Live from Motorola’s press conference

[Corey]

We’re on the scene at Motorola’s press conference, where the company is expected to unveil its latest killer Android phone. Motorola is set to announce the DROID RAZR M and possibly a device called the DROID RAZR HD, though it’s unclear if there will be an additional flagship smartphone as Bloomberg has reported. Hit the break for our live coverage to check out all the news as it breaks.

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1:46PM:Ok — the site came crashing down thanks to all the interest in Nokia's press conference this morning, but we're back up and running, waiting for the Motorola event to kick off.

1:47PM:In the meantime, there's a band playing some music that may or may not have been featured on Dawson's Creek 10 years ago.

1:50PM:The room is filling up quickly so hopefully things will get started in 10-15 minutes or so.

2:00PM:Despite the band's best efforts, no one is singing along. This should be the last song before the press conference kicks off.

2:06PM:Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google is on stage.

2:07PM:It's amazing to think how recent our history is... When was it that these phones, invented of course by Motorola, got completely replaced by power supercomputers like this DROID.

2:07PM:They shouldn't be called cellphones anymore, they should be called supercomputers.

2:09PM:There was a behavioral transition of programmers and users to what we call mobile-first.

2:09PM:Schmidt never expected the size of Android ecosystem to be this big. Over 1.3 million Android device activations a day.

2:10PM:70,000 of those are tablets, and Android's total install base is around 480 million.

2:10PM:"#1 position in the world, by far."

2:11PM:The scale of Android is why Google needed Motorola

2:12PM:He's remembering when he asked Sanjay Jha of Motorola is they were willing to take a bet, and he's thankful they were.

2:12PM:Eric just introduced Dennis Woodside who is Motorola's CEO

2:17PM:654 million global LTE subs expected by start of 2017. Speed is important...

2:18PM:LTE phone users check their devices almost double the amount of 3G users

2:18PM:Sorry guys — having issues with text updates but we're working on it!

2:18PM:Power management is also super important.

2:19PM:A mobile phone plugged into the wall isn't a mobile device.

2:20PM:Now he's showing a photo fo a Mophie iPhone case on a 4S and says this is what's required to get battery life comparable to the RAZR MAXX.

2:20PM:Listing all the first things Android had, voice actions, turn by turn navigation, multitasking.

2:21PM:If you want the best Android device possible, you should be looking at a Motorola device.

2:21PM:YouTube won't be on some of its competitors handsets...

2:21PM:Motorola is announcing developer editions of their phones that will enable users to root.

2:22PM:They will be Jelly Bean from the start, and that Motorola will upgrade the rest of their devices very soon. You also get a $100 credit towards the purchase of a phone announced today if your existing device can't be upgraded to Jelly Bean

2:23PM:Motorola is playing a video right now, and it's about the all new RAZR family with 3 devices. Rich Osterio from Moto is now on stage to talk about the RAZR.

2:25PM:Today we're announcing the next generation of DROID RAZRs. Fatest device we have ever made, each with amazing battery life, and all loaded with Google experiences. We know we could make an even better phone and it started with the screen. his is the DROID RAZR HD. The most compact large screen smartphone. It's 4.7 inches with 78 percent more pixels.

2:25PM:Delivers 85% more color saturation than the iPhone 4S.

 

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