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While just recently made official, there have been plenty of Motorola Devour leaks over the years (er, months) to keep us occupied. This latest one has the aluminum colored phone sized up in bokeh-filled and yet surprisingly small, compressed and grainy shots — as if Mr. Blurrycam is holding up a nice, low aperture DSLR lens to his RAZR’s sensor. Oh well, it’s the thought that counts. What’s particularly helpful here is this comparison shot with the Nexus One, which shows the Devour to be a good bit larger, despite its significantly smaller screen size. Size isn’t everything, of course.

[Thanks, Phillip L.]

Motorola Devour spotted in the wild, sized up against a Nexus One originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Motorola’s Backflip has yet to springboard itself over to AT&T, but those who call China home can hop on the bandwagon right away. Said phone — which sports a full touchscreen and a physical QWERTY thanks to the horizontal clamshell design — is now available from Moto’s Chinese portal for 4,298 Chinese yuan (in unlocked form), which translates to right around $630. While the rest of the world awaits the phone’s launch later this quarter, you can hit up Mobile.163.com for a downright beautiful gallery of in the wild shots. Go on, it’s safe. We think.

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Motorola Backflip spotted in the wilds of China originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The same cat that brought us the last Magnum scoop is back again, this time with a short video detailing the differences between RIM’s supposed first effort at making a touchscreen / QWERTY hybrid device and its nearest cousins, the Bold 9000 and 9700. Notably, the narrator points out that the phone shares its keyboard design more closely with the 9000 than the 9700 — for aficionados, this can be a crucial difference — and it generally shares its physical cues with the older Bold apart from a move to micro-USB (and the SurePress screen, of course). Sadly, the proto here lacks an operating system so there’s not terribly much to see beyond the hardware itself, but it might all be for naught — the latest intel suggests that this phone has been supplanted by a mysterious “Dakota” with updated specs, so we’ll just have to hang on to our Curves and Storms for a little while longer. Follow the break for the full video.

Continue reading RIM’s (doomed?) BlackBerry Magnum makes its video debut

RIM’s (doomed?) BlackBerry Magnum makes its video debut originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve seen our fair share of unattractive leak photos in our day — Mr. Blurrycam is an extraordinarily busy, well-traveled individual, after all — but this might very well take the cake. What we see here is allegedly the first live shot of HTC’s killer Supersonic for Sprint, a phone that we’ve heard would feature HD2-like specs in an HD2-like shell: 4.3-inch display, fast processor, and an unbelievably thin body, to be specific. Where the Supersonic allegedly goes off the beaten path, though, is with the inclusion of Android 2.1 with Sense and WiMAX, perfect for Sprint’s budding 4G network. The site that’s leaked the photo also says we can expect an FM radio and a 1GHz clock on that Snapdragon plus a kickstand, something we’d heard before. It’s still not much to go on, but the fact that we’re this close to falling in love with a phone that we can barely make out through thick artifacting, censoring, and a dirty camera lens really says something, doesn’t it? Stay tuned — we’re hopeful the leaks are going to start flowing fast and furious on this one.

[Thanks, Jackson R.]

Update: They’ve posted closeups of the original shot without the masking — still not mega high-quality, but getting better. We’re not convinced it’s real, but we’re certainly not convinced it’s fake, either.

Update 2: Our trusted tipster (the one that tipped us off to the Supersonic’s existence in the first place) tell us that this is, in fact, the real deal. We’ll take two, please.

Update 3: And finally it appears in the clear — image updated above.

Continue reading HTC Supersonic for Sprint possibly spotted in the very, very ugly wild

HTC Supersonic for Sprint possibly spotted in the very, very ugly wild originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As breathtakingly bad as the picture is, what we’re looking at here could very well be the first shot of HTC’s upcoming Bravo in the wild — the industrial design lines up nicely with what we’ve seen in the company’s leaked roadmap, anyway, and that funky little optical pad in the center perfectly matches the component that you can clearly see on the Legend render. It’s said to be “near identical” to the Nexus One — which makes sense considering that we thought the Nexus One was the Bravo for a while — so the big draws here would have to be the removal of the trackball (we’re not complaining) and the Sense UI covering up Android 2.1’s default look. If 3 Sweden knew what it was talking about, this thing could be on shelves this quarter… so watch your back, MOTOROI.

HTC Bravo gettin’ overexposed in the wild? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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