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What’s that? weekday is here? Of instruction it is! And so is our activity of PhanMail. It’s effort harder and harder to narrowing downbound the prizewinning questions every week, so ready them coming! Just nous over to our PhanMail occurrence form to accede your possess question. Read on to intend this week’s fix.

I formatted my Nexus One and was wondering whether there was some artefact for me to regain the patronage of my aggregation messages. There is a folder labelled ‘Backup’ on my SD bill and it contains a enter titled Messages.arc.

Chances are after a content your aggregation messages are absent for good, unless of instruction you hardback up your figure primeval and hit the theoretical know-how to change your forfeited messages. I’m trusty a cordial commenter module apace precise me if I’m wrong, so you strength poverty to meet adjusted there. In the stingy time, the prizewinning advice to refrain losing messages in the forthcoming would be to backwards them up using an covering such as SMS Backup and Restore, Lookout, or WaveSecure. Those become to mind, but there are trusty others to countenance into.

I hit threesome mobiles HTC Desire 2.2, Motorola Milestone 2.1 (sad), and a SE X10 on 1.6 (crying), every got the aforementioned 3.5mm headphone diddley but I slope ingest one headset with assorted phone… If they are fashioned to not be utilised with others then what’s the saucer of standardising the ports… I also detected the occurrence concealment figure on mark doesn’t impact aright when charging using a blackberry charger…

This is a fantastic observation. I can’t conceive of some conceive ground the aforementioned ordered of headphones would not be harmonious with every threesome devices, because, as you said, they are every accepted headphone jacks. It would be hornlike to dapple the supply without the actualised support of headphones as a reference.

The figure supply is slightly different, as modify though destined chargers module be harmonious and wage the humour needed to calculate a figure it was not fashioned for, lateral personalty — though not ever as manifest  as the one you ran into — aren’t needs discover of the ordinary.

I purchased my Droid X the prototypal period of its July promulgation and within a some weeks someone showed me how to alter to the Swype pick that came on my unit. My discourse is this – how is the Swype code that came with my X assorted than the beta versions that hit been closed, unsealed and upgraded over the instance some months? How do I ready the edition on my X up-to-date with the stylish Swype released? (My Swype edition is 1.64.40.9380 and I’m using Android 2.2)

The Swype edition installed discover of the incase on the Motorola Droid X is correct of the demesne of the clannish beta. That beta exists to effort elements of the code that haw yet attain it to handsets that came with the aggregation signaling code pre-installed. Ultimately the concern and traveler module end on that, and the Swype edition would most probable be updated alongside an OTA update for the Android operative system.

Because of this, the versions of Swype inform on devices at start is typically a some steps behindhand the one those attractive conception in the clannish beta receive. From instance to instance the Swype aggroup has unsealed up the beta, as you hit mentioned, so if you are a bounteous Swype follower same me meet meet adjusted to your sort one Android programme maker (that’s Phandroid, duh) and we’ll be trusty to permit every you Swype fans undergo correct away.

Which is actually better,Swype OR SlideIT?

As I said above, I am a Brobdingnagian Swype fan, so apparently that is my respond to this question. It haw depart from individual to user, but it’s hornlike to debate against the code that prefabricated it doable to fortuity finished the pace texting obstruction same never before. That existence said, there are individual another rattling original aggregation signaling options worth checking out, including 8pen, BlindType, and SwiftKey, every of which I would belike verify over SlideIT.

I’m a truehearted Droid X someone and hit never had an supply with anything…until now! Some of my contacts (specifically numbers) are disappearing. I adopt it has something to do with the linking of my gmail and facebook accounts. Why is it not doable to merge the contacts and hit them every ransomed in gmail?! I am decent progressively frustrated with this supply of losing occurrence content but genuinely fuck android. Please help!

You haw poverty to verify a countenance at your sync settings settled low “Settings > Accounts & Sync.” Make trusty low the Google Account options you hit Sync Contacts selected, and every obloquy and drawing logged into your DX should automatically intend hardback up in the darken to your GMail come book.

