Motorola, Verizon Show Off The Devour

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Yesterday we covered the leak of the upcoming Motorola Andorid phone, originally dubbed Calgary, but to be sold under the name Devour (or the Droid Devour, as some sources say). Although speculation had put the phones official unveiling at either Motorola’s Super Bowl commercial, or Mobile World Congress, perhaps, Verizon to decided to issue a press release today.

The specs of the phone remain the same. It’ll feature a Qualcomm MSM7267 processor, clocked at 600 MHz, along with 256MB of RAM. The capacitive touchscreen measures in at 3.1-inches, putting it at slightly smaller than the iPhone or Nexus One. It also features a “touch-sensitive navigation pad” (or what us BlackBerry users call an optical trackpad, but I digress).

No word on the camera size (it was reported to be 3-megapixels), or what version of Android it will be running (reports said 1.6, with a 2.x upgrade coming after the phone’s release). Obviously, there is a big difference between 1.x and 2.x versions of Android, considering that 2.0 and later will give you support for better Google Apps, as well as potentially multi-touch.What the press release did confirm, is that the phone will be running Motorola’s MOTOBLUR user interface wrapper, which is really no surprise.

One thing the leaked reports got wrong, the phone was supposed to feature only 512MB of flash memory along with a microSD slot, but the press release confirms that all the phones will ship with a 8GB microSD card “pre-installed”. It’s a nice inclusion, but the word “pre-installed” conjures up the idea that the microSD card slot is sealed shut. Please, prove me wrong, Motorola.

At any rate, the phone will be out via Verizon Wireless next month. No word on pricing, but internet speculation has this handheld being an entry-level device on the Motorola Android family.