T-Mobile 3G-Packing Motorola Spotted on FCC

Documents seen on the FCC web site confirm the existance of a GSM-based Motorola phone with support for 1700MHz AWS spectrum, the same that T-Mobile uses for its 3G services. Other features confirmed by the FCC include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a camera. According to the FCC documents, the phone is tentatively named the CLIQ MB200. Neither T-Mobile nor Motorola has announced this device.

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T-Mobile Brings HTC's Touch Pro2 Stateside

Today T-Moble USA announced that it will make the HTC Touch Pro2 Windows Mobile 6.1 phone available starting August 12. The Touch Pro2 has a 3.6-inch sliding screen that reveales a full QWERTY keyboard and tilts up for easier viewing. The Touch Pro2 will also support T-Mobile's 3G network, and includes Wi-Fi. GPS and stereo Bluetooth. Other features include a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and video capture. The Touch Pro2 will be available at T-Mobile stores, select retailers and online. Pricing wasn't disclosed.

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Exchange support coming to Sidekick LX 2009 today for $4.99 a month

If you're a kid stuck in a grown-up's body, there's a good chance you're pining after a Sidekick -- you know, just like the kind you had back in the day when you listened to Blink 182 and loitered on your skateboard around the plaza in front of the office building that has since enslaved you. Problem is, Sidekicks have never really been work-friendly devices -- owing in part to their utter shunning of Exchange -- which means you get stuck with a BlackBerry and an incessant desire to swivel the display. It's kind of sad, really, and passers-by think you've gone mad as you sit on the park bench pressing your thumb desperately against a screen that will never, ever rotate, no matter how fricking hard you press. It's cool, though, T-Mobile's got your back: enter Sidekick Sync, an app that was promised when the Sidekick LX 2009 was launched and is finally available. It'll be hitting the phone's Download Catalog starting this afternoon, offering push email, attachment viewing, calendar and contact sync, and pretty much every other Exchange feature that strips you of your youthful innocence. For the pleasure of avoiding RIM's powerful grasp, you'll pay $4.99 a month -- but can you really put a price on being able to wear DC apparel at the age of 30? You can also find cell phone accessories here @ www.accessorygeeks.com.

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BlackBerry Curve 8520 Coming Mac-Ready to T-Mobile

T-Mobile will be launching the BlackBerry Curve 8520 on August 5th...and it'll be the first BlackBerry to launch with out-of-the-box Mac support.

T-Mobile and Canada's Research in Motion have announced the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, the latest salvo in the company's addicting portable communications offerings. Like previous entries in the Curve line, the 8520 will sport consumer-oriented features like Facebook and MySpace integration, email, and mobile multimedia and entertainment. And unlike any previous BlackBerry, the Curve 8520 will ship with the long-delayed BlackBerry for Mac desktop software, offering out-of-the-box capability to sync with Macintosh computers, rather than relying on third-party solutions.

"More and more cell phone users are choosing to upgrade to a smartphone and the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 will undoubtedly convince many more people to make the switch," said RIM VP of product management Carlo Chiarello, in a statement.

The BlackBerry Curve features a full-QWERTY keyboard for email and messaging needs, a 2 megapixel digital camera, a 2.6-inch 32- by 240-pixel display, 256 MB of flash memory, microSD/SDHC storage for up to 16 GB of media and data storage (the phone ships with a 1 GB card), and sports both Bluetooth and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi wireless connectivity, along with EDGE/GPRS/GSM mobile service. Customers will also be able to tap into the BlackBerry App World to expand their phone's capabilities, and RIM promises BlackBerry Sync makes it simple to synchronize media between the 8520 and either Windows Media Player or iTunes. BlackBerry for Mac will require Mac OS X 10.5.5 or newer, so folks who have not (or cannot) run Mac OS X Leopard won't be able to use the service.

The BlackBerry Curve 8520 will go on sale August 5 at T-Mobile retail locations as well as selected dealers and Wal-mart locations for $129.99 with a two-year service agreement.

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Widescreen or Tallscreen?

