Motorola Devour set for March release

Motorola has announced the release of its latest handset – the Motorola Devour – which will hit the shelves in March.

Devour will be the first Motorola mobile phone to offer Motoblur – the firm’s unique delivery service which aims to make devices more personable and customisable.

Some of the most attractive features of the Motorola Devour include a touch-sensitive pad which makes it easy to navigate all of the phone’s functions, a qwerty keyboard designed to make typing out emails and text messages simple and more than 20,000 applications.

Pre-loaded applications such as Google Maps, YouTube, Gmail and Google Talk are also likely to increase the Devour’s popularity.

Those with a hectic social life may find the universal inbox function especially useful.

Universal inbox links all of the major social networking sites – such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace – by collecting notifications of all wall posts, messages and general news and filing them in one area of the handset.

Motorola recently announced its revenue for the fourth quarter of 2009 totalled $5.7 billion (£3.6 billion) and for the whole year was $22 billion (£13.9 billion).

Greg Brown, co-chief executive officer at Motorola, said: "We performed well in the face of a challenging environment in 2009. Our results demonstrate the strength of our market leadership and the resilience of these businesses and our people."

The company also revealed that it managed to ship more than 12 million handsets – including over two million smartphones – during the last 12 months.