'Motorola CLIQ with MOTOBLUR' Review

Get smarter and social with the newly launched Motorola cell phone, the Motorola CLIQ.This absolute stunner from Motorola is bundled with high tech applications and features a stylish portable design. The Motorola CLIQ is the company's first Google Android device. The customizable features go hand in hand with the phone exclusive interface.
With the Motorola CLIQ you can stay connected with your friends and family. With one tap you can share your favorite pictures, video, get connected to social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and much more. The phone is loaded with MOTOBLUR, the only service which allows you to sync, manage and have backup of your favorite applications and programs. The MOTOBLUR feature also allows you to open your most used sites and app to save passwords under a highly secure platform.

The phone is loaded with other key features and technical specifications like:

• 3.1 inches HVGA touch display screen with superior brightness and resolution of 320 x 480
  

• Slide out QWERTY keyboard for smoother and quicker data entry

• Android 1.5 Cupcake which offers access to various service of Google like Maps, Voice Search, Picasa and G-talk.

• 5 mega pixel camera with auto-focus and video recording capability

• Multimedia player which supports Mp3 and video playbacks.

• Modern technologies like 3G, Wi-Fi, EDGE class 12 and GPRS Class 12

• Bluetooth v2.0 with EDR and a support for stereo Bluetooth

The new age Motorola CLIQ comes in stylish Titanium and White colored body. The phone offers an extensive battery backup of 360 hours and talk time of upto 6 hours. So, get social with the new Motorola CLIQ and stay connected.

Motorola DROID from Verizon Wireless - Location-aware, Voice-recognizing, App-mashing and Multitasking Mobile Phone

Motorola has recently announced a new member in their Android collection, the Motorola Droid. This amazing fully fledged package from Motorola comes with astonishing features and technical specifications. The phone features some extra ordinary specifications like 3.7 inches wide-screen display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, high processing capabilities for smoother running of the applications, wireless connectivity and much more.

The Motorola Droid is a huge touch screen package but still is loaded with other advanced features and hardware. The size of the phone is almost the same as iPhone to be precise it is only 0.5 inches thicker than iPhone. Data entry is fast and flexible with full sized QWERTY keypad.
This amazing stunner from Motorola shines with some wonderful tech features and functionalities like:

• Built-in 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash and it has the capabilities of a dedicated digital camera with help of advanced features like Auto Focus and zoom.

• Voice-activated search w/GPS

• Huge 16GB of on board memory which can be expanded up to 320GB for storing high volumes of data

• Runs on Google Android 2. 0 platform with the advanced multitasking feature and runs simultaneous apps

• QWERTY slider keyboard and High-speed mobile web

• In built music player which supports formats like MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA etc.,

• Runs on TI OMAP3430 processor which provides users with high processing speed and smoother environment for mobile computing. The processor is almost as fast the 800MHz ARM Cortex-48

The Motorola Droid is a perfect blend of style and technology. The phone is also set to give tough challenge in the markets against Apple iPhone. The phone is going to hit the markets on 6th of November 2009 and is expected to be priced at around $199 that includes a 2 year contract from Verizon wireless. The unlocked version of Droid can probably worth around $750.

Motorola upgrades its classics

Motorola is expanding its Q and RAZR empires with a Q for Sprint (shown) and an HSDPA-enabled RAZR, the RAZR XX, for Cingular. Basically a physical and features twin to its Verizon sibling (QWERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone, 1.3-MP camera, etc.), except the new Q is more of a matte silver than a sleek silver. And, of course, the EV-DO phone enables access to Sprint's Power Vision network, with access to all of Sprint's TV and music content ($15 a month), including the carrier's exclusive NFL Mobile service. Great, except the phone won't be available until mid-February, maybe just in time for the Pro Bowl. Oh, joy.

The new RAZR XX (yes, double-X, not a typographical placeholder) is a souped-up version of the current and suddenly passé RAZR. When it gets to stores in March, it'll run on Cingular's broadband HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) 3G network, which means you have access to all of Cingular's multimedia content, such as HBO Mobile. This new RAZR includes an MP3 music player with Bluetooth stereo and a hot swappable microSD memory card slot, adding just a silly 0.01 of an inch to its famously slim width. Unfortunately, if you want a 2-MP camera, you have to hope the RAZR Maxx legally immigrates to the U.S.

Motorola ROKR E8 music phone unveiled

This here is Motorola's upcoming ROKR E8 music phone, a slick candybar phone with a touch-sensitive keypad reminiscent of LG's Chocolate phone. It does, however, have haptic feedback on that touch keypad, which should make it easier to use than other, incredibly annoying phones such as the Chocolate.

