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While Siri seems to get all the attention when it comes to voice actions, Motorola wants to remind people that Android not only does voice actions, but does them extremely well, if not better. At least that’s the message we’re getting out of Motorola’s latest campaign pitting Android’s voice actions against its top contender Siri. Motorola runs through a slew of voice action challenges using three different Motorola phones and the results are impressive. I’m blown away by how fast both OS’s perform the tasks given and it’s an excellent reminder of the fact that Android has been perfecting voice actions for quite some time. I’m betting there are a lot of you that didn’t even realize your phone could do the things your about to see. Check out the videos after the break.


Mobile World Congress is quite an exhausting event and going booth to booth will surely have you burning some serious calories. That’s why Motorola is planning to be on hand with a few athletes to show off their fitness tracker the MOTOACTV. Along with demos, Motorola will be giving away 10 MOTOACTV devices in a “guess how many jellbeans” twitter contest.

Well what do we have here? Could this be the next Motorola Atrix? This photo along with some rumored specs popped up on a few sites today and adds another quad-core smartphone into the pool of “we want now” devices. The photo shows a buttonless Motorola device that looks similar to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The lack of buttons would mean we are looking at an Android 4.0 device and if rumored specs are to believed, an incredibly powerful one.

If you own an AT&T Motorola Atrix, you may want to check your phone for an update. AT&T has started rolling out software update 4.5.141 and I know what you’re thinking, but unfortunately, it’s not Ice Cream Sandwich. It does however bring a few improvements:

Today a German court ruled that most of Motorola’s products infringe on Apple’s slide-to-unlock image patent with the only exception being the slide-the-circle gesture used in the Motorola XOOM. This ruling allows Apple to enforce a permanent injunction against the Motorola products found in violation. Motorola can still appeal the decision therefore Apple would be taking a very big risk enforcing such an injunction at this time. Should the ruling be overturned, Apple would have to reimburse Motorola for any lost sales due to the injunction. Regardless of Apple’s decision, one thing is for sure: Motorola will now have to make changes to their UI.

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