High-performance smartphone "Droid" which adopted the world's first "Android 2.0" appeared whether the iPhone killer was real

The world's first smartphone adopting "Android 2.0" which is the latest version of Google's mobile phone OS "Android" "DroidI saw it.

In addition to supporting various Google services such as "Google Maps" and "YouTube" high-quality version for the first time for voice guidance, "Android Market" where you can purchase applications, we also offer web browsers compatible with Flash, It is a very high performance model combining large screen touch panel, QWERTY keyboard and so on.

Details are as below.
Motorola Media Center - Press Releases - Hello Humans: DROID by Motorola Arrives Next Week

According to this release, Motorola released the smartphone "Droid" which adopted the latest version of Google's mobile phone "Android", the latest version of "Android 2.0", on November 6, to the largest mobile phone company in the United StatesVerizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless)It seems to be released through.

"Droid" is a 3.7-inch full wide VGA (480 x 854) touch panel, a 5 million pixel autofocus camera for dual LED flash, 16 GB memory, GPS, wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11 b / g), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 3 Axis motion sensor,Flash Player 10It is equipped with a WEB browser corresponding to, etc. It also supports shooting and playback of 720 × 480 H.264 movie.

This is "Droid".


It was opened. Because it combines the QWERTY keyboard it may be useful for those who feel that "typing characters are inconvenient only with the touch panel".


In addition, various kinds of Google such as "Google Talk" and "Google Calendar" including "Google Maps" corresponding to voice guidance, high-quality version "YouTube", e-mail service "Gmail", online application store "Android Market" It is compatible with the service and it is also possible to purchase music at "Amazon MP3 Store". The price of the main unit is 199 dollars (about 18,000 yen) for 2 years contract.

By the way, Verizon Wireless is a communication method of third generation mobile phoneCDMA 2000 1xAlthough "Droid" also supports this method, is there no possibility that KDDI that adopts the same communication method will be released internally as an au terminal?KDDI showing cautious attitude toward full-scale introduction of smartphoneI am concerned about the future trend.

Detailed spec of "Droid" is from the following.

Motorola Media Center - Fact Sheets - DROID by Motorola Fact Sheet