Motorola holding Android event on September 10, awesome new handsets in store?

Could this be it? Motorola's heading out to San Francisco to host an Android-centric event early next month. We're not being told what's on the docket just yet, but if we had to guess, it's probably some combination of the Morrison and Sholes that have leaked over the past few weeks. The invitation says "Save The Date," but you know what we're thinking: this is really "Save The Company." Make or break, Moto. Let's do this.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2009 5:53PM]

When are we going to see an Android phone that has some new hardware specs? The Motorola spec leaks are pretty boring at 528Mhz Qualcomm CPU, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, 16GB SD support, etc. The only thing mildly interesting is that in the coming few months we may finally see Android on several carriers in the US. Too bad none of them offer hardware advantages over what has been out for quite a while.

I guess Android hopefuls will have to assume software improvements will keep their phones from becoming outdated during the sure to be required 2 year deal. Considering the hardware will be at least 1 year old on the day of purchase I find this a hard pill to swallow.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2009 7:39PM]

I second that notion. As much as I am happy someone else is finally releasing a new Android Mobile, I wish someone would talk to the people who made the iPhone processor, and release a Android Processor that is worthy.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 26th 2009 10:43AM]

Those are the specs for the low end Moto Android phone but the Sholes is supposed to be more powerful:

Summary of the leaked specs for Sholes:
OMAP3430 – 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 + PowerVR SGX 530 GPU + 430MHz C64x+ DSP + ISP (Image Signal Processor)
Dimensions 60.00 x 115.80 x 13.70 mm
Weight 169 g
Battery Li-ion 1400 mAh.
Standby 450 hours, talk time 420 minutes
3.7-inch touch-sensitive display with a resolution of 854×480 pixels, 16 million color depth. Physical screen size is 45.72 mm by 81.34 mm.
512MB/256MB ROM/RAM
microSD / microSDHC expansion slot
Camera: 5.0 megapixel with autofocus and video recorder
Connectivity: USB2.0, 3.5mm audio jack, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, Wi-Fi
Supported audio formats: AMR-NB/WB, MP3, PCM / WAV, AAC, AAC +, eAAC +, WMA
Supported video formats: MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, WMV
GPS navigation
Package Contents: Phone Motorola Sholes, battery, charger, USB cable, 8GB MicroSD memory card and other literature.

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