The Motorola Photon 4G for Sprint caused some salivation when it was announced in early June and now we have the two last pieces of the puzzle the pricing and the exact launch date. The dual-core droid is a CDMA phone with 4G connectivity (WiMAX in this case), but it works on GSM networks, too. Still, if you want one, you will have to sign a 2-year contract with Sprint.

The Motorola Photon 4G will set you back $200 (before taxes) and you can get one on 31 July. Or if you are a Sprint Premiere customer, you can get it three full days before that. Plans start at $70 a month plus a $10 Premium Data add-on.

The Motorola Atrix ships with a locked bootloader like all Motorola Android phones but someone recently discovered an upcoming Gingerbread ROM for the phone that also helped unlock the bootloader on the current device. However, that unlock was limited to only AT&T devices so those elsewhere were still at Motorola’s mercy.

However, thanks to a new discovery by the good folks at XDA forums, you will now be able to unlock your Motorola Atrix regardless of the location. Project Cheesecake, as the search was called, uncovered some files in an upcoming Orange UK firmware that can be applied to any Atrix device to unlock the bootloader.

If you have been waiting for a NVIDIA Tegra 2-toting Android handset for the Sprint network, your wait is coming to an end. Today Sprint officially announced the Motorola Photon 4G, which will arrive on store shelves on July 31st for $199 on a new two-year contract.

The Photon 4G features a 4.3 inch qHD display, 8 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash on the back, VGA front-facing camera for video chat, 16GB of pre-installed memory thats expandable to 32GB, kickstand, WiMAX, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS, with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and NVIDIA powerful dual-core Tegra 2 processor running the show. The Photon 4G will the first handset to sport the Tegra 2 processor in Sprints lineup, and now there is an Android device with the powerful CPU on every major US carrier.

Much like the Atrix 4G on AT&T, the Photon will also have a wealth of accessories available for it, including the questionable laptop dock that Motorola likes to push on us. You will also find accessories like a HD docking system and car navigation dock, as well a handful of different cases for the handset.

Unfulfilled promises are Motorola specialty. From never mentioning the name MotoBlur again to shipping handsets with unlocked bootloaders, Motorola wrap is not the shiniest of Android manufacturers. Case in point, theMotorola Droid 3 that launched yesterday does indeed ship with a locked bootloader, making custom ROMs a no go for the time being.

Although Motorola promised that it will begin to ship newer Android phones with unlocked bootloaders, we have yet to see it from the flagship Droid phone maker. That said, Moto stated that phones with unlocked bootloaders will not begin to ship until late 2011, and given that we are only in the middle of the year, we can give them some slack. Maybe.

The Droid 3 is a solid upgrade if you are coming from even the Droid 2, as it features a snappy dual-core processor, larger, qHD display, and a front-facing camera for video-chat. The keyboard of the handset has also been tweaked and now features a dedicated number row, which is a very welcomed addition. Some may be a little turned off since the Droid 3 does not support Verizon blazing fast LTE network. Still, the handset is solid enough without it and we can imagine it does not suffer from the battery problems seen in the Thunderbolt and Revolution.

We know Motorola has started slashing prices of the Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi tablet pretty much everywhere, though we are not sure whether its the result of poor sales and increased competition or the upcoming release of Xoom 2. Whatever the reason behind Moto decision to cut prices is, we love it for allowing more people to enter the "tablet space."

Instead of directly cutting prices, Motorola has a bit different strategy in the UK. At the moment of this writing, their British division is offering free wireless keyboard and mouse with every Xoom tablet purchase. The deal is good while stocks last, so you better hurry.