BGR\’s lined up a handful of very believable rumors for giant Red today — and while you\’re an Android fan, you\’re going to wish to pay very close attention (heck, even though you\’re not, that you have to probably take a look). First up, Motorola\’s said to have an entire-touch Android 2.2 handset inside the works with global roaming capability on GSM and presumably HSPA — a first inside the CDMA Android world — that apparently looks just like a Motorola Q (without the keyboard, after all ). Interestingly, we\’ve recently been clued into a worldwide roaming Moto from a trusted tipster of ours with the codename \” Venus\” that\’s slated to enter internal testing on the 27th of this month, however it\’s unclear whether Venus is this device or a beefier one, the Droid Pro, that’s also apparently going to feature global roaming. As its name suggests, BGR says the Droid Pro will probably be a monster, featuring a 1.3GHz core (faster than the 1GHz Droid X and Droid 2) and a 4-inch screen with a target street date in November — just in time for the holidays. There are also apparently global Android handsets in store from Samsung and HTC; additionally, our tipster tells us that there can be a Motorola \” Ciena\” sans global roaming, a phone may very well be that WX445 we saw not in the past. It\’s entering carrier acceptance testing on the 17th.
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Turning our attention to tablets, Samsung is claimed to be prepping a 7-inch device with a front-facing camera (something we\’re expecting to work out on virtually all high-end smartphones and tablets going forward). Motorola, meanwhile, is seemingly working on a 10-inch model — something we\’ve heard before — so we can feature a processor of 1GHz or better paired with Android 3.0 Gingerbread. What\’s notable here’s that BGR\’s source is saying that the inclusion of Android 3.0 could push the Moto launch out to February 2011, but inside sources of our own are reporting that tablet devices running Gingerbread are still figuring into Verizon\’s Q4 2010 plans, so we\’ll need to wait and spot how that shakes out.
Moving on, Novatel — creator of the original MiFi — may be on the hook for a new LTE mobile hotspot (hopefully a CDMA hybrid, though we don\’t know) so that you can support as many as ten simultaneous users for launch in January or February of next year; the relatively close period of time might explain the alleged (but unconfirmed) cancellation of the Fivespot that we\’ve been hearing about lately. Speaking of LTE, word has it that USB stick usage will likely be priced at $59.99 a month — data cap unknown — and that enormous Red is presently targeting 75 percent \” of the country\” covered by April 2012, though we don\’t know if that\’s geographical or population coverage.
Quite a lot to soak up, isn\’t it?
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