The Many Upcoming Android Phones on Orion’s Belt

October 20th, 2009

By Birge Basik

There are lots of upcoming phones in the market but Android based phones are making themselves the brightest of these shining stars. We’ve listed them below for you to give you a better picture of the Android constellation. Some of them are still just rumors but there’s no smoke without fire Keep in mind however that details, prices and launch dates might be different than rumored.

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Motorola Droid

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Available October 31st on Verizon, 60 x 115.8 x 13.7 mm; 169 grams, 3.7-inch/480×854 Full Touchscreen with Full QWERTY Slider, 5.0 MP AutoFocus Camera, 7 hours of talk time, 450 hours of standby time, OMAP3430 processor, 512MB Flash, 256 MB RAM, 16 GB MicroSD, 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled; Android 2.0

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Samsung Moment/InstinctQ

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Available November 1st from Sprint

117 x 59 x 16 mm; 161 grams, 3.2 inch AMOLED display (320 x 480 pixels)Touchscreen with Slideout QWERTY, 3.2 MP AutoFocus camera with flash, 5.5 Hours of Talk time, 800 MHz Samsung S3C6410 CPU, 256MB RAM/2 GB microSD card included (upgradeable to 32GB) 3.5mm Headset jack, Wi-Fi, accelerometer, Bluetooth and GPS enabled.

Price: $179.99

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Motorola Heron/Iron Man

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Available in November from AT&T, 57.5 x 104 x 15.9; 125 grams, 2.8″ 240 x 320 pixels QVGA TFT Touchscreen with Vertical QWERTY slider, 3.0 MP w/ fixed focus and Flash, Qualcomm® MSM 7225 528MHz processor, 128 MB RAM/microSD/microSDHC (up to 32G), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled.

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Acer A1/Liquid

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Rumored to be launched in November, 118.6 x 63 x 12mm; 130 grams, 3.8 inch/800×480 wide VGA touchscreen, 5MP w/ AutoFocus, 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250, 256MB RAM/microSD (up to 32 GB), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS enabled

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Samsung Behold 2

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Rumored to be available at the end of the 2009, 3.2-inch/480 x 320 pixels AMOLED Touchscreen w/ hardware buttons, 5MP w/ Flash and AutoFocus, microSD up to 16 GB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS enabled.

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ARCHOS Phone Tablet

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Rumored to be available in January, 10mm thick, 4.3-inch/854 x 480 pixel full touchscreen, 1GHz ARM processor

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LG Etna

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Upcoming on Vodafone, 101.6 x 50.8 x 16.8 mm; 108 grams, 3 inch 240 x 320 pixels Touchscreen with Full Slideout QWERTY, 250 hours of standby time, 4 hours of talk time, micro SD/SDHC, Bluetooth, USB

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X3

Rumored, 4-inch/800×400 Full Touchscreen, 8MP w/ Flash and AutoFocus, 1GHz Qualcomm Snap Dragon processor, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

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Motorola Calgary

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Rumored on Verizon, 320 x 480 Full Touch, Horizontal Slider with Full QWERTY Keyboard, 3.1 MP with Autofocus, 256 MB internal memory and MicroSD support.

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