DROID by Motorola officially outed...

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• The phone is just like a typical modern touchscreen QWERTY phone. But its camera has an advance ability with its 24fps video, 4x digital zoom and its automatic focus. Posted by Niegel, Philippines
• and it's digital compass, and it's DVD resolution camcorder, and it's ARM CORTEX -A8 based processor, etc
  
  apart form THAT, yeah it's just another typical modern QWERTY touchscreen phone.
  
  except, these high end phones are anything BUT typical as there aren't many. Posted by p3ngwin, au
• Sorry, I'm over slide-out keyboards. Going into 2010 all pdaphones should have a capacitive touchscreen with a large enough ( > 3.5-in ) LCD for an on-screen keyboard. Posted by Eludium-Q36, USA
• Have to say, I think its about 50/50 when it comes to a physical vs. virtual keyboard. They both have their uses, but I prefer a physical keyboard myself. I have both on my palm pre, but I still use the physical one more often. I certainly depends on the size of the screen though, as the Pre has a much smaller surface area. As for the specs: WOW. I mean this really should get alot of attention. I think that the only thing that can hurt the sales of this device are the overall looks and cool factor. The iPhone has the smooth, curved edges and slim design with a very slick user interface. The Palm Pre has a beautiful curved pebble design that quite frankly is just too fun to hold in your hand. The Motorola Droid has alot of bells and whistles, but is gonna hurt due to its bulky design and lack of an overall appealing look. People buy gadgets for cool status now-a-days, not neccessarily functionality. I think Motorola has a diamond in the ruff with this device, but will need to refine it a bit more for it to fully take off. Good thing Google Droid is an open source device. I think its only a matter of time before they come out with something so revolutionary that Microsoft, Apple, and any smartphone company will have to totally go back to the drawing board. If it wasn't for Google, do you really think we would have such awesome devices coming out? They open so many doors for so many technological advances. I can't wait to see what comes out next from them. I love Apple, but if they aren't careful, they are going to have the same bad luck they had with Microsoft back in the early 90's. They always come out with great technology and amazing software, only to turn their back on the consumer because of their fear of loosing control to other companies. They almost remind me of that group of cool kids from elementary and high school that wouldn't let anyone else in unless you were as cool as them. When they graduated, they ended working at McDonalds with 5 kids and watched as the geeks flew passed them with flashy cars and lots of money. Posted by Strikerage, United States
• Virtual keyboards are always a compromise between screen space and typing speed, and slide out keyboards are a compromise between typing speed and handset size.
  
  All we need is an input device that doesn't take up any space!
  (Sadly, voice recognition is still "not quite there") Posted by Morat, UK
• Is this coming to the UK? Posted by Rob Howley, UK
• We don't have any info on that yet, Rob. As soon as we hear anything, you can bet it'll be up on the site lickety-split. Posted by radioedit, United Kingdom
• Rob, I am seeing Motorola and Verizon tomorrow at the launch event in New York - will ask then for you. Posted by stuartmiles, United Kingdom
• @stuartmiles, that would be great, I sure there are quite a few UK Android lovers who would like to get their hands on a Droid! Posted by Rob Howley, UK
• welcome back moto Posted by muart smiles , United Kingdom
• wow! I was so amaze of the Moto Android, I just bought my new Eseries qwerty phone and after the blog i just read about Moto droid vs Iphone i think Id better choose Droid so im gonna sell my esries too soon and ill purchase motto Android, and for sure due to the specification of its features it'll surely be my confidant. More power motorola Go! Go! Go! Posted by Ma. Era Celly Sorongon Abolar, philippines