Verizon Wireless is doing very well with the Droid branding on their Android devices and today they announced their latest device focused on the enterprise user who cannot give up that BlackBerry front facing QWERTY keyboard. The new Droid Pro from Motorola is one of the few front facing QWERTY Android devices, T-Mobile has the recently launched Motorola Charm, and shows that Motorola is serious about using Android to take on RIM. You can check out the hands-on image gallery for a few shots of the actual device.
The Droid Pro looks to be a much better device than the rather childish T-Mobile Motorola Charm with specifications that include:
- 1 GHZ processor
- Android 2.2 operating system
- 3.1 inch touchscreen display
- 2GB internal memory and microSD card slot (2GB card included)
- Mobile hotspot capable
- World phone with support for SIM card usage outside the US
- 5 megapixel camera with dual LED flash
- DNLA support via WiFi
Software is integrated to support the business user too, including Quickoffice Mobile Suite, Exchange email, calendar, and contact support, and advanced security features.
The Droid Pro will be available in the coming weeks for an undisclosed price.
Matthew Miller started using a Pilot 1000 in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since.
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Matthew Miller
Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.
Biography
Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
