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During the CES 2010 in Las Vegas, Motorola has launched the Backflip model, a new device featuring Android. The guys from PhoneScoop have made a video showing the new Motorola device.

Here are the technical specifications: a 3.1″ display with the resolution of 480 x 320 pixels, a 5 Megapixel photocamera with autofocus and LED flash, HSDPA connection, Wi-Fi and bluetooth. The battery allows 6 hours in conversation and 13 days in standby. So far, no news of price or availability are available yet. We’ll keep tuned.

Only a few days after its international launch, the Motorola Droid (Milestone in Europe) has won its first “award”: the first place on The Times’s Top 10 Everything of 2009.

The explanation given by The Times to justify the choice is very clear: Android pleases everyone, but a good OS for a smartphone isn’t satisfying if not supported by a more than decent smartphone. In this case, it seems the Droid is the right one.

The first Motorola Android device seems to be going the right way, then, and we hope that the next projects will be as well: Sholes, Opus One and LaJolla.

It seems that the Motorola Sholes is indeed more than a rumor: in the past few days, some leaked images from the device has been seen around the web, coming from China. The first images only showed some details from Sholes, but these show the device’s interface and some details from it

The device will feature an 8 Megapixel photocamera with autofocus and Xenon flash, an HDMI port, a 3.5mm jack, a 3.7″ touchscreen display with the resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, radio FM, HSUPA connection, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g with DLNA and a 550MHz OMAP TI 3430 CPU, just like the Motorola Droid.

The Motorola Sholes seems to feature Android 2.1 Flan, and it should be launched during 2010.

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It was a weekend slightly under the expectations for the Motorola Droid, the new Motorola smartphone featuring Android 2.0. From the 200.000 units shipped to stores, 100.000 units were sold during the first weekend with Verizon, which has the exclusivity for the device for now.

The numbers, when compared to the million iPhones sold in the first two days with AT&T seem a bit under the expectations, but there’s Apple’s name to fight against in that case. Motorola has declared that they intend to sell 1 million units by the end of 2009 and 10 million by the end of 2010.

Motorola wants more Android smartphones on their cellphone line, or better yet, more “economic” smartphones with the OS made by Google. That was the main goal from the American cellphone company, who is aiming on having a few new Android smartphones on 2010, according to Sanjay Jha, CEO of the Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business Unit.

Also, an email from a Motorola employee claims that Motorola’s strategy for the rest of 2009 will be to concentrate their efforts into creating new Android smartphones that will possibly be cheaper than those already on the market. He also says that Windows Mobile will keep on being used, but mostly on the business line.

The new Motorola devices featuring Android should be available on the market by the end of 2010 and they will have a customized graphic interface, hence different from those already seen on the HTC models with Android.

After having focused on Android to get out of the crisis that has been hitting the company for a while, now Motorola has launched a worldwide program called MotoDev, which includes a set of developer tools for Android, a pre-release access to Motorola Android devices and a technical support community.

The annoucement confirms Motorola’s intention to put aside Windows Mobile and start a new “adventure” with Android. Motorola also informed that it will be probably possible to sell the applications created through different market channels. For more information, interested users can visit the MotoDev website.

Motorola is preparing their own Android-based line of cellphones and smartphones that will be ready for the Christmas season. It’s a new thing for the American company, that used to prefer the Windows Mobile based models.

The announcement has been made by the Wall Street Journal and confirms many rumors that started from the beginning of this year, that claimed that Google’s OS was the only way out for the company, which has faced many problems for a while. There are no informations on which models will be launched, but they should be presented from September on, to be launched from October or November.

Together with the Motorola ZN50, the Bluetooth SIG has recently approved another device from the American company, the W766, a clamshell device that last year came around in images with the Verizon brand. The W766, which was called Motorola Harmony back then, seems to be a rather elegant model.

Nothing much is known about the W766, except that it’s likely to be geared towards multimedia functions. Also from the ony image found on the net, it will feature an external display and some touch sensitive keys that will control the multimedia features.

When the first images of this model came around last year, it was said that the cellphone should be launched sometime this year. And since the device was recently approved by the Bluetooth SIG, that sounds likely to happen.

It seems that AT&T has released (or allowed leakage) of some new models to reach their lists. Amongst those, we found the Motorola Heron (codename Iron Man), the first Motorola model to feature Android.

Scheduled to launch during Summer, the Heron will feature a 2.8″ QVGA display and a photocamera capable of making videos up to 24fps. It will also feature a QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA model, GPS with a-GPS, 128 MB of RAM and obviously, bluetooth.

It was first announced on July last year, and now the Motorola Ischia EM330 is back with official information this time. It’s a medium-entry level device and as such, the specifications aren’t astonishing, keeping themselves to the market’s average: 1.3 Megapixel photocamera, FM radio, 3.5mm Jack, GSM/EDGE support, microSD expansion up to 2GB and 20MB internal memory.

The Ischia also has dedicated music buttons and a series of equalizer presets. The design appears however rather old, and it makes us wonder if it’s more of an old project that took too long to be launched. It’s easy to predict that unless it’s offered for a rather competitive price, this model will not be as successful as perhaps Motorola expects it to be.