The Motorola Milestone is official, and winging its way on a plane to Europe right now. There’s just one little catch: it looks like the renamed Droid won’t be hitting the UK in the first batch of territories. Will we even get it in time for Christmas?
The Motorola Milestone has just popped up on Motorola’s Western Europe page, hours after snaps were discovered hidden away on O2 Germany’s site. The Motorola Milestone specs are largely intact, with 3G, GPS and a 3.7-inch screen all matching the Droid. The main difference is the loss of Google’s free Navigation app (which we knew was US only already) and the surprise addition of multitouch pinch zooming.
Motorola Milestone launch date revealed
The Motorola Milestone is currently badged up as Coming Soon, but there’s a little clause in the fineprint to that: “Arriving in Germany and Italy soon.” We spoke to Motorola UK to check if Moto has wider continental plans, but it was keeping schtum, giving us the same ambiguous statement as last week.
We’ll let you know if and when the Motorola Milestone gets launched in the UK, but if the US company can’t see to an announcement soon, it’ll miss the lucrative Christmas sales rush. Stay tuned.
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I’ll buy buying SIM free from Italy if there is no UK launch by mid Nov.
Buying it sim free from italy sounds good, I’m waiting till early / mid december. Got all my fingers crossed for a nice UK o2 release though
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You can buy sim free from superetrader.co.uk, stock is due December.
We hope to have a more solid date soon from Motorola.
LINK:
http://www.superetrader.co.uk/motorola-milestone-android-black-sim-free-unlocked-p-11172.html
there have been reports of speaker problems on this device hopefully this will be resolved when the uk stock arrives
I read about those too. Fingers crossed!
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I have found 3 websites where orders are been placed already for the sim free version . expansys.com,superetrader.co.uk and panamoz.com , so I do not think the UK has been left out.
Hey Phil – afraid you’re reading an older story. Motorola has now announced the Milestone will hit the UK on the 7th December. And it’ll come with multitouch too! http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/11/27/motorola-milestone-packing-multitouch-in-uk/