Motorola Milestone Coming To Spain With Orange [Milestone Droid Being Offered In Spain Via Orange, Can They Get The Localization Right?]

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The Motorola Milestone (known as the Droid in the United States) is Motorola’s flagship Android device, and now, it’s coming to Spain again, this time, with a carrier. The popular Android device was previously sold in Spain directly from Motorola unlocked, but now, they’re selling it with a contract from Orange.

As mentioned, Motorola announced during the Mobile World Congress (in Barcelona) that Motorola Milestone would be offered in that country unlocked, but now they’ve struck a deal with Orange, apparently. Pricing hasn’t been announced for the mobile phone, but it will probably be subsided. Spanish customers who pre-order the Milestone now through Orange’s website can secure a €20 ($27) monthly fee.

Hopefully Motorola won’t mess up the localization on this one. As a commentator informed us last week, Motorola messed up the Russian version of the Motorola Milestone by forcing the Cyrillic alphabet onto the Milestone’s hardware keyboard which was designed for the English QWERTY layout. They attempted to fix the lack of keys via software which, Russian users are reporting, renders the phone “unusable”.

To sum up the Motorola Milestone/Droid and it’s specs, it includes a 3.7-inch touchscreen, a ARM Cortex 550MHz processor, a physical QWERTY keyboard, a 5-megapixel camera and the Spanish version will come with Android 2.1 out of the box.

Since the Nexus One isn’t officially offered in Spain yet, the Milestone is the best Android device that Android fans can get, most likely. No word on a release date, yet.