Motorola Sholes Hits Verizon Late October!

[phandroid]

Verizon Wireless customers can start (unofficially) counting down the days that an Android Phone - and a seemingly awesome one at that - lands on their carriers shelves. A leaked Verizon roadmap has unveiled a whole swarm of Verizon Wireless goodness and amongst it all is a late October release of the upcoming Motorola [...]

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[wnrussell]

For those looking for the next generation Verizon Motorola smartphone, here it is:

The pricing is about $199. In addition, the main specifications of the Sholes includes:
* OMAP3430

 

[wnrussell]

10 reasons to start saving for the Verizon Motorola Sholes Android phone – Android and Me

 

[gadgetmom88]

Wonder what Android will be like on Verizon. Verizon locks down everything on their phones - wi-fi, applications... Will this be a jerry-rigger version of Android, or do you think we'll be able to get the full Android experience on Verizon?

 

[wnrussell]

Very UNLOCKED. They are shipping 15,000 test units to Verizon employees and for training right now.

 

[Jacqueline]

That is fantastic news! I can't wait.

Any word on availability dates?

 

[eruso]

I wonder if there will be a possibility of getting one unlocked for t-mobile? This looks way better than the cliq that I was initially excited about.

 

[tlbj6142]

Very UNLOCKED. They are shipping 15,000 test units to Verizon employees and for training right now.

That's a lot of test units?!?!?!

 

[Jacqueline]

I wonder if there will be a possibility of getting one unlocked for t-mobile? This looks way better than the cliq that I was initially excited about.

I doubt it. Verizon is CDMA and T-mobile is GSM. I have heard there are phones that have both technologies, but have not ever seen one myself.