It's hard to say what the culprit is, but if we had to guess, we'd point our finger at Sense and the amount of pixels rendered on the Vivid's qHD screen versus the Skyrocket's WVGA. The Vivid's consistent loss to Moto's similarly clocked beastie and its TI OMAP 4430 processor also caught us off guard.
Though, today's decision by the ITC to toss Moto's complaint against Cupertino regarding the use of sensors to control the interface of a phone, might be one of the final blows struck.
We can't really see Apple going it alone on this one for hardware's sake, and their partnership with Moto, which once seemed so promising, now appears rocky at best after the nano quasi-betrayal (his namely evidenced by Moto's wandering musicphone eye, lining up some seriosu musicphones without iTunes left and right post ROKR E1, like the ROKR E2).
Moving on, it seems the lovely full touchscreen Flash has been canned, along with the Krave's successor, the Inferno -- possibly further confirmation that Moto's throwing virtually all its weight into the Android camp at this point.
ENGADGET: Motorola's first Android phone(s) to have sliding QWERTY?
We'll know soon enough what's going down, but user agent profiles recently published on Moto's own site detail two Android-powered devices -- model numbers MB200 and MB300 -- that feature UMTS (and very likely HSPA in some form), HVGA displays, and in the case of the MB300, probably a 5 megapixel cam considering a mention of 2592 x 1944 resolution.
ENGADGET: Motorola announcing Android plans today, but what's coming?
This one is the Xoom 2, the (almost) same-size successor to Moto's first Android tablet.
While testing Moto's updated skin, we found one major bug that gave us pause.
ENGADGET: Motorola ICS UI review: this isn't the Blur we used to know
Find it in the Ferrari Store and through Moto's European retail channels starting in the first quarter.
ENGADGET: Motorola sullies Ferrari's good name with branded Z8
Would I really leave my position as editor of Engadget to try my hand at plugging the holes in Moto's sinking ship?
ENGADGET: Motorola's cellphone business needs a new leader: okay, I'm in.
Yes, there was more on display, but we've decided to spare you the sight of every walkie-talkie, cable modem, set-top box and cellphone in Moto's lineup.
Showcasing Moto's commitment to music, the company brought along its own dance floor and a couple of bored looking dancing girls and an even more relaxed DJ.
It's worth noting that -- at least on first impressions -- Motorola hasn't tampered excessively with the Honeycomb, something we weren't too happy about on Moto's Droid RAZR.
ENGADGET: Motorola Xoom 2 unboxing and first impressions (video)
The handful of you with your arms raised high right now, bursting at the seams with anticipation for Moto's rumored CDMA port of the L7, don't have much longer to wait.
They spend brief periods of time innovating, and then milk a technology, brand, patent, or some combination therein for as long as they can get away with it (or in Moto's case, way longer).
ENGADGET: Motorola's cellphone business needs a new leader: okay, I'm in.
From the press release, it sounds like the storefront is going to be something of a shrine to Moto's love affair with Verizon, putting their Q, V3c, and V325 front and center.
Despite Moto's announcement that the company is working with Kodak on printing solutions, they still showed off RAZR decals using an HP printer (there were a couple of Kodak EasyShare printers elsewhere in the booth).
First, we know the device will indeed have a qHD display, although unlike Moto's other 960 x 540 screens, this one discards the PenTile matrix and features properly proportioned sub-pixels, which delivers crisper text in the process.
ENGADGET: Motorola's Atrix 2 (Edison) flaunts qHD display, hands-on reveals no PenTile matrix
We're all for the new Moto's less-is-more approach and the potential it has to breed a new Nexus device, but Google's already made it clear that it isn't playing favorites with OEMs. Either way, it's a start.
ENGADGET: Motorola to cut its workforce by 20 percent, shutter a third of its offices worldwide
The built-in widgets Motorola is supplying look top-notch with a ton of spit and polish (seemingly without sacrificing speed or usability), so all told, we think Moto's been really cranking this year baking this platform to a golden crisp.
Microsoft and Motorola's spat in the International Trade Commission started way back in 2010, but it looks like the case may be finally drawing to a conclusion after an initial ruling in Moto's favor was remanded for a second look.
With MOTO XT882's HDMI support, you can easily capture and stream videos to TVs, PCs and stereo systems into any HD display.
If we had to guess, we'd probably say that it's Moto, since they already have a few different Linux-powered smartphones on the market and so would probably be receptive to the new Linux-based version of the Palm OS that's in the works, but LG's been pushing out in some interesting directions lately, so it wouldn't be shocking if it were them, either.
Moto, let's put it this way: if this isn't real, can whatever it is you're working on right this second and do precisely this instead.
ENGADGET: Is this Motorola's Android-powered Touch ZINE HD? Mobile
Freeman's (Freeman Alley, off Rivington St), a perennially popular Lower East Side restaurant, and Brooklyn's pioneering Moto (394 Broadway, Williamsburg), were early adopters of the Old New York look, and the designers of each have kept up their patina-led practice.
It's a little bit cruiser compared to the competition's little bit moto.
ENGADGET: cruises with the Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle (with videos!)
Dell's team includes the former head of Motorola's phone division (Ron Garriques) and another Moto employee (John Thode) who heads up Dell's netbook group.
ENGADGET: WSJ: Dell "preparing a move into cellphones as early as next month"
The tug was holed by the decommissioned Moto Vessel Emsstrom, off Hope's Nose, Torbay in Devon.
BBC: Boat sinks after stricken tug crew rescued off Devon coast
As engineered products, Moto Guzzis are handcuffed to the brand's distinctive and distinctly questionable transverse 90-degree V-twin engine, a configuration that reaches back to the 1960s.
Moto had several mannequins sporting the company's Burton gear.
Yesterday Motorola CEO Greg Brown told board members and shareholders that, among a lot of other bad news, the company is no closer to finding someone to lead the company's rotting cellphone business (which Moto is in the middle of spinning off as its "Mobile Devices" unit).
ENGADGET: Motorola's cellphone business needs a new leader: okay, I'm in.
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