Motorola mini Droid slider caught by Mr. Blurrycam

Okay, this one's a complete and very welcome surprise -- some extremely blurry pictures and a quick video of what appears to be a smaller Motorola portrait QWERTY Android slider for Verizon just popped up on the Chinese Hiapk forums -- and yes, it's got the glowing red Droid eye. We're not sure if that means the Droid line is about to get a smaller midrange sibling or what, but Motorola's definitely pushing out some of the more interesting Android form factors lately, and this mini Droid certainly fits right in with the Flipout and the Charm. A couple more shots and the video after the break.

[mogren Posted Jul 19th 2010 9:39PM]

Niles, you guys should start tagging these blurrycam so we can search on it.

[yyandrew Posted Jul 19th 2010 10:19PM]

Why is this a welcome surprise Nilay? As promising as the Pre was (I'm a Pre Plus owner), I think the portrait keyboard form factor has been slightly proven as less-than-ideal.

Sure, it's not the worst form factor, but with landscape physical keyboard form factors, candy bar form factor and others, there really are better design choices.

[userky Posted Jul 19th 2010 10:36PM]

HEY ...... I want to say
It may be a joke ....
这是 我们中国伟大的 SHANGZHAI 哈哈！！！

[FlyinggPenguin Posted Jul 19th 2010 11:45PM]

Cute design, but it reminds me of the ill-fated KIN. *shudder* If it comes out on Sprint, I might consider it over my Palm Pre.

[stevec33 Posted Jul 20th 2010 12:41AM]

Na it just has motoblur thats why the picture is like that.