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Motorola MOTOLUXE review
Motorola’s purchase by Google has just completed, and the resulting hush throughout the industry has been deafening: what will happen to the handset department? Will it still be independent? Or will it get special treatment from the inside?
All the while, Motorola has been steadily releasing devices such as the MOTOLUXE to a market hungry for more Android handsets. Priced at $29 on the SuperTab (or $229.99 on a 30-day plan) on Virgin and $0 on a 3-year term (or $299.95 outright) on Bell, the phone gives a great first impression. Should you consider it over the similarly-priced HTC One V? Let’s take a look and find out.
Specs:
- Android 2.3.7 with custom Motorola skin
- 4-inch 480×854 pixel LCD display
- 800Mhz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7227A S1 processor w/ Adreno 200 GPU
- 512MB RAM / 1GB ROM (300MB for apps, 2GB SD card included)
- 8MP camera w/ flash and dedicated shutter button
- WVGA (800×480) video capture
- WiFi (b/g/n), Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi Direct, A-GPS
- 7.2Mbps HSDPA download/ 5.76Mbps HSUPA upload
- 117.7 x 60.5 x 9.9 mm
- 123.6g
Design and Display
For an inexpensive handset sold primarily on the prepaid market, the MOTOLUXE is remarkably well constructed. The entire front panel is covered by a piece of contiguous glass, though based on its love of fingerprints it’s unlikely to be of the Gorilla variety. The sides and back portion are made of a rubberized matte plastic that retains a fair amount of grip. The battery cover, which clips and slides vertically to reveal a lovely silver speaker grill, is adorned with the same grippish finish but is made of solid aluminum, adding some necessary heft to the diminutive handset.
My main issue with the material is that, like the glass, it attracts finger oils and prints, requiring frequent cleaning. Even then the oils tend to stick to the material, making me wonder how long it will be before deep black becomes an unsavoury shade of smudged grey.
The buttons around the device — volume rocker and camera shutter button on the right, power button on top — are nicely constructed of brushed metal but are very narrow, often requiring you to push down hard to activate. Below the screen is a row of four capacitive touch buttons, standard for a Motorola phone running Gingerbread. I’d have preferred to see only three — the search button is largely superfluous these days, in my opinion, and can be assigned to a long-press of the menu button — but they’re spaced well enough apart
I may as well spend some time talking about what everyone is inevitably going to ask: the large hole on the bottom left of the device is, in fact, a combination notification light and lanyard slip. Yes, a lanyard.
This should tell you everything you need to know about the phone’s target demographic: those who would tolerate, if not yearn for, an oversized flashing multi-coloured LED with space enough for a piece of nylon to slip through. In truth, it actually looks quite nice; the default shade of blue is quite comforting, as are the remaining reds, greens and oranges depending on what is happening on the device.
It’s also distinctive enough to likely raise a few questions from passersby; Motorola’s tagline for the phone happens to be, “It’s not rude to stare.”
Software
The MOTOLUXE runs Android 2.3.7 with Motorola’s typically lightweight launcher and set of widgets. Many of the widgets are pre-installed of the homescreen and comprise of quick access to your friends’ social feeds, recent apps, weather and the like.
The lock screen is quite intuitive, giving you access to six customizable app shortcuts in a ring such as Gmail, Google Play Music and the phone dialler. It’s a similar method to HTC’s, but instead of dragging the icon up from the bottom, the ring of apps surrounds the lock “key” to access the app.
Motorola has skinned many of the apps you’d typically find on an Android smartphone such as Messaging and Email. Other apps, like Calendar, Contacts and Gallery, remain stock Gingerbread versions. The changes are subtle and actually improve on the originals; for example, Motorola’s email app has much more robust Exchange support than stock Android’s. Also included are a media server app called Voice Commands, MediaSee and an FM Radio portal, along with QuickOffice Lite and a few Bell-branded apps such as Mobile TV and Remote PVR.
Performance
If you’re looking for a top-of-the-line Android smartphone, the MOTOLUXE is not for you. Running an 800Mhz single-core first-generation Snapdragon processor, the device runs at the same speed as the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 and Nokia’s upcoming Lumia 610. Its processor is some three generations old and it shows.
