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It emerged a few weeks ago that Motorola was abandoning a Symbian-only smartphone strategy, outlined just months earlier, and developing an Android handset. Now details of the product are leaking, and a phone heavily geared to social networking is promised.

The device is expected to feature a touchscreen combined with a slide-out Qwerty keyboard that allows users to connect with one keystroke to social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. It should launch in the US in the second quarter of 2009, and is currently being touted around the carriers.

Motorola will likely use it, initially at least, to cement its position in its home market, the one territory where it is not bleeding market share, and international launch plans have not been outlined yet. A CDMA model would give Verizon the opportunity to offer and Android phone to run against T-Mobile's high profile launch of the first W-CDMA Android product, the HTC G1. However, by mid-2009 there should be several other models using the Google open source platform, and with LG rumored to be getting into the game, it could beat Motorola to the post with a CDMA offering.

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