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Motorola Titanium Coming To Sprint July 24th With Android 2.1 Éclair, What the?

It’s official ya’ll, as we reported earlier this month, the Motorola Titanium is coming to Sprint with a release date of July 24th and will be available for $149.99 with a new 2 yr agreement.  The device strongly resembles the Motorola Droid Pro and Sprint Xprt as it sports a front facing portrait qwerty, appealing to the Blackberry slave looking to leave his dungeon.  In addition, the device rocks a 3.1-inch display and Nextel’s Direct Connect service.  The device has been designed and tested to meet military standards making it a tough contender in the corporate playing field.  The device should be dust proof, shock proof, withstand heavy vibration, low pressure, solar radiation and extremely high or low temps.

That’s as rugged as it gets folks.  Furthermore, you get an 1820 mAh battery allowing for all day heavy use.  What more can you ask for or pack into this little guy?  Oh yeah, and did we mention it sports Android 2.1 Eclair?  Yeah, I know.  Though I’m trying to be optimistic here, I’ll leave off saying good luck ever receiving an update for this device.  Hit the break for the full press release and to check out Motorola’s product fact sheet, which is chock full of info on the device.  Feel free to rant about the handset in the comments below.

Press Release And Fact Sheet

Motorola Titanium, First Android 2.1 Smartphone
with Best-in-Class Nextel Direct Connect,
Available Beginning July 24 for $149.99

Motorola Titanium™, America’s first Android 2.1 (Éclair) smartphone with best-in-class Nextel Direct Connect™ for Push-to-Talk, goes on sale in Sprint Stores, online at www.sprint.com, Telesales at 1-800-SPRINT1 and Sprint Business Sales beginning Sunday, July 24, for $149.99 with a new line or eligible upgrade and two-year service agreement, after $100 mail-in rebate.

As the successor to the popular Motorola i1 launched by Sprint in 2010, Motorola Titanium is sleek and attractive, yet durable. It features a full QWERTY keyboard and 3.1-inch touchscreen display for a feature-rich, business-class experience. Built military-grade tough, Motorola Titanium is designed to meet Military Specification 810G for dust, shock, vibration, low pressure, solar radiation, high temperature and low temperature.

Additional key features of Motorola Titanium include:  Support for Nextel Direct Connect Services, including Direct Connect, Group Connect^®, International Direct Connect^®, DirectSend^SM, Group Messaging and NextMail^®

• Android Market™ for access to more than 200,000 applications, widgets and games available for download
• Google™ mobile services such as Google Search™, Gmail™, Google Talk™, Google Maps™ with Navigation, syncing with Google Calendar™ and YouTube™
• Corporate email (Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync^®) and personal (POP3 & IMAP) email, calendar and contacts
• 5-megapixel auto-focus camera with camcorder, 4x zoom and LED flash
• Wi-Fi b/g/n
• Stereo Bluetooth^®
• GPS navigation
• microSD slot, with a 2GB memory card included, supporting up to 32GB
• 1820 mAh Lithium-ion battery

With more than 17 years of expertise, Sprint is the industry leader in Push-to-Talk, serving the world’s largest Push-to-Talk community with millions of Nextel Direct Connect subscribers on the fastest national Push-to-Talk network. Nextel Direct Connect has set the industry standard for Push-to-Talk worldwide. More U.S. workers communicate in less than a second with Nextel Direct Connect than with any other Push-to-Talk service.

More info: Titanium fact sheet