Apple' successful iPhone 3GS launch might mean a new video format takes over the YouTubes of the world in the near future. They're calling it"tallscreen," and I wanted to know if you gave a hoot or not.

As you can see, the medium is "catching on," at least in the wacky Twitterverse:

"The new iPhone is doing for tall-screen video what DVDs and HD did for widescreen. Sweet." - Dan Frommer, Editor, Silicon Valley Insider

Thanks to the iPhone 3GS and YouTube, our kids will laugh at our old-fashioned "widescreen" movies. "Tallscreen is way better!" -Cabel Sasser, co-founder, Panic

For the record, I prefer the superior widescreen, if for nothing else than to adequately capture the growing waislines of my local area American countrymen.

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Sony Ericsson Now Accepting Apps for PlayNow Arena

Sony Ericsson has indicated that any and all developers who wish to submit applications for its PlayNow Arena mobile content store are welcome to do so. Sony Ericsson is asking developers to submit apps written for the Symbian and Java ME platforms first, which represent the bulk of Sony Ericsson's installed base at the moment. It will accept applications for other platforms later this year.

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Is Apple Succeeding in Pushing the iPhone Into the Enterprise?

Apple, at the iPhone SDK launch last May, began a big push towards getting the iPhone into the enterprise — the traditional stronghold of the BlackBerry. It rolled out enterprise-targeted features like push email/contacts/calendar, a global address list, VPN support and remote wipe. Now, more than a year later, how are big companies taking to the iPhone? Apple COO Tim Cook gave some valuable statistics in the analyst Q&A during the company’s quarterly conference call yesterday:

Though both Apple and Research In Motion are making huge profits on their respective devices, the BlackBerry has long been the device of choice for the business customer — everyone fromGoogle CRO (and board member) Eric Schmidt to President Obama carries one. So Apple has a large hill to climb before it makes a serious dent in RIM’s bread and butter. Plus, the BlackBerry is available on just about every network in the world. In the U.S., at least, the iPhone is only available on AT&T, which, as we all know,many users don't always prefer.

Some, including myself, credit the iPod with the resurgence of the Mac brand in the consumer sector, especially with the college crowd. Could the iPhone have the same effect on the enterprise?

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BlackBerry Storm 2 In Action, SurePress Click Screen and All

It's pretty early hardware and earlier software, but the guys at CrackBerry somehow got themselves a Storm 2 to play with. First question: Yes, it still has a clickable screen, but it's allegedly much better than its predecessor.

There aren't any big changes on the software side (it's still running BlackBerry OS 5.1), although remember, this is a very early pre-release model. The OS looks pretty much exactly the same as the original Storm, at least at this point. That means it's still laggy (especially the accelerometer), a dealbreaker of a problem on the first Storm that hopefully will get ironed out before the Storm 2's release. Verizon has promised WiFi in its future smartphones, so with any luck that'll include the Storm 2.

In terms of hardware, the four classic BlackBerry buttons (call, end, back, and menu) are no longer separate buttons but part of the clickable screen's display. The screen itself has a lot less give to it than the original Storm, which the guy demonstrating it seems to appreciate, saying it's a much better typing experience (though probably not as good as a physical keyboard). The handset is slightly thinner and features darker metal, seeming classier overall.

What are we really hoping for in the new Storm? No more lagginess, a real browser based on WebKit, and a better app store would be a huge help in making the Storm 2 a step up. That stuff is all software stuff, so we'll hold off making any base judgments about the Storm 2 just yet. But we're keeping our fingers crossed that RIM has been listening to its customers.

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My Thoughts on the iPhone 3GS

The most hyped Apple made cell phone the iPhone 3GS. So what is so good about it? I mean its just a regular old cell phone ... make calls, chat with your girl friends, etc etc etc. Not really. I borrowed it my friend and I had a blast. (Mainly because he had like dozens and dozens of apps.) Anyways let's go over the apps first. I'm a real tennis fan and player (side note I challenge any to tennis :)). and what do you know. There's a tennis app here in the iphone 3GS. It actually really does teaches me how to play tennis I didn't learn much since im such a pro :) but anyways I had a good work out. Real Tennis 2009 was the app. Well there's one app out of the dozen apps I played with. I guess I can talk about one more.



