We're here and we're in our seats — MGMT's "Electric Feel" is blasting away. This is the same venue Amazon held the Kindle Fire event in, but the vibe is super different, more like a robot could attack us at any time.
The images on screen are distinctly odd: high heels, a laser bolt, a race car, sound waves, jet engine turbine, RPM gauge, server racks, a brain, the... Flatiron building? Okay then.
A gun shooting a playing card. Origami swans. Kanye's on the stereo. A picture of a wall in a field. Whatever you're doing, Motorola, we don't want it to stop.
Actually, we do want it to stop. So that we can see this phone, or tablet, or tablet-phone.
A macro shot of a quarter. A diamond. Angled lines. A bullet. Hey, race car again!
We're just hanging out. Oh hey, is that Phoenix?
It's Phoenix.
Chris just pointed out that this branding implies that the phone will kill you if it strikes the head or chest.
Chad notes a picture of Hoover Dam is in the mix as well. "Perhaps that's the LTE they're holding back?"
Photo of a bullet hitting a lightbulb now. Set to the Roots.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in about five minutes."
That's five minutes of seat-jamming to the Roots.
We're told that RIM just announced BBX, its next-gen QNX operating system for phones. That's all going on in our
BlackBerry DevCon liveblog, which is also happening.... right now.
We're being asked to silence our devices. Not being silenced: Usher.
And here we go. Sanjay Jha coming on stage, to some big guitar jams.
"Good afternoon everyone. Motorola Mobility has had an exciting year, from innovative new products to a small piece of business news."
"Let's talk about smartphones."
"Over 40 percent of US adults now own a smartphones... How many of you look at a smartphone as the last thing you do before you fall asleep? And then reach for the phone bleary-eyed before you get out of bed?"
"It's a sad statement, but I think it's true. Three quarters of people use the smartphone in the bathroom."
"Smartphones have become incredibly personal devices. 1 in 4 people told us they were more prepared to share their toothbrush than share a smartphone." The other three people were seemingly normal, we suppose.
Talking about the importance of fitness. "Today you have to carry an MP3 player, a GPS-enabled watch, you have wires all over your body."
"We can change way you work out. Introducing Moto Active."
It looks like... a smart watch!
MOTO ACTV, actually
Arm band, watch band, bike mount.
:We have created the ultimate fitness device." 46mm square, 35 grams, 600MHz processor, "built on the fundamentals of Android."
