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Motorola’s woken up with a spring in its step and news to tell: It’s decided to announce the new Motoluxe 4-inch Android handset to us in the UK. It’s not going to bowl you over in terms of specs, but its design and price just might. Read more

Another day, another cheeky Android promo video takes a swipe at the iPhone 4S. This time it’s an ad for the Motorola Razr, which pits Apple’s Siri against Google Voice Actions for Android in a fight. A bit of a skewed fight, at that… Read more

Motorola has agreed to make a range of handsets in 2012 powered by the new Intel Medfield chips, in what could be the processor manufacturer’s last chance to get into the mobile market. Read more

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The uncanny valley is the idea, posed by a Japanese robotics professor, that as humanoid robots start to resemble us more and more, we warm to them. But there’s a point where sudden repulsion kicks in: the more they look like us, the more we realise they don’t.

It’s like playing Fallout 3, and being grossed out by the NPC’s freaky frown lines, or LA Noire and wondering why every female character’s hair appears to be made of papier mache. It isn’t human.

It’s precisely what’s wrong with Android tablets like the Motorola Xoom 2. Honeycomb is starting to resemble a viable tablet option, but it still doesn’t feel quite right.

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The Motorola Droid 4, or Milestone 4 if you live in the UK, broke cover today in a flurry of leaked press material. The tastiest bit for us though, is that Motorola wants to push on with its vision of turning your phone into your computer, and is launching two new lapdocks to prove it. Read more

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The Motorola Xoom 2 has been a poorly kept secret, but it’s now finally official, and we got to spend some time with it today ahead of its launch in the UK and Ireland in a couple of weeks. Unlike the smaller, delightful Media Edition, it’s sticking with the old 10.1-inch form factor, and in a bid to make it distinct, Moto has stuffed it full of business apps. Will it replace the laptop in your briefcase?

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We’ve just got hands on with the Motorola Xoom 2 Media Edition, a delightful new 8.2-inch Honeycomb tablet just launched today. While we’ve had our reservations about Honeycomb before, we like what we’re seeing here: could this be tiny tablet we’ve been looking for? Read on for the breakdown.

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The Motorola Atrix Android 2.3 update we were promised for the UK earlier this year is very nearly here. After an initial pledge of a simultaneous roll-out with the US, months of delays led to us, as well as a forum full of irate Atrix owners, wondering when the Gingerbread goodness would be dished out. Now though, we’ve got it locked down.

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