I always thought fishing was boring. Seriously sitting there for hours in a lake waiting for this 1 pound fish to get caught by me so so boring. I rather take my chances in a bar and ask for a girls phone number. Any ways it turned out not to be THAT boring. Thank God this app expedited the time to catch fishes. I caught some pretty awkward fishes in shady locations. Too bad you can not eat them. This app was Flick Fishing.




As for the iPhone 3GS I liked it a lot. I enjoyed my 5 hours of using it and passing my time away while I am trying to catch a sword fish. After all my playing with the iPhone 3GS my finger priints were left all over the screen. (My friend seriously need to get a screen protector for this.) So I brought him some iPhone 3GS accessories in exchange for wasting my time on his iPhone 3GS.

Motorola Ivory E18 luxury phone developed, scrapped

If you're considering a luxury cellphone, you've probably given some thought to the Aura -- either as an object of unattainable techno-lust, or as a way to lighten your wallet by a grand or two (don't even get us started in Vertu). According to Mobile Review, Motorola wasn't planning on stopping there: The Ivory E18 (a name which either evokes elegance or animal cruelty, depending on your POV) featured a slider with two movements (a short slide for function keys, and a longer for the T9 keypad), a small footprint, and and a 3 megapixel camera. The price? Well, for the stainless steel chassis you were looking at about €2,000 (about $2,821 at the moment). Also planned were phones with gold and platinum chassis, which would take the purchase price up to "several tens of thousands" of Euros. If Motorola wasn't aware of the sheer silliness of such an extravagant phone, at least the carriers were -- apparently it was lack of interest on their part that caused Moto to sack the project. Make sure you hit that read link for the whole story -- in Bulgarian.

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Verizon Cuts BlackBerry Storm's Price to $99

We're pretty sure the BlackBerry Storm 2 's announcement is coming soon, and we just got a little more evidence: The not-so-loved original Storm's price has just been dropped to $99 with a 2-year contract. If you're sure you need to stick with Verizon, this probably looks enticing, but we'd definitely recommend waiting. The Storm 2 will probably cost in the $150-250 range to compete with the iPhone, Pre, and various Android offerings, and for all we know, it might be great. Even the BlackBerry Tour might be a better option that the original Storm, which isn't the worst phone ever but hasn't exactly been a fan favorite either.

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Verizon to Open GPS on Samsung Omnia

Today Verizon Wireless said it is going to provide an automatic software update for the Samsung Omnia that unlocks the GPS and lets it interact with third-party applications, such as Google Maps. The update will occur this afternoon.

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AT&T Rolls Out Cyber-shot and Walkman Phones

AT&T customers needing a little Sony Ericsson fix can now check out the C905a Cyber-shot and W518a Walkman phones...at a price.

U.S. mobile carrier AT&T has officailly introduced the Sony Ericsson C905a Cyber-shot and W518a Walkman phones to the U.S. market; the C905a slider sports an 8.1 megapixel camera, while the W518a flip phone focuses on music and social networking features.

"Sony Ericsson has created two signature phones that enhance the quality of photography and social networking on a phone and take advantage of exciting AT&T services like AT&T Navigator and Video Share," said AT&T VP Michael Woodward, in a statement.

The C905a sports an 8.1 megapixel camera with xenon flash—which AT&T describes as the best camera available in a mobile phone today—along with a 2.4-inch display, up to 16 GB of storage on Memory Stick Micro media, and PictBridge printing capability for photos. The camera also features face detection and a burst mode which captures seven pictures in one click, enabling users to pick the best one later. The phone also sports an FM radio receiver, video recording capability, mobile email, instant messaging, and of course the capability to tap into AT&T services like AT&T Music, Video Share, and Navigator.

