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We’ve seen Motorola’s next Android/motoblur handset, the Zeppelin, pop up in Brazil and China, but have yet to hear anything about a North American launch. Well, rumour has it that not only does this mobile support T-Mobile’s AWS bands, but it’s apparently coming out on March 10. There aren’t any documents or pictures to support this, so take it all with a grain of salt.
We’re expecting to see the Zeppelin lumber in at Mobile World Congress in the next couple of weeks, festooned with a 3.1” HVGA display, Wi-Fi, GPS, HDMI out, 3.5 mm headphone jack and Motorola’s custom user interface focussing on social networking. The cliq, devour, and Backflip, are all using motoblur already, although Motorola hasn’t been shy about using stock vanilla Android on the droid and motoroi. It’s still hard to say what that motosplit is running, presuming it’s actually real.
If T-Mobile U.S. does get the Zeppelin at MWC, we would expect that given the locale, T-Mobile carriers across Europe would also be riding along for the launch. The droid really paved the way for Motorola’s American Android attack, but I’m curious how well the platform is performing for Moto internationally, and if the Zeppelin will be their flagship for the “everywhere-but-the-U.S.” market.
[via TMoNews, AndroidAndMe]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
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