Facebook also has individual sync pick reachable via the application’s settings menu. You crapper opt between syncing every contacts, syncing exclusive the ones currently in your phone’s come book, and no sync at all. Also, attain trusty Facebook syn is enabled in the Accounts & Sync settings menu.

If you ease undergo issues with your contacts, you haw poverty to verify the phone into your topical VZW and wager if they crapper help.

My Sprint lessen has been up for the instance 2 months and I hit been retentive discover for a phone that is either coequal to or meliorate than the Evo and Epic. Do you wager in the rattling nearby forthcoming a meliorate phone existence free from Sprint or should I meet explore and go with the Evo?

As of correct now, we haven’t caught twine of some field releases from Sprint in the incoming some months that module competition the EVO and Epic 4G, but we don’t wait things to meet asleep for long. The HTC EVO Shift 4G (HTC Knight) is correct around the bend, but module most probable be a small edition of the EVO patch ownership kindred specs.

With dual-core and 4G handsets reaching to Verizon and AT&T potentially as primeval as January/February, we don’t conceive Sprint module meet discover of the mettlesome that long. But as always, I staleness feature the EVO 4G and Epic are as beatific a pick today as they were at their launches. Unless you dead hit to hit the stylish phone and technology, you rattling can’t go criminal with either.

Are you guys hunting into effort a newborn interpret system? The underway one doesn’t earmark editing, tiered replies, or ‘likes’. I undergo for me, I intend more participating in the comments if I crapper direct state to someone and hit grouping same my comments. I undergo quite a some grouping ingest Disqus, it allows every of these features as substantially as keeps road of your ‘likes’ and comments. Thanks for every the impact you guys do, ready it up.

For this respond I overturned to the Negro with the organisation himself, Mr. Rob Jackson. Here is what he had to say:

“While the interpret grouping has such shack for improvement, our utilization efforts are currently convergent on more feature-rich experiences. We’ve fresh additional the knowledge to study phones and ingest accord signaling to wage a dynamically updated “Best Phone” feature.

We’re also actuation a newborn edition of the Phandroid App on Monday, and currently hit a completely newborn covering in winking Beta.

Improving the interpret grouping is definintely on our to do list, it’s meet a concern of where in the priorities it every fits. Thanks for your input!”

While whatever of you are ease disagreeable to bonded an manifestation playwright tablet, the manifestation Amico is meet most primed to gait its clog every over the web. It’s a 7-inch paper with Android 2.1 and has been patterned on PC World – the prototypal merchandiser to itemize the figure since it was announced with the playwright backwards in October. Here’s the creation organisation from those folks:

The manifestation Amico Tablet is a nifty entry-level contact concealment tablet.With its 7-inch screen, the manifestation Amico has unco baritone dimensions and is cushy to handle. Totally fit for watching videos, this luminous touchscreen transfer module be your curb interface.The Amico has a built-in webcam too. You crapper videochat and rest mobile. Or meet transfer the figure around to your friends or family!The OS in the Amico is Android 2.1, which effectuation you crapper garner and opt from a panoramic difference of liberated applications that crapper do every sorts of things for you.Doesn’t having the Amico Tablet movement by the lounge good attractive?Coming in artist black and with a pleasant baritone toll tag, the manifestation Amico Tablet module be a enthusiastic relation if you poverty to encounter discover more most paper computing.

They then travel to vexer you with a pleasant “Buy Now” fix for £129.99, but clicking it module meet attain you depressing as it’s not still available. But we don’t modify undergo such most this help yet, so I presume there’s no think to acquire it. Even though this was declared around the aforementioned instance as the manifestation Vega, we hit still to wager some aggregation right of the fact that it’s 15mm anorectic and module board with Android 2.1. [via EuroDroid]

We institute discover the official price a some weeks past via a T-Mobile advise release, but it shows up again in a picture. The toll has been addicted again at $399.99 on a digit assemblage lessen after a $50 accumulation in channel and $599.99 with no lessen commitment.

The $599.99 is $100 inferior than the due pre-order toll on Amazon. 3 hurried glasses that are shown above are 7″ multi-touch screen, 1.3MP face covering camera for recording chat, and Real scheme feeding with Adobe Flash shapely in. I’m trusty alot of you were rattling bright with this newborn pricing and I’d fuck to undergo whether or no your feat to acquire it below. There’s exclusive digit more life until release, so intend pumped. While your effort pumped, analyse discover our flooded analyse over at SlashGear.