The W518a Walkman phone is designed to be a Facebook-friendly media phone, with a home screen that immediately shows friends' Facebook status messages and profile photos. Users can also update their own status with just one click from the home screen, and easily upload photos to Facebook—conveniently taken with the phone's 3.2 megapixel camera. The Walkman phone also features "shake technology" that enables users to shuffle, skip, and control volume on their music playback just by flicking their wrist (be careful not to move too quickly or throw the phone). Users can also purchase and download music via Napster and eMusic over the air.

Both phones will be available at AT&T retail locations beginning July 19, with the C905a going for $179.99 and the W518a going for $49.99—both prices reflect a new two-year service agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate.

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BlackBerry Launching Community Site Today

Research In Motion has confirmed that it is set to launch a new BlackBerry-specific community site called MyBlackBerry tonight at Midnight Eastern Time. The site will be a place for BlackBerry users to socialize, share information and learn about new applications. Users will need to register to participate, but the site will be free to use.

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Feel Secure with IronKey's S200 USB Flash Drive

Got sensitive data? The IronKey S200 Flash drive offers FIPS 140-2, Level 3 validation, cryptographic storage, and a self-destruct mechanism.

Although USB thumb drives have become the floppy disks of the 21st century, many of them suffer from pretty fatal flaws: most of the time, anybody with a USB port can tap into any data you've stored on a flash drive. So government, military, and even some enterprise and corporate users—not to mention superspies—angle for something better. IronKey aims to deliver with its new S200 USB flash drive, which the company claims is the first and only USB drive to meet U.S. government FIPS 140-2, Security Level 3 standards. That means that not only does the drive over hardware-based 256-bit AES encryption, but the cryptographic module itself is designed to be tamper resistant and can respond to attempts to physically access or modify the module.

"As one of the world's leading information security companies, IronKey is continually innovating to push the boundaries of security and ease of use," said IronKey CEO David Jevans, in a statement. "Our new IronKey S200 family of secure USB flash drives puts a whole new level of security into the hands of government, military, and enterprise customers, at an affordable price."

The S200 also includes anti-malware capabilities (including AutoRun lockdown and a read-only mode), plus trusted network capabilities that enable the drive to only be accessed from trusted PCs—the drive can also lock itself up after a specified idle period. The drive also features remove management and monitoring capabilities, so administrators can tell where and when the drive is being used; there's even a remote wipe facility in case a drive is lost or stolen.

IronKey isn't saying what the "affordable price" on the S200 might be, but the drive will be available in capacities up to 16 GB and supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista, as well as Mac OS X and Linux.

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Happy Birthday, App Store: Revolutionizing Mobile Computing Since 2008

On this auspicious day back in 2008, mobile computing was changed forever. The iphone 2G had been a pretty toy, full of youthful promise, but it was the App Store that made the iPhone soar.

Of course, there had been apps before the App Store. BlackBerry and Palm users had been hunting down new programs on the Internet for years before Apple decided to enter the game. But it wasn't easy—there was no great directory of apps, no vetting process to ensure an app worked properly, and the development communities, while enthusiastic, were decidedly limited in size. Finding a new smartphone app was like wandering into an old-world bazaar, where you're not sure exactly what you're getting, if it'll work, or if there's something better at the booth next door. That all changed last year.

The App Store wasn't a new idea, but it was better executed than anything we'd ever seen. Instantly, the capabilities of the iPhone were unlimited, and went further off the rails with easy and fast unlocking. The iPhone very suddenly stopped being a device and started acting like a platform. Soon, all sides of software development started busting out amazing apps, from giant game developers to magazines to guys working day and night in their basement on a labor of love.

It hasn't been without its problems; any reader of this site knows Apple's approval policy is sometimes draconian and unfair, and of course there's an influx of garbage (flashlight apps, anyone?) along with all the great stuff. But nobody, not even the most fervent Apple-hater, could deny the impact of the App Store. Now everybody and their mother hastheir own spin on on it, and no smartphone maker in their right mind would consider releasing a product without a centralized depository of software. But Apple's is still the largest and the best in addition to being the first.

