More details on the Motorola Sholes/Tao

It’s been a heck of a week for Motorola lovers and Verizon customers. Let’s see, first the Motorola Sholes/Tao gets approved by the FCC, then we started seeing pictures emerging and hear about the name possibly being Tao instead of Sholes. And now today BGR and AndroidAndMe got their hands on loads of new info. And another possible name change to the Motorola Droid. I’m sure most people anticipating this handset don’t care about the name, they just wanna get their hands on it. Here’s most of the specs and info so far (from both sources):

• 3.7″ screen
• 854×480 WVGA capacitive screen
• Thinnest qwerty slider on the market at 13.7mm
• 5 megapixel camera, with dual LED flash
• Li-ion 1400 mAh battery
• ARM Cortex 500 OR 600MHz CPU (there’s a little confusion here)
• Facial recognition using the built-in camera (apparently you take a photo of someone and Google will pull in search results based on the image)
• Runs Android 2.0 with a custom Motorola Interface/UI (not MOTOBLUR or Verizon UI)
• Available in black and titanium colors
• Possibly a keyboard-less version that’s planned for 2010
• Built-in Adobe Flash support
• Potential release date: Dec 1st 2009
• There’s also mentions of some sort of docking station. Perhaps like something Archos has? (this certainly explains the slightly odd placement of the USB port)

And as always, none of this is solid confirmed, but most of it seems pretty believable. We’re hearing the official announcement may come next week or the week after. I’m gonna procede with caution and guess the 2nd week of October for something official. Overall this is shaping up to be one of the nicest Android phones you can buy, but only on the Verizon network. What do you guys think? Anyone considering a switch to Verizon for this?

[via BGR and AndroidAndMe]