Motorola Devours seven minutes of your life with a phone demo (video)

We're only a few breathless days away from the Devour hitting some retail locations ahead of nationwide US availability in March, so what better way to fill that gap than with an official teaser video? Moto's Rick Osterloh is our tour guide in a seven minute hands-on demo of the device, which takes us through the major attractions on offer. He firstly calls out the Qualcomm CPU inside and points to the phone's responsiveness, which is (quite naturally) followed by a couple of instances of perceptible lag between his input and the phone's reaction. All the same, it does look like a sprightly little machine, and the inclusion of Blur, Google Maps Navigation with turn-by-turn voice instructions, and Moto Phone Portal makes for a compelling software package. Head past the break to see them in action and to catch another eyeful of the hardware as well.

[Thanks, Zach A.]

[CJisohsocool Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:19PM]

I'll keep my 7 minutes of life thank you very much.

[badjokes Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:21PM]

@CJisohsocool

+1

im happy with my pixi plus.

[SomePerson Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:33PM]

@CJisohsocool Why does everybody hate on this phone? The only thign wrong with it is the bezel taking up so much space. Other than that, its a fine device for where its aimed at.

[andrewwg94 Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:33PM]

@CJisohsocool happy with my 3GS

[kiyu727 Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:40PM]

@CJisohsocool
haha, but its fun, Rick's head gets pierced by a speech bubble lol

[MoonWalkerCTE Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:43PM]

@CJisohsocool As soon as I started the video and saw the look on his face I stopped watching.

[yulebellow Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:49PM]

@andrewwg94

INCOMING!!!!!

[TheImirOfGroofunkistan Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:56PM]

Engadget devours 3 more by posting it.

[choclat Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:56PM]

@andrewwg94 I'm with you on that, keeping my 7min and 3GS

[GaryZ Posted Feb 20th 2010 9:05PM]

@CJisohsocool is that a giant Android at the corner of this cube?

[Cy Starkman Posted Feb 20th 2010 10:04PM]

@CJisohsocool

it's probably just how the photo was taken but that phone looks really small.

+1 I saved 7min of my life, off to trawl the news with it

[FauxNews Posted Feb 20th 2010 10:10PM]

@choclat I lost my 7 minutes on my 3GS. Well, I still have the 3GS.

[Oldarney Posted Feb 20th 2010 10:58PM]

@CJisohsocool
It might be worth a look, from what it seems, they are trying to grab the deteriorating sidekick market. Think about it, facebook, twitter, chat awesome and innovative keyboard, sturdy and teenagerish (small screen, cluttered, somewhat sexy and touchscreen).

[Oldarney Posted Feb 20th 2010 11:17PM]

@Oldarney
Teenagers with sidekicks is seen in new york more then anywhere. This phone would sell to that market IF it was on t-mobile. this is not going to be as successful as it could be. Sure, you could unlock it, few people know how to do that and even if you did, tmo bands wouldn't allow for verizon style 3G. *gasp

[iCello Posted Feb 21st 2010 12:50AM]

@Oldarney Hey, retract that. Teenagers do not want a sucky phone. I'm a teenager, i don't want one, I have friends who are, most of them wouldn't, you're just an annoying troll

[bjsguess Posted Feb 21st 2010 3:09AM]

@Oldarney

Lack of 3G is the least of your problems if you are planning on taking a phone from Verizon and trying to get it to work on T-Mobile.

[Thinker Posted Feb 21st 2010 3:50AM]

@CJisohsocool

This phone is not being treated as if it is part of the Android family.

[carolebartzz Posted Feb 21st 2010 5:47AM]

@CJisohsocool I think the main problem lies here is the thick bezel, if they can redesign it and make the price below 100 usd, I think this phone will be good. http://bit.ly/motorola-de-vour

[conscious Posted Feb 21st 2010 1:58PM]

"okay.. you're on.

... umm, yeah we're rolling...

...okay you can stop grinning like an idiot, this is getting awkward"

[Oldarney Posted Feb 23rd 2010 4:48AM]

@bjsguess
I unlocked a verizon storm 2, no problems but the 3G. Aprently the bands used by verizon and the 3G specification are impossibly different from Tmo. You would have to crack open the hardware and replace some chips to make Tmo 3G work.

