The first footage of Moto Blur, Motorola’s just announced social-network-centric homescreen overhaul for Android, has just gone live.

Motorola introduced the first of a new generation of smartphones on Thursday that it hopes will reverse its plummeting cell phone sales.

The phone, called the Cliq, is meant for young people obsessed with social networks. Instead of the traditional menu of features, the Cliq’s home screen is an ever-changing mosaic of e-mail, Twitter tweets and status updates, superimposed over photos of the people sending those messages.

Phone is based on Google’s Android operating system, but Motorola has substantially modified the Google software
to make its phone stand out from the dozen or so other Android phones that are expected to be introduced before the holiday sales season. While phone users will be able to download and use any of the growing list of applications for the Android system, the look of Motorola’s phones and the way they operate will be different from other handsets using the operating system.

Source : ET

Motorola has launched a consumer-facing site in public beta to showcase the content available on its handsets. The site is dubbed Comprehensive Solutions Catalog, and is a place for the MOTODEV community to sell its products. This is not really a content portal—there’s no unified billing system or special download provisions, if people want to buy a product they click on a link which takes them to the developers site…so all the content is already available online/off-portal. The big benefit is collecting new releases for each handset in one place.

Link: Motorola Press Release 

Source: Moconews

Motorola in its bid to provide a better experience to its consumers will now use a multimedia software developed by Sasken in its new Symbian UIQ platform-based cell phones. This is probably the first time that a global cell-phone major will use a wholly Indian software product on such a mass scale.

Sasken’s new application on Motorola’s new phone acts as the core to the video and photo capture applications. Sasken’s multimedia application suite is a range of multimedia applications such as media browser, media capture and media player along with codecs for handset manufacturers. Sasken also has a similar tie-up with NTT DoCoMo phones developed by Panasonic, launched in April this year, but that is limited to Japan.

With Sasken’s IP embedded in it, Motorola is said to be betting big on the RIZR, and is said to be hoping that this will be the successor to the highly successful RAZR series

Source: Economic Times

If you’re carrying a Motorola mobile phone the chances are you are under 24 and fashion conscious.

But if you’ve got a Nokia in your pocket (or briefcase), it’s a fair bet you might be a family-minded, middle-aged manager.

Sony Ericsson handsets are favoured by ambitious young men trying to make their mark; LGs are tops with mums; while Samsungs are wielded by young women focused on their career, a study of mobile phone usage shows.

The survey was conducted by Panorama and released by Nielsen Media Research.

What your mobile phone says about you:

Nokia

Family-minded
Middle aged managers
Balance seekers
Health conscious

Motorola

Fashion conscious
Under 24
Fun seekers
Individualistic

Sony Ericsson

Ambitious young men
Professionals
Success driven
Individualistic

LG

Favourite of mums
Stay-at-home parents
Success driven
Harmony seekers

Samsung

Young women
Career focused
Success driven
Fun seekers

Link: Stuff.co.Nz

Source: Nielsen Media Research

Here is a new type of phone from Motorola. It is in fact a really innovative design. It is boasting a new mobile OS developed by Symbian with what I believe to be a custom user interface, which is better then the old UI.

Motorola RIZR Z8 Features

- Unique ergonomic slider design with face-fitting contours
- 2.0-megapixel camera with 8x zoom and LED light, video record and playback capabilities
- Integrated media player
- High-speed 3.6 Mbps HSDPA mobile broadband technology
- Approximately 90.0 MB free internal user memory, optional expandable to 4 GB with microSD
- Redesigned user interface with one-click access to phone functions
- A2DP AVRCP Bluetooth stereo profiles for wireless communications
- Up to approximately five hours 3G talk time, up to approximately 16 days standby time.

Source: MobileKick

Nokia Oyj and Motorola Inc., the world’s two largest mobile phone makers, widened their lead in the market for handsets a! s demand in Asia lifted unit sales to a record in the fourth quarter. Nokia’s market share rose to 36.2 percent from 35 percent a year earlier, researcher Gartner Inc. said in a statement. Motorola’s share climbed to 21.5 percent from 17.8 percent, while that at Samsung Electronics Co., the third-largest manufacturer, fell to 11.3 percent from 12.1 percent.

Gartner predicted global handset sales of about 1.2 billion units this year after shipments soared 21 percent last year, bolstered by emerging markets like China and India. Espoo, Finland-based Nokia and Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola also increased their market shares sequentially and for the full-year as did Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd. Fourth-quarter unit sales climbed 21 percent to 284.2 million units, led by a 56 percent jump in the Asia-Pacific region, Gartner said.

Source: Mint

Motorola certainly surprised many people with the announcement of its Symbian UIQ 3.1-based MOTO RIZR Z8. The new phone targets young people and brings the new form factor – slider-kicker. This is also the first UIQ 3.1 powered device.

Source: Symbianwatch

Nokia and Motorola increased their share of the global cell phone market in the fourth quarter. Asian makers Samsung and LG Electronics were the losers.

Nokia has 35.2 percent of the market in the quarter, up from 34.1 percent a year earlier, research company Strategy Analytics said Thursday. Motorola increased its share to 21.9 percent from 18.2 percent.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications expanded its share to 8.7 percent from 6.6 percent.

Source: MobileMonday

 Motorola has launched the MOTORIZR Z3

Motorola has launched the MOTORIZR Z3, a new handset that merges a powerful digital imaging system and sophisticated multimedia features with an innovative slider design.

Source: Motorola