Tag Archives: Motorola

Motorola XT1058 for AT&T hits the FCC, could be XFON related

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We’ve been waiting to see what Motorola would produce now that it’s a part of Google, and one of its first phones to bring the stock Android 4.2 experience may have just been revealed in an FCC filing. The XT1058 sports AT&T compatible LTE ban…


EC says Motorola broke antitrust rules, abused its patent position

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It was almost a year ago to the day that the European Commission began investigating Motorola over reported abuse of its standard-essential patents (SEPs), and now the regulators have a little more to say on the matter. The Commission has issued M…


Latest Motorola leak suggests company will make good on promises of stock Android

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Motorola’s been talking up its phones in the pipeline as of late, which are said to feature stock Android, broader carrier availability and less bloatware. We first saw hints of such a device from a leak in Vietnam, but now @evleaks has weighed in…


Refresh Roundup: week of April 22nd, 2013

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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy f…


Google Glass’ vision of the future runs on a 2011 smartphone chip

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Google Glass may represent the future of wearables, but its components are a vestige of the past — 2011, to be exact. That’s according to developer Jay Lee who dug up some interesting Glass tidbits using Android Debug Bridge. Taking to his Google…


Oculus’ Palmer Luckey on the Motorola StarTAC and living in the meatspace

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Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire. Oculus VR founder and designer Palmer Luckey has a go at our weekly set of questions while chatting percep…


Washington court rules Motorola can get millions, not billions, from Microsoft for its patents

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Among the many patent cases currently ongoing between Motorola and Microsoft is one in US District Court in the state of Washington concerning standards-essential WiFi and h.264 patents. AllThingsD reports that while Motorola was requesting billio…


ZTE licenses Microsoft’s Android-related patents

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Just last week Microsoft added Foxconn’s parent company to its growing list of licensees for patents it asserts are key to Android, and now ZTE has inked a deal with Ballmer and Co. as well. Now that the pact is in place, Microsoft says it’s struc…


ITC tosses Motorola’s sensor-based complaint against Apple

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If you thought the patent war between Motorola (Google) and Apple was already over, you were mistaken. Though, today’s decision by the ITC to toss Moto’s complaint against Cupertino regarding the use of sensors to control the interface of a phone,…


Refresh Roundup: week of April 15th, 2013

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Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy f…