So today, on the anniversary of its launch (which was not July 7th, despite what others may have you believe—it was announced July 7th, and released July 11th), we salute the App Store. Happy 1st birthday, App Store, and as long as you keep bringing the goods, we'll keep rounding them up,every week.

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Pantech C510 Music Phone Unearthed in Mexico

Pantech today launched a new music phone, Pantech C570, in Mexico. The phone is preloaded with top billboard songs and music video of Party Cantu. The Pantech C570 will be available at TELCEL, the largest carrier in Mexico.

Besides featuring a built-in MP3 player with dedicated music playback keys, the C570 also has a 2-MP digital camera, 3.5 PAI universal earphone jack, RDS radio, microSD memory expansion slot, and Bluetooth.

“Pantech C570″ includes a clip of music video, two hit songs and a wall paper of Mexican star solo lady singer, Paty Cantu. Paty Cantu is a local popular star singer having a large number of ballad fans among 10s and 20s young people. The purpose of Pantech Group is to grow up as a popular star in Mexican handset market by the marketing in connection with big star who is being emerged as a new idol among the young people in Mexico.

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BlackBerry Tour Up at the Top

Research in Motion yet again pulls a new rabbit out of the hat with the BlackBerry Tour. Like the BlackBerry Storm, Curve's, Bold, etc etc the BlackBerry Tour is a high end messaging cell phone. You may ask whats different between the Tour and all the previous BlackBerries? Well let's check it out. Right now right now the phone is not out yet so I can only speculate what the Tour is about. But still fun guessing. :) (Planned availability for the BlackBerry Tour is July 12, 2009, no carrier at the moment).

From what I researched here are some specs:
1. video capture
2. memory card slot
3. push email
4. GPS navigation

The Tour weighs in about 4.59 oz (130 g). I assume like all BlackBerry cell phones I assume people are going to get stuck to it. I can already see some one using the Tour GPS to navigate through their house to find the restroom. But hey that is just me on my Storm. :)

Anyways like all cell phones I am sure some one wants some cell phone accessories for this. Like a hot pink case with perky diamonds glittering over some one's eyes for some girls or for simple people like me just a regular white plastic case will do. In other words check out BlackBerry Tour accessories.

Sony Ericsson's Android Rachael UI Makes Me Want to Ditch My iPhone

Sony Ericsson will use their own interface in their next Android-powered Rachael smartphone. The good news: It kicks serious ass. Check out the video demonstration, as well as the new images of this hot Android smartphone and the new Kiki.

As you can see in the video, the user interface in the 7.2Mbps HSDPA Rachael—which is rumored to have a Snapdragon processor, an 8-megapixel camera with auto-focus, and 3D acceleration—is extremely sleek, making full use of the touch interface, with pretty widgets everywhere. It also appears to be heavily oriented to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. I like it enough to make me want to ditch my iPhone—if it had equivalent apps to the ones I use, that is.

People were discarding already Sony Ericsson—myself included—but if they release this on time, bug free, and with this interface, they may have an opportunity to become the leading Android smartphone.

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The White iPhone 3GS Is Rare Like a Unicorn

It doesn't surprise me that the white iPhone 3GS is apparently selling out everywhere, for several reasons.

• Apple's likely making far fewer of them than the way more popular black iPhone.

• Notice that's the cheaper 16GB model that's completely sold out here—there are still 32GB models, for obvious reasons (price).

• When I found out I'd have to enslave several small children to AT&T to "upgrade" to a 3GS, I was planning on going white to have something different from my old iPhone 3G, which is black. (Okay, and maybe to have something a little different from most other people.) My guess is that it's not an uncommon instinct, and that many people buying the white iPhone 3GS already had an iPhone 3G, or are consciously trying to stGSand out, as flawed, yes, as that notion may be.