Scrolling through the various homescreens leaves the phone breathless: opening apps is a struggle; typing on the stock keyboard is often an exercise in frustration as the multitouch keyboard stalls and “catches up” every 10 seconds or so. Basic games such as Words With Friends and Angry Birds perform without issue on the MOTOLUXE, but if you’re looking for a premiere gaming experience you’ll want to spend a couple hundred dollars more or go with a high-end device from last year which often costs about the same when purchased second-hand.
Camera
Outfitting a device like the MOTOLUXE with an 8MP camera was a brave move, but Motorola is positioning the device as media-focused and consumer-friendly. To that end, it has a dual-press dedicated shutter button that can activate the camera software from anywhere within the OS (though it cannot wake the device from sleep like the Xperia S).
Sample photos were average, with nice colour reproduction but a notable fuzziness around the edges of subjects. The autofocus was notoriously finicky, too: I had to re-take the above shots several times to get one that wasn’t blurry or out of focus. When held steady, however, the phone made for a decent photo-taking experience, especially when used inside Motorola’s excellent camera UI.
You can set pre-assigned Scenes and Colour Effects such as action shot or macro mode, though none of them seemed to really affect the outcome of photos. Colour Effects, on the other hand, filter images in monochrome, sepia and aqua, among others.
The MOTOLUXE has a VGA front facing camera that can only be described as ‘noisy’ but again, having a front-facing camera on a device such as this gives it a leg up on the competition. Video quality at the phone’s native resolution was the same: passable.
Battery Life, Network Speed and Call Quality
As a phone, the MOTOLUXE works very well. Motorola has never forgotten it practically created the cell phone, and I’ve always had a great experience using their handsets to make calls. Recipients came through without tinniness or sibilance, and maximum volume was more than sufficient. The back speaker, too, provided enough sound to fill a small room, though I’d suggest using headphones for music.
Considering the MSM7227A chipset from Qualcomm only supports 7.2Mbps download speeds over Bell’s HSPA+ network, I didn’t have high hopes for the MOTOLUXE in that department. As expected bandwidth constraints kept speeds to between one and two megabits per second in both directions. Note that because the device only supports 3G connectivity in the 850/1900Mhz range, you’ll be limited to 2G in most countries outside North America.
Battery life on the MOTOLUXE was sufficient from the 1420mAh cell. The 45nm SoC is not particularly power-hungry, and I was able to get over a day of use from the phone, which is more than can be said for many high-end smartphones today. That said, activities like streaming video and taking photos tended to zap the battery quite quickly, so be mindful of your usage.
Conclusions
The MOTOLUXE is not out to win the hearts and minds of the high-end market; rather, it fits quite snugly into the low- to mid-range, and does so by checking all the boxes. It has a few highs and some lows, but for the most part performs most task well enough for the price.
For Virgin customers, $230 is definitely attractive on a 30-day plan; Bell customers have some serious competition in the HTC One V, which can be purchased for the same price. There’s no mention of whether the MOTOLUXE will receive Android 4.0 but based on the internal specs I doubt it would perform well enough.
Rest assured, the MOTOLUXE an attractive and well-made product with a decent screen and camera. For many potential buyers, that — and the low price — will be enticing enough.
