The new Buzz on Motorola

Tired of waiting for the Xperia X10 for your first taste of Android and Sony Ericsson? Leave it to the gang at the XDA-developers forum to jump the gun. Last week marked the successful port of Android 2.0.1 (or Android 1.6, if you so choose) to the Xperia X1. No bluetooth, camera, or GPS — not yet, at any rate — but WiFI, GSM, resistive touchscreen, and all the other amenities should be functioning. Tweakers at heart can find all the necessary files and instructions via the source link, and as for the rest of us.

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Verizon today said that its wireline and wireless customers can continue to call Haiti without long distance fees for two more weeks. The deal will last until February 14th, an extension from the original January 31st cutoff.

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Earnings calls tend to be about as exciting as a stale piece of white bread, but every once in a while something juicy falls through — and morsels are filtering out of the earnings call that Motorola held this morning. Here are the biggies:

• We hope you like Blur, because it’s not going anywhere. CEO Sanjay Jha says that “the majority of our new smartphone [sic] this year will feature” the platform, and that it’ll “include enhancements to address the prosumer segment of the market.” They’re looking to rope in media (music, photos, and so on) the same way they did social networking, boost enterprise compatibility for white collar types that only have one phone, and improve network efficiency to ease up on battery drain. All good things, we reckon.
• Feature phones in Moto’s range will “meaningfully decline” as it heads toward planned profitability in the fourth quarter through higher-margin smartphones. Android isn’t the only game plan, though — it’ll continue to develop its ultra low-end handsets for emerging markets.
• Following the Nexus One’s lead, Jha said that it’ll launch “at least one direct-to-consumer device with Google.” That matches up nicely with a statement he made during our CES interview that “there will be multiple devices [launched through Google] and I think that we said ‘yes’ today that probably this next device is our device.”

All told, we have every reason to believe that this’ll be an exciting year for Moto fans — and that HTC needs to keep a close eye on these guys.

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With the announcement that the iPad would continue Apple’s often-rocky relationship with AT&T to serve up wide-area data, we wanted to know: exactly what does an iPad cost you over the course of a couple years? Granted, the iPad doesn’t support voice calling — nor does it require a contract, unlike the iPhone — but for anyone who uses an iPhone primarily for browsing and gaming, this could make for a serviceable alternative that saves money over the long term. Follow the break for the full rundown.

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Nokia X6, a Come with Music phone with 32GB internal memory is getting a 16GB version this quarter. The Nokia X6 16GB is a full touch screen phone powered by a 3.2-inch wide display in 16:9 ratio (360 x 640 pixels) and 16 million colors. The touch screen phone also comes with a 5 megapixel camera module. It does not have a Xenon flash but assisted by dual flash LED for low light photography.

Available in all black, all white, white with pink highlights and white with yellow highlights colors,the 16GB version will be sold without the Come with Music service but will come with the latest version of Symbian^1 user interface. The phone retail package will also package with Spore by EA, Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft games.

Nokia X6 16GB Specifications:

• Network: WCDMA 850/1900/2100+QB GSM (LTA, NA). WCDMA 900/1900/2100 +QB GSM
• Size: 111 x 51 x 13.8 mm
• Display: 3.2? 16:9 nHD
• 16 GB internal memory
• Talk time: up to 11.5h (GSM)
• Stand-by time: up to 18 days (GSM)
• Music playback time: up to 35h
• Video playback time: up to 4 hours (30 fps)
• Processor 433.9MHz
• 5 megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• A-GPS
• WLAN

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Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for its smartphones that includes walk and drive navigation at no extra cost, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. The new version of Ovi Maps includes high-end car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries, as well as detailed maps for more than 180 countries.

Ovi Maps is immediately available for download for 10 Nokia handsets, including the popular Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia E72, with more Nokia smartphones expected to be added in the coming weeks. In the meantime, current owners of Nokia smartphones that are compatible with the new Ovi Maps can download it free of charge from www.nokia.com/maps.

From March 2010, new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include the new version of Ovi Maps, pre-loaded with local country map data, with walk and drive navigation and access to Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.

Compatible Devices

• Nokia N97 mini,
• Nokia 5800 XpressMusic,
• Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition,
• Nokia E52,
• Nokia E55,
• Nokia E72,
• Nokia 5230,
• Nokia 6710 Navigator,
• Nokia 6730 classic,
• Nokia X6

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In addition to T-Mobile also waiving long distance charges to call Haiti from the U.S., we’ve been told Verizon is actually going back and crediting customers who have called Haiti since last Tuesday. Nice one, VZW.

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One of our connects hit us up with some changes Verizon Wireless is making to its calling plans effective January 18th. The details are coming in slowly but it looks like Big Red (not the gum) is ditching the all-inclusive Premium plan and renaming the current Basic plan to Nationwide Talk, and the Select Plan to Nationwide Talk & Text. A 30% drop in pricing on the unlimited minutes options for each of these plans is expected to accompany the name changes. Verizon also reconfirms the changes to the feature phone data plans which includes a new $9.99 data plan with 25MB and mobile email and a $29.99 unlimited plan with mobile email. Additionally, overage charges for the new $9.99 plan have been decreased from 50¢ to 20¢ per MB. All 3G multimedia phones, a category which has been expanded to include the enV3, Chocolate Touch and others, will now require a data plan of $9.99 or higher, like we reported. Verizon also added onto their prepaid plans, offering an new unlimited plan Talk & Text plan for $94.99 per month. Hit the jump for some highlights of the changes.

UPDATE: We’ve got shots of the new family plans as well as comparisons to AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile! It looks like Verizon’s new unlimited voice plans will run $69.99/month individually, with an $89.99/month option that will include unlimited text messages as well. As far as family plans go, Verizon seems to be coming in at $119.99/month for the first two lines, and $49.99/line a month after that with unlimited text and data options as well.

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Could it be true? It’s hard to put it as more than a rumor at the moment, but word is that folks who own a Storm 2, Storm, Bold (9000 / 9700), Tour, Curve (8900 / 8520 / 8520) will be getting a Sirius XM app, similar to the iPhone app. There will be a whole 120 channels available for you, so if this is true, it’s certainly great news. You’ll need an online subscription to Sirius XM, but that part should be quite obvious, right?

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We’d heard that Navigon would be bringing navigation to Android, and here at CES it’s gone one better: MobileNavigator is coming to Android and Windows Mobile. The app will feature Navigon’s trademark Reality View Plus view and Lane Assistant Pro features on both platforms, and it’ll sell for $89 on WinMo starting now ($69 until Valentines Day), and launch for Android in the spring.

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