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It looks like the Motorola Zeppelin has just been announced and it'll be called the CLIQ XT in the US and the Quench in Europe. Unfortunately, they're sticking with the old-school Android 1.5 with a touch of MOTOBLUR on this handset which is upsetting since the CLIQ in the US should get updated to Android 2.1 in March. Anyways, it's got a 3.1-inch touchscreen display with a 320 x 480 resolution, a 5MP AF camera with an LED flash, WiFi / aGPS support, and HSDPA connectivity. Oh yeah, no QWERTY keyboard on this one.

[Mobile Crunch]

Could this be for real? Has T-Mobile USA's upcoming handset line-up just leaked out? They clearly don't know how to spell Sony Ericsson and they refer to Motorola as Mot, so those could signal that this is a fake. But anyways, let's move away from the negative.

The HTC HD2, Motorola CLIQ XT, and Nokia Nuron are the highlights on here. The HD2 will supposedly be released on March 24th, similar to what we heard before. The Motorola CLIQ XT will supposedly launch on March 10th and it's looking like the Zeppelin to us. The Nokia Nuron will supposedly launch on March 17th and this one's looking like the Nokia 5230 that should've been released last year.

Other launches include the blue Samsung Gravity 2 on February 24th.

[Engadget, Boy Genius]

It looks like someone has managed to snap a photo of this Motorola handset and this is reportedly the Zeppelin. Of course, this handset will be sporting the Android OS and will also feature: a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP camera, GPS support, MOTOBLUR, and touch-sensitive buttons on the bottom. We don't know what version of Android this thing will be running on, but it should be 2.0 or 2.1. We'll likely see it at MWC 2010 since it's already been leaked early. Let's just wait.

[Engadget]

Cell Passion is on their heels right now. They have just discovered that the Motorola MB501 that they spotted in late October will actually be a GSM / WCDMA variant of the Motorola Zeppelin. This is pretty shocking news because now we have a CDMA and a GSM model of this phone. It could be launched on any carrier now. However, Cell Passion believes that there will be "three variants of the Zeppelin - one for the Chinese market, another one for the American market with CDMA and a third for the European and other Asian markets with GSM and WCDMA." Interesting stuff there.

[Cell Passion]

So, we know about the Motorola Zeppelin already and it should be running Android. It looks like China Telecom will be getting this handset as the Motorola XT800. Fortunately, it'll be capable of running on their upcoming new 3G network since this handset features GSM and CDMA connectivity.

Engadget also mentions that the US could be getting this handset sometime in 2010 on either Sprint or Verizon's network, of course.

[Engadget]

Last week a small roadmap of Motorola's upcoming handsets were leaked out and this was one of them. The Motorola Zeppelin, which is expected to launch in Q1 2010 according to the roadmap, looks like it will running Android which is always a great thing. Other specs include: a 5MP camera with a flash, a 3.1-inch display [likely touchscreen] with a 320 x 480 resolution, WiFi support, an HDMI output, and dual SIM card slots. Unfortunately, it looks like this handset is headed to China, so we might not see it hit North America. But, I'm sure we'll be satisfied if we get the Motorola Droid sometime soon. Waddaya say Verizon?

[Engadget Mobile]

According to this leaked Motorola roadmap, the "Sholes Tablet" should get launched in Q1 2010. This could possibly be the Motorola Flash and possibly also the "non-keyboard model" of the Sholes that we heard about earlier this month. In the roadmap above it clearly says that the Sholes Tablet will have the same 3.7-inch display as the original Sholes and it'll have an upgrade 8MP AF camera with a xenon flash that can record 720p video. It'll be exciting to see what this "tablet" turns out to be.

The leaked roadmap also shows the Motorola Motus and the Zeppelin. I believe we haven't heard about these handsets before, but they both have similar specs, that's: a 3.1-inch display with a 320 x 480 resolution, a 5MP AF camera, and WiFi 802.11 b/g. However, the Motus appears to have a touchscreen and the Zeppelin does not. Engadget points out that we could be seeing them at CES 2010.

[Engadget]