Verizon’s third smartphone running the Android OS – Motorola’s Devour – is now available exclusively at Best Buy stores. The Devour is a mid-range model with a sliding QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, and 3G mobile broadband.
Best Buy is selling the phone for $100 to new Verizon subscribers with a two-year contract.
The Devour has a 3.1-inch, HVGA (320 by 480 pixel) color touch screen Android smartphone with slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.
This model is debuting with Android OS 1.6, and has the standard suite of software for connecting to Google services, like Gmail and YouTube. User can also pick from over 20,000 third-party apps.
In addition, the Devour is the first Verizon model with MotoBlur, Motorola’s software that brings together messages from a range of social-networking services like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, text messages, as well as consumer and business e-mail accounts, into a universal inbox.
Lots of your favorite Google and Verizon Wireless apps are pre-loaded, and thousands more are available to download from the Android Market. When words aren’t enough, record videos and snap photos with the 3 megapixel camera/ camcorder.
Naturally, it comes with software for playing music and video, and this model is being bundled with an 8 GB microSD memory card for storing thousands of files.
