**Update: Personal account of the sholes.info drama here. Frequent the custom DROID ROM scene? If so, there’s a high probability you’ve heard of the Sholes team and sholes.info at least once. First, a quick back story… They are an awesome custom ROM droid development team that develops one of the best custom DROID ROMs. A few weeks back, the Sholes team, together with developer Scott Anderson released SMUpdater, an awesome auto-download/install app...

Looking at the title, I make a pretty big assumption. From the get go I’m basically calling out Motorola for whippin’ up a nice in-house fail whale of their own. But a fail whale to what? Android. The Motorola DROID was and still is the best Android device (hell, the best phone period) to come from Moto in a long, long time. So how are they failing? The US variant of the Moto Sholes is the Verizon DROID. For the last several months, I’ve been...

Normally I wouldn’t be all that interested in some “leak” of a Chinese bound handset. I don’t live in China so why would I want to buy a device designed for China? Easy enough, right? Every now and then however, a foreign device slips by and reveals itself and does catch my attention. One such device is the Motorola XT701. Several weeks ago, the internet was full of Sholes Tablet images depicting a keyboardless version of the Moto Sholes (think...

The Droid is the current “must have” Android gadget. It’s sleek, powerful, and pretty darn good all around. US users however are limited to one carrier at the moment — Verizon. Much like some people won’t switch to AT&T for the iPhone, there are many who feel the same about Big Red. Hey, whatever floats your boat folks. The tale across the big blue pond is slightly different however as GSM is much more prevalent than the ugly step...

Typically the iPhone is the talk of the town when sales numbers and “sell outs” are concerned as such things often include large sales volumes and quick sell outs when considering how many phones they actually push out. But they’re not the only cool kid in town anymore. For the last month, our European friends have had to sit back and watch us poke and prod our lovely Moto Droid’s in jealousy, longing for the day that such happiness can fall upon...