May 2012

Features, Products

DROID RAZR owners: tell us why you switched, for a chance to win

May 31, 2012 : BY Motorola

Own a DROID RAZR by Motorola? We want to hear from you. Tell us why you switched out your old phone, and in exchange for your testimonial, you’ll have the chance to win a gift card, cool accessories or the grand prize of $2,500!

Just visit our Facebook page and click on the RAZR Switchers app. Then, in 1,000 characters or less, tell us why you switched to the thinnest 4G LTE smartphone on the market.

Need some inspiration? Check out this video from Pritesh. He told us that he’s so happy he switched to DROID RAZR he now thinks of his phone as his girlfriend. Now that’s what we call some love!

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Tagged as: contest, droid razr, motorola, razr switchers, smartphone, switchers

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Software & Apps

Motorola APPy Hour: kid-friendly edition

May 30, 2012 : BY Motorola

The minute you set your phone down, your kid picks it up. The tablet you bought as a “family” gift hasn’t left your tween’s room since January. Thanks to your toddler, your last Facebook status update was “a@&89l;’.”

Any of these sound familiar? From tots to tweens, kids love tech. They take after their parents, after all! The next time your mini me reaches for your smartphone or tablet, make sure it’s loaded with some apps designed just for kids.

Jungle Math for Kids


A visually stunning math exercise game that helps kids build basic math skills. Jungle Math transports your child to a tropical rain forest to learn addition and subtraction, building math, logic and reasoning skills.

Green Eggs and Ham


This app combines the original text and artwork of a Dr. Seuss classic, with professional narration and background audio. To promote reading in young children, individual words are highlighted as the story is read and words zoom up when pictures are touched.

Fling a Thing (Free)


A simple and fun game where you fling cute little characters into the air to collect bubbles. When you’ve cleared away all the bubbles, you move on to the next level. Keep going and you’ll meet some really bizarre objects!

A Moon For The Sky (Free)


Help the land of Astrolunia! Send a new moon into the sky, to restore the ecosystem. But watch out—there will be obstacles in your way. Simple gameplay with progressive difficulty and many elements to unlock.

Tagged as: apps for kids, appy hour, google play, kid-friendly apps, kids apps, motorola

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Features

Motorola employees are encouraged to get mobile

May 30, 2012 : BY Motorola

The Motorola Mobility Foundation encourages employees to get mobile in more ways than one. It’s well known that Motorola is all about mobility, but it’s not all tech. As part of the Get Mobile program, employees who participate in an organized walk, run or other “a-thon” that benefits charity can receive $300 towards their fundraising goals from our foundation. Employees have requested Get Mobile grants for everything from walk-a-thons, triathlons, marathons and even bird watching a-thons!

The most recent recipient was “Team Robin.” Thirteen Motorola Mobility employees participated in the Brain Tumor Walk in honor of their co-worker’s wife who lost her battle to brain cancer in 2011.

We hope you all get mobile and make a difference this year. Please tell us in the comments of events and programs you and your employers take part in.

Tagged as: get mobile, matching employee contributions, motorola, motorola mobility foundation

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Features

Tell Us Your Story and Win a Business Ready Mobile Makeover from Motorola!

May 29, 2012 : BY Motorola

UPDATE: To get the latest information on MotoCast, please visit the support page.

For a lot of us, work doesn’t end just because we leave the office. The endless stream of email never stops. Meetings are scheduled, rescheduled, and rescheduled again. You’ve also got birthdays, grocery lists, doggie play dates and other important life details. You’re busy. You’re trying to hold it all together. We get that.

Well, life is about to get easier for a handful of you, because Motorola Mobility is giving 10 lucky winners a mobile makeover with our Business Ready smartphones, tablets and accessories. All you have to do is tell us in a video why you should win and post it to Facebook.That’s all there is to it.Here’s how it works:In 30 seconds or less, tell Motorola Mobility why you deserve a Business Ready Mobile Makeover. Videos can be uploaded on our Facebook page here.

• Beginning June 8, we’ll choose two videos per week for five weeks.
• Winners will be announced every Friday
• Winners will receive $1,500-worth of devices and accessories!

