Motorola’s Google Phones: the Moto Morrison and Moto Sholes
Motorola has announced that its line of multiple Android-based smartphones is on target for release by the 2009 Holiday season, with two slated for release in the U.S..
To be carried on the Verizon Wireless Network, the two first Android based smartphones to be made by Motorola are the Morrison and the Sholes.
The Motorola Morrison is a cooler looking smartphone, with blue trim around the keyboard and a home button that glows, and is clearly targeted towards a younger market demographic (might Morrison be referencing The Doors' lead singer Jim, and if so - what decade is Motorola living in?). The device looks essentially like a teeny-bopper's iPhone except it's also got a physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
The sleeker and more sophisticated looking Sholes (which we've also confoundingly seen printed as 'Scholes') also features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but also has a 5 megapixel digital camera with autofocus (the jury's still out on whether or not there's a built-in flash, but we suspect there is).
The Motorola Sholes (or Motorola Scholes, depending on who you ask) will reportedly run on the Verizon EVDO Rev A network. It will have a 3.7" touchscreen display with unbelievably sharp 480 x 854 pixel resolution. It will have 512 MB of internal memory (with 256 MB RAM) with a microSD card slot and an 8 GB card included in the box. Expansion cards will be available for the device of up to 16 GB.
The device will have Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, and USB 2.0, as well as a GPS with navigation tools, and of course the standard 3.5 mm headphone jack (which we'd be amazed and appalled these days if any smartphone maker left out of a device). The Moto Sholes' battery will be good for 450 hours of standby time and 420 minutes of talk time.
Pricing information on the two new Google Android operating system based Motorola smartphones is as yet unavailable, but earlier reports out of Moto HQ suggests that the new Motorola Google phones are intended to be a lower-cost option of Motorola smartphone. The target U.S. release date is sometime in October.
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