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A Motorola device with the model number XT610 should also be seeing an October release date, along with an affordable price tag and a 4.3 inch display (although the other specs, such as the camera and the processor, are said to be downgraded from Motorola's other 4.3 inch beast, the Droid X).The fun doesn't stop there: a device with the model number A957 is slated for a mid-to-late October release, which PhoneArena believes is the previously rumored Droid Pro. Finally, a successor to Palm Pre, the Pre 2, should be launching in October as well. Even though it will almost certainly run WebOS rather Android, I'm looking forward to checking it out, if only to compare it to its Android-based competitors.
The custom used to be to release two, maybe three, at most four, new flagship smartphones every summer. Now, it appears that the custom is to release as many as possible, as soon as possible. And this latest batch of leaks indicates that Verizon and Motorola have no plans to change that anytime soon.
It happened to the Droid X, it happened to the Galaxy S, and now it's happening to the Droid 2. The Droid 2's live wallpaper, the one with the evil red eye, has been extracted and is ready to be used on any other device running Android 2.0 or above.
As our very own John Thompson said in his hands-on with Dell's Streak, the phone/tablet hybrid has some really nice hardware, like a front-facing camera, a 1 GHz processor, and 512 MB of RAM, but the fact that it runs Android 1.6 is rather disappointing.