Via [TmoNews]

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It wasn’t hornlike to amount discover the Samsung circumstance tonight would be every most the Continuum. After an “are you here for the Continuum event” greeting, we took our artefact in face of a super projector with the Samsung Continuum covered on it”

Before the circumstance modify started I institute a advise promulgation with whatever of the nitty gritty details:

• $199 on Verizon Wireless after channel on contract
• Available for meet Nov 11th
• Available for purchase/shipping Nov 18th

The Continuum is a Galaxy S phone and gets whatever originality with a slightly small concealment than it’s cousins, consideration in at 3.4-inches, but with an added ordinal pass for widgety identify of aggregation same defy and ethnic networking messages:

Grip Sensor – By impinging the lowermost sides of the device, the timekeeper pass lights up to wage users real-time weather, ethnic networking services (SNS), message, IM and e-mail asking updates

Other info allow a 5MP camera, Bing see and maps, 1GHz processor, Swype pre-loaded and an 8GB MicroSD bill prepackaged.

VERIZON WIRELESS AND SAMSUNG MOBILE DEBUT THE SAMSUNG CONTINUUM™, A GALAXY S™ SMARTPHONE
Nov 8, 2010

BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and DALLAS – Verizon Wireless, the nation’s maximal and most sure wireless vocalise and 3G accumulation network, and Samsung Telecommunications USA (Samsung Mobile), the sort one ambulatory phone bourgeois in the United States1, today declared the upcoming availability of the Samsung Continuum™, a Galaxy S™ smartphone. The Continuum is the world’s prototypal smartphone fashioned with a sacred timekeeper display, which provides users with up-to-the-minute news, sports, direction and ethnic networking updates for maximized multitasking.
The Continuum features digit removed but desegrated displays: a 3.4-inch contact concealment Super AMOLED™ important pass and a customizable 1.8-inch Super AMOLED sacred timekeeper pass that streams bespoken aggregation in actual time. Additionally, the Continuum is supercharged by Android™ 2.1, with hold for Google Mobile Services, including GmailÔ, YouTube™, Android Market™ and more. The Continuum also includes a 1GHz Hummingbird Application Processor, 5-megapixel camera, and binary recreation and ethnic networking features.
Color: Mirror Black
Key features and specifications:
- 3.4-inch Super AMOLED Main Touch Screen Display–Main pass provides user-customizable homescreens and widgets in a magnificent concealment display
- 1.8-inch Interactive Super AMOLED Ticker Display–Dedicated timekeeper pass enables zero-click admittance to news, ethnic networking, sports and recreation feeds; users crapper superior what noesis they poverty on the timekeeper by selecting from schedule on display
- Grip Sensor – By impinging the lowermost sides of the device, the timekeeper pass lights up to wage users real-time weather, ethnic networking services (SNS), message, IM and e-mail asking updates
- Super AMOLED Screen Technology – Brilliant concealment makes watching movies, watch videos and state games become to chronicle same never before, modify in gleaming reddened and exterior environments
- Android 2.1 papers – With hold for Google Mobile Services, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Talk and Android Market
- Preloaded with Bing Maps and Bing Search
- Full HTML Web feeding capabilities
- 3G Mobile HotSpot capabilities – Allows customers to alter their phone into a wireless modem for up to fivesome harmonious Wi-Fi-enabled devices
- Advanced touchscreen gestures capabilities, including multi-touch crop to zoom, threefold touch to ascent and flat swiping, which provides easier and quicker admittance to some applications, including location-based services, Web feeding and digital photos or videos
- Multiple enter formats supported, including DivX and Xvid support
- Samsung 1GHz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Application Processor – Produces awful graphics, faster upload and download times, and HD-like transmission content
- Six-axis figure that entireness with the smartphone’s accelerometer to wage a smooth, changeful recreation undergo when the individual is tilting the figure up or downbound or panning the phone to the mitt or right
- Virtual QWERTY Keyboard Featuring Swype Technology – Input book faster and in a more illogical artefact with one constant digit change crossways the concealment keyboard
- Full flat of messaging options – Text, picture, transcription and vocalise messaging; joint and individualized e-mail accounts supported
- 5.0-megapixel camera/camcorder – Auto-focus and diode winkle with HD transcription recording and playback capabilities to getting photos and videos for playback on your HD television; playback (720p) on the concealment display
- Wi-Fi Connectivity (802.11 b/g/n)
- Stereo Bluetooth® Technology – Support for headset, hands-free, stereo, directory access, and goal near for vCard and vCalendar
- Corporate Email – Supports Android Éclair Exchange ActiveSync e-mail to aline joint e-mail, contacts and calendars from duty e-mail accounts
- Music contestant features hair screen, timekeeper pass and hurried lateral commission controls and 3.5-millimeter headphone jack
- 8 GB microSD™ bill preinstalled elastic up to 32 GB

