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talkbackdroid
10-23-2009, 07:45 AM
You have probably seen and heard of that cool Motorola Droid that is taking aim directly at the iPhone. The new Droid has been seen in dark teaser videos and other places before. Today someone over at Motorola hit the go button and posted the official Droid site (http://www.slashgear.com/verizon-motorola-droid-product-page-prematurely-published-2361598/) early.

http://androidcommunity.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/verizon_motorola_droid_product_page-540x466.jpg

The official page has been pulled since then, but not before our sister site SlashGear grabbed screen shots and specs you?re your perusal. The phone will have a 3.7-inch touchscreen, 5MP camera, and a 550MHz CPU among other niceties. That camera has a 4x digital zoom and dual-LED flash.

The battery is a 1400mAh unit good for up to 385 minutes of talk and 270 hours on standby. The device connects to EVDO Rev A 3G networks and features Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and a micro USB port. Storage is to a 16GB microSD card and the handset weighs only 6-ounces. No pricing or official launch date is known at this point.

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Full story (http://androidcommunity.com/motorola-droid-makes-website-debut-early-gets-pulled-20091023/)
HavocG1
10-23-2009, 08:59 AM
Under Google Services it says "Google turn by turn directions"....is this an update to Maps? Will they be spoken turn by turn directions???
ewdi
10-23-2009, 10:35 AM
I think it might be a separate app
konzern
10-23-2009, 11:16 AM
i thought the processor was supposed to be faster
webrun
10-23-2009, 09:14 PM
i thought the processor was supposed to be faster

I am not geekish enuf to understand nor explain this in full, but from what I have read, the architecture of this processor is different, plus that I read that it has a second processor for graphics (don't know if accurate or not). But bottom line, it is supposed to be a much much faster phone.

I wonder if VZ manages to gimp this phone so that we can't root it -- wouldn't surprise me.
tmwfla
10-23-2009, 11:41 PM
I wonder if "Google turn by turn" is a nice way to say they gimped the GPS and users still have to use Verizon GPS.
motorolaandroid
10-25-2009, 10:36 PM
We at Verizon Droid (http://verizon-droid.com) can't wait for the Droid to come out
konzern
10-25-2009, 11:08 PM
I am not geekish enuf to understand nor explain this in full, but from what I have read, the architecture of this processor is different, plus that I read that it has a second processor for graphics (don't know if accurate or not). But bottom line, it is supposed to be a much much faster phone.

I wonder if VZ manages to gimp this phone so that we can't root it -- wouldn't surprise me.

i just dont like the sound of 550MHz i mean thats not much over the processors on the rest of the androids out! but if what you said is true then good