By using Motorola’s Business Ready devices and accessories (like DROID RAZR MAXX, DROID 4, or ATRIX 2 and DROID XYBOARD 8.2, Lapdock 100, HD Dock, Elite Sliver headset and Smart Controller) you can stay connected to people and projects without staying tied to your PC at work. So you can work smarter – not harder.

With every one of our Business Ready devices you can:
• Access, edit and create documents on-the-go.
• Join conference calls with the touch of a button with the GoToMeeting app.
• Access thousands of other productivity apps.
• Use amazing built-in apps like SMARTACTIONS™ and MotoCast.
• Rest assured that your data is safe with Motorola’s built-in security tools.So, there you have it. You need help and we want to be the ones to help you. But, first things first: get those creative juices flowing and shoot your video soon. Time is ticking…We can’t wait to see your submissions!

Tagged as: business ready, contest, mobile makeover, motorola, smartactions, tell us your story

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Tips & Tricks

Get familiar with Voice Actions on Android for your Motorola device

May 29, 2012 : BY Motorola

Wondering what Voice Actions for Android is? This tool, available on several Motorola devices including DROID RAZR by Motorola, DROID 4 by Motorola and the Motorola PHOTON™ 4G. Voice Actions is an intuitive way to control your Motorola phone simply by using your voice. You can use Voice Actions in Voice Search to call your contacts, get directions, send messages, and to perform a number of other common tasks, in addition to searching the web.

Here’s some instructions for getting started:

Use Voice Actions to search the web or perform other tasks

  1. Tap the Search key Image at the bottom of the phone . Or touch the Microphone icon in the Google search box or in the Browser’s URL box.The first few times you open Voice Search, it offers hints about how to use it and offers to play an introductory video. You can touch Speak now to use Voice Search at any time.Subsequently, a dialog opens, prompting you to speak Voice Actions or search the web. You can touch Help to open the hints screen again.Image
  2. Speak the voice action you want to use, or the words you want to search for. The complete set of Voice Actions is detailed in Voice Action commands.When you’re finished speaking, Voice Search analyzes your speech and initiates the action.If you have the Use My Locationsetting checked in the Google Search settings, local results are featured in your search results.If Google Search didn’t understand what you said, it presents a list of similar-sounding search terms and actions, which you can touch to continue with that action.

Some Voice Actions open a panel where you’re prompted to complete the action, by speaking or typing.

Complete a Voice Action

Some Voice Actions, such as “send email” and “note to self,” open a panel that prompts you to complete the action by speaking or typing more information.

  • Touch any text already entered in the panel to add or edit the text by speaking or typing.
  • Touch blue words or phrases or drag across multiple words to view a list of other possible transcriptions or to edit by speaking or typing.Voice Search displays words that it is confident it has transcribed accurately in black. Words or phrases with alternate transcriptions available are displayed in blue.
  • Touch a button at the bottom of the window to add any optional fields (you can also speak the name and content of any of these fields in your original voice action).
  • When you’re done, touch the button appropriate to completing the action, such as Send or Set.

Need further proof of how effective Voice Actions is? Check out the battle royale with Voice Actions on a MOTOROLA ATRIX 2 in one corner and Siri in another. So, which one knocks out your commands the fastest? Well, we don’t want to toot our own horn so we’ll just sound the bell.

See the showdown.

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Tagged as: apple, atrix 2, motorola, siri, voice actions, voice control

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Features

MEMORIAL DAY 2012: REMEMBER

May 28, 2012 : BY Motorola

Semper Fi. Aim High. This We’ll Defend. To all the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who have served in any war and given their lives, Motorola remembers. For more than 80 years, we’ve been there too — fighting right beside you. Our Handie-Talkie SCR536 portable two-way radio, developed in 1940 by Galvin Manufacturing Corp. (later Motorola) engineers, was a World War II icon. In 1943, we designed the world’s first FM portable two-way radio, the SCR300 backpack model, for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Weighing 35 pounds (15.9 kg), this “walkie-talkie” radio had a range of 10 to 20 miles (16-32 km). Yes, Motorola remembers. And we salute you. Learn more about Motorola over the years.

 

Tagged as: memorial day, motorola, motorola heritage, world war 2, wwii

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Products

Motorola asks: are you elgible for an upgrade?

