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The Special Edition Sidekick 3 by LRG that we saw a few weeks ago, is finally official, and available for preorder on the 30th of October. There isn’t any special added functionality, just the same old browser, trackball, 1.3MP camera, instant messaging and killer QWERTY. You’re paying, of course, for the camo paintjob. Perfect for hiding and texting in the park, or on hunting trips, or during…war. Or if you’re a rapper, since yea, its an LRG design. Tupac and Biggie never would have gotten shot if they’d traded in their chromed out Motorola Startacs for one of these.

But there’s a surprise in the form of a black Sidekick 3 LE model by working girl designer Diane Von Furstenberg. This isn’t like the other black ones we saw on ebay awhile back, though. This one is jet black with kisses all over the screen. Jump to get the first look at Diane’s special kissy face phone.

We’ve come to the conclusion that Alltel customers are a lot like Mac fans—fiercely protective of their low-marketshare-having company. This conclusion was reached from all the comments we get from Alltel customers whenever we post about T-Mobile’s myFaves plan saying they had this for a long time, and with 10 numbers. Well tooty toot for…

This lousy video of the Motorola vending machine is blurry because it was taken on a Motorola RAZR. Still, you can see that it looks similar the the Sony one we saw before, and features various RAZRs and SLVRs waiting to drop down into your ham-soaked hands. This one only had PEBLs and SLVRs since…

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nokia NOK1V.HE aims to regain popularity among U.S. consumers with advanced devices and retail stores, but the world’s No. 1 cellphone maker may need a revamp of its devices to dent the lead of Motorola Inc. MOT.N, analysts said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nokia aims to regain popularity among U.S. consumers with advanced devices and retail stores, but the world’s No. 1 cellphone maker may need a revamp of its devices to dent the lead of Motorola Inc., analysts said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nokia NOK1V.HE aims to regain popularity among U.S. consumers with advanced devices and retail stores, but the world’s No. 1 cellphone maker may need a revamp of its devices to dent the lead of Motorola Inc. MOT.N, analysts said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. MOT.N on Monday said it bought privately held video technology developer Vertasent LLC to expand its product and customer base in the cable television provider market.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. MOT.N on Tuesday said it will buy Symbol Technologies Inc. SBL.N, a maker of bar code and inventory scanning technology, for about $3.9 billion to boost sales of wireless handheld devices to corporate customers.

Mobile phone firm Motorola is buying Symbol Technologies, a maker of barcode scanning systems, for $3.9bn.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Mobile communications firm Motorola MOT.N has high hopes for the mobile version of WiMAX broadband, the company’s technology head said in a newspaper interview.