Motorola today announced DROID, the first device powered by Android 2.0 and features the brainpower and breakneck speed of a modern smartphone. DROID is designed to outperform where other smartphones fall short. It features a solid exterior, intelligent interior and is one of the thinnest full-QWERTY slider phones available. DROID delivers high-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, a customizable large touch screen and access to thousands of apps and hundreds of widgets from Android Market.

Key features of DROID include:

·         World’s thinnest slide-out QWERTY keyboard
·         3G Web and full HTML browser
·         Cinematic 3.7” high-resolution display with more than 400,000 pixels
·         Powerful and fast Google voice-activated search
·         Run up to 6 apps simultaneously
·         Customize the homescreen with apps and widgets from the Android Market
·         5 megapixel camera with flash, DVD-quality video capture and 16GB memory card included
·         Integrated work and personal email pushed right to you
·         Google Maps Navigation (Beta) with free turn-by-turn directions

DROID by Motorola will be available Nov. 6 online and in stores from Verizon Wireless, nation’s largest and most reliable 3G network. Follow them on twitter.

The keyboard looks great. And the built-in and free turn by turn navigation is awesome, I am glad they are raising the bar by making it a built-in feature. This is a good example of why you need to care about screen resolution. Slider will be able to help make sure your mobile flex content is usable on high resolution devices with the Device Independent Sizing feature. More on that soon. The camera sounds very high quality but I have learned that you never know if it is any good until you try it for yourself, so I look forward to that.