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Today Motorola announced two new Android smartphones, the MILESTONE 2 and the DEFY. The Motorola MILESTONE 2 smartphone, which is the non-U.S. version of the Motorola DROID 2 for Verizon Wireless, works on UMTS and GSM networks, but otherwise offers the same basic design and features, including a full QWERTY keyboard and WVGA touchscreen display.  [...]

The Motorola Charm for T-Mobile USA arrived this morning, and Michael has already started putting together a video tour of the device that should be published in the next day or two. A full review is coming, as well. The Charm features a QVGA res touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keyboard in a bar [...]

Photos of what looks to be called the HTC Vision have been leaked online, and if correct, the new smartphone will run Android 2.1 and feature a 3.7-inch touchscreen display, a 1GHz processor, and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard.  The new device is thought to be heading to T-Mobile in the U.S. [via Engadget]

Motorola has made its new Android 2.1 powered FLIPOUT official (though we’ve seen it before). The device sports a cool form factor that centers around a swing out QWERTY keyboard. It looks something like a Nokia 7705, but with Android goodness and an updated version of MOTOBLUR inside. Some of the key updates to MotoBlur [...]

Well, that didn’t take long.  Some kind soul has put together a YouTube video demonstrating what appears to be the on-screen virtual keyboard that was promised by the Cupcake update to Android. There’s no real sound in the video, and no indication as to whether or not the phone is providing any sort of vibration [...]