
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know already that Verizon is going to debut an Android powered mobile phone this month. Things have confirmed and today, after getting our hands on a bunch of photos and specs we managed to understand what Big Red and Moto have been up to with their Motorola Droid (formerly known as Sholes or Tao).
The new Motorola Droid comes with a slide-out keyboard with a soft-touch rubberized finish, that adds to its thickness making it just slightly thicker than the iPhone 3GS. Running on v.2.0 of Android with a significantly upgraded user interface, there’s a Texas Instruments OMAP3430 processor (and is hailed as the fastest Android smartphone ever) under the stylish metal chassis.
On top of these all, the highlight of the new Motorola Droid seems to be the rather large capacitive display its amazing contrast and brightness.
Another interesting feature of the Droid is the desktop cradle/charger that comes inside the box, turning your phone into a real “multimedia station” by displaying the local weather, time or any other things of interest.
So what do you think? Should Apple feel the shivers down the spine?
Many thanks to our friends from BGR for the images.
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[...] is all set to debut an Android powered mobile phone later this month. Today, after getting a bunch of photos it is managed to understand Moto have been [...]
I am sorry, but the design is plain ugly. I am not an apple/iPhone fanboy and I wanted this to be the phone that I can convince my girlfriend with to forget about the iPhone. Won’t happen I am afraid, as I ditch the design as well. Inside, maybe it is a fine phone, we shall see. It is on the right network, that’s for sure. As for the Apple’s shivers down the spine… I suppose the guys are not standing still and are not that much surprised by the devices we have seen so far. Unfortunately they punched the Palm Pre in both price and specs at the time of the launch (even though in the long term iPhone is more expensive, people tend to be nearsighted, so they generally think the iPhone is cheaper because you can pay only $50 upfront for it, never mind the $100 a month later). Come on Verizon, you can do better. Those black fruits are not that good for your business. Contracts are signed for 2 years, you know, so once we sign with the devil you can put up all the mighty phones you want, it might not be enough of an incentive for us to pay the ETF (to the devil that is).
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i def like this move by verizon this phone looks very solid lets just see how the reviews are this def has potential idk if it the iphone killer but will see it for sure gives verizon customers a reason not to switch for the iphone
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