It also has an "Omega Wheel," a bombastic name for a new wheel-based navigation for the menus. You'll also get a 2-megapixel camera, 2GB of onboard storage expandable via microSD, and an FM radio tuner. It'll hit Europe at the end of the year with no word on a Stateside release

Motorola unveils PEBL U9 music phone

Motorola's just announced a new music phone, this one taking the PEBL form factor: the PEBL U9. the curvy phone sports music controls on the front, allowing you to treat it like an MP3 player as well as a phone. It doesn't have any onboard storage, but you can load it up with a microSD card with up to 4GB worth of tunes.

In addition to the music player and the 1.45-inch screen on the front, it's got a 2-inch screen on the inside once you flip it open. There's a 2-megapixel camera for taking pictures of your drunk friends, and it's guaranteed to attract ear and finger grease like few other objects in your life. It's a pretty middle-of-the-road phone, albeit a nice-looking one. If you like your gadgets to have curves, maybe this one's for you

Alexander Amosu limited edition headset. Because diamonds are forever, even if Bluetooth isn't

Most cool tech gadgets have a frighteningly short shelf life, which is why I find it amusing when people bling them up with gold or platinum and a pile of precious stones. This ultra exclusive gold and 180 diamond encrusted version of the Motopure H12 headset from bling phone king Alexander Amoso, sells for a cool $8000 - $12,000 more than the already pretty slick $100 Motorola version. Now, exactly what you're expected do with all of those rocks in a couple of years once we've moved on to purple tooth or whatever, is beyond me. Still, I suppose if you've got to have a headset to match that new dental grille which spells out you name in rubies, Amosu's your guy.

Hands on: Motorola $2,000 Aura cellphone

If you've got some extra dough lying around or you have too much money, Motorola has the ultimate status phone for both of you: the silvery Aura, which sells for a cool $2,000.

Why $2k? Aura's hefty etched stainless steel casing sure makes it feel as expensive as it is, and I'm told it takes two weeks to carve those wavy lines in the case. Its LCD screen is protected by a 62-carat, Grade 1 scratch resistant convex crystal. The swivel screen, which swings opens either left-to-right or vice versa, but doesn't go all the way around, is operated by 131 ball bearings to ensure it opens as smoothly years from now as it does new.

The LCD itself is 300 DPI and it super bright and super crisp and super colorful. Aura sort of skimps on some of the other technical cellphone specs — it's only EDGE not 3G, and it's equipped with just a 2MP camera (the scene fills the round viewfinder but the picture is rectangular). But you're not exactly buying the Aura to enhance your geek status.

Day One Review: Motorola Krave ZN4 cellphone (worst mobile browser ever)

Motorola's presents The Next Big Thing in Cellphones with its new Krave ZN4 touchscreen phone, available starting today from Verizon for $150 (with a two-year deal plus rebate, of course). Krave's claim to fame: a clear flip front cover that's also touch-sensitive. In other words, touch the protective plastic top, which Motorola calls a "touch cover," and the actual LCD screen beneath reacts as if it's just been touched. It's all quite Criss Angel-y.

On the surface (pun intended) this touch cover seems like a great advancement. But the Krave, which operates on Motorola's Verizon's EV-DO network, works differently with the touch cover closed than open. Not only do you get different sets of menu options, but you're limited to what you can access with the cover down.

The issues don't stop there. Hit the Continue jump for more hands-on impressions, including which of the Krave's features got me to nearly throw the phone into a brick wall.

More on the plastic cover: It's completely in the way when using the QWERTY keypad. When the cover is open (the only way to use the keypad), there's no way to comfortably hold the phone and tap keys with your left thumb. This physical hindrance completely obliterates the advantage gained by splaying out the roomy haptic-enabled keyboard across the Krave's extra-long 2.8-inch screen.

But Krave has other disappointments. Instead of fully functional Web browser, for instance, there's a WAP 2.0 browser instead. You can't touch links in the phone's full HTML browser to navigate; you have to use a bizarre ring-like onscreen touch cursor. The damn thing wouldn't stay still on a link and tapping it usually did nothing. I simply couldn't navigate off an opening site page. I almost threw the phone against the wall in frustration.

Finally, the standard Verizon cellphone operating system simply doesn't stretch far enough to encompass the Krave's touch capabilities. In fact, Krave's failure rests solely at the feet of Verizon, not Motorola. With its new technology, Krave should have been a showcase. Instead, Krave exemplifies the unreasonable power carriers have over manufacturers — curtailing their ability to truly innovate and deliver a consumer-friendly cellphone that can compete with iPhone.

