Motorola Motus AT&T rumor gains momentum
Here is new information that Engadget has on the Motorola Motus:
- The keyboard flips backwards so that it’s facing out when the phone is “closed.” When it’s open, the underside of the keyboard has a trackpad that allows you to scroll the screen while typing with your thumbs (it’s unclear how well this’ll actually work in practice). There’s also a third hinge position that keeps the phone upright — perfect for use as a video display or alarm clock.
- There’s a 5 megapixel cam and LED flash mounted on the keyboard designed to be used as a webcam, but we don’t know whether this’ll function as a traditional 3G video call (we’d doubt it) or over some other service.
- It runs Blur.
- The keys are backlit and said to be “domed” — that’s not really conveyed in this spy shot we’ve seen, but it’s hard to say for sure.
- It’s said to be about three-quarters of an inch thick, “enough to be bulky in your pocket.”
- Our tipster says he thinks he was told it runs Snapdragon, which would run counter to our current intel that has it running the CLIQ’s 528MHz MSM7201A. At any rate, he says it “seemed very responsive,” which is a good sign.
Now here’s the bummer: it wouldn’t be ready until April or May of 2010, which would truly suck if AT&T really intends this to be in its first batch of Android devices.
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Motorola Motus is Motorola Backflip?
The Motorola Motus we’ve been hearing about lately might just be renamed the Motorola Backflip – the company recently trademarked the name and with the form factor we’ve been shown, it would make sense. And the leaked specs of the Motus include a “reverse flip keyboard” and “rear directional touchpad”. Yeah… Backflip it is.
[Source: Phandroid]
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Motorola Motus specs
Android and me “discovered” some new pictures of the Motorola Mutos and its specs:
The Motus is essentially part of the Cliq family. The only thing new is the outer design. It features a reverse flip keyboard and a rear directional touchpad.
Motorola Motus specs:
- 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A
- 512 MB ROM
- 256 MB RAM
- 3.1 inch display 320 x 480 (HVGA)
- 5 megapixel camera with LED flash
- WiFi / Bluetooth 2.0 / GPS
- OS Android 1.5 with Motoblur
- GSM 850/900/1800/1900 W-CDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100
- Reverse flip keyboard
- Rear directional touchpad
According to the leaked Motorola roadmap, this phone is due in Q1 2010 and will be in the same price point as the Cliq.
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Motorola Android Rumors
Filed under: CLIQ, Motorola Droid, Motorola Motus, Sholes, T-Mobile
Android and me has some rumors that are relevant to the Motorola Droid and Motorola Cliq:
Motorola Cliq: the Cliq might be stuck with Android 1.x. Rumor has it that Motorola has not budgeted to bring up all the device drivers for Android 2.0.
Motorola Motus: this device will launch in Q1 and be powered by Android 1.5. The phone is essentially the same internals as the Cliq (Qualcomm 528 MHz CPU).
Motorola Sholes Tablet: The phone is essentially a Motorola Droid minus the keyboard and with an updated camera. This device is headed for T-Mobile in Q1 2010 and will feature Motoblur.
Based on these maybe T-Mobile users should skip the Cliq and wait for the Motorola Sholes Tablet?
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Motorola Android Motus Passes Through the FCC
The Motus, a Motorola Android device set to sport a 5 megapixel AF camera, a 3.1-inch QVGA display, and HSPA, is expected to launch in early 2010.
It is very similar in stats to the recently launched Motorola Cliq, but it is not clear at the moment if the Motus will be running vanilla Android or MotoBlur, Motorola’s own Android variation.
What makes the Motus’s FCC approval big news is the fact that it was predicted in an earlier leak, which now seems to be a little more credible. If the leak was indeed correct, it indicates that the Motorola Sholes Tablet could be passing the FCC in the coming months, and maybe even in the next few weeks!
[Source: phandroid.com ]
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