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MOTOROLA ATRIX™ HD for AT&T: Available today!

July 15, 2012 : BY Motorola

At 8.4 mm, the stylish MOTOROLA ATRIX™ HD is ultra thin, but don’t let that fool you:

• It’s built to last, with a strong, DuPont™ KEVLAR® fiber body and scratch-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass display. An invisible nano-coating provides splash resistance inside and out.

• The brilliant 4.5-inch HD ColorBoost™ display gives you more vibrant colors. Combine that with the highest resolution smartphone display out there, and you get pictures with incredible clarity and detail.

• Our intelligent SMARTACTIONS™ app suggests ways to optimize your phone’s performance, helping you drive smarter and meet with fewer interruptions – all while saving hours of battery life, so you spend less time worrying and more time having fun.

MOTOROLA ATRIX™ HD is now available in all AT&T channels for $99.99 with a two-year agreement and requires eligible voice and data plans. Order yours today!

Tagged as: 4g lte, android 4.0, ATRIX HD, att, colorboost, corning, gorilla glass, kevlar, motorola, smartactions

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Software & Apps

In-Your-Face Security Comes To DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX

July 3, 2012 : BY Motorola

Passwords can be easy to guess. And let’s face it, who doesn’t use similar passwords in multiple places? Here’s one password you’ll never have to remember and always be able to use. Face Unlock: it’s the new screen-lock option that lets you access your smartphone with just one look. The front-facing camera and state-of-the-art facial recognition technology work together to recognize you and unlock your phone.

Set up is quick and easy.  See it here.

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It’s made possible by the latest upgrade, Ice Cream Sandwich,  which you can learn more about here.

Tagged as: android 4.0, face unlock, i.c.s., ice cream sandwich, ics, motorola, software upgrade

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Software & Apps

Android 4.0 ICS available for all DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX owners

July 2, 2012 : BY Motorola

Great news. As we type, Ice Cream Sandwich is rolling out to DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX. Owners: if you haven’t yet received the upgrade but can’t bear to wait, check your phone settings. Go to “About phone,” select “System updates” and you should see the upgrade available for download.

You’ve told us what’s important to you, and we’ve been listening.  In addition to all the great new features that Ice Cream Sandwich delivers to your smartphone, we are also making your DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX Global Ready with this upgrade – so you can talk, text, browse, email, and more with voice and data connectivity in over 220 countries.*

With this upgrade, everything gets just a little bit easier—and faster. Make a call, send a text or take a picture, right from the unlock screen. You can use the new face unlock feature where your phone will unlock with just a glance – no PIN or password! — but only for your face, and nobody else’s.

Check out this video explaining what you should do before you download the Android 4.0 upgrade and get the full scoop on everything new that comes with Ice Cream Sandwich here.

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Read the feature story on the Ice Cream Sandwich roll out on our Media Center.

*Contact Verizon Wireless for pricing and subscription information.

Tagged as: android 4.0, droid razr, droid razr maxx, ice cream sandwich, ics, motorola

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Software & Apps

UPDATE: Android 4.0 ICS News for DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX Owners

June 22, 2012 : BY Motorola

A select number of DROID RAZR by Motorola and DROID RAZR MAXX by Motorola owners will start receiving the upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich this week as part of our standard upgrade process; broader deployments will come over the coming days. While you wait, watch this short video highlighting some of the best new features that come with the new software.  You can also check out our “prepare and learn” pages so that you’ll be totally up to speed on all the latest features your smartphone is getting. There are plenty of videos explaining some of the coolest changes — which are all coming your way very soon.

By the way, the upgrade brings more than just Ice Cream Sandwich – it makes your DROID RAZR or DROID RAZR MAXX global ready!  They’re the first 4G LTE smartphones on the Verizon Wireless network that will be able to support voice and data service in more than 220 countries when you’re subscribed to an international plan.

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Tagged as: android 4.0, droid razr, droid razr maxx, i.c.s., ice cream sandwich, ics, motorola, razr, razr maxx, upgrade

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Software & Apps

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is here for Motorola XOOM™ owners on Verizon Wireless

June 4, 2012 : BY Motorola

We know you’ve been waiting for it, and now it’s here.  For all you Motorola XOOM owners out there on the Verizon Wireless network: welcome to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which makes your tablet more powerful and easier to use.

XOOM ICS

We wanted to make sure everything was just right before pushing this out, and hope you’ll enjoy all the new capabilities you now have at your fingertips.  The upgrade is now being rolled out in stages, and everyone on the Verizon Wireless network should have it on their Motorola XOOM this week.

