Motorola Devour Coming to Verizon in March

By Dena Cassella Published February 25, 2010

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MOTOBLUR is coming to Verizon! Oh, right—and it’s on the Devour handset from Motorola, which is also going to be debuting on Verizon. Verizon Wireless and Motorola announced today that the Devour smartphone will be available from Verizon starting next month. This new Android phone is boasting some sweet—but fairly typical these days—features like a touch-sensitive optical directional pad, 3.1 inch capacitive touch screen display at HVGA resolution, aGPS support with device location and remote wipe support, pre-installed 8GB microSDHC card and Bluetooth with stereo audio support. Unfortunately, no word on multitouch capabilities yet–but we’re hoping the Nexus One update will follow onto other Android-powered handsets.

Pricing for the Devour has not yet been disclosed—updates to follow.

Motorola Devour’s main specs:

Touch-sensitive navigation pad
3.1” capacitive touch screen
Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk, YouTube, Google Search and Google Maps with Google Maps Navigation.
Android Market gives users access to more than 20,000 applications.
8 GB microSD card pre-installed
Bluetooth profiles supported: A2DP, HID, HSP, HFP, AVRCP and GAP
CDMA EVDO rev A connectivity
Accelerometer
Wi-Fi
A-GPS
Dual microphones with noise cancellation
Adobe Flash Lite
Document Reader
3.5mm headset jack
3MP fixed-focus camera
1400 mAh battery
115.5 x 61 x 15.4 mm
180 grams (hm, that’s heavy)

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