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Yesterday, Motorola announced their Android 2.0 CDMA phone - the Motorola DROID. GSM users have nothing to worry about as the GSM version of the phone already passed through FCC testing and Vietnamese forum Tinhte.com has posted a live video and photos of it.

We've already seen the DROID in action - yesterday when Google announced their Google Maps Navigation SatNav solution, they used the CDMA-based Motorola DROID to do the demonstration. To put it simply, the Motorola DROID is to the original Android phone, the G1, what a Ferrari is to a Ford Model T.

The new and improved Android v2.0 Eclair is bringing plenty of usability updates and the ARM Cortex A8 CPU clocked at 550MHz should give a noticeable bump in speed. Despite being similar in clock speed to the 528MHz CPU in the G1, the Cortex A8 architecture delivers more performance per clock.

Photos of the GSM version of the Motorola DROID

So far, the hardware specs for the GSM version of the DROID are unconfirmed but they should be pretty close to the CDMA version. That means a 3.7" TFT display with 480 x 854 pixels resolution, capacitive touchscreen technology (with multitouch support as you can see in the video), a 5MP camera with autofocus and dual-LED flash (and the much improved camera interface of the new OS), D1@24fps video recording.

Android phones have come a long way since the beginning

The wireless connectivity is excellent - speedy HSDPA (10.2Mbps) and HSUPA (5.76Mbps), Bluetooth 2.0 (with file transfer), Wi-Fi and A-GPS (with Google Maps Navigation). The Motorola DROID offers roomy 16GB internal memory (either on a card or embedded).