How old is the droid devour

Touchscreen: Advantage Droid By placing an optical track pad below the touchscreen, the size of the Devour's screen x pixels is cut down to 3. If I'm carrying a device this big, I'd rather have a bigger screen. Physical keyboard: Advantage Devour.

The Droid keyboard is flat and has no space in between keys, while the Devour has space between its raised keys. Placing the spacebar between the V and B keys on the Devour is a bit of a bummer, though. Operating system interface: Advantage Droid Motorola uses the older Android 1.

But rarely do I care about the latest single update, I want to see them all. Overall, I found MotoBlur didn't offer enough advantages compared to the performance tweaks and other updates available in the latest Android operating system. Performance: Advantage Droid The Droid does have a slightly faster processor, but I didn't notice a difference.

Call quality: Tie I didn't notice much of a difference while making calls with the phones. Camera: Advantage Droid The 5 megapixel camera on the Droid takes subpar photos, but the video is topnotch. The Devour's 3 megapixel camera takes decent photos, but the video is 23 frames per second, which produces choppy results. Battery life: Tie Both phones have a rated battery life of more than 6 hours of talk time. The news widget is self-explanatory, and really cool that a phone would have a built-in RSS reader right on the home screen, but the others are a little bit trickier.

The status widget lets you update your "status" to any of your social networking sites, like Facebook or Twitter. The happenings is a feed of other people's status updates on your social networks. Motoblur is as good here as it's ever been, aided by plenty of tweaks, faster hardware, and a more developed underlying operating system. This is the first time we've seen it laid atop of Android 1.

But as Motoblur has inched forward, Android has outpaced it. And unfortunately its stablemate, the Droid, is one of the best exemplars of why you don't need to mess with Android. What was so refreshing about the Droid was that its software was essentially untouched—Android 2. And because Android 2.

Motoblur's greatest sin isn't that it can be a bit confusing to navigate at first, or that it feels a bit crowded on a 3. Android is an OS that's fragmented, and 1. Even some Google apps won't work on Android 1. Update : Goggles apparently works on 1. Of course, an upgrade is possible , but a Blur-adorned Android will always lag a version or three behind vanilla Android, which seems to be assimilating many of its most important features anyway.

But even at launch, this price positioning doesn't work. Thing is, that's a false dilemma. You have other options. The Motorola Devour? Who's hungry? The handset looks pretty sweet and all — a large touchscreen, slide-out keyboard, the Android Market app store, GPS, a touch-sensitive nav pad, and the vaunted Motoblur user interface that brings social media updates right to the homescreen — but we've gotta ask: where's the Droid love?

Keen readers will note that the Devour isn't the only Android phone we've heard of on Verizon not to get the Droid monicker — the other would be the Google Nexus One , which is coming to big-V this Spring. But the Nexus One has its own mojo going — no need for Droid. Others have speculated that Verizon is reserving the Droid name for high-end, marquee devices, and that the Devour will be relegated to the lower-end of the market, with a price tag to match.

No price has yet been announced, and request for comment from Motorola hasn't been returned, but to us, this move seems like GM spending months constructing a big Cadillac sign outside a dealership, and then trying to sell everyone who comes in an Oldsmobile.

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