Sprint and Motorola Unveil Two Android Devices for Business: Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium
New Android smartphones target professionals with enhanced business-class experiences; Motorola XPRT offers enterprise-grade security and enhanced MOTOBLUR experience on an Android World Phone; and Motorola Titanium pairs best-in-class Nextel Direct Connect with Android
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (BUSINESS WIRE), May 05, 2011 � To meet the growing demand for mobile devices with industry-leading enterprise features, Sprint (NYSE: S) and Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) will launch two new smartphones with enhanced business-ready capabilities, built on the Android™ platform. Motorola XPRT™ is the first Android smartphone from Sprint to deliver enterprise-class security, personal productivity enhancements and international roaming. Motorola Titanium™ leverages Sprint's industry-leading Push-to-Talk capabilities as the first Nextel Direct Connect® smartphone built on Android 2.1.
"We are pleased to extend our portfolio of products directed at business-users with these two powerful and versatile Android devices," said Paget L. Alves, president � Sprint Business. "Motorola XPRT delivers the security features enterprise customers demand without scrimping on the latest in technology, while Motorola Titanium is a rugged Android smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect's sub-second Push-to-Talk."
Motorola XPRT will be available on Sunday, June 5, in Sprint Stores, Business Sales, Web sales (www.sprint.com) and Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1), for $129.99 with a new line or eligible upgrade and two-year service agreement. Pricing and availability for Motorola Titanium will be announced at a later date.
"Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium blend feature-packed consumer experiences with an optimal set of productivity and security tools," said Jeff Miller, corporate vice president of sales, Motorola Mobility. "We are pleased to partner with Sprint to deliver each of these unique business-ready devices to their continuously growing enterprise customer base."
Packed with Productivity Tools
Designed for business users, Motorola XPRT offers a sleek, compact design built on Android 2.2, Froyo. This full-feature world phone is equipped with a pinch-to-zoom capable touchscreen, 3.1-inch HVGA display, full QWERTY keyboard and 1GHz processor with Adobe Flash 10 web browsing.
Enterprise managers and workforces across field service, field sales, healthcare, retail, utilities, manufacturing and transportation/distribution industries will benefit from its feature-rich capabilities, enterprise-class security and data encryption. Motorola XPRT delivers business-class security features with 256-bit AES data encryption and controls the IT department will appreciate, including the ability to remotely handle functions like enabling pin or password lock, password recovery and data wipe on both the phone and SD card if lost or stolen.
Motorola XPRT comes loaded with MOTOBLUR™ offering personalized content, including email and social media updates, delivered right to the user's home screen. It enables convenient viewing of news feeds, updates and messages from social media sites from a single screen.
Additional key features of Motorola XPRT include:
- Android Market™ for access to more than 150,000 applications, widgets and games available for download
- Google™ mobile services, such as Google Maps™ with Navigation, Google Talk™, Gmail™ and YouTube™
- Corporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®) and personal (POP & IMAP) email
- Worldmode � CDMA (EVDO Rev. A), GSM/UMTS (HSPA) � international roaming service available in more than 200 countries
- 3G Mobile Hotspot capability, supporting up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices simultaneously
- 5-megapixel camera with camcorder and dual LED flash for low-light performance
- microSD slot, with a 2GB memory card included, supporting up to 32GB
- Bluetooth® 2.1 + EDR
- Wi-Fi® b/g/n
- 1860 mAh Lithium-ion battery
Motorola XPRT requires activation on one of Sprint's Everything Data plans, plus a required $10 Premium Data add-on charge for smartphones. Sprint's Everything Data plan with Any Mobile, AnytimeSM includes unlimited web, texting and calling to and from any mobile in America while on the Sprint Network, starting at just $69.99 per month plus required $10 Premium Data add-on charge (pricing excludes surcharges and taxes).
Sprint also offers great value with international service add-ons for Motorola XPRT. For just $4.99 per month, the Sprint Worldwide Voice Add on offers discounted rates while traveling in more than 100 countries. For only $2.99 per month, you can make local calls in Canada, call back to the United States and even receive calls in Canada for just $0.20 per minute. That's a savings of $0.39 per minute over standard roaming charges. While roaming in Canada, Mexico, China, and other destinations data rates start as low as $0.002 per KB (on CDMA networks).
To sign up to learn more about Motorola XPRT, please visit�www.motorola.com/XPRT.
Leading in Push-to-Talk
As the successor to the popular Motorola i1 launched by Sprint last year, Motorola Titanium is sleek and attractive, yet durable. It is the first iDEN device to combine Sprint's best-in-class Nextel Direct Connect and Android 2.1, Éclair, for a feature rich business-class experience. It features a full QWERTY keyboard and 3.1-inch touchscreen display. Built military-grade tough, Motorola Titanium is certified to Military Specification 810G for dust, shock, vibration, low pressure, solar radiation, high temperature and low temperature.
With more than 17 years of expertise, Sprint is the industry leader in Push-to-Talk, serving the world's largest Push-to-Talk community with millions of Nextel Direct Connect subscribers on the fastest national Push-to-Talk network. Nextel Direct Connect has set the industry standard for Push-to-Talk worldwide. More U.S. workers communicate in less than a second with Nextel Direct Connect than with any other Push-to-Talk service.
