Mobile Phone News

Without naming names, Motorola’s Canadian outpost dropped some teasers today that versions of all three of its midrange Blur-powered Android handsets for GSM networks — the Backflip, DEXT, and Quench — will be coming to the country in the first half of 2010. What’s more, they’ll be hitting “all three national wireless carriers” — a little bit of a slap for Mobilicity and WIND, yes, but generally good news for the overwhelming majority of subscribers. Perhaps the most engaging attention bit in this place is that they’ve called out the DEXT by name, continuing Moto’s tradition of going with European branding over American for its Canadian launches, a trend started by Telus’ Milestone. We don’t yet know which carrier will get which phone, what they’ll retail for, or precisely when they’ll be on shelves, but needless to say, the Google-powered situation north of the border just got a whole lot prettier.

Motorola Backflip, DEXT, and Quench all inbound for Canada in the first half of the year originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Verizon — like pretty much any North American carrier — has an amazing propensity for offering countless, virtually anonymous flips from LG and Samsung. Yes, granted, they seem to be better at catering to the specific “needs” of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile more than any other manufacturer — and for many customers, it’s hard to argue with a decent-looking phone that costs a few bucks on contract — but you’d think they’d be able to keep these handsets in the lineup for literally years on end without a single change. Alas, PhoneArena seems to have the inside line on a couple new ones for Big Red that do little to move the low-end needle, including this VX5600 Accolade (pictured) whose headline features are a 1.3 megapixel cam and Bluetooth support. There’s apparently a second flip in the pipeline called the “Clout” that should be fixing to replace the year-old VX8360, so yeah, nothing that’s going knock your socks off in this batch of unverified information. Hey, they can’t all be Snapdragon-powered beasts with WVGA displays, right?

LG Accolade, Clout coming to Verizon? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

AT&T might be suing Verizon for misrepresenting its network in ads, but that doesn’t seem to have dissuaded Big Red from using that same map image in this new spot, which casts the iPhone away to the Island of Misfit Toys. Hard to argue with the premise, but in this place’s the real question: why not just sack up use a real iPhone, instead of this KIRF piece? Check the ad after the break.