Motorola Devour next off the Android production line

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Motorola has unveiled the Devour, the latest phone to come with its new Motoblur interface.

Following on from the Dext and the Milestone, the Devour is Motorola's third Android-powered handset, and goes on sale in the US next month.

Like both its forebears, the Devour is a touchscreen candybar with a landscape-format slide-out keyboard. Its squarer lines more closely match the Milestone than the Dext, but it's with the latter that it shares the Motoblur interface.

With its focus on social networking, Motoblur is a good fit on the Devour, which is expected to come in cheaper than either of Motorola's Android handsets seen thus far. Built on top of Android's foundations, Motoblur syncs with the likes of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in real time, delivering updates and the like directly to the home screen and collating all messages and emails into a single inbox.

That aside, the Devour has a solid mid-range spec. Aside from the full QWERTY slide-out keyboard, hardware highlights include a 3.1in HVGA capacitive touch screen, with a small touch-sensitive navigation pad sitting below, much like a laptop's optical trackpad.

Also on board are a three megapixel camera, full web browser, Wi-Fi and a pre-installed micro SD memory card. It's only Android version 1.6 on board, but given the Devour's mid-range aspirations that shouldn't be much of a restriction.

Given that the Dext and Milestone are known in the US as the Cliq and Droid respectively, it's not known whether the Devour will also be renamed for the UK market – with no UK-based release info available as yet. In the US, the Devour will be carried by the Verizon network.

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