Motorola is giving an old classic a modern day touchup. The Motorola StarTAC III - Click to enarge In a statement released Tuesday, the handset maker announced that it will be releasing an updated ...

A StarTAC saved my life. Well, not really. I wasn't accidentally transported to the World War II trenches, and saved from a bullet to the heart by an artfully placed Motorola in my jacket pocket. But ...

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Motorola’s StarTAC was pretty revolutionary when it first came out, one of the first phone models to comfortably fit in one’s pocket and look good doing it. Even by today’s standards the 10 ...

My buddy Scott is this big time photographer who shoots all sorts of famous people. So, when news of Leonard Nimoy’s death broke this morning, he had a fun little anecdote to tell me about the Star ...

Every week, a new and interesting human being tackles our decidedly geeky take on the Proustian Q&A. This is the Engadget Questionnaire. Oculus VR founder and designer Palmer Luckey has a go at our ...

A snapshot of the last several years in Motorola's history shows a company in flux, culminating last week, when the smartphone manufacturer's sale to Google was finally given the green light. After ...

When Mitsubishi made your first cellphone, you know you’ve been around a while. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola ...

Can you really get nostalgic for an old mobile phone? Apparently so – well, at least in Korea, where Motorola has re-launched the StarTAC brand with the StarTAC III MS900 clamshell. Except, it’s not ...

In 1974, a Motorola engineer made the first-ever mobile phone call. (He, of course, called the rival company racing to the accomplishment, to say he’d won.) Nine years later, Motorola introduced the ...

I've done a lot of searching but I just can't find any solid data on hacking, modifying or otherwise tampering with a Motorola StarTAC cellular phone.<P>I've got one and I feel I must, as a geek, get ...

I'm preprogrammed to have a soft spot for the new Motorola Razr, the company's first foldable-screen phone. Like a whole lot of people – 50 million were sold in the first two years, after all – I had ...