We knew it was coming and now the Motorola Devour is official. Motorola sent out the press release today and already has the phone up on their site. No release date was given, but we know the device is headed to Verizon in March with the full suite of Verizon Premium Services such as VZ Navigator and VCast.
The Devour features Motoblur and is powered by Android 1.6. This is an enhancement over recent Motorola phones like the CLIQ, Backflip, and Zeppelin which all featured Android 1.5. We know the CLIQ is getting updated to Android 2.1 in Q2 2010 and we expect Motorola will do the same with the Devour.
For some odd reason Motorola chose not to reveal the CPU, RAM, and ROM of the Devour on the official spec sheet. We know from our sources that the Devour features the 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7627, which is an improvement over other Motorola phones. My guess is Motorola is trying to sell the features of this phone and not its specs.
The Devour will include a version of Adobe Flash Lite, which is a first for Motorola Android phones.
With its big brother, the Motorola Droid, priced at $199 (with 2 yr contract), we expect the Devour to go for $99-149 with a 2 year agreement.
BGR is reporting the device will fall under Verizon’s list of “advanced devices” and require a $29.99 data plan and, presumably, will come with a $350 early termination fee as well.
Bonus: AndroidSPIN also has a quick hands on report and claims the outer casing of the Devour will be all metal. Check out their post for some additional hands on pictures.
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Wow…this phone looks so sexy. But another flat keyboard? Come on…I hate the Droids. Why did they repeat this mistake?
To be honest, people are a bit to critical of the keyboard. Its a slight adjustment yes but you get use to it the first two days of using it. Its not completely, flat the key are slighty domed but not as much as were use to. Actually I’m using it right now.
What’s that box on the front. It sort of looks like IR but that couldn’t be it, right?
That would be an optical directional pad.
According to the press release, the thing supports Bluetooth HID — is this the first HID phone on the Android platform? With HID, we should be able to hook up external keyboards (and not need the KeyPro app).
what a gay phone!!!
According to the Motorola website, a key feature is the “extruded aluminum design” so it looks like it will be all metal
Ugh.. I thought from early pictures that the keyboard was cool- I see now its crippled (flat and missing a line of true qwerty)
when will they quit doing that crap?
Adobe Flash is interesting.. but I won’t know cuz I’m already done with this phone thanks to mucking up the keyboard
Its funny how the SideKick got the keyboard perfect back in like 2004 and its never been done right by anyone else since.. wtf
the keyboard is definently weak sauce. i like the slide out keyboard i currently use the g1. this keyboard is missing a lot of buttons. 1 key i think that should be standard is a (.com) i had one on an iphone i tested and its a very useful key i would say more used than any number key.
DLNA….hmm that presents some interesting possibilities.
Verizon take a Loss for this!
for me, a keyboard is a keyboard (as long as it’s wide and full qwerty)
been through a Nokia Communicator, a Dopod 838, and the G1. Will not touch another phone without slideout qwerty again
no matter how bad a keyboard is, you always get used to it after a few days.
i just hope the mechanism is good. that’s always the problem with sliders