UPDATE: The Motorola Droid has just popped up on Moto’s German site as the Milestone. We’re putting a call in to Motorola UK as we type, hang tight.
All signs last week were pointing to a Motorola Droid European release, but now things just got concrete: the Motorola Droid is headed to this continent, and we know the wheres and whens already. Want some Android 2.0 action? Whip out your calendar and read on.
That GSM flavoured Motorola Droid looks to be headed to Germany next week at least, under the name Motorola Milestone. How do we know? A leaked O2 product brochure (Which previously heralded the HTC HD2), listing availability for corporate users as 9 November – next Monday!
If that wasn’t proof enough the Motorola Droid is headed this direction, you can even see a picture of the QWERTY toting fella sitting pretty on O2’s German site right now, though we wouldn’t expect it to hang around once Munich finds out.
Alas, there’s still no word yet on whether the Motorola Droid/Milestone is headed for the UK for sure, but it’s looking more likely than ever, since O2 operates in both Germany and Britain. If only O2 UK was foolish enough to upload pictures in advance, eh? Stay tuned, and expect more on the Motorola Droid very soon.
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Really looking forward to getting one of these phones! It may look like a brick but should mark the start of Android apps becoming mainstream. Just need to write a cool app for it now!
Personally I hate the slide out keyboard – it looks disgusting and impractical. I’m still waiting on an Android phone with portrait QWERTY. But it’s good to see Motorola back in the game in a big way after years of sitting on laurels it didn’t have.
[...] Motorola Milestone is official, and winging its way on a plane to Europe right now. There’s just one little [...]
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MOTONAV? What about Google Navigation? That sounds a little worrying.
And a little asterix referring to the MOTONAV says 60-day trial version.
If you are on the phone to Moto UK, maybe you could try and ask them about this bit?
All Motorola UK can give is the statement we published last week, but we’ll be sure to clarify on that as soon as it gets the green light for Britain. It could be that a UK network will use its own maps.