Motorola Tao said to be getting official next week
We here at BGR are well aware that Motorola’s Tao (aka Sholes) is the current object du désire for Android lovers and smartphone junkies alike, so we’re pretty encouraged by a rumor being peddled by The Street that would see Motorola announce the Tao next week. Ordinarily such rumors are approached with guarded skepticism (especially considering The Street’s not so hot track record of late), but we see no reason to doubt this particular tidbit. Not only is CTIA kicking off in San Diego on October 7th, but Motorola’s own developer conference, MOTODEV, also starts the very same week. Add in the fact that the Tao just recently got clearance from the FCC and someone felt brave enough to go wild with some pics of the device, and we’d say this phone is ready to burst onto the scene.
Thanks, Mike!
UPDATE: We’ve heard without a doubt that The Street (more like Skid Row) is wrong and this handset won’t be introduced next week.
I’m not so sure
http://androidandme.com/2009/10/phones/verizon-to-launch-motorola-tao-on-december-1/
You do realize it’s not unheard of for a phone to be announced well in advance of an actual release… don’t you?
My bad, confusing Announcement with Release.
If anyone has a realistic shot at dethroning the iphone its android, not bb, winmo, palm, or nokia. We’re finally seeing hardware that can do android justice.
the street is LAME-O
sholes nice..
@Dan
It could also be possible for Motorola to simply announce the device without a carrier partner and then have Verizon’s announcement made on their own schedule.
Not saying that is going to happen, but there is a CDMA device and a Euro 3G Sholes…
I’mma ready…
http://tinyurl.com/y9otrfn
is this guy a fake? ^
the comment box isn’t blue.
The Street? Those morons are ones with the false pre report and verizon… keep on moving… nothing to see here.
@grr
No, it’s only blue for the author of the post.
i’m not buying it FAKE bg
gRRR 123
That skid row comment made me chortle.
Android>Iphone
If this is in fact December 1 I don’t know if I can wait. Been contract free for 2 months already and my Moto Q is finally hitting the bricks.
The Street really needs to get their facts together before they go saying they know when a device is being announced/launched. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the first time and definitely won’t be the last time they screw something up.
Still anxious about the Droid though. I hope Verizon doesn’t alter the look of it. Just brand it with your carrier name and let it be. It looks so good in the rendered pics…
Somebody at Verizon likes to screw with Scott over at the Street.
@madog – the hardware to Android justice already exists in this generation of phone. The first iPhone and the iPhone 3G had the same ARM11 CPU as the current myTouch/Dream/G1/Magic/Hero, less RAM (128mb vs 192/288mb) and a slower GPU (PowerVR MBX vs MSM7200A).
The real question is, why is Android so much more sluggish on comparable hardware as the original iPhone? The general UI speed, browser use, animations, etc are just that much faster overall making the phone much more useable on the Apple. I’m with everyone else with regards to open source, background tasks and everything else.
Bottom line having owned all the iPhone’s, an HTC Magic and an HTC Hero, the iPhone is still way ahead in terms of ultimate usability. I hope Android shapes up otherwise the hardware requirements are going to become unfeasible.
Jimson, make the iPhone run multiple apps at the same time and then we can compare the user experience. I don’t mind a few hickups in the user interface as long as I can listen to Pandora, chat with my buddies on GTalk, read my email and click on links in them at the same time.
Running multiple things simultaneously requires more resources than doing something one at a time.