Motorola's squat, Android-based Charm official for T-Mobile
updated 11:00 am EDT, Wed July 7, 2010
Moto Charm a tiny QWERTY-plus-touch Android phone
Motorola today finally confirmed the Charm, its first fixed QWERTY Android phone. It combines a squat 2.8-inch, 320x240 touchscreen with a keyboard and should be uniquely suited to messaging. Simultaneously, it's the first device with both Motoblur and Android 2.1 in the US, and consequently gets not just Google's OS upgrades but much more customization of social network sources and widgets.
The phone promises multi-touch and, at least until Android 2.2, Flash Lite to help fill out some of the content that would otherwise go missing. Motorola skews the Charm towards the low end with a 600MHz processor, a three-megapixel camera and just a 2GB microSD card bundled with the device, although GPS and 802.11n Wi-Fi give it a slight edge.
T-Mobile will be the sole American carrier for the Charm and should carry it before the end of the summer, but an exact ship date and pricing haven't been mentioned. The prospects of an Android 2.2 upgrade are equally unknown.