[n00neimp0rtant Posted Feb 25th 2010 11:21PM]

@SomePerson It's a decent phone, but the screen size is what turns me off.

[masta vaan Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:23PM]

and the point of this is...
you must get a data plan with a smartphone anyway... why not pay 50$ more for a superior device?

[dand Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:24PM]

Sure looks small...

[NEUR0M4NCER Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:28PM]

Such beautiful guts, utterly hideous face.

[Air2ground Posted Feb 20th 2010 11:15PM]

@NEUR0M4NCER Are you talking about the guy?

[Killitwithfire Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:29PM]

why 1.6? Why everyone seems to be stuck in the past?

[MaTdg Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:44PM]

@Killitwithfire Because creating the perfect android device would awaken the devil himself. There has to be at least 1 major drawback.

[N900 Posted Feb 20th 2010 10:17PM]

@Killitwithfire Well, plain vanilla 1.6 is stuck in the past, but not the customization you can do with it. Just ask Racheal....the UI of course.

By the way, did you know that the 3 letters in you avatar can be found in your name, from right to left, every other letter starting with "w"?

...yeah, I'm that bored.

[iroydude Posted Feb 21st 2010 1:14AM]

@Killitwithfire 1.6 Donuts XD

[bjsguess Posted Feb 21st 2010 3:10AM]

@Killitwithfire

Maybe I'm just not into Social Networking enough but Blur blows IMO. I don't want all that crap on my screen. Hopefully there is a way to turn it off but in all the demos I've seen with Blur it's just a mess.

[BubblegumBalloon Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:30PM]

Silver phones look a bit dated imo. Nice slideout keyboard but the silver is just ew

[RoyFokker Posted Feb 21st 2010 11:34AM]

@BubblegumBalloon It's an aluminium chassis. I like that it's not painted on the silver version.

[iName Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:30PM]

this phone is the epitome of a butterface

[Evan Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:32PM]

Spring mechanism on keyboard? No thanks.
HVGA? No thanks.
I thought Verizon wanted 4 standard buttons, what have they done to them?
Where is the notification light on this thing?

[kiyu727 Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:41PM]

@Evan
you forgot Andoid 1.6
thats obviously a no go for a new releasing phone

[ongadget Posted Feb 21st 2010 12:43AM]

@Evan watch for the blinking light next to the soft keys

[ongadget Posted Feb 21st 2010 12:46AM]

@Evan near the soft keys, I think. saw something blinking there

[skyblaze Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:35PM]

om nom nom

[sumgoodman Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:45PM]

Android 1.6 is perfectly competent and hardly "stuck in the past".

This phone is hot by the way.

[schammy Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:45PM]

Why would anyone in their right mind buy this instead of the Droid?

[yulebellow Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:54PM]

@schammy

Well it has motoblur...I don't think its targeted at people in their right mind

[aubreyq Posted Feb 21st 2010 1:49AM]

@yulebellow: Plus the keyboard appears to be better than the Droid's.

[mikmik111 Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:47PM]

I will buy this phone because megan fox is in it

[Evan Posted Feb 20th 2010 9:07PM]

@mikmik111
This phone could be in Megan Fox and I wouldn't be interested.

[Irondog Posted Feb 20th 2010 10:34PM]

@Evan But what if the phone were in Megan fox............

[Irondog Posted Feb 20th 2010 10:38PM]

@Evan Well if it's worth saying once.......

[KRISC123 Posted Feb 21st 2010 12:31AM]

@Evan

i wish i was inside megan fox and out again and in again and out again.....

[yulebellow Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:47PM]

I just realized it looks like a Macbook Pro in phone form

[kdilkington Posted Feb 20th 2010 8:48PM]

@yulebellow That's what I was thinking as well. Someone took a shrink ray on a MacBook Pro.

[masta vaan Posted Feb 20th 2010 9:40PM]

@yulebellow
looks like the mbp's horrible and outdated specs got carried over... thank god it has android...