Full Motorola Droid Specs Leak Before AnnouncementFull Motorola Droid Specs Leak Before Announcement

Oops. Someone over at Motorola published the full technical specifications of the upcoming Motorola Droid Android handset for Verizon Wireless about one week too early. The device boasts some impressive specs. Care to find out what the Droid is packing?

Eric Ogren, Contributor

October 22, 2009

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Oops. Someone over at Motorola published the full technical specifications of the upcoming Motorola Droid Android handset for Verizon Wireless about one week too early. The device boasts some impressive specs. Care to find out what the Droid is packing?Are you ready?

I said, ARE YOU READY???

Here we go.

As we know, the Droid is a sideways slider similar in basic shape and function to the CLIQ. It has a full QWERTY keyboard hidden under its touch display.

The Motorola Droid will run Android 2.0, with EVDO Rev. A on board for super fast 3G. GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and USB 2.0 will help it connect to whatever you can think to connect it to. The whole thing is powered by a 550MHz processor, which is only a small bump up from the 528MHz processors running the current crop of Android phones.

The screen will measure a whopping 3.7 inches, with WVGA (480 x 854 pixels) resolution. It will have a 16:9 aspect ratio. Nice. The device will measure 2.4 x 4.6 x 0.5 inches, and will weigh in at 6 ounces.

The camera rates 5 megapixels and has image stabilization, dual LED flash and autofocus. It can capture DVD-quality video (720 x 480 pixels) at 24 frames per second. The phone will be packed with a 16GB microSD card, which is quite generous.

On the messaging side of the equation, it has support for Exchange, Gmail, POP3/IMAP, SMS, MMS, IM and visual voicemail. All this, and over-the-air syncing. Motorola claims up to 270 hours of standby time and 6 hours, 25 minutes of talk time on the 1400 mAh battery. Not bad, but the CLIQ didn't live up to its claimed talk/stand-by times.

Of course, it will integrate with many of Google's services, such as Maps, Search, Talk, Voice, Contacts, Calendar, Gmail and the Android Market.

In all, not bad. It matches closely many of the specs seen in the CLIQ. I am surprised that there's no mention of support for GSM networks, which Verizon has been adding to most of its smartphones lately. Another interesting nugget is that the Droid's browser will support HTML 5. Not sure if that's a Motorola thing or an Android thing, but we know Flash is coming to Android at some point soon.

Now all that's needed is for Verizon Wireless to make the Droid official.

[via The Boy Genius]

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