Motorola Devour available on Verizon today for $149.99

If the Droid's a little too much phone for you, you like the color silver, or you're just a Blur kind of guy, we've got a fantastic reminder for you: Motorola's Devour for Verizon is available today. Previously a Best Buy exclusive, the phone is hitting the carrier's stores for $149.99 after a $100 rebate on a new two-year contract, but what's interesting is that the rebate is of the mail-in variety if you don't buy it online -- in other words, it's $50 cheaper to buy a Droid online today than it is to buy a Devour in-store. So yeah, basically, you'd better be really sure this is the phone you're looking for -- and don't forget, you're giving up the Droid's glorious 854 x 480 display to get in on this. No pressure!

[N900androidOS Posted Mar 25th 2010 11:42AM]

ha got one

[TechBlogger Posted Mar 26th 2010 6:44PM]

@N900androidOS What do you think?? Cool or what?

[Paullll Posted Mar 25th 2010 12:06PM]

Chris, are you those kind of people who also troll on mercedes forums and try to encourage people to buy BMWs?
Seems like when reading these biased articles.

[steel Posted Mar 26th 2010 11:42AM]

@Paullll

Since when is forming a position based on facts considering being biased?

[yuppiescum Posted Mar 25th 2010 12:07PM]

I played with a demo unit in the store the other day, the keyboard seems pretty nice and the slide motion is a high quality satisfying springy motion. Shame it is not a "real" droid device and also it's pretty bulky.

[Johnny Rockets Posted Mar 25th 2010 12:45PM]

After reading about the Evo, the Samsung Galaxy S, the Nexus One, etc, they should really just pull this thing off the shelves.

Speaking of which, what happened to the Verizon Nexus One?

[Paullll Posted Mar 25th 2010 1:04PM]

@Johnny Rockets
Dude, normal people doesn't buy Evos and so on.
Devour though is for normobs.

[iBuferd Posted Mar 25th 2010 3:23PM]

@Johnny Rockeets
"Speaking of which, what happened to the Verizon Nexus One?"

Tell me about it! I have been on Engadget religiously (more often than normal ;-) ) to get the news so I can go get my Nexus One on Verizon... but the rumored date of the 23rd has come and gone. Now I hear that "from a reputable source that has not once let us down" it will arrive the end of next week....

[triplexcoast Posted Mar 25th 2010 1:16PM]

This phone is not meant to be a "superphone," and they shouldn't pull it from the shelves... It fills the "middle of the road" place in VZW's line up of android devices. I work for a VZW indirect channel (not Best Buy), and we have been selling this device for about a month now, and it fills the gap really well between the eris and the droid. We have the eris @ free, the devour @ $100, and the droid @$180 and they all sell equally as well. It is perfect for those who don't want as much phone (or cost) as the droid, but don't want to commit to the touch only interface of the eris. Just my $.02

[steel Posted Mar 26th 2010 11:43AM]

@triplexcoast

What gap is that? The Droid is cheaper in most places.

[normanb20 Posted Mar 25th 2010 2:23PM]

Looks a lot better still than any BlackBerry IMO.
Posted from my ivory tower(DROID)

[brokensticks Posted Mar 25th 2010 4:48PM]

Why anyone would buy this instead of a palm pre plus on verizon is just beyond me...

[brokensticks Posted Mar 25th 2010 4:48PM]

@brokensticks Given the price that is

[Lucas Posted Mar 25th 2010 9:20PM]

@brokensticks Screen, OS, keyboard, ect...

[brokensticks Posted Mar 26th 2010 12:56AM]

@Lucas Screen ain't better...

OS? you're telling me the motoblur stuff helps android? please...

Keyboard.. I guess that's subjective... so I'll let you have that one

etc... Uh, its got a slower processor, less memory, looks funky (and thick)... etc...

If you're an android fan, you'd be kinda cheap (or uninformed) if you didn't go for a droid or waited for the Nexus One (if you're fond of verizon that is).

[jph89 Posted Mar 27th 2010 10:12PM]

@brokensticks

I happen to love my Pre Plus keyboard.

[brokensticks Posted Mar 28th 2010 12:22AM]

@jph89 Yeah I got a pre (on sprint though) as well. love the vertical keyborad and I've got used to it so much that a wide landscape one feels too awkward to me (too much finger movement needed)...

I was just trying to be a bit unbiased...

[palomosan Posted Mar 25th 2010 10:47PM]

This phone is huge, I saw it at Walmart last week and it's a brick of a phone, I don't get why Moto will do such a huge phone.

[wtgig Posted Mar 30th 2010 12:35AM]

@palomosan

same reason why the droid is ridiculously gargantuan