Verizon just put the official stamp on one of the heavily-leaked phones from the past couple of weeks.  That will be the Motorola Droid 3, the third iteration of Verizon’s successful Droid series that really helped kick the Android floodgates for good when it first dropped.
They’re billing it as “the world’s thinnest full QWERTY smartphone,” measuring just half an inch on its sides.   All that while sporting a five-row landscape keyboard that slides out from the side.
Details of the Motorola Droid 3 include a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen display (960 x 540 resolution), an 8.0 megapixel camera module (with autofocus and 1080p video capture), a front-facing webcam, aGPS, WiFi, 3G with Mobile Hotspot sharing, Bluetooth 2.1, DLNA, an HDMI out, 16GB of onboard storage and microSD card expansion.  Muscle is provided by a dual-core 1GHz processor, with juice provided by a 1,540 mAh battery rated at 9.1 hours of talk time.
Android 2.3 Gingerbread runs at the helm, likely with a scaled down Motoblur on top.  All the usual Android favors are onboard, along with extra security features like complex password control, advanced SD card encryption and remote wipe.  Oh yeah, it’s a world phone, too, with compatible radios for up to 200 countries (and 125 for 3G data) on top of that.  It could just be the sweetest thing ever if only 4G was also in tow.
The Motorola Droid 3 will hit stores around July 14, priced at $199.99 on a new two-year agreement (which, at this point, we all know won’t include unlimited data).
[Verizon]