Lifestyle features:
- V CAST Music with Rhapsody®, V CAST Video on Demand, V CAST Song ID, Visual Voice Mail, V CAST Tones, VZ Navigator®, Mobile IM, City ID, Bing Search and Maps, and Blockbuster Application
- Dedicated timekeeper displays up-to-the instance news, defy and SNS updates, as substantially as penalization contestant controls and inbound e-mail, IM, and book messages without interrupting the state on the important display
- Samsung’s Social Hub – Built around messaging, contacts and calendar sync, which allows users to beam and obtain information, whether it is e-mail, ethnic meshwork updates or SMS messages
- Integrated Calendar aggregation from vena calendars, on Exchange, Google CalendarÔ and SNS, including Facebook®
- Integrated Contacts syncs with Exchange, Google, Twitter and Facebook – Facebook contacts pass in quaternary categories, including Info, History (previous calls and messages), Activities (status updates and notifications on ethnic networking sites), and Media (Facebook strikingness photos and picture gallery)
- AllShareÔ – Enables inter-device connectivity finished Digital Living Network Alliance® (DLNA®), so users crapper beam transmission noesis wirelessly to another DLNA Certified®-enabled devices much as TVs and laptops
- Daily Briefing – Instant admittance to weather, news, stocks and schedules
- Write and Go – Quickly note downbound an intent and after end on a format, much as SMS/ MMS, e-mail, calendar or memo, to beam or place to favourite SNS sites much as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace
- Smart Alarm – Natural signal good and pass automatically illuminates
- Weather Clock – Displays underway instance and defy of the designated municipality (ability to add and superior another cities)

Pricing and availability:
- The Samsung Continuum module be acquirable for meet play Nov. 11 in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online at www.verizonwireless.com for $199.99 after a $100 mail-in channel with a newborn two-year client commendation and accumulation package. Customers module obtain the channel in the modify of a entry card; upon receipt, customers haw ingest the bill as change anywhere entry game are accepted. The figure module be acquirable for acquire in stores first Nov. 18.
- For added aggregation on Verizon Wireless products and services, meet a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.

[Via Samsung]

Just a period after we saw the booby units impact stores, the Samsung Continuum has began incoming at Verizon stores. As reportable by AndroidLife the threefold contact concealment devices hit been incoming in Verizon’s stylish shipments this morning.

Now we are every but destined that the figure module be touch Verizon on Nov 11th… every we requirement is an announcement, though it tradition be such of an “announcement.”

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The Apple Vs. Google speaking has been a field one since Android’s announcement. And patch apiece has it’s possess advantages, Android is commonly seen as the “better” pick because of it’s openness and knowledge to be highly customized. Well the grouping at eWeek conceive that Android 2.2 is farther behindhand iOS 4, and gives us decade reasons why.

In an facetious locate to move of your weekday morning, analyse discover whatever of their highly disputable reasons below:

1. Google isn’t so bounteous on software

Google’s actual organisation with Android is to lie the ambulatory business space. It full realizes that the prizewinning artefact to attain that content is by doing whatever it crapper to cipher on the poverty for touch-screen smartphones with the hold of Android. That’s exactly ground Google offers its operative grouping for free. But cod to that pore on eventual ambulatory business dominance, Google water brief compared to Apple on code design.

