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Motorola Devour available at Verizon in March

Posted by Vincent On February - 3 - 2010

It seems like most Motorola smartphones now a day look the same, not even the new Motorola Devour can escape this molded appearance. Today,Verizon Wireless and Motorola, Inc. announced the availability of Motorola DEVOUR in March. Motorola DEVOUR will be the first Verizon Wireless phone to feature MOTOBLUR, Motorola’s modified Android 1.6, which is a powered content delivery service created to make wireless phones more personal and customizable.

Specs reveal the Motorola Devour carried a 3.1-inch capacitive touchscreen with a touch-sensitive navigation pad, a 8GB microSD card and Bluetooth connectivity.

MOTOBLUR is used to sync contacts from work and personal e-mail services, including Gmail, with posts, messages, photos and more from popular sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter all together seamlessly, lol, that is in theory for now. With MOTOBLUR, content is automatically delivered to the home screen and fed into easy-to-manage streams.

To get the Motorola DEVOUR, customers will need to subscribe to a Nationwide Talk or Nationwide Talk & Text plan and a Data Package for smartphones. Nationwide Talk plans begin at $39.99 monthly access, and Nationwide Talk & Text plans begin at $59.99 monthly access. A Data Package for smartphones is $29.99 for unlimited monthly access. All this is wrapped in a 2-year contract.

Key features:

  • 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.
  • Happenings Widget – MOTOBLUR automatically pushes status updates, wall posts and photo updates from popular social networking sites to the Happenings Widget on the home screen. Customers can flick through the latest updates and fire back responses using the slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.
  • Universal Inbox – MOTOBLUR gathers texts, social network messages and e-mails into one home screen widget for quick response.
  • Back-Up and Security – Contacts, log-in information, home screen customizations, e-mail and social network messages are backed up automatically on the secure MOTOBLUR portal. The portal also allows customers to use the phone’s fully integrated aGPS to help locate the phone if misplaced. Remote wipe easily clears information from a lost device.
  • 8 GB microSD™ card pre-installed
  • Bluetooth® profiles supported: A2DP, HID, HSP, HFP, AVRCP and GAP
  • Motorola Devour at Verizon
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