Motorola

project ara-google-moto-dscout

Project Ara dscout Program Closing, Google Looks To Make It Reality

project ara-google-moto-dscout
courtesy www.lydogbillede.dk

Project Ara, the modular phone project started under a Google owned Motorola and continues on in Google’s hands is closing down it’s dscout program. The dscout program was a R&D effort by the company to get as many ideas and thoughts from regular users as they could. Google cultivated as much data as they could to use in making the prototype Ara phone and will likely keep using that data in the full production as well. You can read Dan Makoski’s email farewell below. 

Read more…

Moto x deal

Motorola Shuts Down US Assembly Plant – Offers Moto X Discount

Moto-x-deal

Just the other day, Motorola announced that they’d be shutting down their North Texas assembly facility for the Moto X, not quite a year after it opened with a big party.  Selling a phone that was assembled in the United States – even if most of the parts were sourced from overseas – was a big selling point for Motorola.  While plenty of cell phones are designed and modeled in the US, the Moto X was the only phone to be assembled here.  Slumping sales of the custom-designed  Moto-X were likely to blame.  While the Moto X is a well-designed phone with decent specs, it never took off like I’m sure Motorola would have wanted.

Read more…