Motorola Droid A855 (aka Tao/Sholes/Shules/Flash) Pre-Release Thread

[Esquire0399]

The keyboard looks a lot more usable than the one we've seen on the Calgary.

Agreed. I could never stand that etched keypad design from the RAZR and I never even owned one.

[mick4394]

I've owned several. It's not so bad for a regular 9 key, but I wouldn't want to deal with it for a QWERTY device.

[sonya523]

Glad we finally have pics of it. Now we just need more specs. I wish all camera phones came with a flash, I just don't understand why they don't include it.

[Esquire0399]

Glad we finally have pics of it. Now we just need more specs. I wish all camera phones came with a flash, I just don't understand why they don't include it.

I think it does have a flash

[iamrobk]

Any word on what kind of cpu it will have? Probably some qualcomm thing since its cdma, so hopefully maybe snapdragon but i doubt it.

[Sailorcancer]

Meh I'm so so with the design. The back looks weird with the silver battery door. I still like the Calgary's design. Nice to know that it will ship with an 8GB card though.

[FAUguy]

Sooo... is this it?



http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/0...d-for-verizon/

Wow...

So is it "Shules" or "Sholes"?

[wabmorgan]

Agreed. I could never stand that etched keypad design from the RAZR and I never even owned one.

The RAZR keypad really wasn't bad at all.

[Esquire0399]

So is it "Shules" or "Sholes"?

Hopefully it's not either. Both names are awful.

[vaxick]

That's a good looking design. Hope this makes it out by October because this is the phone I want. I just hope the slider design on it is better than the ones HTC uses.

[crans12]

maybe this has already been addressed....but is this phone going to require the 30$ data plan????????

[Esquire0399]

maybe this has already been addressed....but is this phone going to require the 30$ data plan????????

Being that it is a smartphone running Android, yes it will most likely require an unlimited data plan.

[Aixelsyd]

maybe this has already been addressed....but is this phone going to require the 30$ data plan????????

It is a given fact you'll have to have the $30/month data plan. VZW policy is any device released after Nov 14, 2008 MUST have/purchase the smartphone data plan. And being all Android device are smartphones you'll need to have it.

FYI tho any smartphone made prior to the date I said above DOES NOT have to have the data plan.

[Ark6]

This phone looks interesting, I wonder if that 5 MP camera is the same one as the Kodak branded lens that Motorola released a while ago? And I wonder if it's running the Snapdragon processor?

[serebralassazin]

So I'm guessing that's suppose to be a trackpad next to the keyboard? Having played around with a couple of my friends' G1s, I thought android was a nice phone OS. If this phone is suppose to be on par with the HTC hero, I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for it.