Once you have it, you might experience a brief sense of disorientation – don’t panic!  It’s only temporary.  Soon you’ll be zipping along enjoying all the new enhancements for your tablet, including:

  • Faster web surfing, with an updated browser that delivers faster rendering, zoom and pan.  It’s also easier to get to the desktop versions of websites, and you can save pages to read offline.
  • Instant access to your favorite apps, shortcuts and folders from any home screen.  Try out the new customizable Launch Bar — easily drag apps, shortcuts and folders in or out of it for easier access than ever before.
  • Improved accuracy with the keyboard, including an in-line spellchecker; or touch the microphone and start talking to see real-time speech-to-text (with punctuation!) with more than twenty languages supported.
  • We know you’ve always loved the Recent Apps feature, and now it’s even better than before!  You can easily dismiss apps by swiping them away.
  • A new on-tablet photo editor so you can make masterpieces of your snapshots: crop and rotate images, add special effects, and remove redeye.  You can also take panoramic pictures easily with the new single motion panorama mode.  Taking video?  Try out new fun effects that give your friends big eyes, squeezed heads, or new backgrounds.
  • Some apps are just meant to be together.  Now you can create custom folders to access them with just one touch.

Be sure to visit our support forums if you need any help with the new software on your tablet, or send us a Tweet at the new @motorolasupport handle.  Enjoy!

Tagged as: 4g, 4g lte, android 4.0, ice cream sandwich, ics, motorola, verizon wireless, xoom

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Features, Software & Apps

Motorola Update on Ice Cream Sandwich

December 7, 2011 : BY Motorola

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

Like you, we are excited to see that Google released the source code to Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS)! We’d like to address the question many of you have now – when can I get my ICS?  There are many steps and processes that go into Ice Cream Sandwich in a way that works for the carrier and for you.  Once source code is released from Google, it doesn’t automatically update to your device.

Each new version of Android launches with one device partner, in what is called the “Google Experience Device” or GED, the showcase device for a new Android release.  The GED partner for each launch works with Google during the development of the OS so that the device and new Android version are ready for a coordinated simultaneous launch.

Once that GED device ships, the rest of the Android community gains access to the Android source code as its made public shortly after – a critical milestone for device manufacturers and component suppliers, enabling us to start work on integrating the new release into our existing products.

Google has performed the initial public release of the Ice Cream Sandwich source code; additional releases will enable device manufacturers to ship commercial product with ICS.  We are currently assessing this source code, and over the next month we will be determining which devices will get the upgrade and when  — and we will communicate this as information becomes available. From there, the following steps take place:

1. Merge and adapt the new release for different device hardware architecture(s) and carrier customizations

This means that we take the source code and incorporate it into upgrades for devices on which this can perform well, along with making sure the carrier requirements are met.  Silicon partners such as Qualcomm, TI, and nVidia adapt this to their chipsets in parallel and we incorporate these as they become available. This is also the time when we begin integrating all of the Motorola-specific software enhancements into the source code.  Features like MotoCast, SMARTACTIONS™, and our comprehensive enterprise solutions are integral parts of our device experiences, and we want to make sure we continue delivering differentiated experiences for our consumers with these software upgrades.

2. Stabilize and ‘bake’ the result to drive out bugs

This means that we will prepare the upgrade to meet the quality and stability requirements to enter the wireless carrier’s certification lab.

3. Submit the upgrade to the carriers for certification

This is the point in the process where the carrier’s lab qualifies and tests the upgrade. Each carrier has different requirements for phases 2 and 3. There may be a two-month preparation cycle to enter a carrier lab cycle of one to three months.

3.5 Perform a Customer pre-release

We may perform some customer testing before a final release is delivered publicly to our user base.

4. Release the upgrade

We are planning on upgrading as many of our phones as possible.  The ability to offer the upgrade depends on a number of factors including the hardware/device capabilities, the underlying chipset software support, the ICS support and then the ability to support the Motorola value add software.

To recap our earlier post, we are planning to upgrade DROID RAZR™ by Motorola, Motorola RAZR™, Motorola XOOM™ (including Family Edition) and DROID BIONIC™ by Motorola to Ice Cream Sandwich. We will provide more precise guidance on timing after post-public push of Ice Cream Sandwich by Google, as well as any possible additions to this list of devices: As always, please refer to the Motorola Android Software Upgrade News page for the latest information.

We hope this provides some insight into what we do behind the scenes here at Motorola.  Should you have any other questions, feel free to hit us up here in the comments!

And for an exclusive Q&A with Dave Rothschild, senior vice president of Software and Services Product Management at Motorola Mobility, head over to the Motorola Media Center.

The information contained herein is provided for information purposes only and is intended only to outline Motorola’s presently anticipated general technology direction. The information communicated is not a commitment or an obligation to deliver any product, product feature, software upgrade or functionality and Motorola reserves the right to make changes to the content and timing of any product, product feature or software release. The software functionality and features provided by a specific version of the Android operating system may vary by phone and manufacturer.

Tagged as: android, android 4.0, ice cream sandwich, ics, motorola, motorola update, smartactions, smartphone

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