Practically everything we’ve heard — both officially and through tipsters — lines up with information coming out of Phone Arena this week detailing a very Google-heavy upcoming Fall and Winter release schedule for our friends at Big Red. Starting next month, it appears that evidently we’ll see a global version of the just-launched Droid 2, possibly with a white option (though it kind of feels this might also be the R2-D2 model), and the Motorola WX455 we’d leaked has been named ” Citrus” and may (as you most likely could’ve guessed) target the low end of the market and the young’uns who are seeking a cheap solution to get into Android; as WWAN-enabled laptops go, they’ll be picking up the Dell Vostro V13 and the HP Pavilion DM1.
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Moving onto October, we’re watching a BlackBerry Storm3 — something we’ve heard a bit of about — that uses BlackBerry 6 but is alleged to still carry over the Storm2′s SurePress display — an attractive foil to the Torch’s traditional touchscreen. In fact, we’d also heard that the CDMA version of the Curve 3G was also on tap, and it seems like we’ll finally see that in October as well. Samsung need to be coming in with a three-pack of Android models here, including the Fascinate alongside midrange ” Continuum” and coffee-end ” Gem” models. Not to be outdone within the Android arena, Moto is claimed to be introducing an XT610 model that actually appears like a lower-end version of the Droid X; they’ve yet to roll out a midrange Android slate on Verizon, so that’d make some sense. There’s also a device called the A957 ” Sick” floating around — which we really hope isn’t a retail name, obviously — it really is presupposed to be a high-end model and can come to be being the device we’d often known as the Droid Pro. Oh, and remember how the Pre Plus just went out of stock on Verizon? That lines up nicely with some talk that the Pre 2 is being prepped for an October release, too — possibly to correspond with the unveiling of webOS 2.0, if we had to guess.
Phone Arena goes on to assert that those Entourage e-readers we broke the scoop on are actually destined for a November release, not September as we’d originally thought; they’ll be coming in two sizes, the original Edge and a smaller Pocket model. It truly is also around the time that they’re being pegged to release the rumored HTC Merge, supposedly a mighty beast bearing a 10 megapixel camera and something faster than a 1GHz core — possibly in a bid to do battle with the Glacier that T-Mobile is testing. Finally, we should always be seeing these long-discussed tablets: one from Samsung called the i800 and another smaller model from Motorola tentatively labeled the ” Stingray.”
It’s definitely notable that practically each of the intel that we’ve received from trusted tipsters long ago several weeks lines up with this roadmap, so we’re confident that it’s pretty accurate; for sure, launch dates have a bad tendency to slip endlessly, so we won’t be counting any chickens ’til they’re hatched.
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