Moto’s earnings for the first quarter came out today, and they pretty much echo what the company managed to do in the fourth quarter of 2009 — pull a small profit thanks to performance from the Home, Enterprise Mobility, and Network groups in the face of an operating loss from the Mobile Devices (read: phones) division. Unfortunately, all of the numbers are just a little bit worse across the board; Motorola didn’t have any Droid -style blockbuster launches or major gift-giving holidays to help it along this quarter, and ended up dropping $192 million in the hole compared to $132 million in the quarter prior. Co-CEO Sanjay Jha still seems upbeat, though — and he’d better, considering that he’ll lead the spun-off phone division after the breakup — pointing out that shipments actually increased in the quarter with the release of six new handsets. When you throw all the numbers together, the combined company posted $69 million in earnings, down from $142 million in the fourth quarter; hey, that’s still better than a loss, especially considering that it’s estimating considerably higher earnings in the current quarter. Follow the break for Motorola’s release. Continue reading Motorola posts another tiny quarterly profit, phone division not yet pulling its weight Motorola posts another tiny quarterly profit, phone division not yet pulling its weight originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Motorola posts another tiny quarterly profit, phone division not yet pulling its weight
April 30th, 2010 
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No Comments »Skyfire 2.0 beta for Android video preview!
April 30th, 2010 admin We just spent a few minutes playing with the beta version of Skyfire 2.0 for Android that was released today, and we’ll cut to the chase: this is easily the best browser we’ve used on the platform. Clearly we’ll need to spend more time with it to make sure it can handle all the typical sites you’d want to visit while you’re on the road — but loading the desktop version of Engadget is always a great barometer for this sort of thing, and this browser rocked it. Rendering is about as reasonably fast as you can expect it to be (on our Snapdragon -powered Nexus One , anyhow), and everything we saw displayed spot-on perfect (save for embedded Flash, of course), but if you’re in a situation where you don’t need to see the full page or it looks screwy, you can toggle it to send an Android user agent right from the app’s toolbar below the URL field. It works just about as well as Steel and the built-in browser on a G1 we tested, and Flash videos work just fine there as well. The browser touts compatibility with Flash videos, too, so we headed over to YouTube to try our hand at it; it immediately detected the presence of a video and popped up the so-called “SkyBar” at the bottom of the screen, where you can press the Video button to load the video in a new window. It doesn’t work embedded in the page, but considering how small your phone’s screen is, that’s really for the best — you get the full-screen experience, and in our testing, it looked fantastic. One downside is that you don’t seem to be able to scrub videos while they’re playing, but maybe this is something these guys can get patched up for the final release. Follow the break for our full video! Update: One annoyance we’ve noticed is that pinch-to-zoom works in “steps” — it’s not smooth, which makes it pretty weird to use, but remember that Opera Mini doesn’t support it at all. Continue reading Skyfire 2.0 beta for Android video preview! Skyfire 2.0 beta for Android video preview! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: browser, engadget, entry, makes-it-pretty, press-the-video, skyfire 2.0 beta, skyfire2.0, video, web, webbrowser No Comments »HP and Palm: what happens next
April 30th, 2010 jedwan HP announcing that it’s going to buy Palm in a $1.2b all-cash transaction certainly took everyone by surprise, but in many ways the deal makes perfect sense. HP is a gigantic player in the tech industry but has no appreciable presence in rapidly-growing mobile space, and Palm — well, you should know how we feel about Palm by now. Even still, we can’t say we were expecting this one, and it looks like most of you weren’t either — HP only got two percent of the vote in our “who should buy Palm” poll , while Engadget (that’s us!) got… fourteen percent. Oops. But now that we’ve had a day to wrap our heads around the news and think about what Palm and HP said to us last night and to analysts on the conference call announcing the deal, we think we’ve got a pretty good set of educated guesses on how things might shake out over the next few months. Read on! Continue reading HP and Palm: what happens next HP and Palm: what happens next originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: around-the-news, call-announcing, engadget, entry, feature, hpslate, jon rubinstein, Merger, pixi plus, pixiplus, pre plus No Comments »Nokia X2 welcomes Series 40 to the Xseries fold
April 30th, 2010 admin A number of Series 40 devices were branded with Nokia’s “XpressMusic” label back in the day, so why not Xseries, too? Well, Nokia must be on the same page, because it has just announced the X2 candybar without a trace of smartphone DNA to its name. The relatively low-end phone clocks in with a 5 megapixel cam with flash, 2.2-inch QVGA display, Ovi Store and Facebook support, dual loudspeakers, integrated FM radio, dedicated music keys, and microSD expansion up to 16GB (32GB would’ve been nice, but considering the scarcity and overwhelming price of said cards, it really doesn’t matter too much in practice). The 13mm-thick piece is due before the end of June for €85 ($113), which is a heck of a value by our rough math. Nokia X2 welcomes Series 40 to the Xseries fold originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in att, engadget Tags: dedicated-music, engadget, engadget-mobile, entry, facebook, megapixel-cam, mobile, nokia, phone-clocks, really-doesn, series 40, series40, the-scarcity, xseries No Comments »Engadget app update: iPhone app passes the 1m download mark, Android and webOS get an update!
