The Motorola Droid – an Android milestone
The Motorola Droid has been launched in the US with a lot of media activity.
It is being touted as the phone to resurrect the flagging Motorola brand, and of course the usual iPhone-killer claims are also being made.
It will eventually make its way to South Africa as well, 1st quarter 2010 I heard, but if you can’t wait that long, head over to www.cacell.co.za who is selling it as the Motorola Milestone. Apparently the Droid moniker was dropped for markets outside the US. Why, I don’t know. And why Milestone I also don’t know. Personally prefer Droid. Milestone too close to millstone (of the around my neck variety).
Anyway the phone looks promising. I have been using an HTC Hero aka G2 Touch for a while now, in between using the Palm Pre, and have been very impressed with Android. Have often felt the Hero would be the perfect phone if it had a real qwerty keyboard. The Droid has a real keyboard. Of course HTC’s Sense user interface added a lot to the slickness of the Hero. Will have to see if Motorola’s use of the native Android interface works for the phone.
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