If that Motorola Droid seems rather strange to you well then we’ll happily remind you that you already know it as the Tao or the Sholes. The phone is supposed to be the first Android handset coming to Verizon Wireless and now we have some leaked info which point to a October 30 release date. The picture here shows a Verizon Wireless screenshot. The Motorola Sholes can be clearly read in that October 30 box so we naturally assume that the phone is coming at the end of the month. Wait a minute there… are we calling it the Sholes again? Someone has to make up their mind regarding the name of this first Verizon Android phone. We really don’t care how you call it as long as you stick to a single name!

via BGR

Tags: Android, Droid, Mobile News, Motorola, Motorola, Sholes, TAO, Verizon, Verizon

We have referred to it as the Sholes and the Tao but it looks like the first Android phone coming from Verizon will be called the Droid. And we’ll start straight with some bad news! The Droid will be a clean Android phone with no MOTOBLUR on top of it. Sadly, and for whatever reason, someone decided that the phone shouldn’t have Motorola’s highly customized social networking interface.

Here’s what specs you can expect from the Droid:

• 3.7-inch screen
• 854×480 WVGA capacitive screen
• 5-megapixel camera
• ARM Cortex 500MHz CPU
• Facial recognition using the built-in camera
• Custom Motorola Interface/UI
• Available in black and titanium

And if you want a keyboard-less version of the Droid then you’re going to get one sometime in 2010. So what do you say? Anxious about any of these two Droid versions?

Tags: Droid, MOTOBLUR, Motorola, Motorola, Sholes, TAO, Verizon

For the moment CLIQ is the hot Android phone coming from Motorola via T-Mobile. But fear not Moto fans, CLIQ has a worthy follower or so we suspect. The Tao or Sholes or however they decide to call it at launch, has been spotted in the wild running Android. What other OS would it run? As you can see the phone was running Google Maps at the time the picture was taken and you can also see it’s going to offer us a pretty impressive 1390mAh battery. We have no more details at this point in time but in Verizon we trust to launch the phone already!

via phonearena

Tags: Android, Cliq, Google, leak, Mobile News, Motorola, Motorola, Sholes, TAO, Verizon, Verizon

Motorola got its latest handset FCC approval branded as the Motorola Tao. The new handset supports EVDO Rev A and also comes equipped with WiFi 802.11. Among the striking features include a QWERTY keyboard, a 3.7” touchscreen display and a built-in 5 megapixel camera. It also has a built-in memory of 512MB, GPS, memory card slots for microSD/microSDHC and a 3.5 mm audio jack. The phone is slated to become available by October.

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Tags: Cell Phones, EVDO, fcc, fcc approval, memory card slots, Motorola, Motorola, Qwerty keyboard, Sholes, striking features, TAO

SmartQ launched a new TAO PMP. I am not crazy about PMPs but I give them enough attention. Too bad they don’t have the required components to use them as a phone.

So without further ado, here are TAO’s features: (more…)

Tags: Mobile News, PMP, Portable Devices, SmartQ, TAO, Ultra Mobile PCs