May 25, 2012 : BY Motorola

It knows your mom’s digits by heart. And your favorite pizza toppings too. It’s heard every Oscar-worthy break-up, make-up and send-up. Yep, your phone’s been right there with you through thick and thin. Your one true companion. And confidant.

But guess what? It’s tired. Your trusty friend is not the sparkling, state-of-the-art, champion of wireless communication it used to be. And it’s just begging you to break in a younger, sleeker, sexier model. Believe it or not, you might currently be eligible for an upgrade. You can keep your existing number too. You owe it to your old phone, and friend, to find out. Take a look today.

 

Tagged as: motorola, phone upgrade, smartphone, trade in, upgrade

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Software & Apps

Travelling this weekend? Motorola’s APPy Hour can help.

May 24, 2012 : BY Motorola

Three day weekend: time to get outta town! Make sure it’s smooth sailing for you this Memorial Day weekend, by downloading these travels apps to your phone or tablet before you head out the door. They’ll help take the stress out of getting there, and help you explore once you’ve arrived, all on your compatible Motorola device.

FlightBoard

Turn your phone or tablet into the Arrivals and Departures board for any airport in the world. Using a beautiful, old school design, FlightBoard lets you check out the boards of your favorite airports and view all the flight information in real-time.

Expedia Hotels (Free)

Road trip? Cancelled flight? Family getaway? Find and book a hotel room in just 4 taps. Swipe through hi-res photos of hotels and see lobbies, rooms, pools and more. Get a great deal at more than 130,000 hotels in 20,000 cities worldwide.

Tourist: language learn & speak (Free)

Travelling to a foreign country? Get some help getting around. This app serves up translated phrases for situations like these: travel, transportation, food, accommodations, emergency situations and small talk. Languates currently supported are Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

Wikitude (Free)

Discover your surroundings in a completely new way. Simply hold up your smartphone and, using the camera, explore what’s around you in Augmented Reality (AR). See places, points of interests and other exciting AR content through your camera’s field of vision–a truly  engaging and immersive experience. Voted “Best Augmented Reality Browser 2009-2011.”

Tagged as: apps, appy hour, expedia, flightboard, memorial day travel, motorola, tourist language, travel apps, wikitude

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Features

Motorola’s history with TV – experimentally good

May 23, 2012 : BY Motorola

At Motorola, we’ve always pushed the envelope, innovating forward-thinking products and services, like the first pay-TV system.

It was 1957 when the Telemovies services offered people living in Bartlesville, Oklahoma the ability to pay for movies not offered by the regular TV channels and watch them in the comfort of their homes. We designed and provided the equipment that made it possible.  The first subscriber not only got to be the first person to watch their chosen movie at home, they also won a Motorola TV.

In 1960, the Motorola Astronaut television was the world’s first transistorized, cordless portable, large-screen television (at 19 inches!).

Then in 1966, there was the Motorola experimental shirt-pocket television, featuring a 1-1/8 inch picture. This advanced engineering project was directed by DeLoss Tanner of Motorola’s consumer products engineering department.

circa 1968 (Credit : Motorola, Inc. Legacy Archives Collection)

We’ve got a thing for being revolutionary, and you can click here to see all the latest ways we’re working to better your TV experience inside and outside of the home.

What cool things have you thought of that you’d like to see in the future? Tell us about them in the comments.

Tagged as: experimental, heritage, history, motorola, pocket tv, tv

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How To

Say hello to DROID XYBOARD’s little friends

May 22, 2012 : BY Motorola

Sure. The DROID XYBOARD 10.1 by Motorola is super touchable. But when your fingers really wanna get going, give them something other than Gorilla Glass to bounce off of. We made a portfolio case and wireless keyboard so you could protect your tablet, display it the way you want, and attach a wireless keyboard.

See the DROID XYBOARD in action:

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For the Grad in your life, or any other deserving soul, a purchase of the MOTOROLA XYBOARD 10.1 with Wi-Fi comes with a free keyboard with device stand – while supplies last, a 30 day no risk return policy and free 2 day shipping.

Learn even more about the MOTOROLA XYBOARD 10.1  and all its accessories.

Tagged as: 10.1, 4g lte, droid xyboard, friends, motorola, motorola xyboard, social, tablet, verizon, xyboard 10 inch

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