Opensource Motorola

Motorola has created opensource.motorola.com as a means for developers within the Motorola community to be able to easily share code, ideas, projects and information around the world. Motorola believes the new resource will further the aims of the MOTODEV support program. With access to a simplified opensource working channel across the Linux, JAVA and mobile communities, developers for Motorola can work together to get us better applications, sweeter handsets, and more useful and innovative technologies even faster.opensource.motorola.com even has source code (kernel and drivers) for Linux-based devices, JAVA test frameworks and sample test cases.

Mobile JAVA Unified

Motorola is hoping the industry will follow its effort to unify the JAVA platform having opened the sources of products and providing sample cases to jump-start the movement. This goes hand in hand with opensource.motorola.com as all of Motorola’s initial test framework and sample test cases can be found there. Nokia also has recently embraced the opensource community and hopes it will reach greater acceptance with the use of AJAX in its devices.

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In preparing the industry and mobile users for its much anticipated Q handset, Motorola has deployed an online game titled, Find the Q. Part Instant Messenger and part Da Vinci code, the game is introduced by a series of Flash animations and a darkened shape we can only guess to be the Motorola Q.

Answer trivia questions about the history of the web, technology, entertainment and more, answer correctly and advance to higher levels with new challenges. As an added benefit for participating in the game, registered players are entered in a contest to win the Motorola Q. The company is giving away 248 of the handsets.

BigBerries hopes the 248 is not indicative of the day the handset will be released because that would mean Sept 5. Our bets are within the month, hopefuilly in two-weeks maybe next even. Find the Q

Mothers Day was pretty hectic and carried over into yesterday for me so as a result there has been no news. Motorola has been pretty busy and here is something from Camp Moto that I thought was worth mentioning.

Motorola Red – Motorola has a brand new portfolio of handsets created specifically to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. Last January Bono and Bobby Shriver launched (co-founders) the RED project to send private sector money to the Global Fund to fight AIDS. The UK is really behind the initiative it seems, as almost every major mobile operator and retailer is involved, BT Mobile, Carphone Warehouse, Fresh, O2, Orange, Tesco Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Vodafone are all involved in some capacity.

To kick things off a special RED Edition of the Motorola SLVR is available in the UK starting May 15, 2006 and 10 pounds Sterling will be contributed for every unit sold. Join Red

Converse, Armani, American Express and the Gap are also current partners in the effort to combat AIDS.

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Motorola, who slapped Korean knock-off manufacturer KBT with a lawsuit in January has finally reached an agreement regarding the RAZR knock-offs (patents, trademarks and designs) being made by the company. In settlement KBT agrees to discontinue all manufacturing and sales of RAzR look-alikes. Maybe this will scare the rest of the industry because as far as I can tell KBT isn’t the only one copying Motorola designs. Hopefully Motorola will follow up on the makers of the still-yet-to-be-released Motorola Q clone as well.

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Mothers Day is right around the corner and Motorola and Cingular think it would be fitting to give Mom a way to hear you clearly and keep her hands free at the same time when you are calling on her new Motorola Pink SLVR. The H500 Bluetooth headset in pink would be a perfect match.

For full specifications on the Motorola H500 Bluetooth Headset visit Motorola. Quick specs on the headset are below. The Pink Motorola H500 Bluetooth Headset will be available from Cingular Wireless for $34.99 after a $25 mail-in rebate until June 3rd.

Quick Specs
Omni-directional microphone
Weight: .55oz
Talktime: up to 8 hours
Standby: up to 200 hours
Distance: up to 30 ft

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Are you a last minute gift-shopper? Well Cingular and Motorola are hoping they can provide the perfect gifts, offering Motorola SLVRs and Motorola H500s in pink for Mothers Day. Just to clarify that’s Bubblegum Pink!

Quick Specs
VGA camera
Video capture and playback
Weight 3.5oz
Bluetooth
512MB expandable memory
iTunes

The Motorola Pink SLVR is currently available with contract through Cingular for $199.99 (US)

The Motorola H500 Bluetooth Headset can be found here.

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Motorola has created MOTODEV to unify developers globally through web-based framework. MOTODEV will combine existing developer roadmaps, techniques and strategies such as MOTOCODER, iDEN and Horizon into one completely integrated web-resource promoting innovation in application development, connectivty and serving as a shared resource with all the neccessary tools, including SDKs and go-to- market initiatives for those within the Motorola development community.

Through MOTODEV, Motorola also aims to create a broader business ecosystem including developers, service providers, and business and channel allies. Motorola will rollout the MOTODEV in a phases over the next several months.
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I missed quite a few SEC Filings for Motorola and they have been very busy. Mostly Form 4′s. To view them go here. There was also a Form 10-Q recently filed as well which is located here.
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Source: MobileWhack / YankoDesign

A stellar concept phone designed by Andre Minoli. The Motorola PVOT would operate with the use of rechargeable AA batteries. Despite the slick style the PVOT’s intended design is as a phone for use in developing countries. Innovative in more ways than one the display even doubles as a hand crank to charge the phones batteries.

However, I must say it is a sad, sad day when even the phones designed for developing countries look better than what’s currently available to the average Joe in the US.

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Well they say it’s for business, but this really just shapes up to be a slim entry level candy bar shaped mobile phone. Maybe I never climbed high enough up the ladder where they said you can’t have cameras or music on your phone. As far as I’ve gone there seemed to be less concern about cameras and music and more concern for connectivity, with more memory being a plus. For the most part you get a Blackberry, a phone with Windows Mobile or some sort of Nextel.

Needless to say with company laptops and remote-network access, what risk does external memory on a phone pose when most office computers don’t even have SD cards? Let alone most offices according to Microsoft’s advertising campaign suggest businesses have yet to even upgrade from Microsoft Office 97 or 2000.

Quick Specs
NO Camera
NO External memory
NO Music features
Bluetooth
Speakerphone
Quad-band

Available in the US through Cingular’s B2B Sales starting at $116.99 with 2-year contract $206.99 without.

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