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As Motorola cell phones became more popular, finding ways to make them more usable became the goal of the company. That's why today, Motorola cell phones are commonly used for connecting to the Internet. No longer are business people, students and others who want to make an Internet connection forced to find a place with a modem for connecting. Instead, Motorola cell phones have become a virtual "Internet café" that goes anywhere you go.

A few years ago, as more people became dependent on Internet connections, Internet cafés became popular. Then hotel and motel rooms began touting free Internet access for overnight guests. Connections at libraries and other community-based organizations were frequented by anyone who needed quick access to the Internet. But all were with serious limitations. Internet cafés, libraries and other sources for Internet connections were often flooded with more users than terminals. Even if you did get a place to connect, connections were often slow and users were limited to only a set amount of time to remain connected. Hotels and motels offered connections only for overnight guests and as any traveler knows, it's not always convenient to find accommodations that make that offer. But Motorola has provided the world at your fingertips with Motorola cell phones that include a modem for Internet connection no matter where you are.

For many people, the technology of these Motorola cell phones means no more wasted hours at an airport terminal. Those hours can instead be productive, checking e-mail and working online. Motorola cell phones can be used with or without a laptop for sending and receiving e-mails. For the business person, Motorola cell phones can be linked to your computer, sharing information between the two.

Or maybe it's not productivity that you seek from the modem on Motorola cell phones. Maybe it's just a chance to check your e-mail and do instant messaging with friends, or simply to play games online. No matter what your reason for wanting an Internet connection, it's easier with Motorola cell phones.

There are dozens of Motorola cell phones to choose from. Many of their cell phones also include the ability to download, upload and share photos. With the right accessories, phones can be connected directly to your computer for sharing files. The digital phone service offered to Motorola cell phones offers clearer sound to an ever-expanding area, which also makes Motorola cell phones very versatile.

Today's Motorola Cell Phones Articles
Dual SIM Philips Xenium X710 Packed With 1900mAh Power

Like earlier phones in Philips' Xenium series, the X710 is going to give you lots of talk time—but it's no iPhone killer.

Outside of the dual SIM slots, the X710 throws in the following features:

- Support communications standards: GSM: 900, 1800, 1900 MHz / EDGE, GPRS Class 10
- Dimensions: 113,6 x49, 1Ă—16, 9 mm
- Weight: 114 gr. (without battery)
- Battery: Li-Ion, capacity of 1900 mA / h
- Messaging: SMS / MMS / E-Mail
- Display: 2.4-inch, TFT, permission 240h320 points, displaying more than 262 thousand colors
- Camera: 3 MP, CMOS (CMOS) with avtofokusom
- Sound: 64-bit tone polyphonic, MP3-ringtones, MP3 player, built-EQ
- Supported audio formats: ADPCM, AMR, Midi, MP3, SP-Midi, AAC, WAV, AAC +, WMA
- Memory: 20 MB available to user, expandable through the use of microSD memory cards (up to 8 GB
- Communications: Bluetooth (A2DP, Handsfree, Handset, Object push, FTP), USB 1.1 (Mini USB), WAP 2.0
- Support for Java MIDP 2.0
- Built in FM-radio
- The Russian-speaking menu
- Other applications: Alarm clock, calculator, stopwatch, Calendar, Calendar, Game Fantasy Kingdom, Currency Converter, My card, image editor, Sudoku game

The clean design is definitely a plus, even if it seems to be heavily inspired by the Sony T600 and T700. However, it's still a fairly basic phone, and the lack of 3G is definitely a drawback—although that won't matter much given the fact that it is destined for the Russian market. [Unwired View]

Verizon: Alltel Deal to Close Jan. 9

Verizon Wireless indicated in regulatory filings that it plans to close its acquisition of Alltel on Friday, January 9. Verizon is paying $5.9 billion for Alltel, as well as taking on $22.9 billion of debt. The acquisition will make ...
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BlackBerry Curve 8900 Hits T-Mobile Feb. 18

Sure, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 we snagged was branded AT&T, but TmoNews says that T-Mobile will still be firstest in line in the US, graced by its presence on Feb. 18. [TmoNews]

LG Touchscreen Watch Phone Will Support 3G, Speech Recognition, Little Girl Fingers

Details of a new LG watch phone, likely to be announced at CES, have trickled out through the company's Korean site. And surprise! It looks hard to use. But not—and this is important—unusable.

The first thing to notice is the specs: unlike last time around, they're actually pretty solid. The GD910, as it's called, will support 3G, HSDPA, Bluetooth, text-to-speech and speech-to-text, and finally, videoconferencing via a front-mounted camera.

These capabilities, far from being the useless feature bloat that we see on gimmicky hardware like this, seem to be geared toward making this wrist piece bearable. Don't want to fiddle with little watch buttons to make a call? Use the touchscreen. Don't want to type on a tiny on-screen keypad? Talk to your phone. Don't want to walk around with a watch to your face like some kind of portly, neckbearded, wolfshirted FBI agent? Hook up a Bluetooth headset and you'll just look like a nerdy soccer dad. And videoconferencing, mercifully built in, is probably the most important feature to have on a quasi-spy gadget like this.