2. Apple understands consumers

Apple understands what consumers poverty and how they module ingest a portion product. That comes finished in every the products the consort sells, including its iOS platform. Google, on the added hand, doesn’t seem to wager consumers as substantially as it could. It’s sure doing a meliorate employ than most companies, but it assist has a daylong artefact to go to correct Apple. In fact, Google’s consumer discernment seems to be more Microsoft-like than Apple-like. And that could be a difficulty — especially for its operative system—going forward.

3. Multitasking

Multitasking on iOS is a key conceive ground Apple has enjoyed much success in the ambulatory mart as of late. For years, consumers were hoping for genuine multitasking. But for years, the consort prefabricated no promises. But in iOS 4, multitasking is streaming on the iPhone. Because of that, Google has a daylong artefact to go to correct anything Apple is currently offering.

4. Folders attain it every OK

Apple’s iOS papers is meliorate than Android 2.2 for individual field reasons. But one of the secondary things that consumers should conceive most is Apple’s operative system’s folder support. With lowercase effort, consumers crapper apace create folders, amass kindred programs together, and more. It provides a gratifying experience. And it’s something that Google has a daylong artefact to go on in visit to grownup up.

5. Ease of ingest staleness become into play

In whatever assessment between digit operative systems, assist of ingest staleness endeavor a role. After all, if a portion operative grouping is easier to ingest for the cipher consumer than another, it should intend the nod. In this case, iOS 4 easily gets the nod. Apple’s operative grouping is exclusive easier to use. And it doesn’t undergo from the fantastic quirks that hap on Android cod to vendors disagreeable to accommodate the individual undergo to their possess products.

6. Responsiveness

One of the essential issues with Android 2.2 is that the code doesn’t move as effectively as it should to the individual when compared to iOS. Does that stingy there is a sensitiveness supply with Android 2.2? Absolutely not. In fact, compared to added operative systems, it holds up quite well. But Apple’s papers is different. It’s meet that iOS exclusive provides more sensitiveness when users interact with it. It could be extremely arduous for Google to grownup up anytime soon.

7. Too whatever variations

Because Android is an unstoppered platform, vendors that intend their safekeeping on the operative grouping crapper modify it still they wager fit. That openness creates an surround crossways the Android ecosystem that loses similarity and provides variations of the Android operative grouping on assorted phones. The termination is sometimes inconsistent action that staleness be condemned into statement when evaluating differences between iOS and Android.

8. Apple’s App Store

Apple’s App Store is whole to the success of iOS 4. With hundreds of thousands of applications, Apple’s activity is the prizewinning locate to encounter programs that attractiveness to both consumers and project customers. Admittedly, Google’s Android Market has been ontogeny at a fast rate, but it has a daylong artefact to go to correct Apple’s store.

9. iTunes integration

Whenever users garner up an iOS-based device, they crapper admittance iTunes from the product. That’s extremely important. It provides them with an end-to-end recreation undergo that isn’t so pronto acquirable on Android. After all, iTunes is the world’s crowning penalization store. If exclusive Apple’s products hit admittance to it, whatever could feature Google’s substance crapper prizewinning Apple’s.

10. The paper issue

Google has said that Android 2.2 is not fashioned for tablets. Apple doesn’t hit that supply with iOS 4. Currently, iOS 3 is streaming on the iPad. But this month, Apple plans to substance iOS 4 combining with its tablet. When that happens, the consort module establish that its operative grouping is the prizewinning pick for meet most anyone disagreeable to go mobile. Then the onus module be on Google to respond.

Now they do substance up whatever rattling beatific shortcomings in our selection OS, but whatever of them were highly one sided. What do you think? Which parts of their discussion do you agree/disagree with?

[Via eWeek]

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It seems same there are more and more papers lawsuits with apiece period that passes. Apple in this housing is the predator, patch Motorola is the prey. They are suing over the multitouch on the eld of their Android smartphones.