• Or maybe they've alljust turned into different colors. (Apple 2.0)

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It's Palm Pre Amazing

So today I was at the Sprint store checking out the new Palm Pre. I was watching on TV the other night and lots of new features on it. I guess the cell phone that I really need is something simple and easy to use. Here's my thoughts on the Palm Pre:



Pros:

• 8 GB of memory
• LCD display so my vacation pictures are sharp
• At least I can watch basic Youtube videos when I'm bored waiting at the airport.
• The camera is great with flash. Here's a picture I took of my dog. He was a good dog standing still while I was waving a hot dog in the air.
  

Cons:

• I don't know but my battery life just died right away. Probably because I was streaming too much Youtube while at the airport. But still any cell phone with Internet needs longer lasting battery. Honestly I can write a whole book about this.
  
• Hmmmmmm.... nothing else I can think of.

The Sprint sales person tried to hustle me too. Trying to sell me cell phone accessories I did not need because I know I can get these kinds of things cheaper else where. So I visited my friendly Accessory Geeks cell phone accessories store and found something I liked. The Palm Pre desktop charger really worked out for me when I am at the office.

Overall I enjoyed my Palm Pre for the day but knowing me I might get bored of it when another awesome cell phone comes out.

Nokia to Announce New Rugged Phone Soon

For those who need a rugged phone, Nokia is announcing a new model soon according to Nokia Conversations site. The site is previewing the rugged phone with a series of test videos: What we’ve come up with are a series of videos showing off our experiments, and the results. The first two are live today and we’ll be revealing more over the coming days. We kicked things off (quite literally) with what we thought would be a gentle test, the traditional rugby kick. We didn’t quite figure on Mike’s lofty left foot though. Watch the video below to see what happens.

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iLive Portable Music System Boom Box with iPod Dock

If you have a Nano, you likely have one of the brightly colored versions. If you do, you might want to check out iLive’s line of boom box docks. They feature bright colors to go along with the color of your Nano. Even if you don’t own a Nano, having one of these around will add a little color to your music ritual. Of course, this boom box might appeal more to the ladies than it does the guys, due to the unfortunate purse-like shape that these come in.

The dock will charge your iPod, unless of course you own a Shuffle. If you do own a Shuffle or any other type of non-Apple MP3 player, you can always plug it in through the aux port. Which plugging it in that way won’t charge it, but it will at the very least play your music. It also has an AM/FM radio for when you’re tired of listening to your MP3 player. You can find the iLive Portable Dock for $29.99

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O2 Gets Palm Pre In The U.K.

O2 lengthens its lead as the smartphone network in the UK by adding the Palm Pre to the iPhone.

O2 is set to be established as the mobile network provider for anyone in the UK interested in smartphones. Not only does it have the exclusive for Apple's iPhone, but now, according to the Guardian, it’s also snagged the Palm Pre.

The Pre has already sold a reported 300,000 units in the US (that’s compared to a cool million iPhone 3GS in the first three days on sale). It’s had plenty of very positive reviews and seems set to revive Palm’s fortunes, especially for its slide-out keyboard and the way it charges – being placed on what Palm calls a Touchstone, which charges via magnetic induction.

O2 has so far not commented on whether or not it has the Pre.

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Motorola Aura Celebrates Moon Landing with the Celestial Edition

For those of you who don’t know, the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first landing on the moon, is this year, on this very month, to be exact.

I suppose it is only fitting that Motorola has put out a special version of the Aura to commemorate this historic event. It is called the Celestial Edition, and it includes the historic audio clips.

I’m sure you know the clips I’m talking about: “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. By the way, I heard that Neil Armstrong actually screwed up his famous line, as he was supposed to say: “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”. Makes more sense that way, doesn’t it? I mean, he might as well have said: “one small step for man, one giant leap for man”.

By the way, I have just learned that Motorola was the company that provided the original radio transponder aboard the Eagle as it landed. In other words, they own the rights to moon transmission. Just kidding. I really hope that is public domain.

I think Motorola also got the video footage from the moon too. I always wondered how they got the camera several feet away from the lunar lander for that historic walk. Maybe they were faked. Also just kidding.

Anyway, the Motorola Aura Celestial Edition should be out soon, but no word about price or availability.

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