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In San Francisco on September 10th, it looks like Motorola is holding an event for Android. So, this could be when we see the official unveiling of the Motorola Morrison and the more exciting Sholes. If we're lucky enough, we might even see a new Android device from them as well.

[Engadget Mobile]

If you're like me you've been keeping a close ear / eye out for the Dell smartphone, the OPhone mini3i. It's supposedly "launch ready" now for the Chinese market and we have the supposed specs and picture (above) for you now. The Dell OPhone mini3i will supposedly have: a 3.5-inch nHD multi-touchscreen display with a 640 x 360 resolution, a 3MP AF camera with a flash, digital zoom, and 30fps video recording capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, aGPS support, a microSD card slot, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE class 12 support, OTA capable, Microsoft Exchange / Google / AIM / Yahoo / MSN IM support, and sports, of course, a virtual QWERTY keyboard. And yes, it looks like it could be running Android folks.

Boy Genius also went out to mention that the Motorola Android handset will actually be called the Sholes and not the Shules - it's also supposedly 13.7mm thin. And T-Mobile's Motorola Morrison could be launching in late September.

[Boy Genius, Engadget]

If you're like me, everyday you're just dying to hear more information about Motorola's Android handset, the Sholes / Shules. Well, a new Motorola handset, the A855, has just hit the WiFi Alliance and Cell Passion is speculating that this could actually be the Motorola Sholes / Shules. According to Cell Passion's article, the Motorola Sholes / Shules could be officially announced in September.

[Cell Passion]

If you've been keeping up with the news at all, you should know that Motorola's Android handset, the Sholes / Shules will be heading to Verizon, thanks to earlier reports of this rocking CDMA. Take a look at what he heard today, via Boy Genius.

• The Shules will launch with Eclair — Donut is so H1 2009, and Motorola’s upcoming Android slider will reportedly drop with Eclair on board. It may even be the “flagship” Eclair handset intended to showcase all of the new features Android will have obtained with Eclair’s release.
• The Shules will be a gaming beast — The handset is optimized for ARMv7 architecture and will be able to gobble up 3D graphics and games like none other. Supposedly.
• There is a GSM version of the Shules in the works — While Verizon will get the CDMA version of the Motorola Shules this year as an exclusive, there is already a GSM version in the pipeline and it should land on AT&T, or T-Mobile, some time in 2010.
• The Flash is still on track — One of the many handsets we scooped last year, the Flash, is still said to be making its way to Verizon and it should launch in early 2010. This further supports what we speculated earlier month.

Interesting, isn't it? You may remember the Flash below and it looks like it will launch in 2010. The Sholes / Shules launching on AT&T and T-Mobile is definitely a positive thing - the more carriers, the merrier. Just in case you didn't know, "Eclair" is a version of Android, similar to Cupcake and Donut. We could see multitouch on this handset, since we've heard reports of Android having multitouch support somewhere down the line. I know everyone's curious about Motorola's Blur UI though and that's what I'm waiting for.

[Boy Genius]

The Motorola Sholes / Shules headed to Verizon looks to be a great competitor in the mobile phone industry when it launches. It's expected that this handset will have Android 2.0 when it gets released. The latest rumour says that it could launch on Verizin in time for Thanksgiving and it could be pegged with a $199 on a 2-year contract price tag.

"It had been hoped that the Sholes would include the Snapdragon processor for even higher speeds, but 600 MHz is still a highly competitive and workable spec for a first-gen Android device. According to Android and Me, 'Native support for OpenGL ES 2.0 + hardware acceleration from the PowerVR SGX 530 = mobile gaming device more powerful than a Sony PSP or Nintendo DSi.'"

And that, my friends, is great news. We'll just have to see when we gets some videos that shows off how good you can game on this device. Oh yeah, if this ships with Android 2.0, we could see multitouch on this bad boy.

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Motorola's CEO, Sanjay Jha, has just mentioned that a majority of Motorola's devices in the future will be smartphones and they're looking to Android to help dig themselves out of their hole. He mentioned that they are launching 2 Android-based phones for the holidays - possibly and probably the Sholes / Shules (above) and the Morrison (below) - and they will be launched on two different carriers. This would mean that the Shules / Sholes will be hitting the US on a different carrier than the Morrison, which is rumoured to hit T-Mobile on October 21st.

Motorola may not be my favourite phone manufacturer right now - leave that up to Samsung - but it looks like they could have an exciting future as they make a slow push towards Android. Sanjay Jha also mentioned that they will be launching "many more Android phones in Q1 2010" which is a great thing. Most of them probably won't be fit for me though because I'm only interested in the high-end phones out there; Motorola, on the other hand, is looking to create low-end Android-based smartphones in the future.

[Phandroid]

Two days ago, we got out first image of Motorola's second and better Android device, the Motorola Shules or Sholes. Here's a live image of what it could look like. Yes, that's a red d-pad and chin, so it looks slightly worse than the other rendered image. This picture also shows 4 touch-sensitive buttons - the other image only showed three. The Motorola Sholes / Shules could be available in Q4 of this year, it looks like it'll launch on Verizon.

[Gizmodo, Phone Arena, Slash Gear]