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Motorola Droid Unexpectedly Appears on Motorola’s Site Ahead of Schedule [Leaks]

Motorola is set to officially announce the Droid for Verizon on October 28th, but it popped up on Moto’s official site with full specs and more detail than we’ve seen so far.

This leak (or whatever it is) confirms a lot of things we already knew: The Droid will be packing Android 2.0 (Eclair), has a 3.7-inch touchscreen, 5MP camera, blah blah blah. It also will have a “Notification Panel,” which could be a light like the alert light BlackBerrys have had for years (that’s not a dig, it’s an extremely useful feature), a 1400mAh battery (rated at 385 minutes usage, 270 hours standby), pretty extensive audio and video codec support, a video camera, microUSB port, and 3.5mm headphone jack. It’s also listed as having the WebKit HTML 5 browser with Flash 10 support, though the Flash is noted to be arriving sometime in 2010.

This handset is shaping up to be a mighty impressive piece of hardware. Check back with us in the coming days for more info as we get it. [Boy Genius Report]

Verizon’s anti-iPhone gets its first commercial: ‘Droid Does’

We knew Verizon Wireless would soon be throwing caution to the wind in an effort to sway uncommitted smartphone buyers towards Big Red, and it looks like the November-bound Motorola Droid will be VZW’s anti-iPhone. The spot, which launched tonight and can be view in its entirety after the break, is a 30 second clip that begins by mocking Apple’s cutesy music and iconic font typically seen in iPhone plugs. It reels off a number of things that the iPhone can’t do, and then abruptly goes into full-on tease mode by flashing glimpses of a robot-controlled future and a tagline that simply states: “Droid Does.” No shots of the actual Motorola Droid (or Sholes, as it was known in the past) are shown, but a dedicated teaser portal has already been erected; through that, we’re told that the phone will boast Android 2.0 and a 5 megapixel camera. At this point, we’d say the gloves are definitely off — AT&T, have anything to say for yourself, or is the iPhone doing just fine on its own?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Verizon’s anti-iPhone gets its first commercial: ‘Droid Does’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola Sholes makes underwhelming FCC appearance

Well, it unfortunately doesn’t include any elaborate test setups or a thorough dissection of the device, but it looks like the Motorola Sholes (a.k.a. Droid) has indeed finally made at showing at the FCC, although it’s unfortunately (for some of us, anyway) the non-CDMA, European version of the phone. Interestingly, it appears that this may have been a small slip-up on Motorola’s part, as all references to the phone other than the one above seem to have been omitted from the documents. Then again, the Sholes seems to be making a habit of showing up plenty of places Motorola may not want it to.

[Via Androphones.com, thanks Silver]

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Motorola Sholes makes underwhelming FCC appearance originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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More Details Surface on Motorola’s Verizon Android Phone [Smartphones]

Android Central has more details on Motorola’s Android phone for Verizon which may or may not have a 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 3.7-inch 854×480 screen, 5-megapixel camera, video recording and Android 2.0 Eclair (w/ native flash support!).

The phone has floated around under the names “Sholes,” “Tao” and “Droid,” the last of which seems to be the name most people are betting on. Phonedog says the Android device also packs a second 430MHz C64x+ DSP + ISP (Image Signal Processor), plus a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU, giving this thing a bit of muscle. The phone is rounded otu with a sliding keyboard under its surface, 16 gigs of storage space (with MicroSD for even more room), and a 3.5mm audio jack, all in an enclosure that’s just 13.7 mm thick.

The device is rumored for a December 1 launch, meaning we probably won’t see it until the new year, but this seems like a promising smartphone contender in the Verizon lineup (BGR also seems to think a keyboard-free version will be announced next year as well). [PhoneDog via Android Central]

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