Motorola has launched its Android smartphone, the Milestone 3 announced. The smartphone runs on a dual-core Omap4430-soc from Texas Instruments and has a 4″screen. In addition, a physical keyboard with five rows present.
The Droid 3 has a 4″lcd with a pentile matrix layout, which makes it less subpixels than are common in lcd’s. The screen has a maximum resolution of 960×540 pixels. The touchscreen is slightly larger than that of the predecessor, Milestone 2, which is a 3.7″screen with 854×480 resolution to the board.
The unit has probably the second announced smartphone a Omap4430-soc from Texas Instruments on board. The dualcoreprocessor is also found in LG’s smartphone the Optimus 3D, that Friday came out. The cpu is probably clocked at 1GHz, even though Motorola no statements about which processor exactly it is: the Atrix runs on a Tegra 2, but the Milestones had until now always a Omap-soc on board. The announcement is not unexpected; the device was earlier this week on a Chinese site discussed.
It is unclear where the Droid 3 is going to come true. Motorola announced the smartphone with Android 2.3 for the Chinese market, but notes that the device a worldwide release. In the United Kingdom have providers already said that the device is not available. Motorola does not devices in the Netherlands, but every now and then decisions of providers, or retailers for a particular device to import. That happened earlier this year with the Defy, a rugged Android smartphone that the ill-treatment by the Tweakers.net-editors not survived.
Motorola made in the past few years, thanks to its Android-smartphone, made a comeback on the call market. The turnover is a significant part in the creation of the American provider Verizon Wireless, that the Milestones under the name of Droid releases.
