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Motorola Milestone 2 hits Blighty
MOBILE PHONE OUTFIT Motorola has released its Milestone 2 smartphone onto the Blighty market for £379.99, if you buy it online without a contract.
We are expecting network providers to get in on the act and offer a variety of deals soon.
Running the Android 2.2 OS, the device has a qwerty keyboard and a touchscreen along with the so-called Motoblur system, which is supposed to make social notworking a doddle.
The Milestone 2, which is being promoted as the Droid 2 in America, has a 5MP camera, a 3.7-inch screen and is powered by a 1GHz processor.
Quite why Motoroa thought that we could not cope with the name "Droid 2" is anyone's guess. It is not as if the UK has a problem with numbers. After all we did not need to change the name of the flick The Madness of George the III because everyone would have wondered what happened to the first two parts.
Speaking of films, here's one on the Droid 2, er, Milestone 2.
Update
A Motorola spokesman emailed The INQUIRER and said that the only reason why it is called Droid 2 in the US and Milestone 2 in the UK and Europe is because the company only has a licence for the name 'Droid' in the US. µ
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What? No front-facing videocall camera?
I'd like to order a crate of 10,000 ... to tip into the sea!
The outlook is great, big thumb up for the guy who did the job. Very nice indeed!
But same mistakes on the CPU. A 1GHz single core? Unless this is the year 2009, or that is some very high performance core. Then you have already loose the game.
Can't believe you guys just made the same mistake over and over again...
Well the first one was the Milestone over here. Must be a pre-existing trademark regarding Droid in the UK.
At least Motorola's phones have improved since they left the software engineering to other people.
If you are at all interested in running non-official firmware, forget it and all other Motorola android phones. The bootloader will be locked, and you will be left waiting for Motorola to produce firmware updates, just like those of us who bought the original Milestone.
Nice hardware, shame the manufacturer is so obsessed about having total control.