Additional key features of Motorola Titanium include:
- Support for Nextel Direct Connect Services, including Direct Connect, Group Connect®, International Direct Connect®, DirectSendSM, Group Messaging and NextMail®
- Android Market for access to more than 150,000 applications, widgets and games available for download
- Google mobile services such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Maps with Navigation, syncing with Google Calendar™ and YouTube
- Corporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync) and personal (POP3 & IMAP) email
- 5-megapixel camera with camcorder, 4x zoom and flash
- Wi-Fi b/g
- Stereo Bluetooth
- GPS navigation
- microSD slot, with a 2GB memory card included, supporting up to 32GB
- 1820 mAh Lithium-ion battery
To learn more about Motorola Titanium, please visit�www.motorola.com/titanium.
Sprint has earned top honors in the competitive business marketplace � winning the #1 ranking for overall satisfaction for wireless voice service providers�and a matching #1 ranking in overall satisfaction for wireless data service providers�in a survey of large business decision makers, according to a comprehensive study by Yankee Group and�Mobile Enterprise Magazine (www.mobileenterprisemag.com).1The study indicated that Sprint ranked first in overall satisfaction in wireless voice and data, and in voice services, ranked first or second in nine of the 10 categories among large business customers.
Samsung Electronics is preparing to displays 'Samsung Smart TV' at the 'World It Show 2011' hold in COEX, Seoul from May 11 � 14. The Smart TV hub features easily search for movies, TV shows, browse the web, explore Samsung apps, chat with friends and find many other types of new interactive TV content.
With Samsung Smart TV, users can enjoy integrated service by internet search same with PC environment and communication with peripheral devices which they used to have from other devices. By featuring own properties of TV, users can enjoy contents what they want with comfortably lying on a sofa.
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As happy as it makes me to see how far the iOS platform has come in adapting to more traditional gaming tropes, there's really nothing I love more than coming across a game that utilizes controls and mechanics that feel completely organic to the touch screen. Such is the case of Foodies [99�], the first iOS game from indie developer Nano Titans and one that I had never even heard of before until it popped up in the App Store just a few hours ago.
Foodies is a story of two squishy, uh, creature… things named Sam and Pam. They are madly in love and Sam proposes marriage to Pam, but there's a problem. Pam likes a man with some meat on his bones (if these things have bones, that is), and she has given Sam one week to gain some weight before she'll agree to get married. All that's left for Sam to do now is eat everything in sight.
The unique control mechanic in Foodies is a big part of what I like so much about the game. Placing two thumbs on the screen will create a line in between them. Sam will drop into a level from the top of the screen and you'll use this created line to bounce and push him around each level, collecting the various types of food and avoiding hazards.
The 80 levels in Foodies are also very creative. Some have you simply collecting all the food on the screen, sometimes with a time limit or only a certain number of bounces to accomplish the task. Other levels require only collecting certain kinds of food (like healthy stuff) while avoiding the rest (like junk food). Oftentimes there are obstacles to deal with too, like buzz saws that will kill you or barriers that must be bashed into several times to get past them.
Foodies also contains the ever-important 3 star rating system for each level, though in this case it's actually a 3 candles on a cake rating system. You're scored on the treats that you munch during a level, how long it takes you to complete it, and how many bounces you needed.
This brings me to my one problem with Foodies, and that is that it seems incredibly difficult to earn 3 candles for many of the levels. I'll feel like I completed one as quickly and efficiently as possible, but when my score is tallied up I've barely earned enough for 1 or maybe 2 candles. This isn't a huge issue and it's possible there's some aspect to the scoring that I'm missing, but it's really the only thing in the game that had me scratching my head.
Check out this extensive video from the developer that gives a taste of the mechanics and many of the level types in Foodies (actual gameplay starts at 1:29):
Besides the tiny scoring quibble, Foodies is an extremely entertaining game. The two-thumbed control scheme is incredibly intuitive to use, and with a bit of practice, you'll be bouncing Sam around expertly in his quest for increased caloric intake. The 80 included levels will take some time to work through, not to mention trying to earn 3 candles for each, and they get quite challenging and complex in the latter half of the game. I'd love to see some more levels released in future updates, as well as achievements to go along with the already included Game Center leaderboard for total score.
If you're looking for a new gaming fix that's different from what's already out there, plus has charming visuals and plenty of content, then definitely give Foodies a look. I was surprised by just how much I immediately enjoyed the game, and players in our forums seem to be loving it as well.
<!-- PHP 5.x -->The next version of Mac OS X Lion will be launching this summer. We may see it available via the Mac App Store before being sold online or in store. By making the Mac OS X lion available though the App Store, those currently using the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be much easier to update to the latest version of the OS.
It is expected that Apple will announce the new distribution method at WWDC in early June. As the beta versions of the OS are already downloadable via the App Store, it makes this new method of downloading an OS update could be a possibility for the future update.
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