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One of the largest complaints about the Motorola DROID RAZR on Verizon is that of battery life. LTE sucks the life out of any battery, and the fact that Motorola chose to design the RAZR with an irremovable 1780 mAh, wasn’t a very smart idea. Realizing the errors of their ways, Motorola has announced a beefier DROID RAZR MAXX, this time with a larger (still irremovable) battery said to last 21 hours on a single charge. Of course the need to manufacture a completely new model could have easily been avoided had they made the battery removable.


We’ve seen plenty regarding the DROID 4, but one thing that has eluded us, an official release by Verizon. Today Verizon and Motorola changed all that by officially announcing the DROID 4 in all of its RAZR looking glory. The 4G LTE QWERTY slider is set to hit Verizon in the next couple of weeks and will be packing the following:


WiFi Motorola XOOM owners may be in for a treat. Motorola has begun sending out invitations asking “Google Experience” XOOM WiFI owners to participate in a new project. They go on to inform users that the project is confidential and that you must first meet certain requirements to partake in this particular project. It’s all very mysterious, but given the fact that they specifically refer to the XOOM as a “Google Experience” device, it’s highly likely that they are preparing to release the Android 4.0 update and are looking to test it out.


Only Best Buy would advertise a device yet announced. They continue their reign of advertising blunders by offering up 5000 bonus reward points for purchasing an unannounced and unavailable Motorola DROID 4. This may not be as bad as when they were selling the Nexus Prime, but it’s still a doozy. The Motorola DROID 4 was previously rumored to be released this month, but for reasons unknown, has disappeared into the Verizon device abyss.


The man who made hundreds of Blackberry users search the term DingleBerry (a Blackberry Playbook Hack), spent his holiday rooting his tiny Christmas gift — the Motorola ACTV. While the rest of you were trying to figure out how to work your new Android 7.7″-10.1″ tablets, developer Chris Wade was busy playing Angry Birds on his brand new 1.6″ Motorola ACTV that he hacked Honeycomb onto.

This is just one of the many reasons I love Android so much. Here we had an underpowered Android UI slapped onto a wrist watch, and a clever developer has gone ahead and turned it into a working tablet UI capable of monitoring your heartrate as you dance to a youtube video. While many tasks will of course be less than optimal on a 1.6″ screen, it’s still cool.

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