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Out with the old, and in with the new. With the Motorola Droid X and HTC Incredible filling up Verizon’s upper-tier smartphone lineup, the eight-month-old Droid and five-month-old Devour are hitting the dusty trail. Verizon’s still selling both handsets, but they won’t be recieving any more shipments from Motorola, so be sure to get ‘em before they’re gone. There are a few other handsets that are tapering off as well, like the BlackBerry 9630 Tour, which has been replaced with the Bold 9650, and the Nokia Twist, currently on a BOGO sale. A handful of Samsung feature phones are being phased out too, like the Knack, Smooth, Intensity, and Saga, but the Motorola handsets are the big ones to be headed out the door.
The Droid kicked off Verizon’s foray into Android handsets, and has since spawned a rather successful ad campaign and slew of phones not only from Motorola, but HTC as well. Though the Devour occupied more of a mid-range spot and failed to really impress anyone, it did offer a slightly more affordable alternative to the Droid. The Droid 2 is just around the corner though, and should fulfill Motorola’s quota for a landscape-slider Android handset.
[via DroidForums]
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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.