CORRECTIONS: We slipped when we identified the phone's EV-DO network as Motorola's; of course, it's Verizon's. And Motorola insists the phone's Web browser is a fully functional HTML browser. We'll take their word for it, since we never want to open the thing again.

MOTOROLA TIPS & TRICKS

Motorola Star Tac

Show IMEI code
If you need to know what's the IMEI code of your phone,
simply press:
* # 06 #
you'll read it on display.

Pin-Out

1) Connected with 22pf to pin 3
2) RF out
3) Connected with 33 pf to pin 8, 33 pf to pin, 33 pf to pin 7
4) BAT_FDBAK
5) MAN_TEST connected with 10k to L275
6) RS232_TX - connected to MCU SPI bus
7) RS232_RX - connected to MCU SPI bus
8) AUDIO_IN
9) AUDIO_OUT
10) Connected with 33 pf to pin 13, 33 pf to pin 14
11) UPLINK -|
12) DOWNLINK -|- DSC bus connected to the BIC
13) DSC_EN_B -|
14) EXT_B+
15) Gnd

Motorola mtac Elite

Show IMEI code

If you need to know what's the IMEI code of your phone,
simply press:
* # 06 #
you'll read it on display.

Test Mode

To enter in Nam programming Mode, press:
[arrow up]
000000000000 (12 times zero)
[MR]
now display shows the first step of NAM programming;
simply enter data and move to the next step using:
* (the same key of [left arrow])

Software version

To see software version of your phone you need to short-circuit antenna ground
with the two nearest pin together in the connector located under the phone. then:
Power ON the phone
and type:
#19#
now display is showing software version of your phone.

Serial Number

To see the serial number of your phone you need to short-circuit antenna ground
with the two nearest pin together in the connector located under the phone. then:

Power ON the phone

and type:

#75#
now display is showing the first pair of digits, then go ahead using

* (the same key of [left arrow])

to show the second pair and so on.

Pin Out

The pins are numbered 1 thru 10 from right to left
ANT- (O) | | | | | | | | | |

1) Audio Ground
2) Ext b+
3) T Data
4) C Data
5) R Data
6) Logic Ground
7) Audio Out - on/off
8) Audio In
9) Manual Test
10) Battery Feedback

Motorola Micro tac

Test Mode

To enter in Nam programming Mode,
you need to short-circuit the first and the third battery pin from the right, then:
Power ON the phone
display will show "Tacs5", type in:
55
now display shows the first step of NAM programming;
simply enter data and move to the next step using:

* (the same key of [left arrow])

Software version

To enter in Nam programming Mode,
you need to short-circuit the first and the third battery pin from the right, then:
Power ON the phone
display will show "Tacs5", type in:
19
now display is showing software version of your phone.

Motorola mtac Elite

Test Mode

To enter in Nam programming Mode, press:

[arrow up]
000000000000 (12 times zero)
[MR]

now display shows the first step of NAM programming;
simply enter data and move to the next step using:
* (the same key of [left arrow])

Software version

To see software version of your phone you need to short-circuit antenna ground with the two nearest pin together in the connector located under the phone. then:
Power ON the phone
and type:

#19#

now display is showing software version of your phone.

Serial Number

To see the serial number of your phone you need to short-circuit antenna ground with the two nearest pin together in the connector located under the phone. then:
Power ON the phone
and type:

#75#

now display is showing the first pair of digits, then go ahead using
* (the same key of [left arrow])

to show the second pair and so on.

Pin Out

The pins are numbered 1 thru 10 from right to left

ANT- (O) | | | | | | | | | |

1) Audio Ground
2) Ext b+
3) T Data
4) C Data
5) R Data
6) Logic Ground
7) Audio Out - on/off
8) Audio In
9) Manual Test
10) Battery Feedback

Motorola 8700

Show IMEI code

If you need to know what's the IMEI code of your phone,
simply press:

* # 06 #

you'll read it on display.

Turn on Clock

To turn on the hidden clock on your phone follow the following procedure:
In Setup menu turn ON "extended menu"
in language selection change to "GREEK" or "EAAKA"
exit menu
press key labeled "i" (the info key)
type *#25625# and finally
turn OFF the phone
next time you'll wake up the phone the clock will be on your display and while surfing menu you'll find the option to set its time.

RBS Info

To activate RBS info menu simply press:
[][][]113[]1[]OK ("[]" = the block you obtain pressing "*" for 3 seconds or more)
this procedure seems not to work on all software version but it's the only one you can try from keypad.

Software Bug

Some 8700 remain frozen after you switched on cell broadcast; the phone seems to function properly but it can't origin or receive any calls and turns off when you press any key.