Leaked Specs: Verizon Android phone to PWN everything on December 1?

All kinds of leaked Verizon Android news today, huh? Here's the juiciest bit to date, thanks to AndroidGuys (via MobileCrunch).

DISCLAIMER: This is a rumor about a leaked document. Which means it could be totally made up or otherwise inaccurate. For entertainment purposes only. Do not take out another reverse amortizing mortgage to fund a stock purchase based on this post, okay?

Motorola is holding a MOTODEV Android press event next Tuesday, October 6. That much is true. Here comes the leaked/speculative part:

Moto's second Android device, the Verizon-bound "Tao" (or "Droid' or "Codename: Sholes," whatever it's to be called) will be in stores on December 1st of this year.
Tao, as I'll call it for now, will launch with Android 2.0 "Eclair," and will NOT feature the MOTOBLUR widget collection found on the Moto CLIQ.
The phone will be powered by a OMAP3430 – 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 with a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU and 430MHz C64x+ DSP + ISP (Image Signal Processor)
Tao will be super-slim for a QWERTY slider, at just 13.7mm thick.
Tao will also rock a giant 3.7" touchscreen with 854 x 480 resolution (16:9 widescreen) at 16 million colors.
The phone's browser will support Flash.
Tao will also feature a 5 MP camera with autofocus, dual LED flash and video capture. You'll also get USB 2, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack, and both EV-DO and WiFI data.
Memory-wise, you'll get 16GB of onboard storage. But that's not all - the device will come packaged with an 8GB microSD memory card, and will have a microSD expansion slot. Yeah, you could have figured that last bit out on your own, huh?

Super hot. If this all pans out? Super duper hot.

Comments on this Post

Artod4789 @ Oct 5, 09 12:11 PM

But why are these phones so ugly?

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pwak007 @ Oct 4, 09 9:05 PM

forget you verizon your getting on my fricken nerves, t mo needs some new phones

warlord1967 @ Oct 4, 09 3:52 AM

As intrigued as I may be by the capabilities of this puppy, a few things bug me. First, Verizon has an irrepressible urge to under-subsidize its high-end phones. Considering the way they've priced the Touch Pro 2, perhaps that's changing. Were that not bad enough, they cripple these same devices(UI) like a chop-block. The icing on the cake is their rates, which are by far the most expensive, at least in terms of the "big four". Please don't get me wrong - I'm not anti-Big Red. When I was with them, my signal and coverage were never better. The cost for service and texts was just too steep - and that was without data!

LOLLOLLOLLOL @ Oct 4, 09 2:08 AM

OMG! I love this more than the G1, and the BB Storm! I didn't think I could love anything more than those two phones!

Crypto @ Oct 3, 09 11:05 AM

How do you know that the Andriod+Snapdragon or Android+Tegra will be better than Android+OMAP3430 – 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 with a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU (graphics processor unit) and 430MHz C64x+ DSP (digital signal processor) + ISP (image signal processor) ?

I know that Snapdragon and Tegra is much easier to say, and have a certain prestige about them, but your approach is unscientific!

ezra123 @ Oct 3, 09 1:09 AM

No GPS?

djnewman001 @ Oct 3, 09 12:21 AM

im with breonnagy. hero ftw, until a snapdragon arrives.

spdivr1122 @ Oct 2, 09 6:02 PM

i want this soooo bad. i couldnt wait any longer though =[. seriously wising i could get this.android is so much better then any other phone software

Coachbulldog @ Oct 2, 09 3:48 PM

No mention of wifi...is this phone wifi capable?

MrMind @ Oct 2, 09 4:09 PM

REAAAAAAD guy.

gdestellano @ Oct 3, 09 10:11 AM

Dude... the words under the picture of the phone will tell you things about it. That's why we all go to this site. To see those words and put them in order in our minds to get a mental picture of what the devices do or do not do. The words "WiFi data" tell us that this phone is suspected to be WIFI CAPAPBLE! The word "muppet" tells me that you don't read these words.

jrcrow79 @ Oct 2, 09 3:25 PM

I heard the Tao has the snapdragon chip though?

SethStevenson @ Oct 2, 09 12:53 PM

Good specs, and I always love a slide out keyboard, but this phone is freaking UGLY.

gdestellano @ Oct 3, 09 10:06 AM

ur freaking ugly....

LOLLOLLOLLOL @ Oct 4, 09 2:09 AM

I agree! U are freakin ugly! And this phone is freakin hot!

yhopefulphone @ Oct 2, 09 9:43 AM

I dunno. I don't like the design so far. And with all those features it will just be my android for verizon but not my greatest phone. I'm more into the hero and the cliq (even though I have a g1)

jsabino @ Oct 2, 09 11:16 AM

I would dump my myTouch 3G in a heartbeat if these specs. are legit! Biggest problem with Android phones right now (specifically the mytouch IMO) is that they are laggy (compared to my previous iPhone 3GS).

My dream phone would be hardware qwerty, Android and FAST hardware, this could be it. Yes, I'd switch to Verizon easily also, much better coverage than T-Mobile in the Northeast US.

Hope it's for real.