Verizon Wireless releases the highly anticipated Motorola Droid this November 6th, 2009 for $199 with a new two-year activation plan or voice plan after a $100 mail-in rebate. FYI, the Motorola smartphone features a Cortex A8 processor with a 16 GB of memory, a 3.7-inch LCD display, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, a slide out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, and Google Android 2.0 OS. The Motorola Droid is currently available for pre-order at the Verizon website.

Motorola has released the Motorola Milestone for the European market. This Android 2.0-powered mobile phone provides a trial version of MOTONAV turn-by-turn navigation, which is free for the first 60 days. The Motorola phone also features a 3.7-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, a 5 MP camera with dual LED flash and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. The Motorola Milestone will be available in Germany initially, and then Italy. No further information on Milestone phone so far including the price. Keep coming here for more updates.

Now you may consider issue with some of those supposed plus points (on-screen keyboards seem to work perfectly well for many iPhone users, and other Android phones that have them too, and removable batteries aren’t proving much of an issue) but the 5 MP camera is a boon, as is low-light shooting.

Motorola Droid

BGR has been able to have a test on a prototype Motorola Droid, and it seems Motorola’s really got some serious hardware on its hands. The Motorola Droid phone operate on a TI Omap3430 processor, making it “the fastest Android” phone they’ve seen. It’s also skinny but has a full QWERTY slide-out, and there’s a companion charger/stand that lets the phone act as an alarm clock, weather station, and so on. According to BGR, Google was very directly involved with the development of the device, “almost dictating every move Motorola made when designing and making” it.

According to another report, Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam was also visiting Apple recently. And it wasn’t just for kicks -Verizon’s actually been testing out a CDMA-friendly version of Apple’s iPhone. If it’s true, this is pretty amazing news on several fronts. Firstly it suggests that AT&T’s poor technical and customer services performance has dipped low enough that Apple’s going to break the network’s exclusive grip on the iPhone in the U.S. Since U.S. cell-phone users seem so very polarized by their choice of network, this is also big news for Apple -it’ll bring millions more subscribers to the iPhone fold.