smart phone market are the companies developing to the Android OS.
The last holdout has fallen — all four major U.S. wireless carriers now offer Android-based phones.
Verizon Wireless said Tuesday that it would add Skype’s Internet phone application to some of its smartphones, signaling a possible shift in the wireless industry’s stance against allowing customers to use competing technologies on its networks.
Yesterday I got a chance to spend a bit of time with the new Motorola QUENCH, a MOTOBLUR-equipped smartphone that will be sold by T-Mobile USA in March as the CLIQ XT.
If you’re an Android fan, the network to be on in the US is clearly T-Mobile. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Motorola revealed its eighth Android phone, the Motorola Cliq XT (as it will be known stateside) or Quench (its name everywhere else). The Cliq XT will land on T-Mobile next month. [...]
Motorola Droid owners waiting for an “out-of-box” multi-touch gesture will now get a taste when using Google Maps 3.4.
As soon as Google announced the release of a Nexus One software update that included the pinch-to-zoom gesture, the Motorola Droid crowd on Verizon Wireless wondered if it was also coming to their device.
T-Mobile customers who use the Google Nexus One smartphones are reporting widespread data outages on their devices.
The outages are being reported at multiple online sites, including Twitter, where T-Mobile staff are directing affected customers to the carrier’s message boards.
