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Expansys will sell Milestone
EXPANSYS has announced that it will start selling Motorola's Milestone smartphone at the end of this week.
Expansys will be the sole retailer for the phone, which started flying off the shelves just as soon as it went on sale in the US under the Droid model name. The Milestone includes the latest Android OS SDK 2.0, a large screen, 3G and WiFi, and - are you listening Apple? - a 5mp camera.
The phone retails direct from the site for £449.99, and customers are offered shipment in five working days. Expansys says that the slide-out QWERTY handset offers Quad-Band 850/900/1800/1900MHz and Dual-Band 900/2100MHz connectivity along with 10.7Mbps HSDPA and 5.76Mbps HSUPA plus other nice things like support for DVD quality video recording and a 480x854 pixel, 3.7-inch touchscreen display.
Supported music formats are MP3, AAC, eAAC+, OGG and WMA and the phone offers just under 1GB of onboard memory and support for additional microSDHC cards. Buyers get an 8GB card in the box.
In the US some 250,000 phones found their way into punters' pockets in the first week alone. Perhaps the Milestone will live up to the hype and give Apple's Iphone some competition in the UK too. µ
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Good lord, I remember them from the Psion days. Are they still in the same industrial estate in Manchester?
Didn't they change ownership and become a bit... different from how they were before?
Since Motolora Milestone/Droid is the only phone with Android 2.0 software at the moment, Motorola wants to make a killing out of Blighty. Thinking the Android OS is freeware, and for a handset with medium specifications, the price is totally unjustified. Wish HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson,Toshiba,Asus got on the Android 2.0 bandwagon and gave some competition to Motorola. Love Android more than iphone but without operator subsidy, pricing is for those with money no object.
The Milestone is far too expensive :(. An operator needs to pick it up to make it more appealing