Rumour: Motorola readying first Android phone

By Tom Krazit on 30 April 2009

Motorola might be getting ready to pick itself up off the canvas and rejoin the smartphone fight.

Motorola's first Android phone could look something like this. (Credit: Boy Genius Report)

The Boy Genius Report got its hands on some information and photos of Motorola's supposed first Android phone, codenamed Calgary. If the information is correct, it's a slider phone with a QWERTY keyboard that will appear on the US Verizon network at some point later this year.

Motorola has been essentially sitting out the last year or so of the smartphone market as the company tries to figure out whether or not it actually wants to be in that business. But the company was an early backer of Google's Android project, and has been rumoured for some time to be working on Android-powered handsets.

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Topics: android, mobile phone, motorola, smartphone

Comments (2)

Notbill commented on 04/05/2009 16:48

I still like the full keyboard. Never been a fan of predictive text,Use my phones 5MP camera reguarly, like touchscreens and need a good reliable calendar program that can sync with thunderbird, not everybody likes MS products...
a-w commented on 30/04/2009 15:03

it's hideous. we all know motoralla did well with the Razr phones, but really, it's time to ditch the tron style keypad, and go with something that looks better, and that you can feel under your thumb

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