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EU mergers and takeovers (June 8)
(Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process:
APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS
-- Regulators approve British credit information group Experian and Italian peer Cerved to set up a joint venture (notified May 7/deadline June 15/approved June 8/simplified)
-- EU Commission clears acquisition of TES Holdings by Mitsubishi Corp., the Development Bank of Japan and DVB Bank of Germany (approved June 8/simplified)
NEW LISTINGS
JULY 12
-- Proposed acquisition of joint control of electronics components maker NEC TOKIN Corp. by KEMET Electronics Corp. and NEC Corp. (notified June 7/deadline July 12)
EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES
None
FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE
JUNE 7
-- Spanish oil product company Disa Corporacion Petrolifera to acquire joint control of Shell Aviation Espana S.L. from Shell Espana S.A, which is part of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (notified April 26/deadline June 7)
JUNE 12
-- Belgian chemicals company Solvay and French peer Air Liquide to form a fluorine gas business joint venture )notified May 2/deadline June 12/simplified)
JUNE 15
-- Hong Kong's Hutchison 3G, which is part of Hutchison Whampoa, to acquire telecoms operator Orange Austria from France Telecom (notified May 7/deadline June 15)
JUNE 19
-- The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to acquire joint control of road toll operator Grupo Costanera which is now solely owned by motorway toll operator Atlantia (notified May 10/deadline June 19/simplified)
-- POSCO Chemtech, which is a subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO ; Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp and Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp to set up a joint venture (notified May 10/deadline June 19/simplified)
JUNE 20
-- France's La Poste and Switzerland's Swiss Post to set up a joint venture for cross border mail activities (notified May 11/deadline June 20)
JUNE 21
-- Spanish oil product company Disa Corporacion Petrolifera to acquire joint control of Shell Aviation Espana, a unit of Shell (notified April 26/deadline extended to June 21 after Spanish competition regulators asked for the case to be referred to them)
JUNE 22
-- Dutch insurer Aegon to acquire a joint stake in Spanish life insurer Liberbank Vida from Spanish lender Liberbank (notified May 15/deadline June 22/simplified)
-- Germany's Bertelsmann to acquire a stake in German software company Bidmanagement (notified May 15/deadline June 22/simplified)
-- Swedish paper company SCA to acquire the European tissue operations of Georgia-Pacific Europe (notified May 15/deadline June 22)
JUNE 26
-- Russia's EuroChem to acquire German potash miner K+S's nitrogen fertiliser distribution business (notified May 21/deadline June 26/simplified)
-- German engine maker Tognum and Russian engine producer TMH to form a joint venture (notified May 21/deadline June 26/simplified)
-- German car parts maker Robert Bosch to acquire the automotive service business of U.S. manufacturer SPX Service Solutions Business (notified May 21/deadline June 26)
-- U.S. technology distributor Arrow Electronics to acquire computing product distributor Altimate Group which is a unit of Irish business services group DCC Plc (notified May 21/deadline June 26)
-- Swiss-based trader Vitol and private equity investor AtlasInvest to acquire certain Swiss assets from Petroplus (notified May 21/deadline June 26/simplified)
-- Malta-based oil and aluminium company Klesch Group to acquire a subsidiary of French chemicals company Arkema (notified May 21/deadline June 26/simplfied)
-- Samsung Electronics to acquire sole control of Samsung Mobile Display Co which is now jointly controlled by Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDI Co Ltd (notified May 21/deadline June 26/simplified)
-- Hon Hai to acquire a 46.5 percent stake in Sharp Display Products which is owned by Sharp (notified May 21/deadline June 26)
JUNE 29
-- Private equity firm CVC to acquire business consultancy Alix Partners (notified May 24/deadline June 29/simplified)
-- German animal product manufacturer Saria bio-Industries AG, which is controlled by German privately-owned water management and logistics company Rethmann, to set up a joint venture together with Danish meat processing company Danish Crown (notified May 24/deadline June 29)
-- Toshiba Tech Corp, a unit of Japan's Toshiba Corp, to buy IBM's point-of-sale terminal business (notified May 24/deadline June 29)
JULY 2
-- Venture capital firm BPCE to acquire joint control of staffing agency Accent Jobs For People (notified May 25/deadline July 2/simplified)
-- Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson to acquire technology services company Technicolor Broadcasting Services (notified May 25/deadline July 2/simplified)
JULY 3
-- British telecoms operator Vodafone to acquire telecoms provider Cable & Wireless Worldwide (notified May 29/deadline July 3)
