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http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-general-discussions/48717-motorola-droid-pro.html
Still heavy speculation on this, but apparently the source of the leak is a respected member of Howardforums and the 'Pro' is undergoing testing in the wild but disguised in the casing of another 4in phone. I know its a long thread, but several people claiming to be 'in the know' are saying its going to have an open boot loader.
While I intend to follow this, there are some things that I feel don't make sense. Moto's previously said that all their android phones moving forward will have the gimped encrypted boot loaders, I am uncertain what 'specific business reason' they'd have for releasing this model with an open boot loader. Second, while I despise MotoBlur with a passion, why leave it off this phone?
A possible answer is that the phone is more business oriented. The ability to load a custom boot loader and recovery image would give a business that ability to load specialized ROMs tailored for their users, with company designed versions or themes, with all relevant settings pre-loaded. Would definitely be a boon to companies who issue 'loaner' phones to field employees or reclaim phones from departing employees, they'd only need to flash the phone to 'company stock' and any private information it is gone and its ready for the next employee. The social network oriented MotoBlur UI wouldn't be the best solution for a business environment, the functional vanilla Android UI is much better. And will likely be much better with the arrival of Gingerbread.
Some in the thread of saying October for a launch, but that seems rather close to the launches of the DX and D2 to me, a few short months. I could see the Pro being the flagship launch vehicle for Gingerbread, which could also explain the unlocked boot loader(Google's influence), but still, awfully close to Moto's other launches. Perhaps it'll launch later in 4Q? If its real, anyway.
Some in the thread doubt its existence because of the QSD 8x72 Qualcomm CPU because Moto's been using TI OMAP CPUs, but both the Devour and CLIQ products used Qualcomm CPUs, so its not unheard of.
Think this is the 2Ghz Tegra 2 monster that Sanjay spoke of a few months back that he claimed would launch i 2010?
12 Aug Update: http://www.thestreet.com/video/index.html?bcpid=1459183594&bctid=557945520001
Moto CEO calls Droid X a good phone on video, but says its not the best. No video of the Droid Pro, unfortunately, but interesting.
Still heavy speculation on this, but apparently the source of the leak is a respected member of Howardforums and the 'Pro' is undergoing testing in the wild but disguised in the casing of another 4in phone. I know its a long thread, but several people claiming to be 'in the know' are saying its going to have an open boot loader.
While I intend to follow this, there are some things that I feel don't make sense. Moto's previously said that all their android phones moving forward will have the gimped encrypted boot loaders, I am uncertain what 'specific business reason' they'd have for releasing this model with an open boot loader. Second, while I despise MotoBlur with a passion, why leave it off this phone?
A possible answer is that the phone is more business oriented. The ability to load a custom boot loader and recovery image would give a business that ability to load specialized ROMs tailored for their users, with company designed versions or themes, with all relevant settings pre-loaded. Would definitely be a boon to companies who issue 'loaner' phones to field employees or reclaim phones from departing employees, they'd only need to flash the phone to 'company stock' and any private information it is gone and its ready for the next employee. The social network oriented MotoBlur UI wouldn't be the best solution for a business environment, the functional vanilla Android UI is much better. And will likely be much better with the arrival of Gingerbread.
Some in the thread of saying October for a launch, but that seems rather close to the launches of the DX and D2 to me, a few short months. I could see the Pro being the flagship launch vehicle for Gingerbread, which could also explain the unlocked boot loader(Google's influence), but still, awfully close to Moto's other launches. Perhaps it'll launch later in 4Q? If its real, anyway.
Some in the thread doubt its existence because of the QSD 8x72 Qualcomm CPU because Moto's been using TI OMAP CPUs, but both the Devour and CLIQ products used Qualcomm CPUs, so its not unheard of.
Think this is the 2Ghz Tegra 2 monster that Sanjay spoke of a few months back that he claimed would launch i 2010?
12 Aug Update: http://www.thestreet.com/video/index.html?bcpid=1459183594&bctid=557945520001
Moto CEO calls Droid X a good phone on video, but says its not the best. No video of the Droid Pro, unfortunately, but interesting.
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