Cincinnati Bell The First in the States to Get Motorola’s Milestone XT720 This Friday?
Cincinnati Bell’s Android gravy train just won’t cease until everyone’s gotten enough! This time, sources close to the carrier tells us that their latest Android handset – which everyone believed to be the Motorola Milestone XT720 – will indeed be launching this Friday, August 6th. This would make Cincinnati Bell Wireless the first US carrier to offer the device which teeters between being on the upper end of mid-range and being a high-end handset.
With that claim, I bet you want to see some specs, no? It’ll have a 3.7-inch FWVGA (480×854) capacitive touchscreen, an 8-megapixel camera (with Xenon Flash) capable of shooting 720p HD video, an HDMI-out port to get all of your videos and images up onto the bigger screen (cable is thankfully included in the box) and will be running stock Android 2.1 with no MOTOBLUR (happy yet?). It’ll ship with an 8GB microSD card with the port to house it being expandable to 32GB.
Performance specs include 256MB of RAM, 512MB of ROM, and a TI OMAP 3430 processor clocked at 720MHz (We hear these run quite nicely even without being clocked to 1GHz – it’s based on the same architect found in the original Motorola Droid, for comparison’s sake.)
Bluetooth, WiFi, DLNA, aGPS, and all of the rest of your standard smartphone features make up the rest of this good looking package. We expect the device to cost $199.99 for new subscribers after an equipment agreement and $299.99 for new customers without the agreement and existing subscribers with the urge to upgrade to this (and oh what an urge I bet they’ll have for this device). If you want to go without strings and discounts, $449.99 is the cost to walk out with one of these. (Discounted prices are fulfilled after a mail-in rebate.)
Cincinnati Bell’s been making great progress on building their compelling Android lineup, and the Milestone XT720 sits alongside their other offerings to cap off a package that’ll undoubtedly turn a few heads. If you were holding off on their other Android handsets (the Blaze and the Behold II) to wait for a high-end offering, then you might want to keep your eyes peeled this Friday as we expect the XT720 to make its marvelous debut then.