-- Geneva-based commodities trader Vitol to buy a stake in the Cockett Group which is involved in bunkering activities and is a subsidiary of South African shipping firm Grindrod (notified May 29/deadline July 3/simplified)
JULY 4
-- Japanese cash handling machine maker Glory Ltd to acquire Britain's Talaris Topco Ltd (notified May 30/deadline July 4)
JULY 5
-- Animal feed producer Forfarmers to acquire holding company Agricola which owns a group of British animal feed suppliers operating under the trade name BOCM Pauls (notified May 31/deadline July 5)
-- Germany car maker Volkswagen's Audi division to buy Italian motorcycle maker Ducati (notified May 31/deadline July 5/simplified)
-- Finnish engineering company Metso to acquire Finnish ship and power plant engine maker Wartsila's holding in their MW Power joint venture. Metso currently owns 60 percent and Wartsila 40 percent of MW Power (notified May 31/deadline July 5/simplified)
JULY 6
-- Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners to acquire HSE24, which operates teleshopping broadcasters in Germany (notified June 1/deadline July 6/simplified)
JULY 9
-- Swiss commodities trader Glencore to acquire Canadian grain handler Viterra Inc (notified June 4/deadline July 9/simplified)
JULY 12
-- Proposed acquisition of joint control of electronics components maker NEC TOKIN Corp. by KEMET Electronics Corp. and NEC Corp. (notified June 7/deadline July 12)
AUG 31
-- U.S. conglomerate United Technologies Corp to acquire U.S. aircraft components maker Goodrich (notified Feb. 20/deadline extended for the second time to Aug. 31 from Aug. 9 at the companies' request)
SEPT 6
-- Vivendi's Universal Music Group to buy British record label EMI's recorded music unit from Citigroup Inc (notified Feb. 17/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 6 from Aug. 8 after the Commission asked for more time)
SEPT 19
-- Telefonica UK and Vodafone UK to set up a joint venture providing mobile commerce services (notified March 6/deadline extended for the second time to Sept. 19 from Aug. 27 after the companies requested an extension)
SEPT 26
-- Finnish group Outokumpu to acquire German group ThyssenKrupp's Inoxum stainless steel unit (notified April 10/deadline extended to Sept. 26 from May 21 after the Commission opens an in-depth investigation)
GUIDE TO EU MERGER PROCESS
DEADLINES:
The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is filed for a first-stage review. It may extend that by 10 working days to 35 working days, to consider either a company's proposed remedies or an EU member state's request to handle the case.
Most mergers win approval but occasionally the Commission opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90 additional working days, which it may extend to 105 working days.
SIMPLIFIED:
Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces the clearance of uncontroversial first-stage mergers without giving any reason for its decision. Cases may be reclassified as non-simplified -- that is, ordinary first-stage reviews -- until they are approved.
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Mexico América Móvil ,
Spain Telefónica (Movistar, O2 & Vivo)
France Orange,
Norway Telenor,
Russia Beeline,
Singapore SingTel,
Malaysia Axiata Group Berhad,
China China Unicom,
Finland/Sweden TeliaSonera,
Saudi Arabia Saudi Telecom Company (STC)
South Africa MTN Group
United Arab Emirates Etisalat ,
India Reliance Communications ,
Germany T-Mobile ,
United States Verizon Wireless ,
Russia MTS ,
United States AT&T Mobility
China China Telecom,
Indonesia Telkomsel,
India Idea Cellular,
India BSNL,
India Tata Teleservices,
Italy Telecom Italia / TIM
Malaysia Maxis Communications
Turkey Turkcell
Qatar Qtel
Mobile Opreter,
China China Mobile ,
United Kingdom Vodafone,
India Airtel,
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RIM: 'BlackBerry 10 is a game changer'
BlackBerry 10 OS could change the game or kill off another player.
BlackBerry-maker RIM may be facing continued losses and deep uncertainty as it readies its first BlackBerry OS 10 smartphone, but if nothing else, the company has a sense of humor.
And some musical know-how among its ranks. Today's BlackBerry 10 Jam session for developers kicked off with a music video spoof of Tom Petty's "The Waiting," substituting Petty's original lyrics for those describing BlackBerry 10's progress.
"It's not quite ready yet," Alec Saunders, RIM's vice president of developer relations crooned from the projector. "Android and iOS, they're no good for you. So grab those APIs..."
Underpinning the light tone is the meat of the matter, that after two years of development, RIM has no new OS to share, and that Android and iOS are the beacons of success.
So began RIM's message to developers: the press has been negative. The myths are wrong. You can make money building apps for us.
Apps up 250 percent
To entice any on-the-fence programmers, Dr. Ronjon Nag, who heads up BlackBerry AppWorld and West Coast development, painted a picture of excitement among developer partners, who he said have been showing off working BlackBerry 10 apps they wanted him to check out.
