Charlie Kindel: ‘Google Will Abandon Android’
Charlie Kindel:
Moving forward, Google will invest heavily in the Play brand. To
effectively create new brand you have to mute your usage of other
brands in the same space. At the most, any further use of the term
“Android” in consumer marketing and branding will be relegated to
“ingredient brand” status (“Certs with Retsin!”). Google will
start distancing itself from [...]
Motorola RAZR Maxx hits Europe in May
Bigger battery, better times
Motorola has announced that the release of the Motorola RAZR Maxx outside the US will begin in May 2012, so those looking to get a little more life from their Android are in luck. The phone will be landing across select markets in Europe and the Middle East.?
The Motorola RAZR Maxx takes [...]
Jason Perlow Is Sick to Death of Android
Jason Perlow:
When it came time for my two phone contracts to renew on Verizon, I had decided within a span of a few months to purchase the Motorola Droid Bionic and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
I had believed both of these devices would be well-supported by Google and would be most resistant to the fragmentation and carrier bloatware [...]
First Prize: Two Motorola Droid Xyboard Tablets
Second prize: three Motorola Droid Xyboard tablets.
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ZDNet: ‘Android Tablet Surge Will Be Led by Google-Motorola, HP, Dell in 2012’
Paula Rooney, writing for ZDNet:
Apple and Microsoft are getting all the ink in the tablet wars these days but no doubt Android tablets will be matching if not outselling ipads within a year or so.
Or so.
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Google plans 7-inch tablet with Asus… not Motorola
Nor Acer nor HTC
There are reports that Google has plans to release a 7-inch tablet device as early as May this year, and it has chosen a partner for the venture. However, that isn’t going to be the hardware company it recently acquired, even if it has tablet expertise and history in the market.
Motorola has [...]
Regarding Motorola’s Google-Owned Future
Phil Goldstein, in a report for FierceWireless headlined “Motorola Exec: Product Strategy Won’t Change After Google Acquisition”:
Alain Mutricy, Motorola’s senior vice president of portfolio and
product management, told FierceWireless in an interview here at
Mobile World Congress that Motorola will not alter its plans once
it comes under the Google “umbrella.”
This echoes Andy Rubin’s recent remarks from a [...]
HTC adopts micro SIM but dumps microSD in flagship One X and One S phones
MWC 2012: All change
HTC?is the latest smartphone manufacturer to start using micro SIM for its phones, the company has confirmed.
The format – first used by Apple with the ipad in 2010 – will feature on the company’s new HTC One X and HTC One S smartphones, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday [...]
Microsoft to Google: ‘Please Don’t Kill Video on the Web’
Dave Heiner, deputy general counsel at Microsoft:
You probably take for granted that you can view videos on your
smartphone, tablet, PC, or DVD/Blu-ray player and connect to the
Internet without being tied to a cable. That works because the
industry came together years ago to define common technical
standards that every firm can use to build compatible products for
video [...]
Google to Replace Motorola Mobility CEO
Peter Burrows, Brian Womack, and Hugo Miller, reporting for Bloomberg:
Google Inc., which won U.S. approval for its acquisition of
Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., is close to naming Dennis
Woodside to run the business when the deal closes, three people
familiar with the matter said.
Woodside, who led Google’s ad sales in the Americas before leaving
that job to oversee the [...]
