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It was just a few days ago that we had carried a report saying that, the Motorola Milestone (or the Droid) is all set to make its debut in India. Just a week later, we have conformation form Motorola regarding the same.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Motorola Droid has indeed landed in India and will be known as the Milestone here. The latter is really an apt name for the phone primarily because it has been a milestone device for Motorola who was on the verge of shutting down its entire handsets manufacturing department. This was owing to poor sales and continuous drop in profits. With the Droid, Motorola has sprung back to life and the phone has been a bestseller in U.S. where it has to ward of threats like the Google Nexus One and the all powerful iPhone.

We have talked about the Droid in detail earlier too. However, lets take a brief look at the phone in its Milestone Avatar as well.
The Milestone is claimed to be the one of the world's thinnest QWERTY sliders (13.7mm or 1.37cm). It has a hi-resolution (480*854), TFT display capable of  pinch and zoom gestures. Being an Android device, it comes loaded with a suite of Google mobile applications including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube. This is apart from the tonnes of apps and widgets from Android Market. In its Indian avatar, the Milestone also packs in a lifetime free access to fully voice-guided street-level navigable maps of 401 Indian cities. This offers voice-guided navigation and routing in the cities and across major national and state highways.


Lets now take a look at the hardware specs of the device. It is powered by a very powerful ARM Cortex A8 processor. This is the same processor that powers the iPhone 3GS and the multimedia
powerhouse that is the Omnia HD. It has a 5-megapixel camera at the rear with dual-LED flash, AutoFocus, and image stabilization. It supports Stereo Bluetooth / BT 2.1, USB 2.0 High Speed and comes with a 3.5mm jack as well. Motorola's proprietary Crystaltalk technology too finds its way in. It comes preloaded with an 8GB memory card - which can be replaced by a higher capacity one should the need arise.

Additional functionality and apps include:

    * Full suite of the Google applications: Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Talk,
    * Unified Google, Microsoft Office and Facebook Contacts
    * Navigation: GPS, MOTONAV turn-by-turn navigation with India maps1 & 6
    * Email Support: IMAP, POP3, Gmail and Exchange
    * IM Support: Google Talk
    * Calendar: Exchange, syncs with Google Calendar



The Milestone is undoubtedly one of the best smartphones money can buy right now. It can be yours for Rs.32,990. A good price to pay for the first Android 2.1 device in the country? You decide!