{"id":525432,"date":"2010-04-13T02:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/?p=18381"},"modified":"2010-04-13T02:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T06:50:19","slug":"motorola-puts-a-new-twist-on-android-phone-form-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525432","title":{"rendered":"Motorola puts a new Twist on Android phone form factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18437\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 234px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/motowhat21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18437\" title=\"motowhat21\" src=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/motowhat21-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Motorola Twist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our friend John from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droiddog.com\/android-blog\/2010\/04\/is-this-square-motowhat-for-real\/\">DroidDog<\/a> leaked some photos of an unknown Motorola Android phone this weekend which were quickly pulled down (hint: they are real). Not much was known about the device till <a href=\"http:\/\/android-france.fr\/2010\/04\/12\/prototype-motorola-square-twist\/\">Android-France<\/a> spotted the specs for a Motorola prototype which matches up nicely with the leaked pics.<\/p>\n<p>Codenamed the Motorola Twist, this Android phone features a 2.8 inch QVGA display, 700 MHz TI OMAP 3410 processor, and a square form factor. The leaked pics look similar to the Motorola Backflip, but in a more compact size. The device could feature the same reverse-flip keyboard design of the Backflip, but the Twist name suggest something similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokiausa.com\/find-products\/phones\/nokia-7705\">Nokia Twist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the phone comes in compressed form (67 x 67 x 15.8 mm), it should still pack quite a punch with its Texas Instruments OMAP 3410 processor. This CPU is similar to what was used in the Droid (ARM Cortex-A8), but it lacks the dedicated PowerVR graphics processor. The Droid&#8217;s OMAP3430 was underclocked at 550 MHz (600 default) whereas the Twist&#8217;s OMAP3410 is overclocked to 700 MHz (also 600 default). The major benefit of using an ARM Cortex-A8 based processor is the ability to run Adobe&#8217;s upcoming Flash 10.1.<\/p>\n<p>The Twist is slated for a June release and the leaked documents indicate it will support AT&amp;T 3G bands. AT&amp;T already took a chance on an odd form factor with the Backflip, so they should have no issues bringing us another unique Android phone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 519px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/motorola-android-france-800x618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18436\" title=\"motorola-android-france-800x618\" src=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/motorola-android-france-800x618-509x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leaked specs of the Motorola Twist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3  class=\"related_post_title\">Related Posts<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_post\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/04\/news\/droid-does-dogs-tasers-and-underwear\/\" title=\"Droid does dogs, tasers, and underwear\">Droid does dogs, tasers, and underwear<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/04\/news\/t-mobile-rolls-out-new-software-update-to-motorola-cliq-users\/\" title=\"T-Mobile rolls out new software update to Motorola CLIQ users\">T-Mobile rolls out new software update to Motorola CLIQ users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/04\/news\/ocnn-powered-by-motorola-devour-with-motoblur\/\" title=\"OCNN powered by Motorola Devour with MOTOBLUR\">OCNN powered by Motorola Devour with MOTOBLUR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/03\/news\/confirmed-droid-2-1-update-arriving-today\/\" title=\"Confirmed: Droid 2.1 update arriving today\">Confirmed: Droid 2.1 update arriving today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/2010\/03\/news\/verizon-begins-new-test-of-motorola-droid-ota-update-to-android-2-1-2\/\" title=\"Verizon begins new test of Motorola Droid OTA update to Android 2.1\">Verizon begins new test of Motorola Droid OTA update to Android 2.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motorola Twist. Our friend John from DroidDog leaked some photos of an unknown Motorola Android phone this weekend which were quickly pulled down (hint: they are real). Not much was known about the device till Android-France spotted the specs for a Motorola prototype which matches up nicely with the leaked pics. Codenamed the Motorola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}