Motorola Devour will available via Authorized Distributors on February 25th, and via All Channels on March 15th.
The phone will have a 3.1″ capacitive touchscreen, touch sensitive navigation pad, Bluetooth support, microSD slot with a 8GB card pre-installed. A full QWERTY-keyboard and Android 1.6 to run the whole system. Expect an update to Android sooner or later.
Check out the full specs for Motorola Devour after the break.
Motorola updated their support page to show what the upcoming Android 2.1 update for Droid will bring along.
The update should be available later this week.
Hit read more to see the full changelog.
Engadget has received intel that Verizon is working on an Android 2.1 update for the Motorola Droid. No info yet on when the update will be available. Here is what they have to say about the update:
It’s based on Android 2.1. The build currently being circulated is identified as 2.1 version 1, mirroring the update just pushed to the Nexus One last week. Google Goggles is now pre-installed (no matter how unhelpful it may be). The browser’s now multitouch enabled, just like Google Maps 3.4. Huzzah! No Flash, but then again, we weren’t really expecting that. Interestingly, the home screen’s still got the same look as 2.0.1, meaning it doesn’t adopt the Nexus One’s rotating 3D grid of app icons — it’s still got the pull-up drawer tab at the bottom. No active wallpapers. Bummer! The news and weather widgets introduced on the Nexus One are included. Maybe certain capabilities of 2.1 are going to be restricted to devices with minimum performance benchmarks?
Folks over at AllDroid has successfully squeezed a “little” more our of the Motorola Droid CPU, which normally runs at 600MHz. They’ve made it to run at 1.1GHz, but apparently not that smoothly. They found that 800MHz is enough for this thing to run at, without it being too energy hungry, or a crash test dummy.
A shady image of what is clearly a computer render, here is a picture of Motorola’s MOTOSPLIT. Since it’s a render, you can’t be 100% sure that is even a real phone, but it sure looks interesting.
Motorola MOTOSPLIT has a split QWERTY-keyboard, much like the one seen on Nokia’s 6820. This thing is rumored to run on Android powered by a Snapdragon processor. Hope to see more or this thing later.
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French and Italian Motorola Milestone users have started receiving the Android 2.0.1 update. Currently it is only available in those two countries, but the rest of Europe should follow shortly.
Motorola updated quite a lot in this update: including improvements to the camera autofocus and speed, added Microsoft Exchange support, touch gestures, three-way call connectivity and in-call audio quality, new equalizer, 3D landscape viewing mode for the photo gallery and music player.
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Preview of the upcoming Motorola MotoROI, a phone destined for Korea. UI a little laggy, but that should be fixable by a firmware update.
Motorola Droid is getting a small OTA update as I write. No info on a changelog yet.
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Motorola announced a new touch screen phone destined to be released in Korea. The is actually a customized XT701, with added Korean language support. The phone will be called Motorola MOTOROI, and will run on Android 2.0. It will feature a 3.7″ WVGA-screen, 8MP camera with 720p video capture, 8GB internal memory extendable by microSD, 3.5mm audio jack, WiFi , HDMI-out and a T-DMB television tuner.
Motorola MOTOROI will be released in early February by South-Korean carrier SK Telecom.
Read the full press release here.
According to a post on Engadget, Motorola Shadow will be renamed into Google Nexus Two. The phone is basically a Motorola Milestone/Droid, but with a white QWERTY-keyboard and with a wrist strap. One more picture after the break.
A pretty basic browser speed test between the Motorola Droid, iPhone 3GS, Nokia N900, HTC HD2, Nokia N97 mini, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm. The iPhone 3GS is still the fastest, while the HTC HD2 comes in at second place. The only one I’m missing from the test is Google’s Nexus One.
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Here is a test to show the accuracy on four different capacitive touch screens. Phones used in the test are the iPhone, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Droid and the newest of them all, the Google Nexus One. Check out the video after the break!
Something that all Droid users in the states are waiting for, is multitouch to possibly be ported to their Droids. The European version, Motorola Milestone, has full multitouch implemented in its software. Now the guys from AllDroid has made a port of the default browser, to the Motorola Droid. Check out the video and download info after the break. The port is still in beta, so be careful while updating.
