Motorola Sage pictured in glorious detail, on a collision course with AT&T

Confirming our FCC-inspired conjecture, here we have a gallery of pictures giving us a detailed look at Motorola's latest (though probably not greatest) Android handset. Just as we posited, this QWERTY slider is bound for AT&T's airwaves and it comes with a Motoblur 2 skin, as seen most recently on the Droid X. We keep telling these manufacturers that bone stock Android and a rapid upgrade cycle would be preferable but they don't listen. You'll have to make do with Android 2.1 when the Sage launches, which can't be too far off from now given that our tipster has had his test unit for a good month already.

[Thanks, Charlie W.]

Motorola Sage pictured in glorious detail, on a collision course with AT&T

[ray000000001 Posted Aug 4th 2010 11:41AM]

If they just bring Motorola milestone 2(a.k.a GSM version of Droid 2) to at&t I will be happy, just make sure it's Tri-band WCDMA(850/1900/2100). I'm so sick of the lacks of quality android phones on at&t.

[Inspector Gadget80 Posted Aug 4th 2010 11:58AM]

What is going on here? I'm getting sick and tired of Motorola making ugly designs for AT&T. Now I have to pay my ETF to leave AT&T after seeing this POS. I'm tired of all this iPhone buzz and not getting a high powered ANDROID device for AT&T.

[iPhonemyphone Posted Aug 4th 2010 12:23PM]

@Inspector Gadget80

just get a captivate or the blackberry torch... those seem like pretty nice phones....

[JosephZ Posted Aug 4th 2010 12:11PM]

Makes people wanna quit AT&T. C'mon. Backflip II, anyone agree that this has a similar douchy style?

[PrepaidAndroidUSA Posted Aug 4th 2010 12:11PM]

1) Remove the track pad
2) Extend the screen
3) Put 1ghz OMAP processor with gfx
4) Remove stupid At&t bloatware

would = great competition for htc blaze and epic 4g.

[ray000000001 Posted Aug 4th 2010 12:44PM]

@PrepaidAndroidUSA That's exactly what Droid 2(Milestone 2) is.

[Frogboy Posted Aug 4th 2010 12:48PM]

No wonder the people who work at the AT&T stores usually just say, "Why don't you just get the iPhone?". Yuck!

[zevobh Posted Aug 4th 2010 12:59PM]

whoot! no mr blurry cam!

[iName Posted Aug 4th 2010 1:32PM]

like the touchpad but the phone is looking kind of low-end. not suprised, its iT&T.

[kenny goo Posted Aug 4th 2010 3:23PM]

Yea, I'd rather get stock Android and updates the same week the new versions are released from Google rather than all this custom UI bullshit. It's just not worth it. As long as people keep this shit up the iPhone is going to have a rather large advantage in this department.

Oh yea, and this phone looks pretty mid to low end, but if it's anything like HTCs mid range offerings (Aria, MyTouch Slide, Legend) than it'll be a pretty good phone, though I doubt that's going to be the case with Motorola's mid to low end track record (see: Cliq, XT, Backflip, Devour, Charm, Flipout).

[akindy Posted Aug 4th 2010 6:24PM]

What makes a track pad different then a capacitance touch screen? Like... does it offer more sensitivity, will it be more responsive?

[GodFlow Posted Aug 4th 2010 10:42PM]

Seriously, there's no excuse for this. What's the purpose of having that gigantic trackpad right in the center of the buttons, when an optical mouse can do an even more efficient job? Even phones that came out in 08 had a smaller trackpad. I swear, if at&t didn't go with the galaxy s, I would have leaped the fuck onto another phone carrier. Cause this is straight ridiculous.

It's clear that MOTO is able to make slammin' phones, so I don't get why when it comes to at&t, they're coming up with outdated hardware and weird ass designs. I hate to blame at&t for this, but they shouldn't accept this monstrosity of a phone.

[R Posted Aug 4th 2010 10:58PM]

Seems like the bastard child of the Motorola Cliq and Backflip.