The ongoing race between Apple, Motorola, RIM, and several other smartphone manufacturers over the next-gen nano-SIM card design took another turn today. According to a report by The Verge, RIM and Motorola submitted just hours ago a new design for their take on the nano-SIM card that is said to be a “compromise” between their initial design and Apple’s. If you recall, the non-Apple nano-SIM design was dramatically changed resulting in a loss of backwards...
Chicagoans could soon play host to Google’s (almost) in-house hardware manufacturer, Motorola Mobility. This morning Chicago Business is reporting that Google is shopping around downtown chicago for a new headquarters for Motorola Mobility. While the exact amount of employees is unknown at this point, Chicago Business speculates the roughly 500,000 sq. ft. of space Google is searching for points to somewhere in the neighborhood of ~3,000 employees. Locations...
Microsoft’s previous shuffling of logistics center workers out of country to the Netherlands because of the ongoing patent lawsuit with Motorola got a little more concrete today. The court overseeing the patent battle has ruled in Motorola’s favor, saying that Microsoft infringes on Motorola’s IP, specifically one patent relating to the h.264 codec. While Motorola can’t begin enforcing the ruling yet due to their own anti-trust investigation(s), it...
Verizon has had an on again/off again love affair with “global” phones – phones that carry CDMA support for the U.S. and a GSM radio for frequencies abroad. More often than not, however, the GSM radio is only supportive of GSM frequencies not used in the U.S. making any hackery to unlock and run on a local GSM carrier out of the question. But as it turns out, the newer generation of silicon inside of specific VZW phones is truly global, supporting foreign...
Take a look above folks and wonder in amazement at the latest DROID RAZR variant, the DROID RAZR HD. As the name suggests, the display will pack an upgraded pixel count over the 540 x 960 qHD RAZR, likely clocking in at the now (high-end) standard of 720p. Besides the improved resolution, specs are pretty much run of the mill – dual-core 1.2 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM. Also, GSM Arena speculates the slightly thicker casing could indicate the MAXX’s 3,300 mAh...