April 30th, 2010 jedwan Hey cats and kittens, here’s an exciting little piece of news we wanted to share with you. Thanks to the love and support of our readers, our iPhone app has just crossed the million downloads mark in the App Store! That is, of course, just iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users — we’re growing our numbers steadily across BlackBerry, webOS, and Android formats as well. And Speaking of Android, we’ve got a little update that’s available right now in the Market which should fix those nasty force close issues some users were seeing. If you’re still having issues, make sure you reach out to us — we really love the feedback! We’ve also just issued a webOS update, so look for that on your Pre or Pixi. We have even more stuff in the pipeline as far as apps are concerned, including a major forthcoming iPhone update, as well as updates and tweaks for the other existing apps… and we’re at work on a dedicated iPad application as we speak! Yes, exciting times are ahead people, but for now, you can grab our current offerings right here: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad Android webOS BlackBerry Update: The Android update was released two days ago, so you may have already downloaded it (for those in comments not seeing it). If you’re not sure, the most recent version is 1.0.4. Engadget app update: iPhone app passes the 1m download mark, Android and webOS get an update! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Posted in engadget Tags: black, engadget, engadget app, engadgetapp, iphone, iphone app, iphoneapp, ipod-touch, Love, numbers, pipeline, webos, well-as-updates No Comments »Adobe’s CEO: Jobs’ Flash letter is a ‘smokescreen’ for ‘cumbersome’ restrictions
April 30th, 2010 admin There’s no official transcript yet, but the Wall Street Journal just live-blogged an interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, in which he responded to the Steve Jobs “Thoughts on Flash” letter posted this morning. Substantively, Narayen didn’t offer much we haven’t heard Adobe say before, but his frustration with Apple is palpable even in summary form: he called Jobs’ points a “smokescreen,” said Flash is an “open specification,” and further said Apple’s restrictions are “cumbersome” to developers and have “nothing to do with technology.” What’s more, he also said Jobs’ claims about Flash affecting battery life are “patently false,” and suggested that any Flash-related crashes on OS X have more to do with Apple’s operating system than Adobe’s software. Perhaps most importantly, Narayen reiterated that Adobe is fundamentally about making it easier for devs to write multiplatform tools — a stance Jobs specifically took issue with in his letter, saying multiplatform tools lead to bad user experiences. Apple and Adobe and the rest of us can argue about battery life and performance all night, but that’s clearly the central philosophical difference between these two companies, and we doubt it’s ever going to change. That is, unless Adobe absolutely kills it with Flash 10.1 on Android 2.2 — and given our experiences with Flash on smartphones and netbooks thus far, we’ll be honest when we say that’s going to be a major challenge. We’ll link over to the full transcript when it goes up, but for now, hit the source link for the liveblog. Adobe’s CEO: Jobs’ Flash letter is a ‘smokescreen’ for ‘cumbersome’ restrictions originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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