Android Phones
Motorola’s Motoroi Coming To U.S. In March
January 19, 2010 | by Marin Perez
Android Phones
It looks like the Droid will soon be replaced as Motorola’s best Android phone because the feature-rich Motoroi is expected to hit the U.S. market in March.
The handset is essentially a keyboard-less Droid with an 8-megapixel camera and a Xenon flash. The promo video (embedded below) indicates it has a touch-to-focus ability, and the hardware is beefy enough to record 720p video. The phone is packing Android 2.0, and the picture gallery has also been tweaked and looks a lot better than the Droid’s. It also has Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, up to 32 GB of storage, and multitouch out of the box, but that will likely be dropped when it hits the United States.
The Motoroi was recently introduced in South Korea, and the company’s Korean leader Rick Wolochatiuk specifically confirmed its March release in the United States. There’s no word on which carrier this will come to or pricing, but look for it get a name change before being released. I’m not too excited about the chrome bezel but I think ditching the keyboard is the right move.
Check out the promo video of the Motoroi’s camera in action and let us know what you think.
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Anyone notice how similar this phone looks to the "Droid Tablet" pics that were floating around the last few months? That lip on the bottom right looks very familiar.
Does this use the same CPU as the Droid? Or something as fast as the Snapdragon?
Fairly certain it has mostly the same guts as the Droid. There's the boosted camera, and some hardware improvements to make it record at 720p, but I don't expect a Snapdragon-esque Moto Android phone until the end of the year.
Just talked to someone @ Verizon and they told me a new Droid is due out in March.
I’m in a bit of pickle, I’ve had my iphone 3G for the past couple of years and it’s been pretty good. It is my understanding that Apple has a new software update due out called OS 4 and it’s supposed to be adding some new features to the Apple iPhone. The problem is that I bought Verizon’s new HTC Incredible the HTC Incredible and it is an incredible phone, far superior to the iphone, BUT I’m hearing that Apple is supposed to be coming out with a brand iphone altogether, and it’s supposed to be really nice but no one has any ideas as to when and Apple isn’t saying a thing. Should I keep my HTC Incredible, that I have a month to test and give back if I do not want to keep it, or should I return it, keep my current apple iphone and wait for the release for the new iPhone- tough to make up my mind.