Tags: android , hdmi , motorola , nexus , qwerty

I just read the engadget's article on the rumored Motorola Shadow being the second Nexus phone.

Motorola Shadow

There are some pictures, that can of course be  fan-made renders, of the device (you can view them here: http://bit.ly/cjtoJO and here: http://bit.ly/5h3GAz).

The phone features some crazy specs, that are even higher than the ones on the Nexus One. The specs include an eight MP camera, with 1080p recording and a HDMI port. Also the screen is said to be 4.3" , the same crazy size as on the HTC HD2! The phone also features a full slide out QWERTY which looks a lot like the one found on the Motorola Droid, this is not a necessarily good thing. The keyboard of the Droid was too flat for most users and was difficult to get used to. Also there was almost no feedback on the keys at all and the directional pad was very awkward to navigate with. That unfortunately seems to be the case on the Shadow as well. The phone will most likely run version 2.0 of Android.

What comes to the design of the phone, I'm very underwhelmed. The phone is a bit ugly. Also what's the thing with that wrist strap on the side? The phone isn't a Nintendo Wii remote, there's no need for a wrist strap unless that super phone also features motion control! I think all this is fake, I could be wrong here but I think Motorola will come up with something a little different, not specs wise (at least I hope so, because 1080p recording sounds incredible) but design wise. Probably we will see something not so Droid like if this is going to be the next Google's flagship phone, a.k.a the Nexus Two.

Link to the original engadget story: http://bit.ly/7iUu3r