Motorola Milestone 3 is to Be the Finest Droid Phone Yet
The Motorola Droid was the first successful touchscreen phone released by the US manufacturer and the device that saved from relative obscurity after their initial slowness to adapt to the changing mobile phone market. With a mixture of great Android features, a futuristic design and a sliding QWERTY keyboard it is easy to see why the Droid, known in the UK as the Milestone, won such mass appeal.
Motorola has since released a number of additional Milestone handsets in the following years and now have their third Milestone in the pipelines ready for release towards the end of 2011. The third Milestone with remain faithful to the original design and include the same fantastic sliding QWERTY design, but will come with some noticeable changes that will mark it out as the finest Milestone yet.
This will be the first Milestone to come with a dual core processor and, combined with 1GB RAM, this will make it the fastest Milestone yet to see release. It is expected to come with at least Android Gingerbread as its operating system of choice although judging by its scheduled release date it is more than possible that it could come with Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Either way it will feature Motorola’s Motoblur user interface that features some excellent social networking support.
There are also rumours afoot that the new droid will come with support the webtop docking ports that were introduced with the Motorola Atrix. If this is true then this will be the first Milestone that will have the potential to be transformed into a laptop and a multimedia hub, and considering the hardware and processing power of the upcoming phone it is easy to foresee this feature being implemented.
The Milestone will also be following the current trends of increased screen sizes seen on the likes of the Atrix and competing devices from other manufacturers. This is because it will feature a larger 4″ capacitive screen compared to the 3.7″ display found on earlier models, and this will also come in qHD format making it one of the highest resolution smartphone screens on the market. Multitouch and Gorilla Glass will both be on offer and judging by the rumoured support for the Atrix’s webtop peripherals it is also possible that it could come with the latter device’s biometric fingerprint scanner too.
Although the Milestone series has always been one centred around the QWERTY keyboard design this latest addition will have a revamped keyboard. This new keyboard will feature a new 5 row layout that will make it much more conducive to all forms of typing activity including email, threaded SMS, instant messaging and social networking. The Milestone 3 is expected to have increased data speeds for 3G, DLNA Wi-Fi and some excellent online features to put to good use.
The phone will also come with a 5 megapixel camera that will include HD video support and this will be the first phone in the series to do so. The Milestone/Droid has always been a popular smartphone partly due its robust design and partly due to its excellent keyboard and by sticking to the same formula this next addition is likely to be just as phenomenally successful and even more so thanks to the much welcomed improvements made by Motorola.