Motorola Calgary / Droid Devour spotted in silver, Bluring it up

There's another Motorola "Calgary" device (also known as the Droid Devour) making the rounds, and this time it's showing a silver paint job and an obvious Motorola Blur home screen. Word is that the trackpad to the upper right of the keyboard is great, and the keyboard supposedly bests the Droid -- not a challenging feat, to be sure. Obviously it's headed for Verizon, and Boy Genius confirms that WiFi and GPS are onboard, but it's still a little unclear what the low-end differentiators between it and the Droid might be, outside the three megapixel camera and what appears to be a smaller, lower resolution screen.

[logicbombde Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:00PM]

hmmm, maybe an HVGA screen?

[derX Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:33PM]

@logicbombde

They're seriously making this lower end? Let's see they've:
-lowered the res of the camera, which, from report, wasn't that great to begin with
-lowered the res of the screen
+improved the keypad, the phone's biggest drawback
+equip it with BLUR
+I assume they'll lower the price because it's "lower end"

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead an call this an upgrade.

[BuryTheCastle Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:36PM]

@derX
From the looks of it, it seems it's for the people who like the Droid Eris, but want a keyboard. Or people with Sidekicks who want an actual wireless signal.

[doutorpiranha Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:38PM]

@BuryTheCastle OVER 9000 BEZELS!!!!

[One Love Posted Jan 2nd 2010 3:16PM]

OQO is that you? :)

[xconan Posted Jan 2nd 2010 3:20PM]

@BuryTheCastle
the keyboard looks much better than the droid and hope it actually is much more usable too

[Banksta3 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 4:37PM]

@logicbombde Yuk.

[Paul C Chapel Posted Jan 2nd 2010 4:59PM]

@logicbombde as long as it's using Android and not WinMo it's all good :)

[logicbombde Posted Jan 2nd 2010 6:46PM]

Shit, the more I stare at this photo the more it seems to me to be a QVGA screen.

that doesn't make much sense tho, does android support QVGA?

[jerrywellfed Posted Jan 2nd 2010 7:14PM]

@derX One of the strange thing about this calgary model is why should the specs be fluctuated down by moto developers? Mm, hopefully the prices will be on the same boat too. Moto Calgary is a droid phone that's something that is not so glamorous to see. Details: http://bit.ly/moto-calgary-devour-details

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 3rd 2010 1:47AM]

@derX My Droid has great resolution. Also with Swype coming to Android (already here if you can find the source) the physical keyboard won't be used much. The Droid will still be the flagship for now.

[TikiTeko Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:01PM]

I am glad you took the tip :D I saw that on BGR and I knew this should be on EGDT too !

I honestly like the keyboard. It looks well spaces and the layout is not bad at all.

[sinai Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:01PM]

everything's better with lens flare

[EM1 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:09PM]

@sinai

you mean reflection of the flash? That'd not lens flare.

[CharlieX Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:35PM]

@EM1

do you have anything better to do, really? actually the long streaks ARE lens flares. The central bright point is a direct reflection from the bouncing flash.

Now go be productive youngling.

[EM1 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:52PM]

@CharlieX

If I had something to do, I wouldn't be on Engadget. Would you?

[Abdel Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:02PM]

Fugly Phone!

[ArcSyn Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:05PM]

If the specs under the hood are the same as the Droid, this is a really nice alternative. I like the design, though I like the black version from BGR better.

[therockr92 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:43PM]

Reminds me of the sidekick slide

[Oli D Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:07PM]

Looks nice, what I'm in the market for really.

I wish these would hit the UK...

[TareG Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:08PM]

Weak specs marries fugly hardware running a UI it can't handle. They better be selling it subsidized for free.

[N900 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:14PM]

@TareG .......what?

[EM1 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:16PM]

@TareG

How do you sell a free item?

[TareG Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:21PM]

@EM1
Seriously? With a contract.... e.g. $0 with a 2-year contract. Happens all the time.

[Average White Boy Posted Jan 2nd 2010 3:29PM]

@TareG

Why the hell is Motorola coming out with so many versions of smartphones? I'd think consumers would be confused already. Motorola must think it's going to have a smartphone to appeal to every type of user in the world. They really need about two smartphones and they should put all their effort into those two. They're already up to about six models. Motorola just never learns from its mistakes. No wonder the company is sinking lower and lower and deeper into debt.

