100,000 DROID smartphones sold in first weekend? |
Like a Jawa in the Tatooine sun, apparently Motorola managed to sell a whole bunch of DROIDs over the weekend. According to analyst Mark McKechnie at Broadpoint AmTech, they managed to move about 100,000 Droids during the opening weekend. Most stores moved at least half of their original shipments.
He also estimates that Motorola will sell one million Android-based phones in Q4 2009 alone (that includes the CLIQ). Looks like Motorola has something to celebrate.


Motorola is offering up some new digital photo frames, including dual display frames and a Wi-Fi model that lets you send images directly to the frame by email. The LS1000W has a 10.4-inch display, with 512 MB of built-in memory, an MP3 player and speakers, an alarm clock and calendar function. The £200 frame has Wi-Fi connectivity and content from the thousand FrameChannel online channels that can be viewed on the device including internet radio.
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If that Motorola Droid that is aiming directly at the iPhone has piqued your interest, we have some good news for you today. Someone over at Motorola has posted the official Droid page live to the Motorola website and then quickly pulled it down.
Verizon has launched a smack-talking offensive against the iPhone, with a new campaign called DroidDoes.com for their upcoming Motorola Droid Android smartphone. The handset, previously known by its codenames of Tao and
Motorola’s Android-powered
My grandma has no need for a feature laden cell phone. She has a hard enough time figuring out how to answer calls or check her voice mail without having to worry about how to send a text or surf the Internet. The perfect phone for her is cheap and easy to use.
The latest offering from Motorola is this Windows Mobile-powered smartphone, the MC9500. This one is for tough industrial situations where you need a rugged Phone. The MC9500 also sports an accelerometer so you can tip the device toward a delivery customer and have the screen flip around for signing and has five swappable keypads. 
Pre-paid handsets are very popular with many consumers thanks to no contracts and lower overall costs for the most part compared to normal cellular plans. The only big drawback is that you typically can’t get the latest and greatest handsets on pre-paid plans.
Blockbuster is preparing a mobile movie download service specifically for Motorola handsets. Blockbuster didn’t provide many details, and we have no pricing info or a launch date. We don’t even know which Motorola phones the movies would play on, or how the movies will be distributed.
Motorola has big plans for Android and is developing several handsets that run the Google open source OS. Android has proven to be very popular with both device makers and with consumers who are buying Android-powered handsets in droves.
Sure, we had heard the rumors that Motorola’s Morrison handset would run Android, but until this pic today, they remained rumors. Aside from Android, there’s nothing really too surprising going on here. But just what are they aiming for with this?







