Motorola releases new Milestone

As Motorola prepares the European launch of it's new Milestone handset in Germany on November 9th 2009 some analysts are already considering whether it will outshine the Palm Pre as the most serious threat to Blackberry Storm and Apple iPhone.

Motorala Milestone is the first Android powered phone to combine release 2.0 of the Google operating system and ARM's A8 processor. It has the same specification as the US version called Droid which features a slider with full Qwerty keyboard, 3.7-inch high resolution capacitive touchscreen with more than 400,000 pixels, 5-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash and video capture, and 16Gb of microSD storage.

Google has said it expects some 20 Android-based devices will be released by the end of the year. The Android 2.0 browser supports all the key new web technologies like WebKit HTML 5 and Adobe Flash 10.

Motorola last set the pace in the handset market five years ago when it released the iconic RAZR phone. Since then it has been virtually eclipsed by Apple and RIM in the fast growing smartphone market.

Milestone will be launched in Europe by German operators Vodafone and possibly T-Mobile. It is expected in the UK early in 2010.