[pointdexler Posted Jan 2nd 2010 8:21PM]

@Average White Boy
Ha ha, totally agreed.. remember the Razr series... V3 to Vxx, each with different color, same specs.. well they hope by riding on the Razr success stories, they hope they can bring themselves out of the red... world, be prepared to see another 5 different version of the Droid in the near future...

[Appleanche Posted Jan 4th 2010 9:11AM]

@Average White Boy

4 smartphones (Droid, Calgary, Blur, and that ATT Android) spread over 3 networks is confusing?

[JDubbs115 Posted Jan 4th 2010 10:34PM]

@Average White Boy

HTC makes smartphones to appeal to different people (that's actually their marketing campaign right now), and they make ish-loads of money doing pretty much only that. Motorola's gotta do somethin...

[kitsune Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:12PM]

In metal it would be pretty, with silver painting on plastic I think looks akward.

[Keni Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:17PM]

@kitsune makes me thing of a kirf with a really bad paint job, you know the one where you touch it, and you can just feel the horridness

[Keni Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:17PM]

@Keni think***

[Mr Death Posted Jan 2nd 2010 4:27PM]

@kitsune: So true. Why Motorola, why? -_-

[fourzero40 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 7:27PM]

@kitsune Yeap, it looks like that silver Nintendo Gamecube. Feo.

[supitsmike Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:12PM]

They aren't trying to make it reminiscent of the Sidekick AT ALL...

[Polpus Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:14PM]

Looks atrocious.

[LAY Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:43PM]

@Polpus

Who the hell are you? Christopher Lowell?

You have a slightly blurred, close-up image of a device, and some of you fashion Nazis are always the first to rush in to tell us your personal opinion of the looks of something.

Maybe the next model will match your purse.

[JDubbs115 Posted Jan 4th 2010 10:39PM]

@LAY

That's what comment sections are for. Please stay civil.

[N900 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:20PM]

"Cpt. Grammar says:
January 2, 2010 at 8:41 AM
or…way to aim for the mass market which comprises the majority of the TAM….
I swear, half of you people just type things before having your morning coffee. I remember when the first photos of this were leaked and everyone was all up in arms, “Solid black looks terrible!!!11!! oMfG”.

Surely you all have heard of hardware progression, surely you’ve heard of a business case…to make money….where did basic business fly out the window and lay a new path for ass-hat 12-year-olds to judge whether a phone will be successful.

Is this phone a revolution? No. Is it a nice evolution of Motorola’s Android line up at VZW. Absolutely."

[abbas350 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:23PM]

this looks awful, what year is this 2003?

[shadowj0 Posted Jan 3rd 2010 1:08AM]

@abbas350

Depends. Were you born in 2002?

[malexandria1 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:27PM]

Completely off topic post, so feel free to vote me down but I really HATE this new Engadget look and dumb commenting system that doesn't let us create our own passwords.

[CJisohsocool Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:29PM]

@malexandria1

Uhh... what do u mean doesnt let u create ur own pass? i made my pass...

[derX Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:37PM]

@malexandria1



Of all the things to complain about the "dumb commenting system" you choose "that [it] doesn't let us create our own passwords"--which is wrong, btw.

C'mon, you can do better.

I want better. I am waiting for better.

[miles4000 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:29PM]

looks like it's the size of a netbook.

[jon Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:38PM]

@miles4000

That guy's thumb takes up, like half the screen.

Where are you from that people have thumbs that big?

[miles4000 Posted Jan 2nd 2010 3:22PM]

@jon just saying it looks big with keyboard open.

[naz Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:32PM]

@lindsay

Btw, I've reported you for Spam

[JefferyShin Posted Jan 2nd 2010 2:38PM]

Why is it called Calgary when it's going to Verizon in the US?

[igeekone Posted Jan 2nd 2010 3:39PM]

@JefferyShin Calgary for rest of world ( like MILESTONE) and Droid Devour for Verizon (like Droid).

[JefferyShin Posted Jan 2nd 2010 6:38PM]

@igeekone

Mmkay, but I don't know why they had to choose CALGARY... not even a capital city haha. Was it designed in Calgary, AB?