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Motorola MB810 Passes Wi-Fi Alliance

Kevin Krause posted on Apr 30th 2010 by Kevin Krause
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A new Motorola smartphone, the MB810, just received its certification from the Wi-Fi Alliance for wireless standard 802.11 b/g/n. And with the announcement, speculation has run rampant that this very well could be the Motorola Shadow, a device that made its rounds in the news earlier this year as a proclaimed Droid 2 or even Nexus Two. And speculation as it may be, all signs are pointing to this being the case.

thumb_450_Shadow render

Just a little bit of what you might expect from the Shadow:

  • Android 2.2
  • 4.3-in capacitive touchscreen
  • 8MP camera
  • QWERTY slide-out keyboard

The Shadow will most likely be a GSM device, which makes sense considering Motorola hasn’t had a recent success like the Droid outside of Verizon, and spreading the love around a bit would sure help out in their accounting department. Most reports see this one dropping sometime during Q2 of this year on AT&T, so if this is the case expect to hear a lot more very soon.

[via Phone Dog]


              
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  • Darkseider

    Oooh well… hopefully AT&T doesn’t murder the poor thing like they have with the Backflip and Aero.

  • Techno Brotha

    Drool!!! Can’t wait to see more specs/info!!!

  • N.R. Bovee

    Where is the love for T Mo customers? We are getting ignored once again.

  • G8D

    I don’t think Google would release a new Nexus for such a small update as 2.2…

  • Rich

    Just the rumor I needed…so much for my thoughts of getting the Aloha. I’m waiting for this beast!

  • Rich

    Ughhh nm if it goes to ATT…maybe Google will get Verizon to play nice with this one and actually support it.

  • Inco

    @N.R. Bovee: I say the same thing. But I really am losing faith in my beloved Magenta! T-Mo is seriously pushing me toward Verizon, and I still can’t figure out why.

  • pieter

    @ bovee
    nothing posted is definite. it is all speculation. and tmo will get some more love soon. remember, we had the n1 exclusively for a while.

  • Phil

    It looks like 4.3 is the new 3.7 lol. It also looks like AT&T is stocking up.
    -
    @bovee – I WAS with you until the Incredible came along. It just doesn’t seem like T-Mo intends to be in the high end game at least not on Android. It looks like they are marketing to a different maybe less tech savvy crowd thats more interested in fun looks and stuff.

  • Psychoholic

    Looking good!!! if at&t i’m down…

  • swehes

    That it is GSM is speculations. And that it is dropping on AT&T is also speculation. Let’s wait and see what the facts are. :)

  • Ban

    I hope the keyboard won’t be flat like the droid.

  • http://www.clanhood.com Nikademus

    Bah, Motorola never gets their keyboards right, the new LG with Snapdragon and killer LG Keyboard will be better IMHO

  • Jonathan

    This thing’ll be a beast and I want it. If indeed it lands with AT&T, it will confirm the comment made by an AT&T rep that they will soon be the home of the most powerful Android device. At least as a competitor to the EVO. Between this and the Galaxy S that is rumored to land on AT&T, I might just stick with them. I’d jump to Verizon but the signal is flakey where I live and I refuse to get a land line.

  • Zach

    That’s a old old render from what I’ve read and its of the Droid 2 not the Shadow, the Shadow is CDMA and doesn’t have a keyboard and doesn’t have a 4.3″ screen it’s supposedly 4.1″ how is this GSM? I see nothing that states that anyhow.

  • Amu

    You have to change something here. Shadow ! = Droid 2. The Shadow has no keyboard, while the Droid 2 does :). On a side note, that pic render of the Droid 2 is not how it now looks ;)

  • Maj

    Put this on google’s phone store and im buying it in no time

  • Paul

    4.3 is way too big, 3.7 max screen size without a physical keyboard & Xenon Flash Please, sine it looks like the motoroi is not coming to the west.

  • MSGNYC

    Every new great GSM phone is always rumored to be going to AT&T isn’t it Phandroid?
    Maybe one of these days you’ll be right.
    Swing blindly long enough and your bound to hit something huh?

  • MSGNYC

    If it weren’t for Rogers and Telus, Id’ve abandoned AT&T along time ago.
    T-Mo sucks in my area and I refuse to leave GSM for CDMA so Verizon and Sprint are out.
    I like being able to swap my sim out on the fly. Different phone for different moods.

  • jay36

    Hopefully the rumor of this coming to AT&T is NOT true. T-Mobile needs and deserves this device, after all they DID pioneer Android.

    T-Mobile also doesn’t have a High-End Android phone hell, they never really did. I really do not count the Nexus since it isn’t really their phone, it just works on their network. If this comes to T-Mo (hopefully) this WILL be my next phone, people might call it a Droid rip-off, but its made by the same company so it cant really rip the Droid off :)

  • MSGNYC

    I count the Nexus One as one of T-Mobiles phones because you can get the phone subsidized with a T-Mobile contract.

    If anything, The Nexus One more a T-Mobiles phone then it is any other carrier since T-Mo is the ONLY carrier that you can currently get the phone subsidized.

  • Mistah_Transistah

    oooh i hope this drops soon, i would rather have this than the evo. because of keyboard/at&t/and gsm because i am joining the military!

  • Amu

    Both the Shadow and Droid 2 will go to Verizon, as they will be CDMA. The MB810 = Shadow, however, the old pic render is of the Droid 2. People, you have to remember that GSM != 3G. Every phone (new ones) is quad-band GSM, as in you can make calls everywhere. So just because a phone has GSM bands does not mean it will be sold by AT&T or T-Mobile.