The submission and participation numbers are higher than ever, too, Nag said, with more than 250 percent new developers joining the BlackBerry App World storefront in the past year. Nag added that the number of submitted PlayBook apps increased 250 percent in just the last quarter.
"If you make $1,000 [selling apps] on your own," Nag said, "you'll make $10,000 with us. Guaranteed."
'You have to get it right'
RIM's Nag assured attendees that "BlackBerry 10 is a game-changer for RIM, and a game-changer for the industry," yet some cracks still showed.
RIM's team said that application partners do ask for "clarification" on damning news items like RIM's widespread layoffs (RIM told them layoffs were a reality, but the BB10 team was growing.) They also hinted at industry pressure to produce a knock-out debut device.
"You have to get it right," Martyn Mallick, vice president of global alliance and business development, said about the forthcoming BlackBerry 10 smartphone. "There's no opportunity to bring something to market if it's not great."
Good words to live by, but what about BlackBerry Tablet OS and the BlackBerry PlayBook, I asked? By most reviewer and consumer accounts, the PlayBook came to market long before it was great.
After a long sip of water, Mallick responded, "We've heard that."
RIM is absolutely aware that after two years of development, the BlackBerry 10 platform will have its make-it-or-break-it moment before the end of 2012. Of course, Mallick remains outwardly hopeful.
"BlackBerry 10," he said, "is where we regain our momentum."
The developer hopefuls apparently flocking to RIM's new platform clearly hope he's right.
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Best iPhone Apps for Ringtones
When Apple withdrew the ability to create your own ring tones with the launch of the iTunes 10 edition, the only option at that time was to buy the song then adopt it as a ring tone.
With the arrival of new 3rd party apps however you can now use your own tracks, create new ones, buy them or simply add one of the many hundred pre-installed ringtones on your iPhone.
Ringtone Designer Pro
Price: $0.99
Using tracks in your library this one time payment as the app manufactures claim will enable you to pick and choose your own ringtones, text tones or alert tones.
User’s beg to differ though. Text tones will only last up to about 15 secs and loading newly created tones tends to cause a freeze or crash or warning.
It’s latest version does get an average 4.5/5 star rating from 4000+ users so otherwise the rapport is good.
RingTunes
Price: $5.99
This ringtone creator lets you choose 40 seconds from your chosen track, you can select which part of the song you want to cut and also whether you’d like it to fade in or out.
You can preview your editing and the sound quality is retained as an M4R file.
Quite pricey for a ringtone app but the few user reviews seem positive.
Caller ID Ringtones
Price: $0.99
Unlike assigning a different ringtone to different people in your address book, this app actually announces the name of the person.
So if you’re driving down the highway or watching an all important footie match then save you having to concern yourself who it is, the app does that for you.
From 2000+ names to pick from and 500 relationship status’s, if it’s your ex, it will say: “your ex is calling”, or if your nephew has an odd name it will just say: “your nephew’s calling”.
In case someone else in the room also has this app running, you can program the app to say: “Hey, your name….so and so is calling”.
For under a dollar it’s pretty handy plus you can still assign ringtones to people.
Good reviews.
Ring Tone Wizard Pro
Price: $0.99
For under a dollar this app probably gets the best rep.
You can slice up a track up to 0.1 seconds accuracy. Customize the volume and the length with 40 seconds being the max.
Freeze-ups or crashes appear non-existent with this app and with all the bells and whistles included like fade in fade out, customizing anyone with a particular tune or even your alarm, its interface makes this app self explanatory and if you’re having trouble setting it up, it comes with a video installation guide.
Tone Creator
Price: $0.99
Firstly, check what’s new in the recent upgrades as this app gets great reviews apart from the fact that it states it can create text tones, which it appears it can’t.
What it can do is create ringtones, alert tones, convert tracks into tones, record a tune on your iPhone or around you and convert it into a ringtone and you can retain the HD quality of a track with a 40 second time limit.
You can make tones for special friends or family and when editing as opposed to some ringtone kits which force you to choose the segment you wish to cut by using your finger to scroll the screen – this app lets you input the exact time frame.
The only negative is stating you can create text tones which you can’t. Either they fix this or they should remove it from the features list in the description.
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