Motorola Droid

The first smartphone announced on Android Lightning

September 2009 the release of the USA’s second mobile Android, a slider model, the Motorola Droid.

This smartphone Android 2.0 was not initially available in the United States. It integrates a capacitive screen and 16 GB of internal memory.

The rumors from September about the release of a second smartphone Motorola Android proved accurate. The Droid, a sleek and slim device with a real slider (like its predecessor Dexter) was begin shipping on November 6, United States, at the Verizon from 199 euros. This device will, a prior the first to benefit from any new version of the Android OS Flash.

Among the contributions of this 2.0 version, called Flash, it is the unified management of contacts, support native Exchange for e-mails and the ability to manage multiple Gmail accounts and Exchange. Support for a capacitive screen, Bluetooth 2.1 and improvements are also photo-video to Flash program that replaces Donut (version 1.6 of Android, recently made available for the HTC.

In terms of equipment, this smartphone high-end, driven by an ARM Cortex A8-550 Mhz, is distinguished by its large capacitive touch screen more than 9 inches diagonally. The Droid also displays a photo sensor to 5 megapixels (with video capture at 720 x 480 pixels), Wi-Fi, a battery of 1400 mAh and at least 16 GB of internal memory, expandable to 32 GB with a port MicroSD integrated.

Motorola has so far not reported date of marketing or price for Europe. It is true that the Dext comes out, too, in November.