It is profitable for smartphone manufacturers to work on free and open source platforms. This is the reason why we are seeing a large number of Android powered mobile phones these days. It is estimated that nearly 60,000 cell phones running on the Android operating system are shipped everyday. An exciting Android phone than we could expect to lay our hands on this summer is called Motorola Twist.

Spec wise, Motorola Twist does not have anything new to offer. However, it is the phone’s unique design that will ensure that this Motorola phone could stand out from the crowd of similar Android devices. Moreover, Twist will be the first Motorola phone to pack Android 2.1 and MotoBlur in a smartphone handset.

Motorola Twist features

Motorola has given its upcoming Android phone a cool square design. The stunning phone with a slider full QWERTY keyboard measures 67 x 67 mm when closed. It is only 15.8mm thin. From the technical specifications it appears that Motorola Twist will be a reasonably priced mid range handset, which will run on HSPA networks. In US, AT&T might be the probable carrier of the upcoming Motorola product. Motorola Twist will flaunt a 2.8 inches QVGA display of 320 x 240 pixels resolution. Equipped with touch sensors, the touch sensitive screen of the handset will work on Motorola’s MotoBlur 1.5 user interface.

It has been equipped with the Android 2.1 operating system. The 700 Mhz TI OMAP processor might not match the speed of Snapdragon chipsets, but the 700 Mhz processor speed along with 256 MB RAM is enough to provide reasonable speed for running apps on the Motorola Twist handset

A 3 megapixel camera with camcorder has been integrated in the Motorola Twist handset. Built-in multimedia player will play your audio and video files. This upcoming Motorola device supports HTML browsers equipped with Flash and multi-touch. It has 512 MB internal storage space.

The microSD memory card slot will facilitate external memory expansion up to 32 GB. Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack and Wi-Fi are also included in the device. The integrated GPS antenna will help users to find their destinations. This square Motorola phone will be officially launched by Motorola on June 10.