That said, there are still a few problems that will be unavoidable in this form-factor, the largest of which LG has implicitly acknowledged with their product photos: unless you are a young child with young child fingers, don't plan on having an easy go of it. [UnwiredView]

Sprint Can't Offer Service In iPCS Regions

A judge upheld an earlier decision that bars Sprint Nextel from providing wireless services in areas covered by iPCS. iPCS had sued Sprint and Clearwire in hopes to block the merger of the two companies' WiMax businesses. iPCS is ...
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Video of Next Android OS Shows On-Screen Keyboard

Anticipating a selection of QWERTY-less handsets to run the platform in the near future, the next version of Android will have an onscreen keyboard, among other things. Here's what it'll look like.

The two most notable aspects of the keyboard are its style and its method of feedback, which are both slightly derivative. You may recognize the keyboard styling from HTC's TouchFlo 3D handsets, which are skinned very similarly, albeit with an inverted color scheme. It diverges, however, in its visual feedback; instead of simply magnifying the key around your finger, Cupcake displays a disembodied duplicate at a fixed distance above the original key, for an effect not unlike the iPhone's onscreen keyboard.

Not shown in the video are some of Cupcake's meatier features, namely the video recording and browser find functions. The robust, if unrefined, preview of this keyboard serves to show that developers are taking Android dev seriously, and that the platform could well turn out to be the evolving OS that we originally hoped for. [MomentaryLapseofReason via ModMyGphoneThanks, Neerhaj]

SDXC: New Memory Card Format Introduced

Today a new memory card format was introduced. SDXC, or SD eXtended Capacity, will be capable of fitting up to 2 terabytes of data onto a single card. The new technology also accelerates SD interface read/write speeds to 104 ...
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Garmin Confirms Android Phones Coming in Late 2009?

Even though we've been waiting, well, just about forever for Garmin's Nuvifone, a marketing director in Asia has confirmed to DigiTimes that Garmin-labeled Android phones are in the oven. Well, maybe not: UPDATED 12:13PM/1:28PM EST

Update 12:13PM: Eric at Information Week called up Garmin US for their comment, and apparently they were just as surprised as we are at the DigiTimes's report, saying:

Garmin media relations manager, Ted Gartner, said that, "There were many inaccuracies reported by the DigiTimes." He also said that Garmin is working on a statement to debunk most of the "facts" reported by DigiTimes.

Not an outright denial, but we'll stay tuned for the aforementioned statement.

Update 1:28PM: Annnd, here it is:

Garmin Disputes DigiTimes Report

CAYMAN ISLANDS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, is disputing a Monday, December 22 report in the DigiTimes trade publication entitled, “Garmin expects to ship 18 million GPS PNDs in 2008.” The story contains a number of inaccuracies in both sales figures and product rollout schedules.

“Black Friday sales from our customers were what we expected and gross margins remain relatively strong,” said Kevin Rauckman, Garmin’s CFO and treasurer. “However, the December sales environment is weaker, which we attribute to our retail customers’ desire to exit the year with lower levels of inventory.”

As is customary, Garmin will update investors during its fourth quarter 2008 earnings call, scheduled for February 25, 2009.

Yep, no word at all about the Android phones specifically. The lack of a denial, plus the fact they're in the alliance means there's still a possibility.

Now, your regularly scheduled news pre-update:

You may recall that Garmin was one of the more interesting new members into the Open Handset Alliance, the fraternity of Android-friendly companies that just recently accepted a few new pledges. Whether these phones will have a worldwide release or stick to Asia only, as many of the most recent Android announcements have, remains to be seen. [DigiTimes]

Nokia N96 NAM Receives Major Firmware Update

Nokia has made a firmware update available to the North American version of the N96. Aside from some major bug fixes (including Bluetooth compatibility, stability, and camera performance), the update also makes the N96 compatible with Nokia's newly-launched Mail ...
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Best of Giz Explains 2008: Stuff You Absolutely Need to Know

I hope you guys learned as much reading Giz Explains this year as I did writing them. Here are the best, the ones explaining stuff you absolutely must know.

Every Video Format You Need to Know: Do you download video from the internets? Read this! It also has delicious pancakes.

Why HD Video Downloads Aren't Very High Def: You're downloading and watching more video than ever online, so you should know the dirty secrets about the video quality that services like Apple TV call HD.

How to Buy an HDTV Like a Pro: Combine this super-servicey edition of Giz Explains with our complete how-to-buy-an-HDTV follow-up, and you'll hear Best Buy employees' knees knock every time you pull into the parking lot.

An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need: Our first illustrated guide to something with an infinitely stupid number of permutations, our picto-guide to cables and ports covers essentially every major kind you'll come across in today's tangly, not-quite-wireless world—except Apple's Mini DisplayPort, but, uh, screw that.

Everything You Wanted to Know About DRM: An extensive catalog of every major type of DRM known to man, and just how each one makes watching movies, listening to music or playing games more of a pain in the ass than it should be, including hits like "Why can't you play music from the iTunes Store on a Zune?" and "Did my rental download just go away?"

Everything You Need to Know About Hard Drives: From every stupid connector to why they die and you're left cursing and pulling your hair out to its rhythmic, mocking clicking, this covers it all.

An Illustrated Guide to Smartphone OSes: A basic rundown of every smartphone OS, from the iPhone to Windows Mobile, with pictures, because we love pictures.

An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Memory Card You Need: You could try to actually keep up with every stupid spin on plastic cards with memory jammed inside of them, or you could bookmark our sweet guide.

There is, of course, more where all that came from. If there's something we didn't get around to explaining this year that you're dying to know, hit us up with your pressing query at tips@gizmodo.com with "Giz Explains" in the subject line.

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