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Time now for a Motorola Milestone review. The Motorola Milestone was released late 2009 in the US, where it was called the Motorola Droid and hailed as the saviour of Motorola.

It’s recently been launched in the UK as the Milestone, and is Motorola’s attempt to convince the world that it really can make great phones again – in this case, a great Android 2.1 device designed to take on the wealth of super-smart phones that are on the market.

The question is, though – can it? Does the Milestone offer enough to make it better than its rivals from the likes of HTC, Samsung, Palm, and the iPhone? Does it have a better interface, better features, and a better all round user interface, and is it more than just another Android phone?

In short, is the Milestone worthy of your cash?!

Let’s find out with our Motorola Milestone review…

Motorola have released a new smartphone at MWC 2010 in the shape of this, the Motorola Quench. Unlike many other phones debuting this week, the Quench isn’t going to know anyone’s socks off – it’s basically just a Motorola DEXT without the keyboard.

However, it backs up Motorola’s commitment to Android, and should be a cheap option ofr those people looking to get into smartphones cheaply.

Our second bit of news on Android Day comes courtesy of the Motorola Devour, Motorola’s new Android phone complete with their own MotoBLUR interface. Motorola dug deep into their pockets for the Devour and advertised it on the SuperBowl yesterday, which must have cost them a pretty penny.

Speaking of pretty, they chose Megan Fox to show it off in the ad. And then put her in the bath naked. I can think of worse jobs to have than heading up Motorola’s marketing department (and it’s the first time I’ve been able to say that in a few years!)

More details, pics and vids of both the Motorola Devour and Megan Fox in the bath after the jump!

Motorola have come out all guns blazing by announcing the first batch of what will be dozens of new Android phones. The Motorola DEXT and CLIQ are the first Android phones developed by Motorola, and will feature an innovative new way of integrating all your messages, emails, pictures and other forms of communication with your social media connections.

They’ll also feature MotoBlur – Motorola’s new user interface that takes Android to the next level.

Motorola aren’t seeing the two new phones as make or break – although they’re perilously close to going to the wall – but rather they’re the start of a brand new range of Android phones, which together will seal the future of Motorola’s strategy – and its overall fate.

Are the new Motorola Android devices good enough to save Motorola? Read on for more details!

After over a year of rumours, leaked pictures and speculation, Motorola have finally announced the 5 megapixel camera phone they’ve been working on with Kodak. Called the Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5, the new camera phone was seen as a key element in Motorola’s fight-back against its competitors, which have been eating up its market share for over a year now.

Is it too little too late, though? Given that most of the other manufacturers have had 5 megapixel camera phones on the market for over a year now, and Sony Ericsson are about to launch an 8 megapixel camera phone, can Motorola’s first 5 megapixel camera phone really help the company stem its losses and help it regain the technological lead it once held?

Read on after the jump to find out.

As well as the Motorola Z10, CES 2008 also saw the announcement of the Motorola ROKR E8. Now, Motorola have released a number of ROKR music phones before, generally to underwhelming reviews. However, with the new ROKR E8, Motorola might just have got things right this time, and might even start to compete with Sony Ericsson’s Walkman phones.

More details and pictures of the Motorola ROKR E8 after the jump.

Motorola have been quite busy during CES this week, announcing several new phones. Of these, only the Motorola Z10 and ROKR E8 are worthy of note (the rest are just low-end phones), and quite surprising they are too…Motorola may actually have built a half decent phone!

More details and pics of the Motorola Z10 after the jump.

Pictures of the Motorola ROKR U9 (above), U3 and W5 have been released, along with a few completely underwhelming specs. As you can see from the pics, the new ROKRs are simply Motorola KRZRs and PEBLs with a paint job (now where’ve seen that before?!). The specs are simply awful as well.

More pics and specs of the new Motorola ROKRs after the jump.

The new Motorola RAZR Squared has been launched in the South Korean market prior to its global launch. The RAZR squared is Motorola’s attempt to keep the momentum of the mighty RAZR going by kitting it out with features that should help it keep pace with its rivals.

Whether they’ll achieve this or not is another matter – the RAZR squared might be better than existing RAZRs, but it’s still no match from competing phones form the likes of Samsung or Nokia. For example, Motorola are making a big deal of the RAZR’s two screens – one normal one within its clamshell, and a smaller one on the outside.

When did you ever see Nokia boasting about its top-end phones having a second screen?!

Anyway, gripes aside, it’s a good looking phone, and brings the RAZR closer to 2007’s phones.

More details and pictures of the Motorola RAZR Squared after the jump.

Motorola have done what no other phone manufacturer has dared, and released a brand new mobile phone at the same time as the iPhone.

The phone in question is Motorola’s “media monster”, the Motorola Z8.

The Z8 was announced a few months ago, and Motorola have been trying to hype it up ever since.

It does offer new features that haven’t been seen on a Motorola before: 16 million colour screen, HSDPA and a huge storage capacity of up to 32GB.

But compete with the iPhone? It doesn’t stand a chance!

Worse, by releasing the phone at the same time as the iPhone, Motorola have guaranteed it will get virutally no press coverage at all (well, except for this post of course!).

There couldn’t be a worse day this year to announce a new mobile phone – way to go, Motorola!