As substantially as the multitouch, Apple is also suing over:

• Object-Oriented System Locator System
• Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Neuristics
• Method and Apparatus for Displaying and Accessing Control and Status Information in a Computer System.
• Support for Custom User-Interaction Elements in a Graphical, Event-Driven Computer System.

This causa module verify a while, so don’t wait an unmediated result. If Motorola ends up losing, they module hit to modify these aspects most their newborn phones or clear a rattling super assets of money to Apple. Check discover every the content on the papers causa on the maker unification shown below.

Via [Patentlyapple]

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Hooray! It’s real! Today’s Barnes & Noble “Very Special Event” has overturned discover to be just what some were predicting: the show of the colouration edition of the Nook, titled correctly: “Nook Color.” It’s convergent rattling hornlike on the books, magazines, and newspapers aspect, but opens up a taste as they do inform the fact that it’s got a scheme broswer, Office writing viewer, games, distribution options finished Twitter and Facebook, and modify a some elating apps.

Specs for the crooked astonishment are thus: 8.1 x 5.0 x 0.48 inches and 15.8 ounces. microUSB opening for aggregation designate and noesis charge. 3.5mm diddley headset plug. MicroSD treatment bill slot. Mono Speaker. 7 progress VividView capacitive contact concealment at 1024×600 resolution. 8GB interior memory. 802.11 b/g/n WiFi for ebook purchases and browsing. And a hook! It’s queer how modify though this aggrandize is flooded of newborn features and a touchscreen and every that beatific stuff, I encounter myself enthralled by the intent of that unstoppered blot in the modify left, sure in locate for much uses as, say, a open accumulation chaining it up to a datum station?

The device, fashioned in conception by Yves Béhar (industrial specializer and originator of Fuseproject,) boasts a 16 meg colouration pass manner of LG’s Vivid View. Nook Color holds 6 cardinal books discover of the box. Daily Chef displays every your new free newspapers, books, and etcetera, and there’s a tiny boat of apps acquirable already including Pandora, music, sudoku, chess, and a some more.

This lovely figure module be transport on or around Nov 19, acquirable for pre-order correct this moment, and it’ll outlay $249. Cheep!

[Via SlashGear]

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Just as expected, the Galaxy Tab module be contact the O2 meshwork on the prototypal of November. The Tab module be acquirable online at www.o2.co.uk and in designated stores that Monday. O2 Gurus module also be on assistance in most stores to support customers ordered up, activate, and respond some questions they strength hit most their newborn Android 2.2 tablet.

You crapper acquire the Tab on every Mobile Broadband tariffs and designated vocalise tariffs. Full info on pricing and boost availability module be reaching before launch. But if it’s anything same it’s priced on Verizon, don’t wait it to be a affordable choice for ambulatory browsing.

Press Release:
O2 today announces that the Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung’s original Android-powered paper device, module be connexion O2’s ontogeny paper arrange on 1 November.

More aggregation on the Samsung Galaxy Tab module be acquirable at http://www.o2.co.uk/comingsoon shortly.

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Verizon and Amazon declared that the favourite eBook covering Kindle module be preloaded on some of the carriers devices. Kindle for Android is arguably the prizewinning eReader on the market, and with admittance to over 700,000 books with 575,000 of these existence low $9.99, it is the prizewinning choice for ambulatory eBook purchase as well.

Verizon is thinking to allow the favourite app on it’s forthcoming devices and it’s preloaded today on the Samsung Fascinate, and it’s DROID series.

Some of the most favourite features of the covering are as follows:

• Buy Once, Read Everywhere – Amazon’s Whispersync profession syncs your marker crossways devices, so you crapper garner up where you mitt off.
• With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books purchased from the Kindle Store are automatically hardback up online, where they crapper be re-downloaded at some time. 
• The maximal activity of books grouping poverty to read.  The U.S. Kindle Store today has more than 700,000 books, including New Releases and 107 of 111 New royalty Times Bestsellers. Over 575,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 80 New royalty Times Bestsellers.

Press Release:
Verizon Wireless Brings Kindle Experience to Android Smartphones and Other Devices

Kindle for Android Comes Ready to Go on DROID™ 2 by Motorola, DROID X by Motorola and the Samsung Fascinate™