Verizon's second Motorola Android device is the Calgary; picture revealed
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Oct 2009, 14:14
After the Droid, Big Red has another Motorola Android powered device called the Calgary, which sat nicely for pictures...
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1. rjt185 posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:44 0 0
Ok so don't get me wrong, I think it's AWESOME that Verizon's phone line up is getting a heck of a boost. However, this looks like Motorola outsourced it to Fisher Price. I'm not certain what "demographic" they'll be targetting, but I hope they make it either more sleek or at least add some pizzaz to it. ...ultimately, I just think it's kinda ugly.
2. NMchileman posted on 20 Oct 2009, 14:35 0 0
Yeah, it's a little hard to look at. Hopefully this isn't the final hardware revision.
3. Fanboys Suck posted on 20 Oct 2009, 14:35 0 0
Agreed. Put some style and class in these. I am sure this will be great, but it looks horrid.
4. rjt185 posted on 20 Oct 2009, 14:36 0 0
I sure as heck hope it isn't either, all-black is cool, but it can't be allowed to look like a block of plastic. lol
19. phone333 posted on 20 Oct 2009, 19:37 0 0
-I think they should have made it a little more rounded !!
5. ssjassassin posted on 20 Oct 2009, 14:39 0 0
This is clearly early development hardware. Based on the Droid's older images vs newer this must be close to how this handset will look. I think that it will hold its place in the Verizon line up though it is not for me. I like the droid looks aside (it is not all bad i have to say.). I see this thing being the Env3 of the androids hitting Verizon. I also expect this to trend to all handsets soon. It was made clear when the wireless companies first started making mobile internet so widely available. They plan on making your service more expensive through making all these phone internet capable. I wish i could tell with the coming of 4G networks if the use of VOIP and Internet only phones will make it to the show. I can only expect the carriers to drop old expensive outdated voice hardware for new highspeed tech and VOIP phones where the customers are paying for only internet connections.
6. Kiltlifter posted on 20 Oct 2009, 15:03 0 0
This could be targeted to a lower segment that still wants android but can't afford the DROID
7. livin4acti0n posted on 20 Oct 2009, 15:14 0 0
I agree. Im probably getting this if the final product looks better
21. n0gar2 posted on 21 Oct 2009, 19:25 0 0
No one wants ANdroid BECAUSE no one knows what it is! In fact, no one realizes that their is an OS on a phone! VZW's software was always the thing that held back their phone's potenial, but there is more to the iPhone than it's Apple based software... As for this phone, it looks better than the Droid to me. Hopefully this will not require the overly exspensive and uneeded data plan for PDA's. You should not have to pay more for internet on a phoen than you do at home and not even get half of the experience.
8. Sethdras posted on 20 Oct 2009, 15:15 0 0
looks like it will target the lower priced crowd. Since this is motorola i thought the calgary was supposed to resemble the old razor type keyboard, what happened to that? the original calgary pictures were pretty cool, kind of looked like a cross between the t-mobile sidekick and the razor, but i guess not! Droid for me still
10. saneok posted on 20 Oct 2009, 15:28 0 0
i like this phone's look better than the droid's look. the keyboard looks better on the Calgary, the keys look better... the only thing i don't like is the specs of this phone... the screen looks smaller and the 3 mp camera is a turn off...
11. rehnhart posted on 20 Oct 2009, 15:46 0 0
I hope the final product looks more like the renderings we saw way back when. Truth is, I don't know if I want to get te Droid or wait for the Hero to come out on VZW. I am not an early adapter and I guess the hands on reviews and time will tell.
12. KingOfPhones posted on 20 Oct 2009, 15:46 0 0
This looks really cheap, why didn't we get something more like the Cliq? I mean honestly.
13. C_H posted on 20 Oct 2009, 16:51 0 0
Not a great looking phone, except for the keyboard which looks decent. The original prototype/render's keyboard looked great but not terribly usable, this one looks like it might be very easy to use. The Droid didn't change significantly from the prototype, which doesn't bode well for the future style of this phone. At least the Droid has a nice look to it, so there's one phone in this shape that should be nice
14. doxcell posted on 20 Oct 2009, 17:25 0 0
will these android phones come required with a data plan?
15. oddmanout posted on 20 Oct 2009, 17:55 0 0
I'm gonna take a wild guess at that and say DUH! Android phones are built around web. Kind of like the pre's Web OS but not as internet driven... so if you buy a web based phone (pretty much anything android), expect to pay for data.
16. vzw fanman posted on 20 Oct 2009, 18:00 0 0
who would want an android phone if you weren't gonna use it for data?
18. mkl4466 posted on 20 Oct 2009, 19:27 0 0
You can bet your booties that this will require $30 data package. Android syncs with google servers. You can't get past thestartup screen on an android device without logging into your google account. All PDA's, or smart phones, or whatever you want to call them, require $30 data. This is no different. Blackberry requires you to have a data package, even though the software doesn't force you to input an email address, whereas android does. Verizon doesn't make money off handsets, they actually lose money by subsidizing handsets. They make their money from data. If they didn't require this device to have data, it wouldn't exist.
20. JC_Agga posted on 21 Oct 2009, 19:04 0 0
you guys are funny, this is not smartphone. I got a confirmation email from verizon(droid) and it looks like a postcard. But it says "You signed up for this email because you think you need a new smartphone. But you don't need a smartphone, you need a supergenius in your pocket." does this sound like it's going to be a smartphone? i might be wrong, but i belive it's a feature phone.
