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Motorola Milestone / Droid now available in Germany for Free!

Well it’s not exactly free, it will cost 1€ with a 2 year-contract (20€ per month only) on O2 in Germany & the device is not even sim-locked! Google Navigation is replaced by a 60-days trial of MotoNAV and you’ll get Multi-Touch enabled unlike the Motorola Droid on Verizon.

Source: O2 Germany thanks for the [...]

Motorola Droid Scratch Test

Droid Does right? Well it sure does what the HTC HD2 does, after the HD2 teardown we had the Droid teardown and today we get a scratch test of the Droid’s capacitive screen two days after the HTC HD2 scratch test:

Source: YouTube thanks for the tip Marc

Disassembled Motorola Droid pictures make us sad

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Following yesterday’s HTC HD2 teardown here comes the naked Motorola Droid. Some dudes do have a lot of time (and money) to waste I guess. It’s nice to see the guts of our new shiny smartphones sometimes though.

Source: PhoneWreck

Motorola Milestone (Droid) heading to Canada early 2010 on Telus

Looks like our Canadian freinds will have to wait a little bit before putting their cold hands on the Motorola Milestone / Droid. Motorola Canada is announcing today that the Android 2.0 flagship phone will be available early 2010 on Telus. No word on the price though & it should be noted that Google Navigation [...]

Motorola Droid & HTC Droid Eris now on sale

Verizon’s Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris Android phones are now officially on sale on the carriers website for $199 & $99 respectively. Those prices are obviously associated with a 2 year contract. Head over here for the Motorola Droid and here for the Droid Eris.

Via: Engadget

Motorola Droid reviewed, hated & loved

Gizmodo just posted their Motorola Droid review and just like all Droid reviews we’ve seen the complain about the camera quality & the fact the Android 2.0 still feels ackward sometimes.

The camera is complete garbage. It takes 10 years to start up, 2 to focus, and another 4 to actually take the goddamn picture. And [...]

Second Motorola Droid TV ad looks like a Transformers 3 trailer

Verizon and Google are throwing some big money to promote the Motorola Droid:

At least it looks 10x better than the Windows Phone ads…

Source: BGR

Motorola Droid headed to Europe as the Milestone with Mutli-Touch but not Google Navigation

Motorola Germany as announced the GSM version of Motorola Droid, which will be named the Motorola Milestone, on O2 and Vodafone. Unlike the US version this one will support pinch-zooming in several applications (Browser, photo album etc..) The device will also feature the MOTONAV navigation applications instead of the newly launched Google Navigation (this shouldn’t [...]

Another Motorola Droid review

Chuong from Pocketnow posted his full review of Motorola Droid’s smartphone yesterday. His starts with a full hardware tour that you can see here:

He then takes a look at the phone’s camera which he finds disappointing (like in the previous review). Photos taken on an iPhone look better and the video quality is severely lacking [...]

First Motorola Droid review

Engadget just posted the first Motorola Droid review. I can’t say I agree with everything they said though, especially when with their cons. The camera plain sucks (according to pictures & video samples in the review) but :

First off, the camera is painfully slow to focus and snap pictures — and when it does, the [...]

Motorola Droid User Guide leaks

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Here’s something that will make all you Motorola Droid fans happy, the user guide (user manual) just leaked and is available for our viewing pleasure. Nothing really new in here, but if you want to get yourself familiarized with [...]

How the Motorola Droid came to be…Microsoft got the stiff arm

A couple of days ago I speculated that the Motorola Droid was originally a Windows Mobile 7 device before becoming an Android phone. Today I’m going to lay down some of the facts we know thanks to an article posted by the NYtimes a couple of hours ago which sort of confirms what I was [...]

Motorola Droid Hands-on pictures and videos

There’s obviously a whole lot of Motoroal Droid and Android coverage thanks to the Droid launch and Google Maps Navigation announcement today. Here are acouple of pictures and videos of the device in action:

Google Navigation:

Motorola Droid walk-through:

Motorola Droid vs iPhone 3GS:

Some live pictures:

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Motorola Droid is official, coming November 6th for $199 on contract

It’s finally here, Verizon has officially anounced the Motorola Droid,the first Android 2.0 smartphone. The device will be availalble on November 6 for $199 with a 2year contract.

BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and LIBERTYVILLE, IL — High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best [...]

HTC Desire confirmed on Verizon, to be named Droid Eris

Engadget got a nice tip regarding Verizon’s upcoming Android devices. According to the tipster the Droid name isn’t exclusive to the Motorla Droid and will be used on all Verizon Android based phones. For example the HTC Desire which we have seen here is going to be the Droid Eris. This phone is rumored to [...]

Motorola Droid preview

So it begins.. The first Motorola Droid preview was posted a couple of minutes ago on BGR. The Android phone that everybody has been dreaming of is finally real. Awesome specs (just hoped the CPU would be clocked higher..) and updated OS with Android 2.0 on board. The device is also said to feel really [...]

Motorola Droid website up, official specs and info. Was it supposed to run Windows Mobile 7?

Looks like Motorola is a bit early on this one (the official announced will only take place on October 28th). Good for us though, as we now have the official specs of the Motorola Droid, and let me tell you, they are mighty impressive:

ANDROID OPERATING SYSTEM
Android 2.0 (Eclair)
CDMA
CDMA 1X 800/1900, EVDO rev. A
SLIDER

ACCELEROMETER
Yes
NETWORKS3
CDMA [...]

Motorola Droid event hosted by Verizon on October 28th

According to an invitation sent by Verizon to the press, a Motorola Droid event is said to take place on October 28th. So it’s looking like the device is probably going to be officially announced there and be available shortly after (sometime in November).

Source: Engadget

Motorola Droid hands-on gallery

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BGR just posted some high qualitiy shots nd first impressions of the Motorola Droid they currently have in hands.

- It’s running Android 2.0. Duh.
- It’s thin. Just slightly thicker than an iPhone 3GS and the thinnest QWERTY-slider we’ve [...]

Motorola Droid teaser site and TV ad launched, let the hype begin

Ready for some stupid marketing campaign/hype? Verizon vs AT&T action? It started last night when Verizon launched the first TV-ad and teaser site for Motorola Droid Android smartphone. The products specs do indeed look good (the design is horrible though IMO). I runs Android 2.0 has a 5Mpix camera, TI OMAP3430 chipset etc. But don’t [...]

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