Motorola Droid is a brand-new phone today. Like many smartphones before it, the Droid has been rooted so that owners of the Android 2.0-based smartphone can install multitouch support (including pinch-to-zoom gestures), enhanced themes and other previously forbidden goodies. A hacked Droid would allow you to modify the operating system any way you want, and [...]

Motorola and Verizon introduced the Droid Wednesday at a New York City press conference. The Droid phone is amazingly thin for a device with a slide-out keyboard. It is a half-inch thick, with a metal top and a brilliant 3.7-inch touch screen. In the hand, the Droid feels hefty, and it’s sliding keyboard mechanism is [...]

Sliders are great, but if you want something slightly different, the MOTORIZR Z8 is a good pick. Touted as the world’s first “kick slider”, it features a 2-inch QVGA display, 2.0-megapixel camera, secondary VGA camera, HSDPA, microSD card slot, 90MB of built-in memory, Bluetooth w/A2DP, and video recording capabilities. Video after the jump.

Motorola first Linux phone with single core architecture. Traditionally smart phones feature dual processor, one for baseband and the other for application, possibly to avoid lagging or sudden disconnect when talking midway, the down side on having two processor is the shorter battery life. Motorola is the first company to introduce a single core architecture, [...]