Motorola has revealed that it has stopped using the name Motoblur, partly due to public feedback. The Android skin will still feature on its devices for the foreseeable future however…

Advertising a product before it’s even official, what could be more patriotic? TmoNews has a convincing (but still unconfirmed) picture of a T-Mobile “Back to School” poster featuring Samsung , Gravity T, Gravity 3, and… Motorola Charm? Looks like our chubby, Motoblur-equipped candybar has been given an air of legitimacy, even more than the previous leak. What’s also interesting is the price — as part of the promotion, Charm is apparently free on contract (seems to be T-Mo’s special of choice, these days). Can’t say with any certainty what that means for the cost of the phone after this season’s school craze dies down — the Gravity 3, for example, is usually $80 with a two-year agreement — but it can’t be much longer now before we get the skinny on this square. Hit up the source for full picture.

Motorola Charm spotted in T-Mobile ad, free on contract for back-to-schoolers? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The original Droid made a powerful statement. Actually, make that statements, plural: for Motorola, it was the largest single affirmation that it was going all-in with Android (after having already released the far less memorable midrange CLIQ on T-Mobile) and that it could play in the very highest rungs of the smartphone elite. For Verizon, the Droid was the carrier’s very first Android device, period — announced to great fanfare in collaboration with Eric Schmidt and crew — serving as a pretty spectacular exit from the Windows Mobile / BlackBerry doldrums that the carrier’s smartphone lineup had historically suffered. By almost any measure, the phone went on to serve its purpose; it let customers (and potential customers) know that Verizon could release a “cool” phone, and they responded. The Droid’s an unqualified success. Today, Verizon’s involvement in Android has never been greater, and Motorola — by all appearances, anyway — seems to be on its way back from the brink.

Time stops for no phone, though, and we’re now halfway through 2010. Motorola’s success as a competitive phone manufacturer is ultimately going to depend not on its ability to produce a single hit, but to produce a never-ending string of hits, each better than the one before it. It’s a tall order — and that’s exactly where the Droid X comes into play. Featuring a 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera with 720p video capture, a reworked user interface, and a significantly improved processor, this phone apes the first Droid in at least one critical aspect: its ability to immediately steal the spotlight from anything else in Verizon’s lineup. Specs don’t tell the whole story, though, so let’s dig in and see what this beast is all about.

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Motorola Droid X review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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